Sadie Sink

Sadie Elizabeth Sink (born April 16, 2002) is an American actress. She began acting at age seven in local theater productions, and played the title role in Annie (2012–14) and young Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience (2015) on Broadway. She made her television debut in a 2013 episode of The Americans and her film debut in the sports film Chuck (2016). Sink had her breakthrough portraying Max Mayfield in the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things (2017–present) and received critical acclaim for her performance in its fourth season. In 2021, she appeared in the horror film trilogy Fear Street and played the lead role in Taylor Swift's short film All Too Well. Sink has since starred in Darren Aronofsky's psychological drama The Whale (2022), for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. Early life Sadie Elizabeth Sink was born in Brenham, Texas, on April 16, 2002, the daughter of a math teacher mother and a football coach father. She has three older brothers and a younger sister. While her family was sports-oriented, she was interested in performing arts. She began acting in community theater with a production of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever in Brenham at age seven. She then successfully auditioned for the lead role in a local production of The Secret Garden. After this experience, she decided to further pursue an acting career. When she was a teenager, her family supported her acting career by moving to New Jersey due to its proximity to New York City. Career