Kiernan Shipka grew up on set, starting at six years old as Sally Draper on Mad Men, watching Jon Hamm and January Jones unravel in perfect tailoring. The trip from child stardom to adulthood usually ends in tragedy, but Shipka flipped the script: she got an education instead of a complex. Now, at 26, she plays an ambitious assistant on HBO Max’s Industry and appears in The Shitheads, which premiered at Sundance. Shipka spent her life with adults, and it shows. She’s a rare Hollywood success story—a child actor who burns bright, not out.
WAKE-UP TIME: I am a huge sucker for sleep, so on a weekend I wake up at 10:30 or 11:00, but my ideal wake-up time during the week is 8:00.
