---
name: "Abby Ryder Fortson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/abby-ryder-fortson"
fi1m_id: "abby-ryder-fortson"
imdb_id: "nm5338858"
tmdb_id: 1360010
wikidata_id: "Q20740858"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "14 March 2008"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-19T12:08:54.492863+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Abby Ryder Fortson

## Identity

Abby Ryder Fortson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/abby-ryder-fortson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** abby-ryder-fortson
- **IMDb ID:** nm5338858
- **TMDB ID:** 1360010
- **Wikidata ID:** Q20740858
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_Ryder_Fortson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20740858, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5338858/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1360010

Actor. Born 14 March 2008 in Burbank, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 14 March 2008, Burbank, California, USA
- **Active:** 2015–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 68 (2), 2020s 75 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 71 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Action 2, Adventure 2, Science Fiction 2, Comedy 1, Drama 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,164m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_Ryder_Fortson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20740858, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5338858/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1360010

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.*](https://film.one/film/are-you-there-god-its-me-margaret.md) (75)
- **Disney+:** [*Ant-Man*](https://film.one/film/ant-man.md) (67)

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## Fi1m on Abby Ryder Fortson

> Abby Ryder Fortson plays children who are watching the adults for clues and are sure they are the only ones without them. In *Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.* that watchfulness carries a whole film; before it, she was mostly somebody's reason.

The best thing Abby Ryder Fortson has done so far happens in a department store mirror. Margaret has just been fitted for her first bra, with her mother and a saleswoman who has seen it all, and the scene is the funniest in *Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.* (2023). Then the camera finds Fortson's face, wanting this and dreading it at once, and the laugh goes back where it came from. She does not play to us. She plays a girl who has just noticed that everyone else seems to know the rules.

She had been working for most of her life by then. She started on television at about five, with *Transparent* (2014), *The Whispers* (2015) and the Duplass brothers' *Togetherness* (2015–16), where she was a regular in the second series. The film part that put her in front of a large audience was Cassie Lang, Paul Rudd's daughter in *Ant-Man* (2015) and *Ant-Man and the Wasp* (2018), both for Peyton Reed. Our review of the first barely paused on her, and that was the film's fault more than hers: she and Judy Greer give Scott a reason and are then put away. There was a supporting turn in *A Dog's Journey* (2019). Then Kelly Fremon Craig gave her Judy Blume's Margaret, and a lead.

What she does in *Margaret* is watch. Fortson plays a girl who is studying everyone else for clues and is sure she is the only one without them, and she never asks to be found adorable, which is rarer in child actors than it should be. The club scenes with Elle Graham, Amari Alexis Price and Katherine Mallen Kupferer work because of her; she is the one listening. Her scenes with Rachel McAdams are better still. There is one in the second half, which we will not describe, in which mother and daughter stop pretending for a minute and nobody underlines it, and it moved us more than a gentle comedy about training bras had any right to. She has said of the part that "I went through the book a million times, went through the script a million times", and the work shows; nothing in the performance looks like a child being told where to stand.

That is one lead, and one is not a record. The Marvel films used her as a function, and when the character needed to grow up the part went to an older actress, which is the usual hazard of being a child in a franchise. Since *Margaret* she has turned up in *The Pitt* (2025) and in voice work, and nothing we have seen tells us yet what she will be at twenty-five. The film to watch is the one Fremon Craig made. See it for McAdams, who gets the better story, and stay for the girl in the mirror, who makes sure the grown-ups do not get all of it.

## Biography

Abby Ryder Fortson is an American actress born on 14 March 2008 in Burbank, California. She is the daughter of actress Christie Lynn Smith and John Fortson.

Fortson played Cassie Lang in the films *Ant-Man* (2015) and *Ant-Man and the Wasp* (2018). She starred as Margaret Simon in the 2023 film *Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.* Her other credits include recurring roles in the television series *Transparent* (2014), *The Whispers* (2015) and *Togetherness* (2015–2016).

In January 2024, Fortson received the Star on the Rise Award at the Astra Awards presented by the Hollywood Creative Alliance.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, hollywoodlife.com, web.archive.org, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.* (2023), Fi1m 75, as Margaret Simon — [page](https://film.one/film/are-you-there-god-its-me-margaret.md)
- *Ant-Man and the Wasp* (2018), Fi1m 68, as Cassie — [page](https://film.one/film/ant-man-and-the-wasp.md)
- *Ant-Man* (2015), Fi1m 67, as Cassie Lang — [page](https://film.one/film/ant-man.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Carousel* (2026), as Maya
- *Griffin in Summer* (2025), as Kara
- *The Pitt* (2025), series, as Kristi Wheeler — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-pitt.md)
- *Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.* (2023), as Margaret Simon — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/are-you-there-god-its-me-margaret.md)
- *Marvel Studios Assembled* (2021), series, as Cassie Lang (archive footage)
- *Marvel Studios Legends* (2021), series, as Cassie Lang (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *Trolls: TrollsTopia* (2020), series, as Priscilla (voice)
- *Tales from the Loop* (2020), series, as Young Girl, Young Loretta
- *A Dog's Journey* (2019), as Young CJ
- *Ant-Man and the Wasp* (2018), as Cassie — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/ant-man-and-the-wasp.md)
- *Forever My Girl* (2018), as Billy
- *DuckTales* (2017), series, as Kid (voice), Little Girl Audience Member (voice), Little Girl (voice)
- *Room 104* (2017), series, as Elle
- *Albert* (2016), as Saplings
- *Rated* (2016), as Hannah
- *Ant-Man* (2015), as Cassie Lang — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/ant-man.md)
- *The Whispers* (2015), series, as Harper Weil
- *Togetherness* (2015), series, as Sophie Pierson
- *Transparent* (2014), series, as Ella Novak — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/transparent.md)
- *The Mindy Project* (2012), series, as Clementine — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mindy-project.md)
- *Scooby-Doo: Origins*, series, as Velma Dinkley
- *Rated*, as Hannah Mitchell

## Gallery

- ![Abby Ryder Fortson at the Sundance Film Festival (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/18498/gallery-9439e6f2b2af.jpg) Abby Ryder Fortson at the Sundance Film Festival (2026) — Colleen Sturtevant, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/AbbyRyderFortson.jpg/1280px-AbbyRyderFortson.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Abby Ryder Fortson](https://film.one/media/person/18498/gallery-52e0679f0b69.jpg) Abby Ryder Fortson — Image via TMDB
- ![Abby Ryder Fortson](https://film.one/media/person/18498/gallery-6b5c1fa9de21.jpg) Abby Ryder Fortson — Image via TMDB

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