Monica Barbaro earned her first Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award and Academy Award nominations this year for seamlessly embodying 1960s folk music icon Joan Baez in A Complete Unknown. Dressing to celebrate at the 2025 SAG Awards red carpet, and all awards season long, however, has had a two-word directive firmly grounded in the present: "consistently Monica."
Everything the 34-year-old actress wears, from the L'Oréal mascara curling her lashes to the carats of serpentine Bulgari diamonds winding around her fingers, is meant to be a natural extension of her and her alone. This star doesn't engage in trendy one-upmanship via archival fashion or, heaven forbid, method dressing. "It's been about embracing my own looks and showing up as the same person each time, as opposed to like, 'Let's pull a U-turn and play someone else today,'" she tells me.
