7. Alysia Reiner

She is a SAG Award–winning actress, producer, voice over talent, activist and advocate for many causes including reproductive rights, a self-described “eco-emissary” who started an eco fashion zero waste initiative, Livari.  She had seven seasons on Orange Is the New Black as the villainess “Fig” before deciding the stories she wanted to tell about women weren’t going to tell themselves. In her 50’s alone she finished five seasons as Sunny on “Better Things,” worked on numerous shows including Ms. Marvel, Shining Vale, Law and Order, The Diplomat and launched her sex and pleasure column in FLOW magazine, became a Spirit award nominee for “the feeling that the time for doing something has passed.” She is actively building a creative identity around midlife: producing and starring in stories about women at this stage. Starring in “ramona in Midlife” and “one day in Sedona” an over 40 rom-com. She also sits on numerous boards like the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media as well as singing at protests with the Resistance Revival Chorus, and is a licensed volunteer firefighter — because, as she’s explained, if everyone keeps saying the world is a dumpster fire, she figured she should learn to fight fires. She does not have a midlife angle. She is the midlife angle. Please give a listen to the astonishing Alysia Reiner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices