Sophie Thatcher

Sophie Thatch­er embod­ies a dis­tinc­tive style, a strik­ing pres­ence, a sin­gu­lar­i­ty and an inner strength that have enabled her, in just a few years, to emerge as one of the most cap­ti­vat­ing young per­form­ers work­ing today, mov­ing effort­less­ly between pres­tige tele­vi­sion, inde­pen­dent cin­e­ma and ambi­tious genre filmmaking.

A Chica­go native, Sophie Thatch­er began her career on stage. Her the­atre cred­its include the musi­cals Oliv­er! and Seussi­cal, as well as stage adap­ta­tions of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Secret Garden.
In 2019, she made her fea­ture film debut in the sci­ence fic­tion film Prospect direct­ed by Zeek Earl and Christo­pher Cald­well, star­ring oppo­site Pedro Pas­cal and Jay Duplass and appeared in The Tomor­row Man by Noble Jones.
In 2021, she rose to inter­na­tion­al promi­nence with her role as Natal­ie in Showtime’s Emmy-nom­i­nat­ed com­ing-of-age sur­vival dra­ma series Yellowjackets.
In 2023, she starred in the adap­ta­tion of Stephen King’s The Boogey­man direct­ed by Rob Sav­age. The fol­low­ing year, she played Sis­ter Barnes in A24’s award-win­ning reli­gious hor­ror film Heretic, oppo­site Hugh Grant. In 2025, she starred as Iris in the sci­ence-fic­tion thriller Com­pan­ion along­side Jack Quaid. Her per­for­mance earned wide­spread crit­i­cal acclaim, with Forbes hail­ing her as the “new queen of hor­ror.” Rolling Stone also praised her work, writ­ing that “the phrase ‘scream queen’ has been thank­ful­ly reclaimed from those who’d use it to deride per­form­ers in genre movies, and Thatch­er has eas­i­ly earned the right to wear the crown with the best of them.”
This year, she stars in Her Pri­vate Hell, direct­ed by Nico­las Wind­ing Refn, mark­ing the filmmaker’s return to the big screen after a decade-long absence. She plays Elle, a ris­ing actress whose best friend mar­ries her father as a ser­i­al killer ter­ror­izes a futur­is­tic metrop­o­lis. The film pre­miered at the last Cannes Film Festival.
Upcom­ing projects include Jen­ny Suen’s com­e­dy Peach­es, Jen­nifer Kent’s sci­ence-fic­tion dra­ma The Girl Who Was Plugged In, and Chris Andrews’ action film Cavendish.