Sydney Sweeney poses for a portrait in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2021. Sweeney was named one of eight breakthrough entertainers of the year by the Associated Press.
Sydney Sweeney poses for a portrait in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2021. Sweeney was named one of eight breakthrough entertainers of the year by the Associated Press.
Sydney Sweeney poses for a portrait in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2021. Sweeney was named one of eight breakthrough entertainers of the year by the Associated Press.
Sydney Sweeney poses for a portrait in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2021. Sweeney was named one of eight breakthrough entertainers of the year by the Associated Press.
Sydney Sweeney poses for a portrait in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2021. Sweeney was named one of eight breakthrough entertainers of the year by the Associated Press.
Sydney Sweeney poses for a portrait in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2021. Sweeney was named one of eight breakthrough entertainers of the year by the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — As she pursued her dream to become an actor, Sydney Sweeney’s family lost their home, her parents got divorced and she spent countless nights crying herself to sleep because of the constant rejection.
Hoping to put her family back together again, Sweeney vowed to find success and buy her parents a house when she turned 18. But like so many children of divorce, her wish never came true.
“There were many, many years where I got told ‘No’ endlessly,” Sweeney recently told The Associated Press, which has named her one of its Breakthrough Entertainers of 2021. “I got told I wasn’t good enough, I would never make it, I wasn’t pretty enough — all the time. And my parents were like, ‘Are we doing the right thing?’”
It wasn’t until 2018 that Sweeney finally got her big break, a small but memorable role in Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” She was 21.
“When I was on set for the first time, I was like, ‘I’m actually here. Like, this is what my mom and I always talked about,’” Sweeney said.
From there, she took off. That same year, she was in the critically acclaimed HBO mini-series “Sharp Objects” starring Amy Adams. In 2019, Sweeney starred alongside Zendaya and Hunter Schafer in HBO’s “Euphoria,” a frighteningly honest portrayal of teenage drug addiction and sex. And a month after “Euphoria” premiered, Sweeney was twirling in a pink gown alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt at the premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” in which she played a member of the Manson family.
