In the mid‑2020s, few actors have captured public fascination like Sydney Sweeney. Born in Spokane, Washington in 1997, she began acting as a teenager and broke through with roles in HBO’s Euphoria and The White Lotus. Her trajectory makes her the latest ‘it’ girl, a label used since the 1920s.
In July 2024 she made headlines by buying and renovating a Los Angeles home, telling The Sunday Times that she needed ‘to prove’ herself as an actor and businessperson and that she would always work harder.