--- name: "Shay Rudolph" canonical: "https://film.one/person/shay-rudolph" fi1m_id: "shay-rudolph" imdb_id: "nm8251474" tmdb_id: 2402001 wikidata_id: "Q102046606" roles: ["Actor"] born: "6 September 2005" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-05T04:37:10.815607+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." --- # Shay Rudolph ## Identity Shay Rudolph - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/shay-rudolph - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** shay-rudolph - **IMDb ID:** nm8251474 - **TMDB ID:** 2402001 - **Wikidata ID:** Q102046606 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shay_Rudolph, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102046606, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8251474/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2402001 Actor. Born 6 September 2005 in San Diego, California, United States. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 6 September 2005, San Diego, California, United States - **Also known as:** 谢伊·鲁道夫, เชย์ รูดอล์ฟ - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shay_Rudolph, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102046606, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8251474/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2402001 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*The Baby-Sitters Club*](https://film.one/tv/the-baby-sitters-club.md) (85) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Shay Rudolph > Shay Rudolph gives Stacey McGill confidence without making her seem invulnerable. We rate the ease with which she fits into *The Baby-Sitters Club*’s ensemble while keeping Stacey distinct, even when the programme plays things too safely. In *The Baby-Sitters Club* (2020), Shay Rudolph’s Stacey McGill belongs to the group without becoming interchangeable with the other girls. She has the poise of a teenager who knows how she wants to come across, but the confidence does not rule out uncertainty. That is a useful balance for a programme in which each girl needs to be recognisable in her own right. We like Rudolph here because she can establish a personality without making the friendship feel secondary. Her early television work included Maya Flynn in *Lethal Weapon* (2018–2019), before Stacey became her breakthrough role. Here she works alongside Sophie Grace’s Kristy Thomas, Momona Tamada’s Claudia Kishi and Malia Baker’s Mary Anne Spier, with none of them merely filling a space in the group. We warmed to them more quickly than we expected because their attention to one another made each friendship seem important. It is the kind of acting that can be overlooked precisely because the company looks so comfortable. Rachel Shukert’s adaptation gives these performances room, treating children’s friendships as worthy of close attention. The cast repay that care by keeping the writing from sounding like a succession of lessons, a considerable virtue in a programme with such a reassuring manner. That reassurance is also our reservation: it sometimes limits the drama. We would like to see Rudolph in material that makes the people around her harder to get along with, rather than assume that an agreeable group is the only place she can work. The subsequent work includes Emma Diehl, opposite Greg Kinnear and Isla Fisher, in the family comedy *The Present* (2024). She also plays Virginia in *The Sex Lives of College Girls* (2024). The college setting takes her beyond the younger friendships of Stacey’s world, though the ensemble remains familiar territory. Those credits broaden the settings, but our recommendation rests on Stacey. Start with *The Baby-Sitters Club*; there is pleasure in watching actors make room for one another. ## Biography Shay Rudolph is an American actress. Born on 6 September 2005 in San Diego, California, she began acting in local musical theatre in her hometown. She is known for playing Stacey McGill in the Netflix series *The Baby-Sitters Club* (2020–2021). She had a recurring role as Maya Flynn in the Fox series *Lethal Weapon* (2018–2019) and has appeared in other television and film roles, including *The Sex Lives of College Girls* (2024). *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Baby-Sitters Club* (2020), Fi1m 85, as Stacey McGill — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-baby-sitters-club.md) ## Complete filmography (9) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *She Keeps Me Young* (2026), as Bridget - *I Wish You All the Best* (2025), as Stephanie - *The Writer* (2024), Actor - *The Present* (2024), as Emma Diehl - *The Sex Lives of College Girls* (2021), series, as Virgina - *The Baby-Sitters Club* (2020), series, as Stacey McGill — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-baby-sitters-club.md) - *Less than Zero* (2019), as Gisele - *The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer* (2018), as Becky Thatcher - *Rita*, as Abbey ## Gallery - ![Shay Rudolph](https://film.one/media/person/5693841/gallery-cee845b51376.jpg) Shay Rudolph — Claire Fridkin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Shay_Rudolph_at_the_2026_Tribeca_Festival_for_She_Keeps_Me_Young_01_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Shay Rudolph, cast, at the 2026 Tribeca Festival for the movie She Keeps Me Young.](https://film.one/media/person/5693841/gallery-4556be019575.jpg) Shay Rudolph, cast, at the 2026 Tribeca Festival for the movie She Keeps Me Young. — Claire Fridkin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Shay_Rudolph_at_the_2026_Tribeca_Festival_for_She_Keeps_Me_Young_01.jpg/1280px-Shay_Rudolph_at_the_2026_Tribeca_Festival_for_She_Keeps_Me_Young_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Shay Rudolph, cast, at the 2026 Tribeca Festival for the movie She Keeps Me Young.](https://film.one/media/person/5693841/gallery-a58639a94114.jpg) Shay Rudolph, cast, at the 2026 Tribeca Festival for the movie She Keeps Me Young. — Claire Fridkin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Shay_Rudolph_at_the_2026_Tribeca_Festival_for_She_Keeps_Me_Young_02.jpg/1280px-Shay_Rudolph_at_the_2026_Tribeca_Festival_for_She_Keeps_Me_Young_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Shay Rudolph](https://film.one/media/person/5693841/gallery-259c508d5141.jpg) Shay Rudolph — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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