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.