Florence Pugh is having the kind of year that gets its own magazine cover. Elle has named her among its 2026 Women in Hollywood — where the cover bills her, perfectly, as “The Wild Card” — in a lineup she clearly can’t quite believe she’s part of: Samantha Morton, Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Debicki, Penélope Cruz, Rosalind Eleazar, Julianne Moore and Inde Navarrette. “To be in line with these incredible talents is making me squeal,” she wrote, announcing it herself.
The shoot, photographed by Norman Jean Roy and styled by Alex White, leans all the way into Elle’s framing for this year’s class — women shown “in full: messy, complicated, funny, and fierce.” Pugh in a pale pink ruffled gown with sleeves like weather systems, then stripped back to black-and-white in a lace-trimmed slip. Her own summary of the assignment, and maybe of her career so far: “Let women be big and beautiful, whether that be onscreen or off.”