"I've never been a girl-woman," Elizabeth Marvel said recently. "I've always been a Woman with a capital 'W.'Â " With her deep timbre and penetrating eyes, the forty-seven-year-old actress knows how to make her presence felt; the women she plays demand to be reckoned with. Lately, Marvel's roles could be seen as a collective essay on female political authority. On "House of Cards," she played Heather Dunbar, a U.S.…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 05:00AM on May 19, 2017