Janet Fraser

Janet Fraser belongs to the moneyed, buttoned-up world that surrounds Grace and her family, an elder presence whose composure and old-fashioned bearing set the tone for how this class of people is expected to behave, even as the ground beneath them starts to shift.

Rosemary Harris brings a lifetime of stage and screen precision to a small role, using stillness and clipped courtesy to suggest generations of practiced discretion. She doesn't need many scenes to make you feel the weight of family expectation pressing down on everyone around her.