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Sophie Thatcher
Thatcher at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	(2000-10-18) October 18, 2000 (age 24) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2015–present

Sophie Bathsheba Thatcher (born October 18, 2000) is an American actress. Her film roles include Prospect (2018), The Boogeyman (2023), and Heretic (2024). Her television projects include the Showtime psychological drama series Yellowjackets (2021–present) and the Star Wars miniseries The Book of Boba Fett (2022). She is a scream queen.

Early life

Sophie Bathsheba Thatcher was born in Chicago on October 18, 2000. She attended Evanston Township High School. She was raised in a Mormon household, but has since left the church. She has a brother named Alexander, an older sister named Emma, and an identical twin sister named Ellie. She has described her family as musical, having sung in a church choir while her mother played piano. She grew up singing and started acting when she was four years old. She went to a performing arts school for musical theater, and her on-camera experience led her to pursue acting more than singing.

Career

Thatcher began her career with a guest role in the police procedural series Chicago P.D. (2016), one of the many entries in the widely known Chicago franchise. The same year, she made another guest appearance in Fox's supernatural horror television series The Exorcist, where she played a younger version of Regan MacNeil. Before that she starred in a 2015 short film called Growing Strong.

In 2018, Thatcher made her big screen debut in the science fiction film Prospect, co-starring Pedro Pascal. The film tells the story of a teenage girl and her father (played by Jay Duplass), who travel to an alien moon with a contract to mine gems in the moon's poisonous forest. For her performance, she received mostly positive reviews, with Peter Debruge of Variety describing her as "a fresh face who tricks us into assuming she's just a callow teen, when in fact, she proves to be the film's toughest character".

The following year, she appeared in Noble Jones' directorial debut The Tomorrow Man. During this time, Thatcher landed the role of Natalie in Yellowjackets. Regarding the process, creator Bart Nickerson said the casting department was searching for "someone who was really free-spirited and unique who could play both a sort of wildness and a vulnerability." Though most of the auditions were held in-person, Thatcher submitted a self-recorded audition tape and was cast as Natalie before Juliette Lewis, who portrays the character's adult counterpart. The pilot episode was greenlit in September and shot in Los Angeles in November 2019.

In 2020, Thatcher starred in When the Streetlights Go On, a short-form streaming series directed by Rebecca Thomas. The series debuted on Quibi on April 6. In November 2020, Thatcher was rumored to be joining the Star Wars franchise but it was unknown in which series she would appear. In December 2020, Showtime gave Yellowjackets a series order.

Yellowjackets premiered in November 2021 to rave reviews and became the second-most streamed series in Showtime's history behind Dexter: New Blood. After months of speculation, Thatcher was also confirmed to be appearing in The Book of Boba Fett. She starred as Drash, the leader of a group of cyborgs who work for Boba Fett. She's listed as an executive producer on the 2022 film Provo directed by her older sister Emma. Thatcher next appeared alongside Chris Messina and David Dastmalchian in the horror film The Boogeyman, based on the Stephen King short story of the same name and released in theatres on June 2, 2023.

In June 2023, Thatcher was cast in the sci-fi thriller Companion directed by Drew Hancock and produced by Zack Cregger. An ex-Mormon herself, she played a Mormon missionary in the horror film Heretic (2024).

Thatcher also makes experimental music. Her debut EP Pivot & Scrape came out in October 2024.

Personal life

Thatcher previously lived in the Sherman Oaks and Silver Lake neighborhoods of Los Angeles. As of 2024, she lives in the Nichols Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles with her boyfriend Austin Feinstein, musician and member of the band Slow Hollows.

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

References

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External links

• Sophie Thatcher at IMDb
• Sophie Thatcher on YouTube
• @soapy.t, her official Instagram account with updates
• Her music

• 2000 births
• 21st-century American actresses
• Actresses from Evanston, Illinois
• American child actresses
• American film actresses
• American stage actresses
• Evanston Township High School alumni
• Living people