Actor: Demi Moore

Demi Moore became the highest-paid actress in Hollywood in the mid-1990s with Striptease, and the coverage of that fact was relentlessly hostile in a way male equivalents never received.

Ghost, A Few Good Men and Indecent Proposal were the commercial peak, and G I Jane required a physical transformation she performed publicly.

The subsequent decline and the tabloid treatment of her marriages occupied more press than any of the work.

The Substance brought a genuine late reappraisal and a Best Actress nomination, in a body horror film explicitly about how the industry discards women, which is not a subtle piece of casting.