: Won the Academy Award for Best Actress at age 63 for Nomadland (2020) and became a triple Oscar winner in the lead category. Michelle Yeoh
Streaming platforms accelerated this shift. Series like The Crown (Claire Foy and Olivia Colman), Happy Valley (Sarah Lancashire), Mare of Easttown (Kate Winslet), and Big Little Lies (a constellation of women over 40, including Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, and Laura Dern) proved that stories of grief, ambition, sexuality, and crime were riveting regardless of the protagonist’s age. These were not stories about aging; they were stories about life, in which aging was simply one texture among many.