Natalia Dyer

Juvenile actress Natalia Dyer earned an impressive showcase for her talents as a introspective young girl who falls for an older boy in the independent film "I Believe in Unicorns" (2014), which led to more substantive roles on television. Raised in Nashville, Tennessee, Dyer made her professional debut at the age of eight, playing Scout in a production of "To Kill a Mockingbird" at the Tennessee Center for the Performing Arts in Nashville. She soon began appearing in features and shorts lensed in the Nashville area, including "Hannah Montana: The Movie" (2009) and the independent productions "The Greening of Whitney Brown" (2011), with Aidan Quinn, "Blue Like Jazz" (2013) and "After Darkness" (2013) with Timothy Daly and Kyra Sedgwick. The following year, the 16-year-old Dyer starred in the independent drama "I Believe in Unicorns" as a teenager who finds what she believes to be both romance and a way out of her small town in the form of an older boy (Peter Vack). After a two-year gap, the film began earning critical praise on the festival circuit in 2016, which coincided with Dyer's casting in the Netflix drama "Stranger Things" (2016- ), playing the older sister of a young boy (Finn Wolfhard) in search of a friend who has disappeared under mysterious circumstances.