‘The Boys’ Star Erin Moriarty Soaks Up a European Heatwave in Her Latest Vacation Snapshot

Erin Moriarty has spent the past several months navigating a major transition, closing out one of the defining roles of her career while quietly figuring out what comes next. After years spent inside the world of Starlight, the actress has been using her downtime to reconnect with life outside the superhero spotlight.

That balance between career reinvention and personal time has played out visibly across her social media in recent weeks, giving fans a steady look at both her professional next steps and her more relaxed moments off camera. Her latest update leaned firmly into the latter.

Moriarty shared a new Instagram photo showing her lounging poolside in a green bikini, captioning the post with a lighthearted nod to the ongoing European heatwave. The image continues a pattern of casual, sun-soaked updates the actress has posted throughout the summer as she takes a breather following the conclusion of ‘The Boys.’

That show wrapped its full run this year, with Moriarty delivering her final performance as Annie January, also known as Starlight, when the series finale titled Blood and Bone premiered on Prime Video in May. The eight episode fifth season had been building toward that conclusion since April, closing out a storyline that had defined Moriarty’s career since the show first premiered in 2019.

The role carried real personal significance for Moriarty beyond just professional achievement. She was cast as Starlight at 23 and wrapped the character at 31, meaning her entire coming of age as an actress unfolded inside that single part, and she has spoken about actively searching for projects that let her step outside Annie’s shadow going forward.

That search has already led her toward a noticeably different creative direction. Moriarty appeared in a striking editorial spread for Basic Magazine earlier this summer, described as a visual statement marking her transition away from the character that had defined the last seven years of her career.

The final season was not without significant personal challenges for the actress. Moriarty was diagnosed with Graves disease in June 2025, just six months into filming, a health struggle she has been candid about while discussing how difficult it was to push through production during that period.

With ‘The Boys’ now behind her, Moriarty has already lined up new projects to fill out her post-Starlight era. She has completed filming on the supernatural thriller ‘True Haunting’ and joined the cast of the crime film ‘Lips Like Sugar’ alongside Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson, giving fans plenty to look forward to as she moves into this next chapter.

For now, though, moments like this latest poolside photo offer a glimpse of an actress simply enjoying some well-earned downtime after years spent inside one of television’s most demanding roles. Given how much career momentum she has built up over the past several months, this kind of relaxed summer content feels like a well-deserved pause before her next big move.

What are you most looking forward to seeing from Erin Moriarty now that ‘The Boys’ has wrapped? Let us know in the comments.