Sydney Sweeney

About Sydney Sweeney

Sydney Bernice Sweeney is an American actress. She first gained attention in 2018 for appearing in the television series Everything Sucks! and The Handmaid's Tale, and in the limited series Sharp Objects. In the following year, she was featured in the Quentin Tarantino-directed film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Sweeney's breakthrough as an actress, though, came in June 2019 as Cassie Howard, a troubled, promiscuous teenager in HBO's Euphoria. The show, being the second most watched HBO series ever, also features Zendaya, Alexa Demie, Barbie Ferreira, Hunter Schafer, and Maude Apatow. 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 production company Fifty-Fifty Films, launched in 2020. The same year, she starred in the TV film Nocturne, as well as Webtoon’s live-action advertisement for the online comic Lore Olympus, appearing as Persephone.

In 2021, Sweeney appeared in the first season of Mike White's black comedy anthology series White Lotus as a sardonic college sophomore. Again she was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or 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 companies Armani Beauty and Laneige.

She 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.

As of August 2024, Sweeney is engaged to businessman Jonathan Davino. She and Davino prefer to keep the details of their relationship private as Davino is not a celebrity. They produce films together (including Anyone but You), with Davino serving as Sweeney's "producing partner".

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

As of December 2024, Sweeney has amassed 23.1 million Instagram followers, and 1.3 million followers on X.