Russian Doll's Rebecca Henderson Loves Being the Lesbian Go-To After 40
Russian Doll star Rebecca Henderson. Indeed, viewers surfing between Freeform and Netflix these days can easily find the Toronto native repping for queer women.
She’s appeared in popular LGBTQ+ projects as far back as Desiree Akhavan’s 2014 feature Appropriate Behavior. But at 41, she’s hit her career stride, and she’s done it playing the kinds of roles she hopes will make an impact.“I think in my late 20s, this theater director who I love was like, ‘You know, Rebecca, when you’re 40, you’re never going to stop working,’” Henderson says. “[It’s] something about the way I am, the way I talk, the way I look — they’re all going to line up when I turn 40.
Now I’m 41, and thank God, that’s been true.”On a snowy February day in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, Henderson is just weeks away from appearing in three buzzworthy shows at the same time.
But on that day, she’s been busy rescuing a cat from the cold, an act of kindness that aligns with her identity. “I’ve become a stereotypical lesbian just trying to rescue all the cats.
