Actor Spotlight: Sadie Sink

Shehrazade Zafar-Arif 4 February, 2026, 09:50

Sadie Sink has had an astounding career for a twenty-three year old, and this year she’s poised to make her West End debut with her first foray into Shakespeare. Opposite Noah Jupe, Sink will play Shakespeare’s most tragic heroine in Robert Icke’s bold, fresh staging of Romeo and Juliet.

Sink may be best known for her work in television, but she began her career in theatre, playing the titular role in Annie in 2012 (at the age of ten!) and young Elizabeth II in The Audience on Broadway in 2015. She returned to Broadway with a bang in 2025, in the comedy play John Proctor is the Villain, a performance that was met with ringing praise and critical acclaim, with Variety calling it “a spellbinding performance”.

After making her television debut in a guest role on the spy drama The Americans in 2013 and her film debut in the biographical sports drama Chuck in 2016, Sink went on to have her breakthrough role in 2017 as Max Mayfield in the Netflix series Stranger Things, becoming one of the show’s most popular and beloved characters. She also appeared in the horror film trilogy Fear Street in 2021, starred opposite Brendan Frasier in Darren Aronofski’s Oscar-winning 2022 psychological drama The Whale, and led the drama film Dear Zoe in 2022.

She also played opposite Dylan O’Brien in Taylor Swift’s short film music video All Too Well, which won her critical acclaim, and is due to break into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with an undisclosed role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026).

If you’ve followed Sink’s dazzling career and want to see more of her, don’t miss your chance to see her tackle Shakespeare for the first time when Romeo and Juliet opens at the Harold Pinter Theatre on March 6th this year.