Making its debut in 2021, HBO’s “The White Lotus” was an immediate hit, transcending the boundaries of mere TV present to grow to be a bona fide pop cultural phenomenon. The present’s success not solely continued however grew when “The White Lotus” returned for its third season in 2025, going down in Thailand. Boasting an entire new solid — together with one-time “queen of the indies” Parker Posey, former nepo child Patrick Schwarzenegger, and acclaimed actor Walton Goggins – the third season additionally showcased Sarah Catherine Hook. The up-and-coming actor proved to be a standout as Piper Ratliff, a younger lady from a privileged household who shocks her shallow, materialistic dad and mom by revealing she needs to spend a 12 months at a Buddhist monastery in Thailand.

This can be Hook’s highest-profile function so far, however it’s actually not her first. She’s appeared in just a few TV collection (and a few commercials), however it’s a protected wager that the publicity she’s receiving courtesy of “The White Lotus” will propel her profession to the subsequent stage and past. To search out out extra about this multitalented star, learn on to discover the untold reality of Sarah Catherine Hook.

Had issues gone otherwise, Sarah Catherine Hook would have grow to be well-known for her hovering soprano, not her appearing chops. Born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, her expertise as a singer emerged early on. “I obtained fairly critical about it round 14, 15 years outdated,” she revealed in an interview with Glamour. “I began taking voice classes in highschool and actually fell in love with classical music and was form of raised with an appreciation for it.” She started learning voice throughout highschool and was accepted into SUNY Buy Faculty in New York. There, she was classically skilled in opera.

Nevertheless, appearing was additionally a ardour that had all the time lurked within the background. “I devoted just about all of my time in highschool to getting ready for faculty vocal applications,” she instructed Numéro, explaining that her intention was all the time to ascertain herself as a singer after which place herself as an actor. “I knew then if I took appearing lessons, did summer time coaching applications, I may do just about no matter I needed,” she added. “I am grasping and needed, and nonetheless need, to do all of it.”

As she instructed Glamour, Hook beloved appearing a lot that she thought-about dropping out of faculty to review appearing as an alternative of opera, however her mom wouldn’t have it. “Usually dad and mom wouldn’t encourage their daughter to pursue opera, however they knew there was a much bigger plan at play right here,” she recalled. “They knew I used to be very critical about coaching my voice correctly.”

Certainly one of Sarah Catherine Hook’s earliest appearing gigs was additionally one in all her most distinguished: starring in a collection of TV commercials for SodaStream, a tool that provides carbonation to water, basically permitting the person to create their very own do-it-yourself soda and glowing water. These commercials utilized her singing voice, with one that includes her (accompanying herself on ukulele) singing about how SodaStream can help in breaking apart with sugary sodas. One other confirmed her wading via an enormous pile of plastic bottles as an instance how SodaStream can minimize down on their use.

That was additionally the message underlying one other 2018 business, during which Hook is seen main a gaggle of individuals in music, an homage to the enduring Coca-Cola business that includes the music, “I might Prefer to Train the World to Sing.” As she and the opposite singers maintain drinks in plastic bottles, their music is interrupted by an ailing seagull that lands on a pile of discarded plastic, after which coughs up a plastic bottle cap. Hook and the others are then joined by a sea turtle, carried by “Recreation of Thrones” actor Thor Björnsson (who gained Iceland’s Strongest Man competitors six years in a row).

Oddly, the turtle’s head is topped by a familiar-looking mop of unruly hair. That grew to become clear when the CGI-animated critter opens its mouth and begins singing, with the voice of rock icon Rod Stewart rising to sing “Ocean of Change,” an environmental ballad written for the advert marketing campaign calling for customers to scale back their reliance on plastic by utilizing SodaStream.

For anybody lucky sufficient to fulfill Sarah Catherine Hook in individual, this is a pointer: don’t greet her as Sarah. “‘Sarah Catherine.’ It is a double identify. Simply strive it,” she wrote in her Instagram bio. “Sarah Catherine is on my start certificates, after which Campbell is my center, adopted by Hook, my final identify,” she defined to Glamour, observing how pretentious all these names can sound. “It’s so obnoxious for me. I do not even need it. I want it wasn’t my identify.”

In truth, Hook thought-about utilizing her center identify, Campbell, as her skilled moniker — however did not assume she’d be capable to deal with it if individuals had been to shorten it and consult with her as Cam. “I am not Cam, I am not Cami,” she defined.

Nevertheless, she additionally conceded that having three names tends to face out within the appearing subject, within the method of fellow three-namers comparable to Elizabeth Mary Winstead, and “Intercourse and the Metropolis” star Sarah Jessica Parker. “However I do assume [having the three names] seems to be so sturdy on display,” she added. “If it was simply Sarah Hook, that is not very memorable. I prefer it as an entire, and I feel it seems to be good. But it surely’s such a burden.”

