Discover all the young actors who were revealed to the general public in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”.
Director Quentin Tarantino and his casting director Victoria Thomas were blindsided by entrusting many small and medium-sized roles to a generation of young Hollywood talents in the film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. As spotted by a accountthese new actors were not known at the time… find out what became of them.
Sydney Sweeney
Sony Pictures
Playing the observer spying on Cliff Booth’s arrival at Charles Manson’s ranch, Sydney Sweeney has few lines in Tarantino’s film. If she has been filming since a young age, she has since become extremely famous thanks to the series Euphoria and obtaining a leading role the following year with the horror film Nocturne (2020). After the miniseries The White Lotus, it is truly with Everything But You, released in 2024, that she becomes a star capable of attracting audiences in theaters to her name (with Glen Powell, with whom she shares the poster) . She followed this up with an appearance in Madame Web, and especially Immaculée, a horror film in which she played the leading role.
Maya Hawke
Sony Pictures
Maya Hawke was spotted in 2019 by joining season 3 of the popular Netflix series Stranger Things and signing her role for Tarantino before launching into music. Two years later, she obtained one of the main roles in If you avenge me… for Netflix. In 2023, she played with her mother Uma Thurman in The Kill Room then under the direction of her father Ethan Hawke in Wildcat, playing, again on Netflix, in Maestro by Bradley Cooper.
Austin Butler
Sony Pictures
Cut his hair, his beard and take off his hat, you will have in front of you the star of the Elvis Presley biopic: Austin Butler. Nominated for an Oscar for this role which required a lot of preparatory work, the young actor was hired in quick succession by Jeff Nichols (The Bikeriders), Denis Villeneuve (Dune: Part Two) and John Orloff (the miniseries Masters of the Air). His projects include upcoming films from Darren Aronofsky and Ari Aster.
Julia Butters
Sony Pictures
If you feel like you’ve seen her less than most of the other actors and actresses on the list, it’s because you missed out as the little sister of an “alternative” Steven Spielberg from The Fabelmans and at the head of poster for the horror film Queen of Bones, also starring Martin Freeman. Julia Butters, now 15, is an actress to watch.
Margaret Qualley
Sony Pictures
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was only one of six films of 2019 starring Margaret Qualley, who also played in the Fosse/Verdon series AND provided a voice for the Death Stranding video game. Since then, the one who played a seductive hitchhiker alongside the stuntman played by Brad Pitt continued its momentum. Between 2023 and 2024, she signed Poor Creatures and Kinds of Kindness by Yorgos Lanthimos, but also Drive-Away Dolls and The Substance.
Mikey Madison
Sony Pictures
Playing the woman who convinces her friends, members of Charles Manson’s cult, to commit murders in Hollywood to take revenge on “those who taught us to kill on the screen”Since 2016, Mikey Madison has been in the cast of the series Better Things created by Pamela Adlon and Louis CK. Since her appearance with Tarantino, she has been seen in the return of Scream, the detective miniseries The Voice of the Lake and especially Anora, in which she plays the main role and which could earn her a nomination for the next Oscars.
