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Dr. Lois Frankel
Posted: August 9, 2010 at 9:57 am | Comments 1 Subscribe to this author's RSS feed
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Living in Los Angeles, I’ve heard the plight of female actors who claim by the time they hit 30 – 35 years old good roles for them dry up and they have to wait until they’re more mature to once again be considered for plum parts — usually as someone’s mother. There are certainly exceptions to that rule — Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts the most obvious. Susan Sarandon seemed to be working through each decade of her life, but she played some pretty edgy roles for a while there — including Thelma (or was it Louise?) and Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking. And of course Meryl Streep seems to be perpetually in demand. As I said, there are exceptions to the rule.
For the rest of us, the marginalization that comes with aging gives us a little more time, but not much. 
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