Whereas enjoying Piper Ratliff in “The White Lotus” has been a breakout function for Sarah Catherine Hook, she’d already constructed up a critical fan base thanks to 2 earlier high-profile roles. The primary of those was within the 2022 Netflix collection, “First Kill,” during which she performed a teenage vampire who should kill for the primary time with a purpose to cement her standing inside her undead household. She selects new-in-town teenager Calliope (Imani Lewis) to be her first sufferer — solely to fall in love together with her — whereas additionally discovering her meant prey is descended from a household of vampire hunters. “How may you not wanna do that present?” she instructed Collider, revealing she immersed herself in vampire movies, films, and books in preparation for the function.

After the cancellation of “First Kill” after only one season, Hook was solid as manipulative seductress Caroline Merteuil in Amazon’s 2024 “Merciless Intentions” collection, taking up the function performed by Sarah Michelle Gellar within the 1999 movie of the identical identify. “I used to be an enormous fan of ‘Merciless Intentions’ the movie, and I used to be in seventh or eighth grade once I was launched to it by a gaggle of cool older ladies,” she mentioned in an interview with City & Nation. “Once I heard they had been doing a TV collection, I almost fell out of my chair.”

When Sarah Catherine Hook lands an appearing function, she tends to do quite a lot of analysis. She’s additionally eager to debate all features of her character, which was actually the case when she was solid as Caroline Merteuil in “Merciless Intentions.” “For Caroline particularly, I leaned closely on our showrunners, Sara Goodman and Phoebe Fisher,” she instructed Numéro. “They needed a stillness, a coolness. I am a really animated, energetic individual, so to start with they frequently needed to give me the notice ‘Be nonetheless.'”

To be able to gradual herself down sufficient to exude that outer calmness, she created a psychological and bodily ritual for herself that she utilized to inhabit Caroline. “To ensure that me to cease shifting a lot I needed to actually stand nonetheless and from the underside, simply zip myself up and zip it again,” she recalled when interviewed for Marie Claire. “As if I used to be zipping on her cloak, or her essence. That was my little ritual.”

As those that’ve seen each exhibits can attest, Caroline in “Merciless Intentions” is worlds aside from Piper in “The White Lotus,” and Hook admitted she skilled a way of psychic whiplash when leaping from one function to the opposite. “I went from being this blonde bombshell in 6-inch platform heels to enjoying this very pure, religious searching for, Buddhist monk girlie!” she instructed Who What Put on. “It was a whole 180.”

Whereas some actors dread the method of auditioning for roles, it is one thing that Sarah Catherine Hook has not solely embraced, however has truly come to totally take pleasure in. “I beloved auditioning in New York, I beloved having appointments to go to and the concept of seeing brokers,” she defined when interviewed for Marie Claire. “I felt like, ‘Wow, I am actually going for it.'”

When the chance arose to be thought-about for the third season of “The White Lotus,” Hook admitted she felt the strain. “So simply getting the audition alone was big,” she mentioned. After advancing via the assorted phases, she discovered she’d be talking instantly with collection creator Mike White by way of Zoom. She anticipated an intense dialogue of her character, however when she picked up the cellphone, White was past chill. “He stored being like, ‘The place are you?’ or ‘How was your Christmas?’ after which ‘Hear, I beloved your tapes. You are nice! Let’s simply do the scene, and if I’ve any notes, I am going to give them to you. However like, I do not know … I feel you are nice,'” Hook recalled throughout her interview with Who What Put on.

She carried out the scene for White, who supplied no suggestions, and ended the decision shortly after. “Often, that is a nasty signal,” Hook noticed. “I assumed, ‘I am so confused. What simply occurred?’ That was the weirdest audition I’ve ever had.”

Regardless of her misgivings about her Zoom audition with collection creator Mike White, Sarah Catherine Hook booked the job. When she arrived in Thailand to start capturing “The White Lotus,” nonetheless, it dawned on her that Piper Ratliff was much more like her precise self than another character she’d portrayed. As she revealed to Glamour, like Piper, she’s the center baby between two male siblings and in addition skilled an identical religious awakening after being launched to Buddhism in school. “It felt very meta,” she mentioned. “I used to be enjoying this lady from the South, a center lady between two boys, actually into spirituality and stuff. I used to be like, ‘Am I being punked? Do you know that I existed?'”

She wasn’t the one one who acknowledged the similarities between Piper and her precise self. As she instructed Cosmopolitan, after watching the season’s 2nd episode, a buddy texted her a message to level out how a lot the 2 had been alike. “‘That is the closest to you I’ve ever seen in any function that you’ve got ever performed.’ He was like, ‘Even simply the best way she talks about spirituality, that is simply so cool. I really feel such as you guys had been meant to be,'” she recalled.

Showing in commercials for SodaStream wasn’t only a job for Sarah Catherine Hook, but in addition allowed her to advertise a message about which she felt passionate: the necessity to reduce plastic waste for the great of the setting. Because it seems, Hook has comparable emotions about what she wears, preferring to salvage used clothes than purchase new stuff.

