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Only One-Third of Speaking Roles in 2025’s Top Films Were Women
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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…Despite making up half the population, only one-third of speaking roles in 2025’s Top 100 grossing movies were women.
The dataset begins in 2007, and across those 19 years, the number of female speaking roles has hovered around one-third in Hollywood’s highest-grossing movies.
The highest percentage of female speaking roles in the nearly two decades that USC Annenberg has been tracking came in 2022, with 34.6%.
Broken down by genre, women had the most speaking roles in comedies in 2025 with 38.7%, compared to 28.6% of characters in animation and 30.4% in action/adventure.
LGBTQ+ representation remained static overall from 2024 with than 1% of all speaking characters in 2025 from the community.