Character

Brianna Hanson

Brianna Hanson in Grace and Frankie (2015), played by June Diane Raphael.

Brianna is Grace's eldest daughter and the hard-charging president of the family cosmetics company, a woman who treats vulnerability like a virus to be avoided. Sharp-tongued, controlling, and allergic to therapy-speak, she runs her business and her love life with the same brisk efficiency, bristling whenever anyone tries to get past her defenses.

June Diane Raphael plays Brianna's brittleness as comedy rather than tragedy, firing off insults with such rapid, deadpan precision that her cruelty becomes weirdly endearing. The writing keeps needling at the gap between her competence and her emotional avoidance, and Raphael never lets you forget there's real fear underneath the sarcasm.

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Grace and Frankie2015