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Sadie Sink is an American actress. She started her career in the theater, and rose to prominence for her roles as Max in Netflix's science fiction drama series Stranger Things (2016) and Ziggy Berman in the horror films Fear Street: Part Two - 1978 (2021) and Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 (2021).

Sadie was born in Brenham, Texas. She began taking acting classes and performing in community theatre in Houston at age nine. She performed in musical productions of White Christmas in 2011, and the title role of Annie in a regional production. She then auditioned for Broadway, and played the title role as well as Duffy in the 2012 revival of Annie. While starring in the play, she appeared in the Emmy-winning series The Americans (2013). In 2015, she played Suzanne Ballard in the NBC television series American Odyssey (2015), and portrayed a young Queen Elizabeth II alongside Helen Mirren in the Broadway production of The Audience. She also made guest appearances in the shows Blue Bloods (2010) and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015). She has since appeared in the films Chuck (2016), The Glass Castle (2017), and Eli (2019), and was one of the narrators for the documentary Dominion (2018). In 2021, she played the lead role in the short film All Too Well: The Short Film (2021).

Sadie Sink at an event for The 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2020)

She started out acting in theatre, appearing in a Broadway production of Annie when she was 11.

She portrayed a young Queen Elizabeth II in the Broadway show The Audience. The elder queen was played by Helen Mirren.

Sadie became vegan after working with <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000437/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Woody Harrelson</a> in the movie <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt2378507/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">The Glass Castle (2017)</a>.

Grew up a fan of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0098904/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Seinfeld (1989)</a>, often watching rerun episodes. She feels that the character of Elaine Benes - the lone female in an otherwise male primary cast - prepared her for her own star-making turn as Max Mayfield on <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt4574334/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Stranger Things (2016)</a>.

Older sister of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm10814851/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Jacey Sink</a>.

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