
Florence Rose Pugh (born January 3, 1996) is an English actress. Her accolades include a British Independent Film Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and 3 BAFTA Awards. She made her film debut in Carol Morley’s The Falling (2014), with Maisie Williams, Greta Scacchi, Monica Dolan, Maxine Peake, and Mathew Baynton.

She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019), with Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel, Chris Cooper, and Meryl Streep. Other films in the 2010 include William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth (2016), with Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie, and Christopher Fairbank; The Commuter (2018), with Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, Elizabeth McGovern, and Sam Neill; David Mackenzie’s Outlaw King (2018), with Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Billy Howle, Sam Spruell, Tony Curran, Callan Mulvey, James Cosmo, and Stephen Dillane; Malevolent (2018), with Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Scott Chambers, Georgina Bevan, Cosmo, and Celia Imrie; Stephen Merchant’s Fighting with My Family (2019), with Lena Headey, Nick Frost, Jack Lowden, Vince Vaughn, and Dwayne Johnson; and Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019), with Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, and Will Poulter.

She has played Yelena Belova/Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring in the films Black Widow (2021), with Scarlett Johansson, David Harbour, O-T Fagbenle, Olga Kurylenko, William Hurt, Ray Winstone, and Rachel Weisz; Thunderbolts* (2025), with Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Chris Bauer, Wendell Pierce, Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus; Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026), with Tom Holland, Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal, Tramell Tillman, Marisa Tomei, and Mark Ruffalo; as well as the Disney+ miniseries Hawkeye (2021), with Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfeld, Tony Dalton, Fra Fee, Brian d’Arcy James, Aleks Paunovic, Piotr Adamczyk, Linda Cardellini, Simon Callow, Farmiga, Alaqua Cox, Zahn McClarnon, and Vincent D’Onofrio.

Other films in the 2020s include Nancy Meyers’s short Father of the Bride, Part 3(ish) (2020), with Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Martin Short, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Kieran Culkin, George Newbern, Alexandra Shipp, Ben Platt, and Robert De Niro; Don’t Worry Darling (2022), with Harry Styles, Olivia Wilde (who also directed), Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne, Nick Kroll, and Pine; Sebastián Lelio’s The Wonder (2022), with Tom Burke, Niamh Algar, Elaine Cassidy, Dermot Crowley, Brían F. O’Byrne, David Wilmot, Ruth Bradley, Caolán Byrne, Josie Walker, Ciarán Hinds, Toby Jones, and Kíla Lord Cassidy; a voice role in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022), with Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Harvey Guillén, Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone, Samson Kayo, John Mulaney, Wagner Moura, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Anthony Mendez; and Zach Braff’s A Good Person (2023), with Morgan Freeman, Celeste O’Connor, Molly Shannon, Chinaza Uche, and Zoe Lister-Jones.

More films in the 2020s include Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2023), with Cillian Murphy, Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Benny Safdie, Jason Clarke, Dylan Arnold, Tom Conti, James D’Arcy, David Dastmalchian, Dane DeHaan, Alden Ehrenreich, Tony Goodwyn, Jefferson Hall, David Krumholtz, and Matthew Modine; a voice role in the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron (2023), with Luca Padovan, Robert Pattinson, Karen Fukuhara, Gemma Chan, Christian Bale, Mark Hamill, Willam Dafoe, and Dave Bautista; John Crowley’s We Live in Time (2024), with Andrew Garfield; and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two (2024), and Dune: Part Three (2026), collectively with Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Mamoa, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Bautista, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, Isaach de Bankolé, Anya Taylor-Joy, Pattinson, and Javier Bardem.

Other TV movies and miniseries include King Lear (2018), with Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Emily Watson, Jim Broadbent, Jim Carter, Andrew Scott, John Macmillan, Tobias Menzies, Anthony Calf, Karl Johnson, Christopher Eccleston, and John Standing; Park Chan-wook’s The Little Drummer Girl (2018), with Michael Shannon, Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Moshonov, Simona Brown, Clare Holman, and Charles Dance; and East of Eden (2026), with Joseph Zada, Joe Anders, Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist, Joe Anders, Hoon Lee, Letts, Martha Plimpton, and Hinds.
Each review will be linked to the title below.
(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- The Falling (2014) – directed by Carol Morley
- Paradise Lost? (2015) – directed by Iain Forsyth & Jame Pollard – short
- Lady Macbeth (2016) – directed by William Oldroyd
- The Commuter (2018) – directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
- King Lear (2018) – directed by Richard Eyre – TV movie
- Leading Lady Parts (2018) – directed by Jessica Swale – TV short
- Outlaw King (2018) – directed by David Mackenzie
- Malevolent (2018) – directed by Olaf de Fleur Johannesson
- The Little Drummer Girl (2018) – directed by Chan-wook Park – miniseries
- Fighting with My Family (2019) – directed by Stephen Merchant
- In the Time It Takes to Get There (2019) – directed by Zach Braff – short
- Midsommar (2019) – directed by Ari Aster
- Little Women (2019) – directed by Greta Gerwig
- Father of the Bride, Part 3(ish) (2020) – directed by Nancy Meyers – short
- Black Widow (2021)* – directed by Cate Shortland
- Hawkeye (2021)* – directed by Bertie Ellwood, Amber Templemore, & Rhys Thomas – miniseries
- The Wonder (2022) – directed by Sebastián Lelio
- Don’t Worry Darling (2022) – directed by Olivia Wilde
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) – directed by Joel Crawford & Januel Mercado
- The Trident (2022) – directed by Matt Flynn – short
- A Good Person (2023) – directed by Zach Braff – also producer
- Oppenheimer (2023)* – directed by Christopher Nolan
- The Boy and the Heron (2023)* – directed by Hayao Miyazaki – English dub
- Dune: Part Two (2024) – directed by Denis Villeneuve
- We Live in Time (2024) – directed by John Crowley
- Thunderbolts* (2025) – directed by Jake Schreier
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)* – directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
- Avengers: Doomsday (2026) – directed by Anthony & Joe Russo
- Dune: Part Three (2026) – directed by Denis Villeneuve
- 42.6 Years (2027) – directed by Michael Schwartz
