Natalia Dyer

Natalia Dyer is an American actress from Nashville, Tennessee, who began performing in community theater as a child and studied at the Nashville School of the Arts. She entered professional work as a teenager, making her screen debut in Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009) and taking small parts in The Greening of Whitney Brown (2011) and Blue Like Jazz (2012). Her first major role came at 16 in I Believe in Unicorns (2014). Dyer is best known for playing Nancy Wheeler on the Netflix series Stranger Things, and she also appeared on the Peacock series Based on a True Story (2023). In film, she led the dramedy Yes, God, Yes (2017) as Alice and had supporting parts in the 2019 horror film Velvet Buzzsaw and in Things Heard & Seen (2021). She starred opposite Asa Butterfield in the 2023 horror release All Fun and Games.