Sydney Sweeney Biography
Sydney Bernice Sweeney is a well-known American actress. She was born on September 12, 1997[1]. It was her role in the television show Everything Sucks! (2018), The Handmaid’s Tale (2018), and Sharp Objects (2018) which brought her to the public’s attention for the first time (2018).
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which was directed by Quentin Tarantino and released in 2019, included her as an actress. Since 2019, Sweeney has been a main cast member in the HBO teen drama series Euphoria, playing the role of Cassie Howard. In 2021, she appeared in The White Lotus as a cynical adolescent.
Sweeney was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2022 due to the roles that she played in these shows. The first of these nominations was for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, and the second of these nominations were for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
Early life
Lisa Sweeney (née Mudd) and Scott Sweeney welcomed their son Sweeney into the world on September 12, 1997 in the city of Spokane, Washington. Both of her parents are professionals in their own fields; her mom practices law, and her dad is a doctor. Her name is Trent, and she has a brother. [5] Sweeney spent her childhood in the Panhandle region of Idaho, in the state’s northwest corner, near the state’s border with Washington. She grew up in a lakeside home in the country that has been in her family for five generations. Sweeney has claimed in the past that she comes from a “religious family.”
Spokane, Washington’s Saint George’s School was Sweeney’s alma mater.
She participated in a wide variety of athletics and has been quoted as saying, “I was in every single sport available.” “I was a member of the snow slalom ski team, the baseball team, the soccer team, and I also did wakeboarding.” Sweeney also graduated at the top of his class while studying a number of other languages. After trying out for a supporting role in a locally produced indie movie that was being shot around the Spokane region, she decided to pursue a career in acting. She gave her parents a business plan that spanned the next five years in order to persuade them to let her pursue a career in acting. [4] When Sweeney was 14 years old, she made the decision to move to Los Angeles and immediately began to apply for and book acting roles in commercials in the cities of Seattle and Portland, Oregon, where her family was temporarily residing at the time.
Career
Early work
Along Came the Devil, which was Sweeney’s debut feature-length film, was in the horror genre. Sweeney has appeared as a guest on a number of popular television programs, including 90210, Criminal Minds, Grey’s Anatomy, In the Vault, and Pretty Little Liars.
Sweeney played the role of Emaline Addario on the Netflix series Everything Sucks!, which took place in Oregon in 1996 and centered on two different sets of high school kids. After that, she had a recurring role in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects, playing the character Alice, a roommate that Amy Adams’s character encounters when she is staying in a mental institution. [14] [15] However, the filmmaker started adding additional scenes with her character even though she was only intended to have a little part to play in the beginning. Sweeney prepared for the part by reading accounts of young women who struggled with mental illness and engaged in self-inflicted physical harm, as well as by seeing institutions that treated patients who engaged in such behavior. [14] [16] She shot Everything Sucks! and Sharp Objects at the same time, with the former taking place during the week and the latter taking place on the weekends.
In 2018, the suspense movie Under the Silver Lake had Sweeney in a supporting role.
During the second season of the dystopian drama series The Handmaid’s Tale, she appeared in recurrent episodes playing the character Eden Spencer, a devout and submissive young woman from the dictatorial Republic of Gilead.
In the horror movie Along Came the Devil, she played the role of the protagonist’s love interest.
The following year, Sweeney had roles in three different films: the drama Clementine, the coming-of-age film Big Time Adolescence, and the dramedy Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which was directed by Quentin Tarantino.
2019–present: Breakthrough and mainstream recognition
Since 2019, Sweeney has played the role of teenager Cassie Howard in the drama series Euphoria . Her performance has garnered considerable praise, and in 2022, she was even considered for a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She had a starring role in the television movie “Nocturne.” Sweeney will also star in the television version of Jessica Goodman’s novel They Wish They Were Us, titled The Players Table, which will air on HBO Max. In addition to starring in the show, Sweeney will also executive produce it with her production firm, Fifty-Fifty Films. The singer Halsey, with whom Sweeney collaborated on the music video for Halsey’s song “Graveyard,” will also appear in the film version. Sweeney received widespread recognition for his performance as the lead character in the first season of The White Lotus, an anthology black comedy series created by Mike White and shown in 2021. In the year 2022, she was one of the candidates for the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie award for the Primetime Emmys. Because of these roles, she was included on the Time 100 Next list for 2022, and her co-star in the movie Euphoria, Maude Apatow, referred to her as “an irresistible force.”
Next up for Sweeney is the lead role in the upcoming superhero movie Madame Web, which will take place in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU) media empire.
She is also scheduled to appear in two other films for Sony, one of which is a remake of the cult classic Barbarella, and the other is a psychological horror picture titled Immaculate, directed by Michael Mohan. In addition to that, she is scheduled to serve in the role of executive producer for the former and producer for the latter.
Endorsements and other activities
Sweeney has been featured in a variety of advertising and has endorsed a wide range of products. She started working as a model for Savage X Fenty in May of 2020. She began her career as a model for Parade Lingerie in June of 2021. Additionally, in September of 2021, she was chosen to be the face of the Anna Nicole Smith Collection for Guess Originals.
In March of 2022, Sweeney was chosen to represent SOL by Jergens as the brand’s new face.
In April of 2022, it was revealed that she would be the first celebrity partner in the United States for the beauty care brand Laneige.
During the same month, Sweeney was appointed to the role of brand ambassador for the handbags and shoes produced by Tory Burch.
Previously, she was included in the “Good Luck” Christmas advertisement campaign for the brand.
In June of 2022, Sweeney began her first project with the brand as an ambassador. She starred in the brand’s campaign titled “Show Me Your Millers” while wearing the Miller sandals that were manufactured by the business.
In May of 2022, she was cast in a modeling campaign for the Miu Wander Bag by Miu Miu.
She began her career as a model for Jacquemus’ Spring/Summer 2022 Collection in June of that same year.
Sweeney was chosen to represent Cotton On Body, an Australian retailer, in the same month that the appointment was made.
She posed for the jewelry company David Yurman at one point in her career.
Sweeney is a student of mixed martial arts (MMA) and competed in grappling events when he was still in high school.
Sweeney has stated that she creates separate books for each of her characters. These books are described by Sweeney as “interactive diaries/timelines/memory books/pictures of the character’s entire world.” These books begin with the birth of the character and continue all the way up to the first page of the script.
The Spokesman-Review published an article in December 2020 stating that Sweeney had given a donation of $12,000 to various restaurants in her hometown of Spokane. The establishments then utilized the money to provide meals at homeless shelters.
Since the month of February in 2022, Sweeney has been engaged to her longtime boyfriend, the Chicago-based restaurateur Jonathan Davino.
