Sophia Lillis

Sophia Lillis (born February 13, 2002) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Beverly Marsh in the horror films It (2017) and It: Chapter Two (2019), the feature film adaptations of Stephen King's 1986 novel of the same name, her role as young Camille Preaker in the HBO psychological thriller miniseries Sharp Objects (2018), and her role as Nancy Drew in the Warner Brothers film Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019).

Lillis was born in Brooklyn, New York to Juliana Mellevold (née Moday) and David Lillis. She is of Irish, Polish and Swiss-German descent. She has a twin brother named Jake and a stepbrother named Philip.Her parents divorced when she was a child, and she lives with her mother and stepfather, Christopher Mellevold. Christopher sparked Sophia's interest in acting, which she began when she was seven years old, taking classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

Lillis made her acting debut in a film by starring in the 2016 movie 37. Previously, she had a minor role in Julie Taymor's live stage production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

In 2017, she made a breakthrough when she costarred as one of the leads, Beverly Marsh, in the horror film It, an adaptation of Stephen King's novel, directed by Andy Muschietti, and also starring Jaeden Martell, Finn Wolfhard, Wyatt Oleff, Bill Skarsgård, Jack Dylan Grazer, Jeremy Ray Taylor and Chosen Jacobs. Later that year, Lillis also played one of Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard's children in Sia's music video, "Santa's Coming for Us".

Lillis was cast in the HBO's television miniseries Sharp Objects (2018), in which she played the young version of Camille Preaker, played by Amy Adams as an adult. Lillis also starred as famous literary sleuth Nancy Drew in the Warner Bros. film adaptation of Nancy Drew and The Hidden Staircase, which opened March 15, 2019 to generally good reviews with particularly positive notes in regards to Lillis' performance. Later in 2019, Lillis reprised her role as Beverly Marsh in It: Chapter Two, released on September 6. In October 2018, Lillis concluded shooting in Dublin, Ireland for Gretel & Hansel, a re-imagining of the German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. Gretel & Hansel was released on January 31, 2020.

Lillis is set to staralongside Naomi Watts as Celia in Claire McCarthy's The Burning Season, and as Ally in Before I Sleep.

Lillis will appear with Paul Bettany in Uncle Frank, an independent film by True Blood and Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball. The film is set in 1970s New York City and was shot in Wilmington, North Carolina from April to May 2019. On June 10, 2019, it was announced that Lillis was cast in the lead role of the upcoming Netflix original series I Am Not Okay with This, which began filming that same month in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The series was released on Netflix on February 26, 2020.