Catherine Dyer

Catherine Dyer is an American actress, director and producer who trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and co-founded the Atlanta acting studio Drama Inc. Born in New York City, she settled in Los Angeles, where she wrote and performed a one-woman show, Sorry to Keep You Waiting, and then worked in the original movies unit at Lifetime Television. She returned to New York City in 1997 as a supervising producer for the A&E documentary series Biography, earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2003. She took up acting again in 2008 with a recurring role on Army Wives, later guest-starring on Drop Dead Diva and Devious Maids, and in 2016 she played Agent Connie Frazier on the first season of Stranger Things. Her films include The Blind Side (2009), Dirty Grandpa (2016), Nappily Ever After (2018), The Devil to Pay (2020), for which she received a Best Villain nomination, Reptile (2023) and The Rivals of Amziah King (2026).