I'm a beardo. It's a "type" like all other "looks." Except now, that type is acceptable, made so by the likes of Mandy Potemkin and F. Murray Abraham on Homeland. There is enough work for beardos and non-beardos. After over 40 films and off-broadway shows in the past 9 years, all with a beard, I was finally last month, asked to film a role clean-shaven. I couldn't because I had a contract for another film in three days as an undercover NSA guy with a beard. You can't have it all.