: While progress is being made, there is a push for greater diversity among mature roles, which currently often favor white, middle-class, and able-bodied characters. Titans of the Screen

The shift didn't happen overnight. It began with actresses refusing to accept side-lined narratives. , at 63, delivered the blistering performance in Elle (2016), earning an Oscar nomination for a role that was sexually complex, morally ambiguous, and utterly dominant. Glenn Close , in The Wife (2018), turned the quiet rage of a woman who sacrificed her career for her husband into a masterclass of internalized tension.