Sweeney at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival in 2023 2019–present: Breakthrough with Euphoria and The White Lotus The next year, Sweeney appeared in the drama film Clementine, the coming-of-age film Big Time Adolescence, and Quentin Tarantino's dramedy Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. She also starred as the heroine in the horror film Along Came the Devil. She had a recurring role during the second season of the dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale as Eden Spencer, a pious and obedient girl from the totalitarian and theocratic Republic of Gilead. Sweeney had a role in the thriller film Under the Silver Lake in 2018. She filmed Everything Sucks! and Sharp Objects concurrently, the former during the week and latter on weekends. 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. Her character was originally supposed to have a smaller role, but the director kept bringing her in for more scenes. She then appeared in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects, recurring as Alice, a roommate whom Amy Adams's character meets at a psychiatric facility. Sweeney starred as Emaline Addario on the Netflix series Everything Sucks!, which revolved around two groups of high school students in Oregon in 1996. Sweeney began her career as guest star in TV shows such as 90210, Criminal Minds, Grey's Anatomy and Pretty Little Liars. Career 2009–2018: Early work and recognition 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, California, when she was 14 years old. To convince her parents to allow her to pursue acting, she presented them with a five-year business plan. She became interested in acting after auditioning to be an extra in an independent film that was shooting in the Spokane area. "I was on the soccer team, the baseball team, the snow slalom ski team, I was wakeboarding." Sweeney also studied multiple languages and graduated with top grades. She was active in numerous athletics: "I was in every single sport possible", she said. Sweeney attended Saint George's School in Spokane. Sweeney has said she has a "religious family". Sweeney was raised in northwestern Idaho in the state's Panhandle region along the Washington border, at a rural lakeside home that her family has inhabited for five generations. Her mother is a lawyer and her father works in the medical field. Sydney Bernice Sweeney was born on September 12, 1997, in Spokane, Washington, to Lisa ( née Mudd) and Steven Sweeney. In 2023, Sweeney gained praise for portraying Reality Winner in the film Reality. In 2019, she was featured in Quentin Tarantino's film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.įor her roles as troubled teenagers in the HBO series Euphoria (2019–present) and The White Lotus (2021), she received nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2022. She first gained attention for appearing in the television series Everything Sucks! (2018), The Handmaid's Tale (2018), and Sharp Objects (2018). Sydney Bernice Sweeney (born September 12, 1997) is an American actress.
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