Talia Ryder

Talia Ryder is an American stage and film actress born on August 16, 2002. She began her professional career as a performer in the Broadway musical Matilda the Musical, based on Roald Dahl's 1988 children's book, after attending the show with her family at age 12 and auditioning alongside her younger sister Mimi. Ryder was cast as Hortensia and performed the role from 2015 to 2016, relocating with her family to New York City for the run. Her background at the time was primarily in dance, and the production marked the beginning of her development as a stage actress. Mimi Ryder also went on to a career as a musical actress, earning a title role in the same production. In 2016, Ryder participated in the short film Broadway Kids Against Bullying: I Have a Voice, directed by Jason Milstein, which featured a cast of 75 children and included a charity single composed by Frank Wildhorn in support of Nobully.org.

Ryder transitioned into film in 2019 when she was cast as Skylar, cousin to the protagonist Autumn, in Eliza Hittman's independent drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always. The film, in which two young women travel to New York City so that Autumn, played by Sidney Flanigan, can obtain an abortion without parental consent, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically and on video on demand in March 2020. The performance earned Ryder nominations for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. Also in 2019, she was cast as part of the Jets Chorus in Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of West Side Story, released in 2021.

Ryder took on a starring role as Clare in the Netflix romantic drama Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between in 2022, and that same year played Gabbi Broussard in the Netflix teen comedy Do Revenge. In 2021, she appeared in Olivia Rodrigo's music video for "Deja Vu." Her 2023 film work included a leading role in the surrealist road film The Sweet East, directed by Sean Price Williams, and a supporting role in the comedy-drama Dumb Money, directed by Craig Gillespie. That year she also starred as ballet dancer Joy Womack in Joika, directed by James Napier Robertson and featuring Diane Kruger.

Also in 2023, Ryder appeared Off-Broadway in Liliana Padilla's play How to Defend Yourself at the New York Theatre Workshop. In 2024, she played a supporting role as a drug addict in the comedy-drama Little Death, starring David Schwimmer, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and she was cast in Ethan Coen's comedic film Honey, Don't!, which filmed in New Mexico. In 2025, Ryder performed in Doom: House of Hope, directed by Anne Imhof at the Park Avenue Armory, a contemporary political interpretation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in which she performed the Jeremih song "Paradise" live. Ryder graduated from high school in 2020.