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The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you know, It's better now, it's all changed, it's all different, it's not, it hasn't. Not yet.

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Geena Davis
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 21
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