In 2018 , Pugh featured in the action film '' The Commuter '' and played Cordelia to Anthony Hopkins ' Leir of Britain in Richard Eyre 's television film '' King Lear '' . Later that year , she portrayed Elizabeth de Burgh in the Netflix historical film '' Outlaw King '' ( 2018 ) , starring Chris Pine as Robert the Bruce . Charles Bramesco of '' The Guardian '' found her to be " excellent despite her thankless role " . She next featured in a six-part miniseries adaptation of John le Carré 's spy novel '' The Little Drummer Girl '' , in which she played an actress in the 1970s who becomes embroiled in an espionage plot . In a mixed review of the series , Richard Lawson of '' Vanity Fair '' wrote , " Pugh is terrific throughout , once again asserting her star-on-the-rise status . She smartly mixes earthiness with sophistication , wisdom with naïveté . " Pugh next starred as professional wrestler Paige in '' Fighting with My Family '' ( 2019 ) , her first lead role in a Hollywood film . A comedy-drama about Paige 's relationship with her family , co-starring Lena Headey and Dwayne Johnson , the film premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and received critical acclaim . Geoffrey Macnab of '' The Independent '' took note of how different the role was from her previous appearances , and wrote that she was " completely convincing as the wrestler . She has all the moves in the ring and shows the same defiance , scruffy glamour and self-deprecating humour as the real life ... Paige . " In the same year , she took on a leading role in Ari Aster 's horror film '' Midsommar '' , about a troubled couple who encounter Swedish cultists . David Edelstein of '' Vulture '' labeled her performance " amazingly vivid " and wrote , " Her face is so wide and open that she seems to have nowhere to hide her emotions . " Pugh will next star in Greta Gerwig 's film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott 's novel '' Little Women '' . She will also star alongside Scarlett Johansson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film '' Black Widow '' , about the titular superhero
2019 Sundance Film Festival
2019 Sundance Film Festival
Florence Pugh