United Kingdom, June 17 -- Robin Wright was denied equal pay on House of Cards because she didn't have an Academy Award.

The 59-year-old actress played Claire Underwood on the Netflix show from 2013 to 2018 but she was denied the same salary as her on-screen husband Kevin Spacey - who was dropped from the programme before the final season after being accused of sexual misconduct - because he had won a Best Actor Oscar for American Beauty in 2000 and Best Supporting Actor for The Usual Suspects in 1996.

Speaking at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, Variety reports she said: "When David Fincher introduced 'House of Cards' to me, he said, 'This is going to be the future, it's going to be revolutionary.' And look where we are now."

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