Meghann Fahy
Meghann Fahy is an actor, born 1990.
Daytime soap and Broadway at the same time, then a decade of steady climbing. Meghann Fahy played Hannah O'Connor on One Life to Live from 2010 to 2012 and made her Broadway debut in Next to Normal in the same stretch, which is an unusual pair of credits to hold at once and a good indication of how she works: she trained in front of a live audience and a camera simultaneously.
The breakthrough was The Bold Type, from 2017 to 2021, as Sutton Brady in a Freeform series about magazine journalism that was far better written than its slot suggested. It taught her the thing she now does better than almost anyone at her level: playing a woman whose warmth is entirely real and is also a defence.
The White Lotus took that and sharpened it. Daphne Sullivan, in the show's second season, is friendly, incurious and completely unreadable, and Fahy makes you keep checking which of those is the performance. Everything since has traded on it, in one direction or another: Merritt Monaco in The Perfect Couple, Devon DeWitt in Sirens, Violet in the single-location thriller Drop, Jackie Dennon in Your Monster.
Three of her features on this page are dated 2025 alone, Rebuilding and The Unbreakable Boy among them, which is what a career looks like when the offers all arrive at once.
Movies (8)
TV (5)
Where to start with Meghann Fahy
One season of The White Lotus tells you most of what you need to know. Hers is the Sicilian one, and Daphne is the most quietly frightening thing in it, a woman who has decided in advance exactly how much she wants to know. If you watch nothing else here, watch that.
Then Drop, a single-location thriller that hands her the entire film and proves she can carry one. The Perfect Couple and Sirens are the two glossy limited series that followed, both of them wealthy-people-behaving-badly, and Sirens is the better of the pair.
For the earlier work, The Bold Type is the long warm one, and much smarter about work and friendship than the genre usually manages. Miss Sloane and Those People are the small early film roles, and Your Monster is the strange one worth seeking out: a romantic comedy with a monster in it, and she is very funny in it.