Sydney Sweeney
Sydney Bernice Sweeney (born September 12, 1997) is an American actress. She gained mainstream attention in the Netflix series Everything Sucks! (2018) for her role as Emaline and has portrayed Eden in the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale (2018) and Alice in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018)
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Early life.
Sweeney was born and raised in Spokane, Washington, where she attended Saint George's School. She has a younger brother named Trent. Her mother is a lawyer and her father works in the medical field. She became interested in acting after wanting to audition for a role in an independent film that was shooting in the Spokane area. In order to convince her parents to allow her to pursue acting, she presented them with a five-year business plan.
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 14 years old.
Career.
Sweeney has guest starred in TV shows such as 90210, Criminal Minds, Grey's Anatomy, In the Vault, and Pretty Little Liars.
Sweeney starred as Emaline Addario on the Netflix series Everything Sucks!, which revolved around two groups of high school students in Oregon in 1996. She then appeared in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects, recurring as Alice, a roommate whom Amy Adams' character meets at a psychiatric facility.Her character was originally supposed to have a smaller role, but the director kept bringing her in for more scenes. For the role, Sweeney studied stories of girls who suffered from mental illness and self-harming, and visited hospitals who had patients who self-harmed. Sweeney filmed Everything Sucks! and Sharp Objects concurrently, filming the former during the week and latter on the weekend.
Sweeney had a role in the thriller film Under the Silver Lake in 2018. She had a recurring role during the second season of the dystopian tragedy series The Handmaid's Tale as Eden Spencer, a pious and obedient girl. She also starred as the heroine in the horror film Along Came the Devil. The following year, she appeared in the drama film Clementine, the coming-of-age film Big Time Adolescence, and Quentin Tarantino's dramedy film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Since 2019, Sweeney has portrayed Cassie Howard in the teen drama series Euphoria, who is a "teenager with a promiscuous reputation".
Sweeney is set to star in the television film Nocturne. She will also star in The Players Table, a television series adaptation of the novel They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman which will air on HBO Max. Sweeney will also executively produce under her production company Fifty-Fifty Films. The adaptation will co-star singer Halsey, with whom Sweeney had worked on the music video for the song "Graveyard", also by Halsey. In the summer of 2021, she appeared in the HBO miniseries, The White Lotus, from writer and director Mike White.
Personal life.
Sweeney studied entrepreneurship at LACS. She is a trained MMA fighter, and competed in grappling in high school.
Sweeney frequently talks about creating separate books for each of her characters, which are "interactive diaries/timelines/memory books/pictures of the character’s entire world" from when the character was born to the first page of the script.
In December 2020, The Spokesman-Review reported that Sweeney had donated $12,000 to various restaurants in her hometown of Spokane, Washington, which used the funds to serve meals at homeless shelters.
Sydney Sweeney
Sydney Bernice Sweeney (born September 12, 1997) is an American actress. She gained mainstream attention in the Netflix series Everything Sucks! (2018) for her role as Emaline and has portrayed Eden in the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale (2018) and Alice in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018)
Early life.
Sweeney was born and raised in Spokane, Washington, where she attended Saint George's School. She has a younger brother named Trent. Her mother is a lawyer and her father works in the medical field. She became interested in acting after wanting to audition for a role in an independent film that was shooting in the Spokane area. In order to convince her parents to allow her to pursue acting, she presented them with a five-year business plan.
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 14 years old.
Career.
Sweeney has guest starred in TV shows such as 90210, Criminal Minds, Grey's Anatomy, In the Vault, and Pretty Little Liars.
Sweeney starred as Emaline Addario on the Netflix series Everything Sucks!, which revolved around two groups of high school students in Oregon in 1996. She then appeared in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects, recurring as Alice, a roommate whom Amy Adams' character meets at a psychiatric facility.Her character was originally supposed to have a smaller role, but the director kept bringing her in for more scenes. For the role, Sweeney studied stories of girls who suffered from mental illness and self-harming, and visited hospitals who had patients who self-harmed. Sweeney filmed Everything Sucks! and Sharp Objects concurrently, filming the former during the week and latter on the weekend.
Sweeney had a role in the thriller film Under the Silver Lake in 2018. She had a recurring role during the second season of the dystopian tragedy series The Handmaid's Tale as Eden Spencer, a pious and obedient girl. She also starred as the heroine in the horror film Along Came the Devil. The following year, she appeared in the drama film Clementine, the coming-of-age film Big Time Adolescence, and Quentin Tarantino's dramedy film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Since 2019, Sweeney has portrayed Cassie Howard in the teen drama series Euphoria, who is a "teenager with a promiscuous reputation".
Sweeney is set to star in the television film Nocturne. She will also star in The Players Table, a television series adaptation of the novel They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman which will air on HBO Max. Sweeney will also executively produce under her production company Fifty-Fifty Films. The adaptation will co-star singer Halsey, with whom Sweeney had worked on the music video for the song "Graveyard", also by Halsey. In the summer of 2021, she appeared in the HBO miniseries, The White Lotus, from writer and director Mike White.
Personal life.
Sweeney studied entrepreneurship at LACS. She is a trained MMA fighter, and competed in grappling in high school.
Sweeney frequently talks about creating separate books for each of her characters, which are "interactive diaries/timelines/memory books/pictures of the character’s entire world" from when the character was born to the first page of the script.
In December 2020, The Spokesman-Review reported that Sweeney had donated $12,000 to various restaurants in her hometown of Spokane, Washington, which used the funds to serve meals at homeless shelters.
Sydney Sweeney
Sydney Bernice Sweeney (born September 12, 1997) is an American actress. She gained mainstream attention in the Netflix series Everything Sucks! (2018) for her role as Emaline and has portrayed Eden in the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale (2018) and Alice in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018)
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