Hollywood loves Halloween, and they proved it this year with a wide array of costumes.
Celebrities went all-out to celebrate the spookiest day of the year, sporting their best costumes by portraying everyone from beloved film characters to music icons. From recreating Kendrick Lamar’s 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show look to a fictional Dr. Seuss character, there was no shortage of inventive Halloween looks this year.
Most celebrities utilized the holiday to pay homage to various characters from beloved movies, including Mindy Kaling as one of Kate Hudon’s most popular roles to Ed Sheeran as a classic horror icon.
Daytime talk show hosts didn’t shy away from creative costume choices as well, with Today show hosts Savannah Guthrie and Jenna Bush Hager respectively dressing up as Miranda Priestly and Anna Wintour, while Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos dressed up in several ensembles, including as Labubus and Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.
Read on for the best celebrity Halloween costumes of 2025, worn by stars including Lady Gaga, Niecy Nash-Betts, KeKe Palmer and more.
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga’s 2025 Halloween costume referenced one of her newest tracks from her seventh studio album Mayhem. The Grammy winner dressed up as the Garden of Eden and its gardener, which is one of the titles from her most recent record.
“Happy Halloween to all the grave diggers,” she wrote on Instagram, concluding, “love, Mother Monster.”
Niecy Nash-Betts and Jessica Betts
Niecy Nash-Betts and her wife Jessica Betts honored Kendrick Lamar’s 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show performance by portraying the rapper and Serena Williams, respectively. The All’s Fair star took on the role of the tennis legend, while Betts sported a pair of bootcut jeans and a blue jacket, matching Lamar’s fit from the performance.
In their joint Instagram post showing off the look, both Niecy and Betts took turns replicating Williams and Lamar’s viral moves from the most recent Super Bowl.
KeKe Palmer
KeKe Palmer and her son teamed up for an adorable mother-son costume as Snoop Dogg and Bow Wow. The duo replicated their looks from the “Bow Wow (That’s My Name)” music video, which was released 25 years ago.
Janelle Monáe
A frequent Halloween costume stunner, Janelle Monáe dressed up as the fictional Cat in the Hat this year. Equipped with full prosthetics, the Grammy-nominated singer posted various photos and video clips of her portraying the Dr. Seuss character.
Julia Fox
Julia Fox’s Halloween costume faced backlash as she dressed up as a bloody Jackie Kennedy Onassis. The look mirrored the outfit the former first lady wore when her husband, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated. Fox defended the look on Instagram, where she wrote that she dressed up as Jackie “not as a costume, but as a statement.”
“The image of the delicate pink suit splattered with blood is one of the most haunting juxtapositions in modern history,” she added. “Her decision not to change clothes, even after being encouraged to, was an act of extraordinary bravery. It was performance, protest, and mourning all at once. A woman weaponizing image and grace to expose brutality. It’s about trauma, power, and how femininity itself is a form of resistance”
Mindy Kaling
Mindy Kaling thanked Kate Hudson “for inventing yellow” in her 2025 Halloween Instagram post, where she dressed up as Hudson’s character from How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. She wore an outfit similar to Andie Anderson’s silky yellow dress paired with a blonde wig in the video, as Hudson complimented the look in her comment section, writing, “Ahhhh! Hahaha! Yes!!!”
Ed Sheeran
The “Shape of You” singer went full horror this year as Pennywise from It. Ed Sheeran was unrecognizable dressed up as the killer clown, sharing a series of photos and videos of him strolling around New York City.
“In for a Penny,” he wrote in the caption of the Instagram post.
Paris Hilton
Just like Halloween 2024, Paris Hilton wore an array of costumes to celebrate the holiday. Dressing up with her husband and two kids, the Hilton household went as the cast of Toy Story in one Instagram post and the stars of Peter Pan in another.
As for her solo looks, Hilton paid homage to Michelle Pfeiffer in a recreation of her Catwoman character from Tim Burton’s Batman Returns. She also “started off #Halloweek” with a homage to the princess of pop, Britney Spears, with her signature red latex outfit from the Oops!… I Did It Again music video.
Coco Jones
Coco Jones paid tribute to the Oscar-winning film Dreamgirls this Halloween, with a recreation of one of the film’s iconic posters featuring stars Jennifer Hudson, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Anika Noni Rose.
KATSEYE
Girl group KATSEYE poked fun at their viral moment on the red carpet at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, where they were asked which of Mariah Carey’s music videos were there favorite, and they seemingly had no answers. This Halloween, they dressed up as varying looks from Carey’s music video discography, and did a separate social post where they each recreated her look from the Rainbow cover image.
