Who Is Sydney Sweeney?
Sydney Sweeney is an American actress. She gained mainstream attention in the Netflix series Everything Sucks! (2018), playing Emaline, and portrayed Eden in the Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale (2018) and Alice in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018). She has starred as Cassie Howard in the HBO teen drama series Euphoria since 2019 and as Olivia Mossbacher in The White Lotus since 2021.
Sweeney received two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations in 2022, the former for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and the latter for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. In the film, she had a role in Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, portraying Dianne “Snake” Lake, a member of the Manson Family, and will appear in the upcoming Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU) film Madame Web.
Early life
Sydney Bernice Sweeney was born on September 12, 1997 (age 24 years) in Spokane, Washington, United States. Her mother is a lawyer and her father works in the medical field. She has a brother, Trent. 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.
Sweeney has stated she has grown up from a Christian background, though she is accepting of all religions. Sweeney attended Saint George’s School in Spokane. She was active in numerous athletics: “I was in every single sport possible”, she said. “I was on the soccer team, the baseball team, the snow slalom ski team, I was wakeboarding.” Sweeney also studied multiple languages and graduated as a valedictorian.
She became interested in acting after auditioning to be an extra in an independent film that was shooting in the Spokane area. 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
Sydney Sweeney’s first feature film was a horror film called Along Came the Devil. 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’s character meets at a psychiatric facility.
Sweeney’s 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 that had patients who self-harmed. She filmed Everything Sucks! and Sharp Objects concurrently, the former during the week and the latter on the weekend.
She 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 next year, she 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.
Since 2019, Sweeney has portrayed promiscuous teenager Cassie Howard in the drama series Euphoria, to widespread acclaim, receiving a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2022. Sweeney starred in the TV film Nocturne. She will also star in The Players Table, a TV series adaptation of Jessica Goodman’s novel They Wish They Were Us on HBO Max.
Sydney Sweeney will also executive-produce with her production company, Fifty-Fifty Films. The adaptation will co-star singer Halsey, with whom Sweeney worked on the video for Halsey’s song “Graveyard”. In 2021, she appeared in the first season of Mike White’s anthology black comedy series The White Lotus, receiving critical acclaim for the role, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, also in 2022.
In March 2022, Sweeney joined Dakota Johnson for the upcoming superhero film Madame Web, set in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU) media franchise. Sweeney has promoted various products and is featured in numerous advertisements. In May 2020, she became a model for Savage X Fenty. In September 2021, she became the face of Guess Originals’s Anna Nicole Smith Collection. In December 2020, The Spokesman-Review reported that Sweeney had donated $12,000 to various restaurants in her hometown of Spokane, which used the funds to serve meals at homeless shelters.
Sydney Sweeney became the face of SOL by Jergens in March 2022. She was announced as the first U.S. celebrity partner of skincare brand Laneige in April 2022. In the same month, Sweeney became the brand ambassador for Tory Burch’s handbags and shoes. Previously, she starred in the brand’s “Good Luck” holiday campaign.
Sweeney embarked on her first project with the brand as an ambassador in June 2022, starring in the brand’s campaign titled “Show Me Your Millers”, wearing the brand’s Miller sandals. In May 2022, she became a model for Miu Miu’s Miu Wander bag. In June 2022, she became a model for Jacquemus’ Spring/Summer 2022 collection. In the same month, Sweeney was appointed as the face of Australian retailer Cotton On Body. She modeled for the jewelry brand David Yurman.
Who Is Sydney Sweeney’s Husband?
Sydney Sweeney has been engaged to her longtime boyfriend Jonathan Davino since February 2022. Her soon-to-be husband is a Chicago-based restaurateur. The couple has no kids together. However, Sweeney trains in mixed martial arts and competed in grappling in high school. Sweeney has said she creates 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. As of mid-2022, Sydney Sweeney and her husband to be Jonathan Davino haven’t had their wedding ceremony.
Sydney Sweeney net worth
How much is Sydney Sweeney worth? Sydney Sweeney net worth is estimated at around $5 million. Her main source of income is from her career as an actress. Sydney Sweeney’s salary per month with other career earnings is over $1 million dollars annually. She is one of the young richest and most influential actresses in the United States. Her successful career has earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips. Sydney Sweeney stands at an appealing height of 1.68m and has a good body weight which suits her personality.
