Florence Pugh is an English actress. In 2020 she is bound to make her MCU debut in the Black Widow movie.
She has garnered acclaim for her performances in a slew of films. So let’s find out some trivia and facts about her life and career!
- Her full name is Florence Rose C. M. Pugh
- She was born on January 3 1996
- She is an English actress
- She made her professional acting debut in the mystery film The Falling (2014)
- She gained recognition for her leading role in the independent drama Lady Macbeth (2016)
- Her performance as an unhappily married woman in the latter won her the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress
- Pugh portrayed Elizabeth de Burgh in the Netflix historical film Outlaw King (2018)
- Her breakthrough came in 2019
- Then she portrayed professional wrestler Paige in the sports film Fighting with My Family
- She received critical acclaim for her performances as an emotionally troubled woman in the horror film Midsommar and a headstrong artist in the coming-of-age film Little Women
- Florence Rose C. M. Pugh was born on 3 January 1996 in Oxfordshire
- Her father, Clinton Pugh, is a restaurateur in Oxford
- While her mother, Deborah, is a dancer and dance teacher
- Pugh has three siblings
- Including actor and musician Toby Sebastian
- And actress Arabella Gibbins
- She lived in the Spanish community of Andalusia for part of her childhood
- Her first school was located in Sotogrande
- Her love of accents and comedy was first displayed at age six at Cokethorpe School in Hardwick, Oxfordshire
- Then she was cast as Mary in a Christmas nativity play
- And decided to play the role with a Yorkshire accent
- More lead parts followed at Wychwood School (2007- 2009) and at St. Edward’s School, Oxford
- Pugh will next star alongside Scarlett Johansson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Widow, about the titular superhero
- In 2015, Pugh played her first lead role in the television film Studio City, co-starring Eric McCormack
- The following year, she starred in the independent drama Lady Macbeth
- She had a recurring role as a webcam model in the first season of the ITV detective series Marcella
- In the former, based on the novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov
- She starred as a young girl unhappily married to a much older man
- For her performance, she won the BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film, among others
- In her final film release of 2019, Pugh played Amy March, a headstrong artist, in Greta Gerwig’s film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women
- The ensemble cast rehearsed the script before filming began
- But Pugh could not participate as she was filming Midsommar at the time
- She believed that it helped create distance between her and the actresses portraying her sisters
- Which proved conducive for her character’s personality