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 shooting in the Spokane area. She presented a five-year business plan to convince her parents to let her pursue acting. She auditioned for and booked commercial acting jobs in Seattle and Portland, Oregon, where the family temporarily resided, before relocating to Los Angeles when she was 13. In middle school she was on the robotics team and in the mathematics club. She was valedictorian of her graduating class at Brighton Hall School in Burbank, California. In 2016 she briefly worked at Universal Studios Hollywood, leaving after she was hired for an acting job. She also briefly attended the University of California, Los Angeles.

In 2018 Sweeney appeared in the television series Everything Sucks! and The Handmaid's Tale and in the limited series Sharp Objects. In 2019 she appeared in the Quentin Tarantino-directed film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. In June 2019 she began playing Cassie Howard in HBO's Euphoria, whose cast also includes Zendaya, Alexa Demie, Barbie Ferreira, Maude Apatow, Alanna Ubach, Storm Reid, Minka Kelly and Chloe Couture. The role earned her an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. In 2021 she played a college sophomore in the first season of Mike White's black comedy anthology series White Lotus, for which she was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited, Anthology Series, or Movie. In an interview with the New York Times, she said her portrayal in White Lotus was inspired by cultural critic Anna Khachiyan and actress Dasha Nekrasova of the Red Scare Podcast. She was named to the Time 100 Next list for 2022.

Sweeney founded the production company Fifty-Fifty Films, which launched in 2020. That year she starred in the TV film Nocturne and appeared as Persephone in Webtoon's live-action advertisement for the online comic Lore Olympus. She starred as U.S. Air Force veteran Reality Winner in Tina Satter's drama Reality, which premiered at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival. She also appeared in the crime thriller Americana, which premiered at the South by Southwest Festival in March 2023. In September 2023 she appeared in the music video for the Rolling Stones' single "Angry" from their album Hackney Diamonds. She produced the films Anyone But You (2023) and Immaculate (2024). In 2025 she portrayed former professional boxer Christy Martin in the biographical sports drama Christy.

In January 2023 Sweeney became a brand ambassador for Armani Beauty and Laneige. She has modeled for brands including Frankies Bikinis, Parade and Jimmy Choo, and has appeared on the covers of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. In July 2025 she appeared in an American Eagle ad campaign titled "Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans", a pun on the homophones jeans and genes. American Eagle's stock price rose 24% after the campaign was announced.

Sweeney is of Irish, Scottish, German, Norwegian, French-Canadian and English descent. Besides English, she speaks Russian, which she taught herself in high school, and Spanish, which she learned at school and over most of her life; her father lives in Mexico. She was engaged to businessman Jonathan Davino; the couple separated in early 2025. In mid-2025 she began dating businessman and music executive Scooter Braun.