From Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs (she was 29, but Clarice is a precursor) to Sigourney Weaver in the Alien franchise, the protector archetype ages up in films like The Nightingale (2018) or even the villainous yet maternal Hereditary (2018) with Toni Collette. This woman’s power is not in her beauty but in her ferocity.