Randeeheller · CC BY-SA 4.0

Landed one of television's first lesbian characters, Alice, on the 1970s sitcom Soap, then built a decades-long career playing Lucille LaRusso across The Karate Kid, The Karate Kid Part III, and the series Cobra Kai, and Don Draper's elderly secretary Ida Blankenship on Mad Men, a role that earned her an Emmy nomination.