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name: "Sadie Sink"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sadie-sink"
fi1m_id: "sadie-sink"
imdb_id: "nm5584750"
tmdb_id: 1590797
wikidata_id: "Q27452406"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 April 2002"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-05T16:00:38.884867+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."
---

# Sadie Sink

## Identity

Sadie Sink

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sadie-sink
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sadie-sink
- **IMDb ID:** nm5584750
- **TMDB ID:** 1590797
- **Wikidata ID:** Q27452406
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Sink, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27452406, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5584750/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1590797

Actor. Born 16 April 2002 in Brenham, Texas, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 April 2002, Brenham, Texas, USA
- **Active:** 2015–present
- **Also known as:** Sadie Elizabeth Sink
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 5: 4 acting, 1 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 76 (2), 2020s 67 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 73 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Action 1, Action & Adventure 1, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Drama 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,466m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Sink, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27452406, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5584750/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1590797

## Coming up

- *Avengers: Secret Wars* (2027-12-15), as Jean Grey
- *Untitled X-Men Film* (2028-05-04), as Jean Grey

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Stranger Things*](https://film.one/tv/stranger-things.md) (77)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Whale*](https://film.one/film/the-whale.md) (54)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Sadie Sink

> Sadie Sink is nearly always the angriest person at the table, and she plays the anger as if it were the only sensible response. The force is real. What she has lacked, on screen at least, is a script that gives it somewhere to go.

Sadie Sink's people arrive already cross. Max Mayfield in *Stranger Things*, Ellie in *The Whale*: guarded girls who expect to be let down and usually are. The usual way to play that is as a front, with the softness leaking out from underneath. Sink does something less comfortable. She plays the hostility as a reasonable position, held steadily, and lets the hurt show only in the gaps when nobody on screen is looking at her. She has said of Jean Grey that "in her brain it’s totally justified", and that is how she plays all of them.

She came up on stage, and it shows. Broadway at ten in the 2012 revival of *Annie*, then the young Elizabeth II opposite Helen Mirren in *The Audience* (2015): parts that ask a child to hold a scene with adults rather than be sweet in one. Television found her in *Stranger Things* from the second run in 2017. We thought her good, and thought the Duffers had by then hired too many people for anyone new to get the minutes she deserved. In 2021 came Leigh Janiak's *Fear Street* films, in which she did her own stunts, and Taylor Swift's *All Too Well: The Short Film*. We have not reviewed either, but between them they got her out of the basement.

*The Whale* (2022) was meant to be the proof, and it half was. Darren Aronofsky has made a filmed play in which everybody states a position and shouts it, and Hunter's script writes Ellie as a monster whose cruelty the film keeps calling honesty. Sink plays exactly what is on the page, with complete conviction, and has nowhere else to go. We flinched the first time she told Brendan Fraser's Charlie he was disgusting. By the third speech we had stopped flinching, and that is not her failure; it is what happens when a writer gives an actor one setting and asks her to hold it for the length of a film. Fraser, meanwhile, was handed kindness, which is the one idea the film has.

*Spider-Man: Brand New Day* (2026) reunited her with Destin Daniel Cretton, who had directed her in *The Glass Castle*, and gave her Jean Grey. For an hour it is the loneliest and most grown-up of Holland's Spider-Man films. Then the guest stars arrive, and Sink, like Florence Pugh, passes through. More X-Men are scheduled. She has meanwhile gone back to the stage, to Broadway in *John Proctor Is the Villain* (2025) and to the West End as Juliet in 2026, and the pattern is hard to miss. The theatre keeps handing her a whole evening; the screen has so far handed her a mood and one scene to hit it in. The X-Men will not fix that. Somebody with a small film and a good script might.

## Biography

Sadie Elizabeth Sink is an American actress. She began her career in theatre as a child, appearing in Broadway productions of *Annie* (2012–2014) and *The Audience* (2015).

Sink is known for portraying Max Mayfield in the Netflix series *Stranger Things* (2016–2025) and Jean Grey in the film *Spider-Man: Brand New Day* (2026). She made her feature film debut in *Chuck* (2016) and has appeared in the *Fear Street* trilogy (2021) and *The Whale* (2022).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

### Performed in (4) — the average rests on these

- *Spider-Man: Brand New Day* (2026), Fi1m 72, as Jean Grey — [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-brand-new-day.md)
- *The Whale* (2022), Fi1m 54, as Ellie — [page](https://film.one/film/the-whale.md)
- *Stranger Things* (2016), Fi1m 77, as Max Mayfield — [page](https://film.one/tv/stranger-things.md)
- *Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt* (2015), Fi1m 76, as Tween Girl — [page](https://film.one/tv/unbreakable-kimmy-schmidt.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Fear Street: 1994* (2021), Fi1m 74, as Ziggy Berman (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/fear-street-1994.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *Untitled X-Men Film* (2028), as Jean Grey
- *Avengers: Secret Wars* (2027), as Jean Grey
- *Spider-Man: Brand New Day* (2026), as Jean Grey — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-brand-new-day.md)
- *Stranger Things: Tales from '85* (2026), series, Thanks
- *O'Dessa* (2025), as O'Dessa Galloway
- *A Sacrifice* (2024), as Mazzy
- *The Whale* (2022), as Ellie — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-whale.md)
- *Dear Zoe* (2022), as Tess DeNunzio
- *All Too Well: The Short Film* (2021), as Her
- *Fear Street: 1666* (2021), as Constance / Ziggy Berman
- *Fear Street: 1978* (2021), as Ziggy Berman
- *Fear Street: 1994* (2021), as Ziggy Berman (uncredited) — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/fear-street-1994.md)
- *Eli* (2019), as Haley
- *Dominion* (2018), as Narrator (voice)
- *The Glass Castle* (2017), as Lori Walls (Age 12)
- *Chuck* (2017), as Kimberly
- *Stranger Things* (2016), series, as Max Mayfield — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/stranger-things.md)
- *American Odyssey* (2015), series, as Suzanne Ballard
- *Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt* (2015), series, as Tween Girl — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/unbreakable-kimmy-schmidt.md)
- *The Americans* (2013), series, as Lana — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-americans.md)
- *Blue Bloods* (2010), series, as Daisy Carpenter
- *The Marriage Plot*, series, as Madeleine Hanna · Executive Producer

