Sophie Thatcher

Born: 18 October 2000

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Years Active: 2012-present

Sophie Bathsheba Thatcher (born October 18, 2000) is an American actress and musician. After beginning as a child actress in stage plays and minor television roles, she made her feature film debut in Prospect (2018), and later had her breakthrough in the series Yellowjackets (2021–present). Since, she has appeared in The Book of Boba Fett (2022), The Boogeyman (2023), Heretic (2024), and Companion (2025), the last of which earned her a Critics' Choice Super Award. She released her debut extended play, Pivot & Scrape, in 2024. In 2026, Forbes highlighted her in their annual 30 Under 30 list.

Sophie Bathsheba Thatcher was born on October 18, 2000 in Chicago, Illinois. She has an older brother named Alexander, a writer; an older sister named Emma, a filmmaker; and an identical twin sister named Ellie, a visual artist. She started singing at a young age, and wrote her first song later at 14. She has described her family as musical, with her mother being a piano teacher. She herself was classically trained into her teens and started voice lessons at age 9, also at one point singing in a choir. Her parents divorced when she was 14, and she has described her father as "out of the equation."

Thatcher spent her early childhood in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood and later grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois. She began acting at age four, entering a performing arts school to pursue musical theater and Broadway. In eighth grade, she moved to Evanston, Illinois where she attended Nichols Middle School, also spending time in homeschooling due to her acting schedule. She later went to Evanston Township High School for one year before completing her high school education in homeschooling. Afterwards, she moved to New York City in order to take Meisner technique classes.