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This marked the beginning of the startling second act of Jackson’s musical career, as she became — among a certain set — an elder stateswoman of grungy thrash guitar.

More than a decade and a half after her first mixtape, Minaj, 41, is an elder stateswoman: still a cantankerous figure in the genre, and still a sometime hitmaker.

At her final World Cup, Rapinoe was the elder stateswoman on a team that had 14 players appearing for the first time in the tournament.

The Grammys enlisted pop music's elder stateswoman to introduce Sam Smith, a nonbinary performer, and Kim Petras, a trans woman, on the occasion of their history-making Grammy win for their chart-topping duet "Unholy."

Vivid characterizations emerge: Claire Foy’s fiery Salome, certain she can never forgive the violence done to her small daughter; Rooney Mara’s soft-voiced Ona, glowing like a ghost in the dim light; Jessie Buckley’s haunted Mariche, an abused women practically vibrating with anger; Frances McDormand’s quiet elder stateswoman Scarface Janz, whose set jaw indicates that she knows far more than she’s telling.