| Film/Series | Actress (Age at Release) | Significance | |------------|--------------------------|---------------| | The Lost Daughter (2021) | Olivia Colman (47) | Lead as a flawed, intellectual, sexually complex woman | | Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) | Michelle Yeoh (60) | Action lead, multigenerational emotional core | | Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) | Lily Gladstone (37, but playing age 25-45) | Broke indigenous & age norms; however, older women (Tantoo Cardinal, 73) in key roles | | The Last of Us (2023) | Anna Torv (44), Melanie Lynskey (46) | Gritty, non-romanticized survivors | | A Man Called Otto (2022) | Mariana Treviño (45) | Romantic interest to Tom Hanks (66) – rare age-similar pairing |
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