Sydney Sweeney

About Sydney Sweeney

Sydney Bernice Sweeney is an American actress, producer, and model.

Sweeney became interested in acting after auditioning to be an extra in an independent film that was shooting in the Spokane area. She presented a five-year business plan to convince her parents to allow her to pursue acting. Sweeney began to audition and book commercial acting jobs in Seattle and Portland, Oregon, where the family temporarily resided, until choosing to relocate to Los Angeles when she was 13 years old. In middle school, Sweeney was on the robotics team and participated in the mathematics club. She was valedictorian of her graduating class at Brighton Hall School in Burbank, California. In 2016, Sweeney briefly worked at Universal Studios Hollywood, but left after she had been hired for an acting job. She also briefly attended the University of California, Los Angeles.

Sweeney's first notable appearances came in 2018 in the television series Everything Sucks! and The Handmaid's Tale, and in the limited series Sharp Objects. The following year, she was featured in the Quentin Tarantino-directed film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

However, Sweeney's breakthrough as an actress came in June 2019 as Cassie Howard, a troubled, promiscuous teenager in HBO's Euphoria. The show, the second most watched HBO series ever, also features Zendaya, Alexa Demie, Barbie Ferreira, Maude Apatow, Alanna Ubach, Storm Reid, Minka Kelly, and Chloe Couture. Her performance earned her an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Variety wrote that this "proves that Sweeney's one hell of a shapeshifter, between her deft turns in this, The Handmaid's Tale, Everything Sucks and Sharp Objects." Her many nude scenes in the series received significant attention, generating discussions about nudity in film and the male gaze. Despite this, Sweeney has stated she would not stop doing nude scenes because she's comfortable acting in the buff.

Sweeney is the founder of the production company Fifty-Fifty Films, which launched in 2020. The same year, she starred in the TV film Nocturne and Webtoon’s live-action advertisement for the online comic Lore Olympus, appearing as Persephone.

In 2021, Sweeney appeared as a sardonic college sophomore in the first season of Mike White's black comedy anthology series White Lotus. Again, she was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited, Anthology Series, or Movie. Her accomplishments earned her a place on the Time 100 Next list for 2022. In an interview with the New York Times, Sweeney stated that her "mean girl" portrayal in White Lotus was inspired by cultural critic Anna Khachiyan and actress Dasha Nekrasova of the Red Scare Podcast.

In January 2023, Sweeney became a brand ambassador for Armani Beauty and Laneige.

Sweeney starred as U.S. Air Force veteran Reality Winner in Tina Satter's drama Reality, which premiered at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival. Next up for Sweeney was a role in the crime thriller Americana, which premiered at the South by Southwest Festival in March 2023. Later that year, She starred in the music video for the Rolling Stones' single "Angry," from their album Hackney Diamonds. The video premiered in September 2023.

Sweeney produced the movies Anyone But You (2023) and Immaculate (2024).

In 2025, Sweeney starred in the American biographical sports drama film Christy (2025), which is about the former professional boxer Christy Martin, whom Sweeney portrays.

In July 2025, Sweeney was featured in an American Eagle ad campaign called "Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans". The campaign makes a pun on the homophones jeans and genes. American Eagle's stock price (NYSE: AEO) rose 24% (its biggest gain since 2000) after announcing the campaign, and the campaign was compared to Brooke Shields's 1980s commercials for Calvin Klein. It drew the attention of the Trump administration and several conservative and right-wing commentators reported on the alleged "woke" backlash against Sweeney.

Sweeney has modeled for several brands, including Frankies Bikinis, Parade, and Jimmy Choo. She has also appeared on the covers of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

Sweeney is of Irish and Scottish descent. Besides her native English, she speaks Russian and Spanish. She taught herself Russian in high school and learned Spanish at school and most of her life, as her father lives in Mexico. She is engaged to businessman Jonathan Davino, with whom she's been in a relationship since 2018. She has been connected to co-star Glen Powell because of her film 'Anyone but You'; however, those rumors were shut down when Sydney hosted SNL and made a joke about the claim.

As of February 2025, Sweeney has amassed 23.4 million Instagram followers and 1.22 million followers on X.