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Sydney Sweeney Signs With Hollywood Powerhouse CAA After Agent-Free Year

The "Housemaid" star has landed with Creative Artists Agency after going without a traditional talent agency for all of 2026 — timed right as her latest film became a $400 million box office smash.

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SEP 2, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
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Sydney Sweeney Signs With Hollywood Powerhouse CAA After Agent-Free Year
Sydney Sweeney at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. Photo: Jay Dixit/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Sydney Sweeney just made one of the biggest business moves of her career — and it landed right as her latest movie was breaking box office records. The actress has signed with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) for representation, The Hollywood Reporter revealed in an exclusive published Tuesday.

Sweeney had gone without a traditional talent agency for all of 2026 after her longtime agent, Jennifer Millar, exited Paradigm Talent Agency late last year to join management firm Brillstein Entertainment Partners — taking Sweeney with her on the management side. Paradigm had continued handling Sweeney's brand and endorsement deals in the interim, but the acting side of her career sat unrepped until now. Sweeney will keep Millar at Brillstein as her manager and remains represented by attorney Stewart Brookman of Hansen Jacobson, according to THR.

The timing is notable: Sweeney's CAA signing landed just before "The Housemaid," Lionsgate's adaptation of the Frieda McFadden thriller, exploded into a $400.5 million global box office hit — a stunning turnaround after her boxing biopic "Christy" opened to just $1.3 million domestically weeks earlier, as ComingSoon.net reported. The whiplash between a box office bomb and a runaway hit in the same year underscores why the 29-year-old star is reshuffling her team now.

Sweeney has more on the way to test her new representation's muscle: she recently wrapped the big-budget mecha film "Gundam" for Legendary and is set to headline "The Housemaid's Secret," the sequel to her surprise smash. With CAA's backing, expect the star's next moves — on screen and off — to come with even bigger fanfare.

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