Distribution of lead actors in movies in the U.S. 2011-2022, by gender
percent of Academy Award-winning movies had a female lead actor, according to the same study.
A 2022 report found that 38.6 percent of lead actors in films in the United States that year were female. A decade earlier, the share stood at 25.6 percent. Despite the overall growth, the 2022 figure marks the first decrease since 2013. Throughout the second half of the 2010s, not more than 30