Storm Reid
Storm Reid is an actor, born 2003.
Storm Reid was born in Atlanta in 2003 and was a child when she filmed 12 Years a Slave, playing Emily, a girl sold away from her mother. It is a brutal scene to hand a small actor and she is not overwhelmed by it. Television work followed, and then A Wrinkle in Time in 2018 gave her Meg Murry and a studio fantasy to carry at fourteen.
What she is unusually good at is being watched. Several of her best-known roles put her on the wrong side of a lens. Sydney in The Invisible Man is attacked by something the audience cannot see. June in Missing runs an entire investigation through webcams, screen shares and security footage, and has to perform with the knowledge that we are watching her watch. That film is almost entirely her, framed inside a laptop window, and it holds, which very few actors of any age could manage.
Euphoria has given her the longest run, as Gia, the younger sister observing an addiction from the next room, a thankless assignment played with more patience than the writing requires. The horror work is more variable: The Nun II is a job, Don't Let Go is a better film than its reception, and The Suicide Squad uses her for a couple of scenes. The career is early enough that its shape is not settled. The interesting question is whether anyone hands her a lead in something that is not a thriller.
Movies (12)
TV (3)
Where to start with Storm Reid
Missing first. The whole film happens on screens, so Reid has to carry it alone with no scene partner in the room, reacting to a laptop. It is a much harder exercise than the format makes it look and she is the reason it works at all.
The Invisible Man is the best film she has been in, and it uses her precisely: Sydney is the person whose safety makes the threat real.
12 Years a Slave shows how young she started and it is a difficult few minutes. Euphoria is the long-form work, Gia standing in doorways watching her sister, and When They See Us is the other worthwhile television, a small role in a heavy series.
A Wrinkle in Time does not really come off as a film, but she is fine in it and it was the first time anyone asked her to hold one together. Save The Nun II for a night when the standard is low.