Amanda Seyfried Turns Heads in Bold Red Valentino for Vogue’s January 2026 Digital Cover
Amanda Seyfried is starting 2026 in the spotlight with a major fashion moment. The actress appears on the January 2026 digital cover of Vogue, marking her return to the magazine after more than a decade.
The feature comes from Vogue and highlights both her style and her recent career choices.
The photos were taken by photographer Eddie Wrey at a quiet country location in upstate New York. Seyfried is seen outdoors, surrounded by nature, wearing a striking red dress from Valentino’s Spring 2026 collection.
The look was styled by Jorden Bickham and designed by Alessandro Michele, whose creative direction is now shaping the brand’s future.
This cover also reflects how much Seyfried’s career has changed over the years. Once known for lighter roles in films like Mean Girls and Mamma Mia!, she has spent the past decade taking on more serious and challenging work.
In 2021, she earned an Oscar nomination for playing Marion Davies in Mank. Soon after, her performance as Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s The Dropout brought her an Emmy in 2022, solidifying her reputation as a dramatic actress.
Her recent projects show no sign of slowing down. Last year, she starred in Long Bright River, a Peacock drama where she played a police officer facing the opioid crisis in Philadelphia. The eight-episode series added another intense role to her growing list of complex characters.
Seyfried is also starring in The Housemaid, a film directed by Paul Feig and based on Freida McFadden’s popular novel.
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In the movie, she plays Nina, a wealthy and unstable woman who hires a maid, played by Sydney Sweeney. Feig praised Seyfried’s work, saying, “Amanda turns a note that could be marginal into something that changes her whole performance. If you push Nina too far, she becomes a cartoon. In any lesser actor’s hands, she could be a sketch—but Amanda turns her into a three-dimensional character.”
Seyfried herself spoke about the role during the Vogue feature. “I actually felt bad for Sydney and Brandon,” she said with a smile, referring to her co-stars Sydney Sweeney and Brandon Sklenar.
“Because I get to play, and they can’t. They couldn’t play. Well, Sydney feasts a little bit at the end. But I feast the whole time.” She also described the experience as “like capturing lightning in a bottle,” and praised Feig for understanding human flaws. “He, like Mona, appreciates and honors the absurdity of humanity.”
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