Sydney Sweeney Movies and TV Shows: The Complete Guide
In short: Start with Euphoria and The White Lotus, which earned Sydney Sweeney two Emmy nominations in 2022. Then watch Reality (2023) for her best dramatic work and The Housemaid (2025), her biggest hit, which made $400.5 million worldwide. Anyone but You (2023) is the pick if you want her in a mainstream romantic comedy. Skip Madame Web unless you're a completist.
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- A tense true story: Reality (2023).
- A twisty crowd-pleaser: The Housemaid (2025).
- A romantic comedy: Anyone but You (2023).
- Horror: Immaculate (2024).
- Prestige TV: Euphoria, then The White Lotus Season 1.
Her essential TV roles
Euphoria (HBO, 2019-2026), as Cassie Howard. The role that made her famous and earned her a 2022 Emmy nomination for Supporting Actress in a Drama. Season 3 aired eight episodes from April 12 to May 31, 2026, picking up five years after Season 2.
The White Lotus, Season 1 (HBO, 2021), as Olivia Mossbacher. The withering, book-carrying daughter of a wealthy family on holiday in Hawaii. It earned her a second Emmy nomination the same year.
Earlier roles worth knowing: Eden Spencer in The Handmaid's Tale (2018), Alice in HBO's Sharp Objects (2018), and Emaline in Netflix's one-season Everything Sucks! (2018).
Her movies, ranked
1. Reality (2023)
Sweeney plays Reality Winner, the NSA contractor who leaked a classified report, in a film built word for word from the FBI's transcript of her interrogation. Most of it takes place in one house over about 90 minutes. It's her most acclaimed performance, quiet and controlled, and the best evidence of what she can do.
2. The Housemaid (2025)
Paul Feig's adaptation of Freida McFadden's bestseller, with Sweeney as Millie Calloway, a live-in housekeeper for a family that isn't what it seems, opposite Amanda Seyfried. It made $400.5 million worldwide on a $35 million budget, making it her biggest hit by far. A sequel, The Housemaid's Secret, is set for 2027.
3. Anyone but You (2023)
A fake-dating romantic comedy with Glen Powell, loosely based on Much Ado About Nothing. It opened modestly, then kept growing in theaters through word of mouth to more than $200 million worldwide. It proved she could lead a mainstream studio film.
4. Immaculate (2024)
A horror film about an American nun who finds herself pregnant at an Italian convent. Sweeney also produced it. It's a committed, physical performance, and the ending is deliberately extreme.
5. Christy (2025)
A biopic of boxer Christy Martin, directed by David Michôd. Critics praised Sweeney's transformation, but the film opened to just $1.3 million, one of the weakest wide openings on record. It's worth seeing for her performance, even though few people did.
6. Echo Valley (2025)
A thriller with Julianne Moore as a horse trainer whose daughter, played by Sweeney, turns up in trouble. Reviews were split, around 50% on Rotten Tomatoes, but it became Apple TV+'s most-watched film in its release weeks.
7. The Voyeurs (2021)
A glossy erotic thriller on Prime Video about a couple who become fixated on the neighbors across the street. Pulpy and knowingly over the top.
8. Madame Web (2024)
Sony's Spider-Man spin-off, which critics panned. Sweeney has a supporting role as Julia Cornwall. Only for completists.
Also on her filmography: a small role as Manson follower "Snake" in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), the horror film Nocturne (2020), and two 2025 releases that found little audience, Ron Howard's survival drama Eden and the crime caper Americana.
What's next
The Housemaid's Secret is set for 2027. An adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country, with Sweeney as Undine Spragg, is in post-production, and she's filming the live-action Gundam film. She has produced through her company Fifty-Fifty Films since 2020.
Our verdict
Her career splits into two tracks: careful, smaller films where she does her best acting (Reality, Christy) and commercial genre hits (Anyone but You, The Housemaid). If you only watch one film, make it Reality. If you want an easy, twisty night in, The Housemaid is the safer bet.
Frequently asked questions
Who did Sydney Sweeney play in The White Lotus? Olivia Mossbacher, the sharp-tongued daughter of the Mossbacher family, in Season 1 (2021).
Is there a sequel to The Housemaid? Yes. The Housemaid's Secret, with Sweeney returning as Millie Calloway, is set for 2027.
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