“I do not love purchasing for new garments,” she mentioned when interviewed for Glamour. “I am a giant thrift lady. It is extra sustainable, and it is finally cooler garments. It is win-win-win throughout the board. I do attempt to be environmentally sound in most methods. I like the planet. I need it to be okay. And I really feel like she’s actually sick proper now.”

In truth, Hook instructed the journal that she was hopeful that she’d be capable to take a better function as an activist to fight local weather change. “I actually need to get extra concerned with local weather change activism,” she added. “I am so anxious about what is going on. We now have to concentrate on saving our planet as a result of if we do not have the planet, we do not even produce other issues.”

For a follow-up to her high-profile function in “The White Lotus,” Sarah Catherine Hook was subsequent solid in one other big-league undertaking: a Netflix film primarily based on Emily Henry’s bestselling novel, “Folks We Meet on Trip.” Whereas particulars in regards to the character she’s enjoying within the movie hadn’t been revealed, she’s a part of a solid that features Lukas Gage, Tom Blyth, Alan Ruck, Jameela Jamil, Molly Shannon, Emily Bader, and Lucien Laviscount. With out spilling any spoilers, she mentioned her function with Cosmopolitan. “I truly actually loved enjoying that character as a result of she was my age, and I by no means get to play somebody my age,” mentioned Hook. “So it was good to play an grownup for as soon as.”

She supplied a bit extra when talking with Glamour, describing her character being extraordinarily likable. “She’s actually easygoing and really naturally stunning, form of girl-next-door vibes,” she mentioned. “Nice, nice movie. I am excited to see it.” Based on Hook, it is her co-stars who do the heavy lifting, evaluating her function to that of a TV visitor star. “I am like, ‘Oh, I haven’t got to fret about carrying something. I am simply right here sporting fairly garments and appearing with good actors in a stupendous setting.’ It is a deal with,” she added.

All through her profession, Sarah Catherine Hook has been in comparison with one other feminine actor who hails from the South. “My complete life I’ve gotten Reese Witherspoon,” she instructed Glamour. “I do not really feel like I appear like her as a lot anymore, however in highschool it was like, ‘Oh my God, you appear like her.'” Along with her hair dyed blonde for “Merciless Intentions,” she was instructed she resembled child-actor-turned-Oscar-winner Brie Larson, whereas she’s additionally been instructed she seems to be like Cailee Spaeny and Denise Richards.

Nevertheless, it is the Witherspoon comparisons which have all the time been probably the most prevalent. “Everybody has all the time mentioned that I appear like her and I’ve all the time been in comparison with her for thus lengthy,” Hook mentioned in an interview with Girls’s Put on Day by day. That, she defined, was what made it all of the extra stunning when, after being approached about “Merciless Intentions,” she assumed she’d be going for the function performed by Witherspoon within the 1999 movie — solely to be taught producers had her in thoughts for one more character. “My complete life, everybody’s mentioned I appear like Reese Witherspoon, however once I heard they needed to see me for the Sarah Michelle Gellar function, that was a twist,” she instructed City & Nation.

Sarah Catherine Hook grew up in a tight-knit household, and she or he stays shut together with her dad and mom and her siblings. As she instructed Marie Claire, her dad and mom have been a supply of encouragement for her whole life. “Since I used to be little they have been so supportive of my desires, and I do know lots of people haven’t got that luxurious so I undoubtedly acknowledge how privileged I’m,” she mentioned. “I am so grateful, as a result of I do not assume I might be right here with out their assist, actually.”

In truth, she revealed that she was truly together with her dad and mom when she came upon that she was solid as Piper in “The White Lotus,” and so they shared her pleasure at touchdown her most prestigious appearing function but. “My mother — like, we had been simply doing somewhat dance,” she recalled. “That was so cute. It is simply so insane. I do not even assume there are any phrases that would match the craziness of it. It was simply wonderful.”

Along with her love of thrift-store vogue finds, Sarah Catherine Hook has established her personal area of interest on the earth of favor. When requested by Marie Claire to determine her greatest “type icon” in the intervening time, she did not hesitate in singling out Jennifer Lawrence, an actor who’s skilled a shocking transformation. “She’s this timeless, stunning, elegant, subtle queen — I have been so right here for her vogue decisions,” Hook gushed. “Each time I see her, I am like, ‘That’s only a glowing jewel.’ She seems to be unimaginable, however can be so unapologetically herself.”

Admittedly, discovering her personal vogue individuality wasn’t one thing that got here simply to her. “It took me a very long time to understand vogue in the best way that I do now,” she instructed Numéro. “Buying was all the time such a depressing and painful expertise for me. I did not like how I appeared in garments, particularly outfits that had been ‘in type.'” Based on Hook, it has been in thrift shops the place she actually started gaining confidence in expressing herself via clothes, permitting her the liberty to determine what clothes labored for her, and what did not. “Thrifting has grow to be one in all my favourite actions and I now discover pleasure in purchasing for items that intensify the components that I like about my physique, garments that basically praise my determine and make me really feel stunning and assured,” she declared.