## Gallery

- ![Sadie Sink](https://film.one/media/person/6375/gallery-3d842eeb358c.jpg) Sadie Sink — Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Sadie_Sink_%2843914734441%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Joe Keery, Shawn Levy, David Harbour, Caleb McLaughlin, Matthew Modine, Noah Schnapp, Dacre Montgomery, Finn Wolfhard, Shannon Purser, Millie Bobby Brown and Sa (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/6375/gallery-1291e16526eb.jpg) Joe Keery, Shawn Levy, David Harbour, Caleb McLaughlin, Matthew Modine, Noah Schnapp, Dacre Montgomery, Finn Wolfhard, Shannon Purser, Millie Bobby Brown and Sa (2017) — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/David_Harbour%2C_Caleb_McLaughlin%2C_Matthew_Modine%2C_Noah_Schnapp%2C_Dacre_Montgomery%2C_Finn_Wolfhard%2C_Shannon_Purser%2C_Millie_Bobby_Brown_%26_Sadie_Sink_%2836078776891%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Joe Keery, Shawn Levy, David Harbour, Caleb McLaughlin, Matthew Modine, Noah Schnapp, Dacre Montgomery, Finn Wolfhard, Shannon Purser, Millie Bobby Brown and Sa (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/6375/gallery-e0a7bdf7a93c.jpg) Joe Keery, Shawn Levy, David Harbour, Caleb McLaughlin, Matthew Modine, Noah Schnapp, Dacre Montgomery, Finn Wolfhard, Shannon Purser, Millie Bobby Brown and Sa (2017) — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Joe_Keery%2C_Shawn_Levy%2C_David_Harbour%2C_Caleb_McLaughlin%2C_Matthew_Modine%2C_Noah_Schnapp%2C_Dacre_Montgomery%2C_Finn_Wolfhard%2C_Shannon_Purser%2C_Millie_Bobby_Brown_%26_Sadie_Sink_%2836078776891%29.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Millie Bobby Brown and Sadie Sink speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Stranger Things", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego](https://film.one/media/person/6375/gallery-977d93539700.jpg) Millie Bobby Brown and Sadie Sink speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Stranger Things", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Millie_Bobby_Brown_%26_Sadie_Sink_%2836046777612%29.jpg/1280px-Millie_Bobby_Brown_%26_Sadie_Sink_%2836046777612%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Sadie Sink](https://film.one/media/person/6375/gallery-d0cc7d54b1a2.jpg) Sadie Sink — Image via TMDB
- ![Sadie Sink](https://film.one/media/person/6375/gallery-6cee1015402f.jpg) Sadie Sink — Image via TMDB
- ![Sadie Sink](https://film.one/media/person/6375/gallery-4200cac58b31.jpg) Sadie Sink — Image via TMDB
- ![Natalia Dyer, Dacre Montgomery, Caleb McLaughlin and Sadie Sink speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Stranger Things", at the San Diego ](https://film.one/media/person/6375/gallery-c31b0986b214.jpg) Natalia Dyer, Dacre Montgomery, Caleb McLaughlin and Sadie Sink speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Stranger Things", at the San Diego  — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Natalia_Dyer%2C_Dacre_Montgomery%2C_Caleb_McLaughlin_%26_Sadie_Sink_%2836046753432%29.jpg/1280px-Natalia_Dyer%2C_Dacre_Montgomery%2C_Caleb_McLaughlin_%26_Sadie_Sink_%2836046753432%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Natalia Dyer, Dacre Montgomery, Caleb McLaughlin and Sadie Sink speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Stranger Things", at the San Diego ](https://film.one/media/person/6375/gallery-42009bc3bddf.jpg) Natalia Dyer, Dacre Montgomery, Caleb McLaughlin and Sadie Sink speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Stranger Things", at the San Diego  — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Natalia_Dyer%2C_Dacre_Montgomery%2C_Caleb_McLaughlin_%26_Sadie_Sink_%2836046753432%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Natalia_Dyer%2C_Dacre_Montgomery%2C_Caleb_McLaughlin_%26_Sadie_Sink_%2836046753432%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Sadie Sink](https://film.one/media/person/6375/gallery-64a86c66bd86.jpg) Sadie Sink — Image via TMDB
- ![Sadie Sink](https://film.one/media/person/6375/gallery-e68477e3953a.jpg) Sadie Sink — Image via TMDB
- ![Sadie Sink](https://film.one/media/person/6375/gallery-4bcd388ff56c.jpg) Sadie Sink — Image via TMDB

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