Kiernan Shipka

Kiernan Brennan Shipka is an American actress born on November 10, 1999, in Chicago, Illinois. She is best known for her television roles as Sally Draper in the AMC drama series Mad Men and Sabrina Spellman in Netflix's fantasy series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Her career encompasses extensive work across television series, television films, feature films, and voice acting.

Shipka was raised by her parents, real-estate developer John Young Shipka and Erin Ann Brennan. She is of mostly Irish and Slovak descent, along with German, English, Scottish, and Italian heritage. At age five, she began taking ballroom dancing classes. To support her pursuit of an acting career, her family relocated to Los Angeles, California, when she was six years old.

Her career began at five months old when she made her television debut on the hospital drama ER in April 2000. She also worked in commercial-print modeling as a baby. After securing minor television roles, Shipka landed her breakout role in 2007 as Sally Draper, the daughter of Don Draper, on Mad Men. Initially a recurring guest star for the first three seasons, she became a series regular in season four. Her performance earned critical praise, and as part of the ensemble cast, she won Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2008 and 2009. Time magazine recognized her as one of "The 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014," and IndieWire included her on their list of "20 Actors To Watch That Are Under 20."

During her time on Mad Men, Shipka expanded her voice acting and film projects. Beginning in 2012, she voiced Jinora in the Nickelodeon animated series The Legend of Korra. In 2014, she starred in the Lifetime movie Flowers in the Attic and voiced the lead character in the English dub of Studio Ghibli's When Marnie Was There. She subsequently co-starred in the horror film The Blackcoat's Daughter and the fantasy thriller One & Two in 2015. In 2017, she played B.D. Hyman in the FX series Feud: Bette and Joan.

Shipka assumed the lead role of Sabrina Spellman in Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which debuted in October 2018 and ran for four parts across 36 episodes through December 2020. She reprised the character in two episodes of the sixth season of Riverdale in 2021 and 2022. During this era, she also starred in the horror film The Silence, learning American Sign Language for her role as a deaf teenager, and appeared in the romantic comedy Let It Snow.

Following Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Shipka starred in the series Swimming with Sharks and White House Plumbers, as well as the drama film Wildflower. In 2023, she starred in the horror-comedy film Totally Killer. Her 2024 film projects included supporting roles in Longlegs, Twisters, The Last Showgirl, and Red One, along with a starring role in the romantic comedy Sweethearts. Her later projects include the thriller Stone Cold Fox, the fourth season of the drama Industry, and the comedy film Idiots.