, Glenn Close in Damages , and Kyra Sedgwick in The Closer proved that audiences were ravenous for complex, flawed, older female anti-heroes. But the true tsunami hit with Laura Linney in The Big C and, most monumentally, Robin Wright in House of Cards . Wright’s Claire Underwood was a glacial, ambitious woman in her 50s who was neither maternal nor sexualized as a victim. She was predator, partner, and power player. She broke the mold.
