Top Breakthrough Actresses of 2025

Imogen Faith Reid was born in May 1997. She is an actress, known for The One and Only Ivan (2020), Good American Family (2025) and The Third Day (2020).

SZA was born Solána Imani Rowe was born on November 8, 1989 in St. Louis, Missouri & raised in Maplewood, New Jersey. She began making music in the early 2010s, releasing two extended plays: See.SZA.Run & S, before signing with the hip hop record label Top Dawg Entertainment, through which she released Z, her third EP and first retail release. SZA's debut studio album, Ctrl was released on June 9, 2017 to universal acclaim from music critics. It debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 and was eventually certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album and its songs were nominated for four Grammy Awards and SZA was nominated for Best New Artist at the 60th annual ceremony. Ctrl was ranked as the best album of 2017 by Time. That year, she also featured on Maroon 5's hit single, What Lovers Do. The next year, she collaborated with Kendrick Lamar to create All the Stars for the Black Panther soundtrack; the song was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2021, her single: Good Days became popular on streaming platforms and became her first solo top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

SZA is a neo soul singer, whose music has been described as alternative R&B, with elements of soul, hip hop, minimalist R&B, indie rock, cloud rap, witch house, and chillwave. SZA's lyrics are described as unravelling and her songs often revolve around themes of sexuality, nostalgia & abandonment.

Callina Liang is known for Presence (2024), Bad Genius (2024) and Foundation (2021).

Matilda Firth was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, and is the middle child of 3. A natural performer from a young age, she joined a children's drama class for an hour every Saturday afternoon where her love for acting soon shone through. Before long Matilda began picking up roles in commercials, TV shows and movies. Her first lead role came at only 6 years old when she starred in the 2021 McDonald's UK Christmas commercial directed by Bert and Bertie.

In 2022, Matilda filmed roles in Disney's Disenchanted, Vampire Academy, Sky's Christmas Carole and Starve Acre. She also filmed the role of Grace across 2 seasons of Hullraisers.

The following year Matilda completed shooting of the movie Subservience, starring Megan Fox, and played the role of Nancy in the second season of the highly acclaimed BBC show 'Time'. Later that year she filmed the role of Sophie in the popular mini-series 'Coma' and the role of Mille-Jo in the ground breaking ITV series 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office'.

In early 2024 Matilda joined the cast of Blumhouse's and Universal's 'Wolf Man', directed by Leigh Whannell, spending 3 months filming the movie in New Zealand. A few months later she joined the cast of the second season of Nine Perfect Strangers.

Matilda is represented by Paradigm Talent Agency (USA) and Articulate Agency (UK).

Born McKenna Rae Roberts, an American actress and model. At a very young age she landed her first modeling job chosen from a snapshot. Then soon after at age 4 she signed with Ford Models. Where she went on to work for several big name companies like Nordstorm, Forever 21, H&M, and more.

McKenna's first television appearance was on Nickelodeon's TV series Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande. From there McKenna went on to play the role of Matilda Ashby on the Emmy award winning daytime drama The Young and the Restless (2013-2017). She has starred in several other television series with guest starring and recurring roles on projects like Steven Spielberg's Extant alongside Halle Berry, CSI Cyber alongside Patricia Arquette and CBS's TV series Timeless.

Most recently McKenna can be seen playing a younger version of Zendaya starring in the HBO hit series Euphoria. McKenna made her big screen debut in what she describes as her most exciting role thus far, cast as Georgia Sawyer a lead in the feature film Skyscraper. Alongside A-list actors Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Neve Campbell. Traveling to Hong Kong, Beijing, and New York City for the movies Global Press Tour and Premieres. She was featured prominently in the trailers and on the movies posters as well as the DVD cover of the film.

Off camera McKenna allows plenty of time for training, education and spending quality time with her friends and family.

Joyena Sun is known for Blood and Gold (2021), Grafted (2024) and Grafted: Making-of (2025).

Carla Tous is known for 30 Coins (2020), The Girl in the Mirror (2022) and El hombre del saco (2023).