Nancy Wheeler
Nancy Wheeler is a major character in the first and second seasons of Stranger Things. At first concerned with simple teenage high school issues, her world is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes, encouraging her to seek out the truth. Still grieving for the death of her best friend, she and Jonathan took on a journey on themselves to expose Hawkins National Laboratory as a threat. Eventually, she helps Jonathan and his mother in removing Will Byers from the Mind Flayer.
Nancy is the first child of Karen and Ted Wheeler, and she would later be joined by younger siblings Mike and Holly. Together, the family of five lived at their home in Hawkins, Indiana. Nancy suspected her parents never truly loved one another, and that they married solely to create a "perfect nuclear family". As Nancy grew up, she became distant from Mike and his friends, although they were close at some point. By the time Nancy attended high school, she had become best friends with Barbara Holland, and also had a friend named Cathy.
Nancy is portrayed by Natalia Dyer (born January 13, 1997), an American actress. Dyer's first role was as Clarissa Granger in Hannah Montana: The Movie in 2009. IN 2011, she appeared in The Greening of Whitney Brown. Dyer then starred in the indie film I Believe in Unicorns which premiered in 2014 at SXSW. In 2016, Dyer began her work in Stranger Things. Dyer was a student at NYU in 2017. She studies at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She has ADHD, for which she has been medicated since childhood.
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