Mikey Madison's incredible rise to fame, real name and 'best friend' twin
Rising star Mikey Madison, 25, took home the award for Best Actress at the Oscars last night and became the ninth youngest woman to win the prize for her performance in Anora
Rising star Mikey Madison, 25, took home the award for Best Actress at the Oscars last night and became the ninth youngest woman to win the prize for her performance in AnoraMikey Madison was named Best Actress at the Oscars (
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Mikey Madison is now a multi-award-winning actress, but Hollywood once felt 'so far' for the shy equestrian.
The Anora actor, 25, took home the trophy for Best Actress at the Oscars last night, beating main rival Demi Moore, 62, for the second time, following the BAFTAs last month. Viewers were shocked to see Mikey's victory, and so was she, as the unpredictable breakout star said in her acceptance speech: "This is very surreal."
She went on: "I grew up in LA but Hollywood always felt so far for me. To be standing in this room is really incredible." She thanked her mum, dad, sister, brother and her twin brother, Miles, for being her "best friend", and paid recognition to the sex worker community after stepping into their shoes to play lap dancer Ani.
Mikey said she wanted to "recognise and honour the sex worker community. I will continue to support you and be an ally". She finished: "This is a dream come true. Or am I going to wake up tomorrow?" But how did underdog Mikey shoot into the spotlight and become Hollywood's next rising star? Here, we take a look...
The 25-year-old used to be very shy and was 'always the weird horse girl' (Image:
Getty Images) She was also awarded the Leading Actress award at the BAFTAs last month (Image:
WireImage)The relatively unknown 25-year-old is the only person to rise from Scream villain to Golden Globes, Bafta and Oscar winner within the space of three short years. Yet not a single actor makes up Madison's family tree. Her parents are both psychologists - her mother working with children and her father specialising in schizophrenics.
The pair have passed down a unique perspective, with Madison, real name Mikaela Madison Rosberg, crediting them for helping her empathise and stay in touch with her emotions. Perhaps it was this deep understanding of people that gave her a secret edge, allowing her to steal the crown from Moore and fellow nominees.
Before Anora, Madison's name was known to very few. She started acting professionally in 2016 when she joined comedy-drama Max Fox, before landing a role as a Manson family member in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time⊠in Hollywood in 2019. But it was her aura in front of the camera that caught the attention of American writer and director Sean Baker, who wrote the role of Ani especially for her.
Mikey played lap dancer Ani in the $6million independent film Anora (Image:
AP)"She's so unique," he told the BBC. "She's quite reserved. But then suddenly, she can explode like no other person I've ever seen, no other actor I've ever seen." It was Madison's role in the fifth instalment of the Scream horror franchise in 2022 that sparked a meeting with Baker, who set out to write the script for movie Anora on the condition that she agreed to play the lead role.
As the self-described introvert told GQ in January, "Lots of people have no idea who I am", and she actively does little to change that, having no social media presence and spending her spare time "in her own little world". For young Madison, this lonesome trait is very much her to the core, as she was once too scared to talk in front of her class. "I was just painfully shy. I couldn't talk to anyone," the former horseback rider told Interview Magazine. "Going up in front of [the] class, I would have to mentally prepare myself to raise my hand."
Her role in the fifth Scream movie brought her to the director's attention (Image:
Paramount Pictures)One of four siblings, Madison grew up a quiet equestrian and told W Magazine: "I was always the weird horse girl⊠My twin brother would pretend that we weren't siblings." But with age, and a move to Los Angeles, Madison sparked an interest in acting, jointly inspired by the Hunger Games films and her older sister's partner, who is a writer.
After her mother signed her up for her first acting class, Madison got tunnel vision and set her heart on portraying film characters and acting in low-budget movies until she booked Better Things in 2016. She told The Cut that the drama was "my introduction to acting, my college, my film school, really everything".
She has barely been able to process her own sudden rise and has lived a fairytale life, being interviewed by Pamela Anderson as part of Variety's iconic Actors on Actors series, and sitting on Graham Norton's sofa alongside 81-year-old actor Robert De Niro, who she blamed for her not-quite-prepared Bafta's speech. "I wish I had made a better speech, Robert De Niro told me on a talk show not to prepare a speech, so I thought it best to listen to him," she confessed.
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