Talia Ryder ts currently in metamorphosis. To most, the 19-year-old actor ts fairly unknown and on paper she is at the very beginning of her career with only three acting credits to her name following her Broadway role in Matilda the Musical when she was 12. But her performance in her debut film, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, as the cousin of a young woman trying to get an abortion without parental consent, turned heads. It garnered her nominattons for best supporting actress but more importantly it left critics and audiences with the feeling that they had discovered Hollywood’s next star.

What came next was a role in West Side Story ~ though a minor one, it was a Steven Splelberg production nonetheless – and a part in Mariama Diallo’s psychological thriller, Master. Her year ahead ts nothing short of meteoric as she takes on the lead role of Clare in Netflix’s high school rom-com, Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In Between, and, further down the line, heading the cast again in the biographical ballet drama, Joika. “I never realised how much preparation and detail goes into each moment you see on screen”