The revolution didn't happen overnight. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, a few brave projects began to chip away at the monolith. Helen Mirren, winning an Oscar for The Queen (2006) at 61, proved that regal stillness and interiority could be blockbuster material. On television, The Good Wife (2009) centered on Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick—a woman in her 40s rebuilding her life, not as a sitcom punchline, but as a sharp, sexual, morally ambiguous protagonist.

The Invisible Muse: Mature Women in Entertainment and Cinema

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