Sadie Stanley
Sadie Stanley is an actor, born 2001.
Sadie Stanley's first job was one of the harder ones to survive: playing Kim Possible in the 2019 Disney Channel film of the cartoon, which meant arriving in front of an audience that had a fixed idea of the character before she had shot a scene. She was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 2001, and the years since have been spent methodically working out of that bracket.
The Goldbergs kept her employed in a recurring role as Brea Bee from 2020 to 2023, and the film work went where teen leads go: The Sleepover in 2020, Let Us In in 2021. The step up was Cruel Summer, where the anthology handed her a lead in its 2023 season and, more usefully, a character written with an edge rather than an appeal.
She is good at a specific and unfashionable thing: playing likeable people who are also plainly capable of unkindness, and letting both read at the same time without signalling which one is the real one. Karate Kid: Legends in 2025 is the first franchise part to test that at scale. What happens next depends on whether anyone keeps casting her against the brightness, because that is where the interesting version of this career lives.
Movies (4)
TV (6)
Where to start with Sadie Stanley
Watch Cruel Summer first, and go in knowing only the premise, because the anthology's entire method is withholding. Her season stands alone, so you do not need the earlier one to follow it.
Kim Possible is the debut, a competent Disney Channel adaptation that plays much better for viewers under fifteen than over it. The Goldbergs is the low-stakes way to watch her work a room, Somewhere in Queens is the small warm indie and the most naturalistic thing here, and Karate Kid: Legends is the current mainstream credit. Dead to Me and The Sleepover are for completists, in that order.