▲While out for drinks with 'Little Women' co-star Timothée Chalamet, the bar manager was being snooty and Pugh wouldn't stand for it. "You are making us feel unwelcome," she said.

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Though the reporter was trying to make a body-positive remark, Pugh tweeted in response, "Singling out my 'chunky' thighs doesn't help normalising an 'all shape & size' Hollywood. In fact that's part of the problem. I do hope people take more away from the film than the circumference of my hams." Spoken like a true Amy.

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Giving new life to the character of Amy in Greta Gerwig's adaptation of the classic novel, Pugh earned a Best Supporting Actress nod at the Oscars, losing only to her co-star Laura Dern.

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She co-starred alongside Scarlett Johansson in the Marvel film 'Black Widow,' where she played Yelena Belova, Natasha's "sister" from the Red Room.

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Famed horror film director Ari Aster asked Pugh to be the lead in his film that follows an American couple whose idyllic retreat quickly devolves into a violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.

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Pugh spent a lot of time in the hospital as a young child due to her collapsed airways and severe asthma. Her parents moved the whole family to Spain for three years for the more humid climate.

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Pugh said Winslet is part of the reason she wanted to act. "I re-enacted 'Titanic' over and over again. I love her because she has a normal, beautiful face with creases on her forehead and proper cheeks and everything... She's not hiding. She's just raw."

▲Filming sex scenes in 'The Little Drummer Girl' was difficult because they wanted an American audience but "America is quite scared of bums," she explained. "I don't know why. Such strange people."

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Dwayne Johnson plays himself in the film. When preparing to film the famous Monday Night Raw match between Paige and AJ Lee, he entered the ring with her at the Staples Center, and Pugh told ET, "It was like having a god behind me and protecting me."

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This 2018 historical action drama was one in a string of period pieces she had done, stirring concerns that she would be pigeonholed.

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In the biographical comedy-drama 'Fighting with My Family' (2019), Pugh plays the lead role, Saraya-Jade "Paige" Bevis, a retired WWE wrestler, and she actually had to train for it.

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The first time she flew out to Hollywood to shoot a pilot for a show called 'Studio City,' she was ecstatic because it was a career-making gig and only her second job. But that changed when she glimpsed Hollywood's grimy underbelly…

▲"I love watching faces as they grow up," Pugh said. "It's the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women. I like a face that hasn't been tampered with."

▲'The Falling' takes place at an all-girls school, and director Carol Morley wanted to teach the cast a lesson about body image and vanity. Pugh said they were instructed not to look at the monitor to avoid acting for vanity, and she's tried to maintain that on all her films.

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Pugh's older brother, Sebastian Toby M. Pugh, known as Toby Sebastian, played Trystane Martell.

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Cult South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-Wook had admired her work in 'Lady Macbeth,' and asked her to be the heroine in the 2018 star-studded miniseries based on John le Carré's novel.

▲Charlotte O'Sullivan reviewed the film for The Evening Standard, and though it was mostly positive, she made a strange comment about Pugh's "chunky thighs" in comparison to Paige's "significantly slimmer" ones.

▲She comes from a large, rambunctious family, which she says are "like the Von Trapps, but not quite as pretty or perfect." Her mother is a dancer, her father a restaurant chain owner, and her four siblings are all involved in film, television, music, or theater.

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Soon after, she landed the lead role of Lady Macbeth, where she remembers being "applauded for having normal bum cheeks." She would win Best Actress at the British Independent Film Awards.

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Though they split in 2022, the pair had been together for around three years, and somewhat scandalously. They worked together on Braff's 2019 short 'In the Time It Takes to Get There,' a 19th-century comedy about the first social media influencer. With a 21-year age difference, they were somewhat secretive about their relationship.

▲Her first performance was playing Mary in her school's nativity play when she was six. She took some creative liberty by giving the Holy Mother a strong Yorkshire accent. Pugh remembers "hobbling on to the stage, [and] going 'Ooh, me varicose veins!' and everyone [peeing] themselves."

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She told the Guardian, "I remember thinking, 'Oh God, they're waiting for me, they're listening to everything I say and I have complete control.' I still feel that now."

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Pugh also joined Christopher Nolan's upcoming film 'Oppenheimer' alongside Rami Malek and Benny Safdie. Pugh has also been cast as Princess Irulan in the sequel to 'Dune,' the high-budget Sci-Fi film nominated for 10 Oscars in 2022. She will be starring alongside Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, as well as countless other high-profile stars.

▲She is proficient in both guitar and piano, and she has also written her own songs. She has a YouTube channel, where she used to perform under the moniker "Flossie Rose."

▲When casting 'The Falling,' director Carol Morley selected Pugh due to her demeanor, which resembled a young Kate Winslet⁠—a link that gained popularity after her appearance in 'Lady Macbeth.'

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In this horror flick, a brother-sister team who fabricate paranormal encounters for money have the joke turned on them.

▲Some say she's a likely successor to the Black Widow name. Yelena even stars in the miniseries 'Hawkeye' alongside Hailee Steinfeld and Jeremy Renner.

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Pugh played Cordelia alongside greats like Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, the latter of whom she idolized. "There wasn't a day she didn't educate me on something, or give me a book or podcast to listen to," she told the Guardian.

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Her first big break was co-starring alongside 'Game of Thrones' star Maisie Williams in 'The Falling,' where she played the charismatic and ill-fated Abbie at 17 years old.

▲She explained in an interview that she had grown up watching European films with nudity done beautifully. With American films, however, she said the problem with nudity stems from never being able to see normal bodies.

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After getting the part, they began to ask her, in thinly veiled terms, to lose weight. Pugh bailed, and the pilot flopped. "I knew this happened," Pugh said about the body comments, "but I didn't know it was going to happen like that, to me."

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The actress wore a sheer pink Valentino gown to one of the designer's shows in Rome on July 8. She made headlines for the somewhat daring look, but it was the aggressively critical reactions of angry men on social media that gave her pause for thought. Pugh spoke out to share her own thoughts on the dress: “I was excited to wear it, not a wink of me was nervous. I wasn’t before, during or even now after." She wrote that she had expected some backlash, but was still surprised by the vehemence from some users. “What happened to you to be so content on being so loudly upset by the size of my boobs and body?”

She continued, “It isn’t the first time and certainly won’t be the last time a woman will hear what’s wrong with her body by a crowd of strangers, what’s worrying is just how vulgar some of you men can be.”

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From the Marvel Universe to a Greta Gerwig adaptation of a classic novel, from the poetry of Shakespeare to a wrestling flick with The Rock, and from horror to comedy and back again, Florence Pugh hasn’t been in the film industry long but she’s already shown what she’s capable of. If that weren’t enough, she’s being hailed as the next Kate Winslet for her charm, wit, and blatant refusal to be molded or manipulated by Hollywood's artifice. And she’s only just begun!

Pugh has been vocal about her opinions on body-shaming and nudity in the past. The English actress has commented that nudity is done beautifully in European cinema, but there seems to be an issue with showing "normal" bodies in American films. Pugh is accepting of her own body and isn't afraid to show off features that others might see as imperfect, and she's proven to be a fierce advocate for the values she believes in.

Click through to learn more about the young star’s rapid ascent to what is already shaping up to be a cult-like fame.

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Pugh co-starred alongside Harry Styles in Olivia Wilde's psychological thriller film 'Don't Worry Darling,' whose release was burdened with many layers of drama including an alleged feud between the actress and the director.