Actor: Florence Pugh

Florence Pugh went from Lady Macbeth to an Academy Award nomination for Little Women in three years, which is an unusually fast ascent.

Midsommar is the performance that announced what she does. The opening grief sequence is genuinely difficult to sit through, and the film rests on her ability to make a breakdown physical instead of expressive.

She joined Marvel as Yelena Belova in Black Widow and Thunderbolts, and appeared in Oppenheimer and Dune Part Two.

She has been publicly blunt about industry expectations regarding her appearance and about the age gap discourse around one of her relationships, which is unusual for someone at her career stage.