Mikey Madison has won her first Academy Award for her title role of Anora. The Best Actress winner of the 2025 Oscars is only 25 years old, but — as she joked in a Screen Actors Guild Award bit — she made her breakthrough in Quentin Tarantino's two-time Oscar winner Once Upon A Time In Hollywood as a Manson girl who gets a brutal comeuppance in the movie's history-revising climax.

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, there was Mikey Madison. The 25-year-old actress has been garnering recognition during the 2025 award show season thanks to her critically acclaimed role in the 2024 film “Anora.

Madison, who is also known for her work in the FX series “Better Things,” wins the best actress Oscar over Demi Moore in “The Substance,” Fernanda Torres in “I’m Still Here,” Cynthia Erivo in “Wicked” and “Karla Sofía Gascón in “Emilia Pérez.”