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Vanity Fair spotlights our beloved character actors.

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This photo spread is neat and I do love me some character actors, but I’m struck by a few things. That’s a bunch of white men (save one). Only two women?? Also, they’re all pretty old. I suppose if you’re young you are still in the running to ~*make it*~ (see: Zooey Deschanel). 

Here’s my list of non-white, female, or young character actors I love:

• Emilio Rivera
• Adam Goldberg
• Giovanni Ribisi
• Natasha Lyonne (She’s had a rough go of it, but she’s on her way back. I just saw her in a Law & Order episode and that’s like, step one to being a character actor, right?)  
• Taryn Manning
• DJ Qualls
• Taraji P. Henson (This might be a stretch? She was B. Button’s mom after all.)
• Rory Culkin

OK, that’s all I can think of right now. Also, I’d be remiss to not even acknowledge the difficulty that people of color have getting *any* leading roles so like, relegating them to “character actor” status feels like a low blow.

Can you guys think of any non-geezer, non-white, non-male character actors that I’m missing?