Florence
Pugh

She is the actress whose voice walks into a take and brings the room with it. An Oxford kid who showed up on screen at nineteen with the kind of presence that usually takes a decade. Three years later she was opposite Saoirse Ronan in Greta Gerwig’s *Little Women*, with an Academy nomination for the trouble.

Arc

She broke through in *Lady Macbeth* in 2016 and won a British Independent Film Award for it. Then the consolidation — Park Chan-wook’s *The Little Drummer Girl* on TV in 2018, *Fighting with My Family* in 2019, Ari Aster’s *Midsommar* the same summer. Greta Gerwig’s *Little Women* in 2019 brought a Best Supporting nomination. She entered Marvel as Yelena Belova in *Black Widow* and *Hawkeye* in 2021. *Oppenheimer* in 2023, *Dune: Part Two* and *We Live in Time* in 2024, *Thunderbolts** in 2025 made her the team’s lead.

Why she’s in the library

A face the model reads in a single pass. Strong brow above pale eyes, a defined jaw, a wide mouth that holds the same shape across crying, laughing, deadpan. Geometry stable in soft key, hard sun, sweaty close-up. Wanted by the user.