The next category is supporting players. These roles run the gamut of types, but their time on stage or camera, and their importance to the story as a whole is less than leads. At the upper end, a supporting role can even rival that of a lead in importance. Almost every year there is a controversy in the Oscar and Tony awards about how someone nominated as a supporting actor was really a lead or vice versa. Some lead and supporting roles are called character roles .
Character parts are mature adults who are less obviously attractive than romantic leads.
Danny De Vito is an example of a character actor whose range allows him to also play romantic leads such as in the 1999 film Living Out Loud . I am not a personality player. The majority of actors you see will tend to be that, and you will go to see them. Actors do tend to fall into either the personality or character type. Another large category of supporting roles are what are generically called types or stock characters .