The new survey, conducted for Age Without Limits, looked into the 100 highest-grossing films across the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, and discovered startling facts about what’s more likely to appear on screen.
In fact, you’re also four times more likely to see a talking animal playing the lead role in a movie than you are a woman over 60.
Thompson – who has most recently appeared on our screens in Dead of Winter, Down Cemetery Road and The Sheep Detectives – has spoken out to call on the film industry to better represent older women on screen.
View Green Video on the source website“I want to see more films centre aging women. We are compelling, relatable and overdue for centre stage.
The new study was carried out by the University of West London School of Film, Media and Design, led by Professor Dennis A. Olsen.
Female characters over the age of 65 were three times less likely than men in that age bracket to appear in British films, and even if they were, would speak up to 14 per cent less than their male counterparts on screen.
When they were, they were often comedy characters who “failed to act their age” or were considered passive characters that were often unconnected to the central plot.
“For many older people who have come to question their value through internalising the ageism they see around them every day in society, this lack of representation will reinforce the idea that older people matter less as they get older.
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