Jed Marshall

Jed Marshall is Richard Roper's girlfriend, a striking, watchful presence at the edge of his gilded world of yachts and mansions. She plays hostess with practiced ease, but there's a restlessness beneath the polish, a sense that she notices more than she lets on and belongs to this life only partly by choice.

Elizabeth Debicki gives Jed a stillness that reads as intelligence rather than passivity, letting small shifts in her expression suggest a woman constantly calculating her own position. The role could easily be ornamental; instead she plays every scene as if Jed is quietly deciding how much of herself to reveal, which makes her magnetic rather than merely glamorous.