Age: 30
female
Florence Pugh (/pjuː/ PEW; born 3 January 1996) is an English actress. After making her acting debut in the drama film The Falling (2014), Pugh gained praise for starring in the independent drama Lady Macbeth (2016) and the miniseries The Little Drummer Girl (2018). Her international breakthrough came in 2019 with her portrayals of professional wrestler Paige in the sports film Fighting with My Family, a despondent American woman in the horror film Midsommar, and Amy March in the period drama Little Women. For the last of these, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Pugh has played Yelena Belova in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring in the films Black Widow (2021) and Thunderbolts* (2025) and the Disney+ miniseries Hawkeye (2021). In her highest-grossing releases, she voiced Goldilocks in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) and portrayed Jean Tatlock in Oppenheimer (2023) and Princess Irulan in Dune: Part Two (2024). She also continued to gain praise for her performances in dramas such as We Live in Time (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Florence Pugh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Florence Pugh
Young Sophie
for Young Sophie in Howl's Moving Castle Live Action - from the book!
Suggested by melissabalmer
Yes! The animated film is delightful but I think a live action movie should go back to the original book for inspiration. As Sophie is an old woman most of the film I think Dame Helen Mirren would be marvelous. 18 year old Sophie Hatter is a young woman yearning for adventure but feeling her life as the oldest of three girls means she's destined to have an uninteresting life. She works long hours as talented unpaid apprentice for her step-mother. Bored, Sophie talks to the hats she's trimming for company, and has no idea she's powerfully and magically influencing them. Returning from a day out for May Day celebrations Sophy is accosted by a strange woman she realizes is the infamous Witch of the Waste. The witch, jealous of what Sophy's been making happen with her charmed hats (which Sophy has no idea she's actually doing) she curses Sophy and turns her into an old woman. Sophie decides to leave home to find a way to reverse the curse and runs into the floating castle where the evil Wizard Howl lives. Quite an adventure unfolds! Image: Folio Society's special edition illustrated by Marie-Alice Harel.
