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Remember when we were told older women can't sell action? Enter Michelle Yeoh. At 60, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once —a film that required martial arts, absurdist comedy, and profound dramatic depth. Yeoh didn't just play a mother; she played a multiversal warrior whose age and exhaustion were the very source of her superpower. Mature women in cinema offer a specific, rare