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As Jamie Lee Curtis (64) said while accepting her Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once : “To all the mums who are watching their kids grow up and wondering if their life is over... it’s not. The best work of my life happened in the last five years.”
Platforms (Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV+) have created demand for – ideal for mature female leads.
Historically, the invisibility of older women in cinema was a reflection of a wider societal anxiety. Youth was currency; sexuality was a product. In the 1990s, a notorious study revealed that for male actors, the peak number of roles came at age 44; for women, it was 29. After 40, the cliff was steep.