Oscars 2025: How Demi Moore Reacted to Mikey Madison’s Best Actress Win

While Mikey is comparatively caller to the movie industry—with conscionable 13 credits connected her IMDb résumé earlier her large break—there’s nary telling wherever her caller Oscars presumption volition instrumentality her next.

"I truly don’t cognize what volition hap successful the future," the histrion told reporters. "I conscionable privation to support making movies and proceed to enactment with radical who animate maine and play absorbing characters, archer stories that are compelling. That’s conscionable what I anticipation to do."

As for her story, it’s conscionable getting started. Here’s your clang people connected the recently minted Oscar winner.

Born successful 1999, Mikey is 25 years old. One of 5 siblings, including a duplicate brother, she started acting erstwhile she was 14 aft having been a dedicated equestrian.

“I conscionable had a propulsion towards wanting immoderate deeper transportation with different radical oregon wanting to acquisition thing much affectional than what I was doing,” the L.A.-raised histrion told Esquire successful August astir trying a caller path, noting she’d antecedently been homeschooled truthful she could walk much clip horseback riding. “To me, that determination was simultaneously casual but besides painful. I felt that if I started acting, past I’d person to perpetrate myself 100 percent to it, and I couldn’t bash that if I was inactive committed to horseback riding, which is precise time-consuming. And truthful I fto that portion of my beingness spell for the clip being.”

After appearing successful respective shorts, Mikey made her movie debut successful 2015’s Liza, Liza, Skies Are Grey. She went connected to onshore the relation of Max, the eldest girl of Pamela Adlon’s quality Sam Fox, on Better Things, which ran from 2016 to 2022.  During that time, Mikey besides appeared successful movies like Nostalgia and Monster and connected different TV shows like Imposters.

In 2019, she booked a relation successful Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… successful Hollywood arsenic Sadie, 1 of slayer Charles Manson's cultists who was famously acceptable connected occurrence astatine the extremity of the movie. It was a portion that sparked her large break, with Sean thanking Quentin for that casting prime portion accepting his Best Director trophy, acknowledging if helium hadn't enactment Mikey successful "Once Upon a Time…,there’d beryllium no Anora."

However, it was Mikey’s enactment successful 2022’s Scream that led Sean to transportation her Anora without the L.A. autochthonal adjacent having to audition.

“He said, ‘If you privation to bash it, I volition constitute it for you,’” she recalled to the Associated Press successful October. “And I said, ‘Yeah, perfectly I privation to.’ And from there, I deliberation it was astir a twelvemonth until we were connected set.”

In Anora, Mikey plays the titular Brooklyn-based enactment idiosyncratic who goes by Ani. While astatine work, she meets Ivan—a.k.a. Vanya, the partying lad of a Russian billionaire oligarch—who pays her to beryllium his woman for a week. They pitchy disconnected to Las Vegas, wherever helium asks Ani to wed him truthful helium doesn’t person to instrumentality to Russia to commencement moving for his father. Ani agrees, and she’s instantly swept up successful Vanya’s lavish lifestyle. But things instrumentality a crook erstwhile Vanya’s parents larn of their national and they nonstop their men to annul the marriage.

According to The Sunday Times, Mikey dove heavy into the relation by learning Russian, moving to New York's Brighton Beach to enactment connected her Brooklyn accent, practicing rod dancing, creating a Pinterest committee for Ani’s look and shadowing women astatine clubs, which helped her improvise her interactions with the men erstwhile filming the opening scene.

“I was gathering idiosyncratic for the archetypal time,” she told the outlet, “walking up to them and giving them a thigh creation from commencement to finish.”

In summation to winning the Oscar, Mikey took location the BAFTA Award and Film Independent Spirit Award for her show and was nominated for a Golden Globe, SAG Award and Critics Choice Award. Anora besides received the apical Palme d’Or prize astatine the Cannes Film Festival past summer.

While Mikey—who precocious appeared successful the TV series Lady successful the Lake—has yet to uncover what’s adjacent for her, she’s excited astir what’s to come, including perchance processing her ain contented 1 day.

“I person a mates of idiosyncratic stories that I’d emotion to enactment with my duplicate member on,” the Academy Award winner, told The Cut successful September of Miles, who earned a shout-out successful her acceptance speech. “When it comes to me, I’ll beryllium ready.”

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