Margaret Qualley

Sarah Margaret Qualley is an American actress and model. She was born on October 23, 1994, in Kalispell, Montana, to actress and model Andie MacDowell and former model Paul Qualley. She spent her childhood in Montana and North Carolina alongside her older siblings, Justin and Rainey. In her youth, Qualley trained extensively as a ballet dancer, studying at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the Professional Children's School in New York, and earning an apprenticeship at the American Ballet Theatre. At age 16, she decided to stop dancing and began working as a model under her middle name. She later pursued acting by attending a summer program at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and briefly attending New York University.

Qualley made her modeling debut in 2011 during New York Fashion Week and subsequently walked in runway shows for prominent fashion houses such as Valentino, Chanel, and Alberta Ferretti. Over her modeling career, she has been featured on numerous international magazine covers and editorials, including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, and Vanity Fair. She has also served as a house ambassador for Chanel and appeared in advertising campaigns for brands including Ralph Lauren, Kate Spade, Celine, and Kenzo.

She made her screen acting debut in the 2013 drama film Palo Alto and achieved early recognition after being cast as a series regular in the HBO drama series The Leftovers. Her early film career included roles in the comedy The Nice Guys (2016), the drama Novitiate (2017), the fantasy film Death Note (2017), and the science-fiction film IO (2019). Qualley also expanded into voice and motion-capture performance by portraying the twin characters Mama and Lockne in the video game Death Stranding (2019), later returning for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (2025).

In 2019, Qualley received critical acclaim and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her performance as Ann Reinking in the FX biographical miniseries Fosse/Verdon. That same year, she portrayed Pussycat in Quentin Tarantino's period comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. She later earned widespread recognition and nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her starring role in the 2021 Netflix miniseries Maid. She followed this with roles in projects such as Seberg (2019), My Salinger Year (2020), Stars at Noon (2022), and Sanctuary (2023), which she also executive produced.

Qualley continued to take on major film roles in Yorgos Lanthimos's Poor Things (2023) and Kinds of Kindness (2024). For her performance in the 2024 body horror film The Substance, she received her second Golden Globe Award nomination. Her subsequent projects include Ethan Coen's Drive-Away Dolls and Honey Don't!, Richard Linklater's Blue Moon, John Patton Ford's How to Make a Killing, and Ridley Scott's post-apocalyptic drama The Dog Stars.