Happy Birthday, Florence Pugh! From ‘Midsommar’ to ‘Oppenheimer’, take a look at some of her best performances

Actress Florence Pugh – who celebrates her 29th birthday today, January 3 – has established herself as one of the most sought-after actresses in the industry. Making her professional debut in 2014, Pugh has been credited in over 20 films. Take a look at some of her best

Black Widow (2021)

Set right after the events of ‘Captain America: Civil War’ (2016), Natasha Romanoff, aka the Black Widow, must confront the life she left behind before joining the Avengers. With the help of her sister Yelena Belova (Pugh), they must take down the Taskmaster who controls the Red Room, responsible for creating manipulated Black Widows

Don’t Worry Darling (2022)

Set in the 1950s, Alice Chamber (Pugh) lives a beautiful and comfortable life with her husband, Jack. Though she has everything she could ever dream of, Alice starts to notice that the town she lives in – Victory, California – holds secrets that shake her entire reality

Lady Macbeth (2016)

Set in the year 1865, Katherine Leister (Pugh) is bound in a loveless marriage to her husband Alexander. When Alexander and his father Boris leave town for business, she begins to have an illicit affair with Sebastian, a labourer

Little Women (2019)

This coming-of-age film, set in the 1860s, based on Louisa May Alcott’s book of the same name, chronicles the life of the March sisters – Jo, Amy, Beth, and Meg. Jumping between the past and present of the sisters lives, we see Amy (Pugh) grow up from being an immature little girl and her transition into womanhood. Pugh’s role earned her an Oscar nomination in 2020

Midsommar (2019)

Dani (Pugh), who is grieving the death of her family who tragically passed many months ago, is invited to go to the Swedish town of Hälsingland to attend the nine-day midsummer festival, celebrated only once every 90 years. Disturbed by the outlandish ceremonies, Dani finds a way to escape

Oppenheimer (2023)

This Academy Award-winning film details the plight of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. Though he was married to Katherine Puening, he is engaged in an extramarital affair with psychiatrist Jean Tatlock (Pugh)