cast of nancy drew and the hidden staircase

Nancy isn’t finding it too easy settling into a small community after growing up in Chicago - being in a town that has not one but two horses is a bit of a challenge. In this adaptation, we find Nancy Drew ( Sophia Lillis) and her father Carson ( Sam Trammell) as recently arrived residents to the rural town of River Heights, having moved there after Nancy’s mother died and her father being unable to handle living in the city they loved together.

With 2019’s Nancy and the Hidden Staircase, the filmmakers decided to go the route of telling a Nancy Drew origin story, where we learn what brought her into the world of teen sleuthing. When a character has been solving crimes for nine decades, you’re going to see a lot of changes, some cosmetic while others a little more drastic for instance, in the original 1930 book of Nancy and the Hidden Staircase, Nancy’s father gave her a revolver for protection, which, unless the NRA plans on their own remake, this isn’t something modern audiences can expect to see any time soon, but it’s stuff like computers and social media that truly shake up the world of Nancy Drew. All of this brings us to the 2019 release of Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, starring the young actress who played Beverly in the latest adaptation of Stephen King’s It. Nancy got her next break back onto the big screen with the 2007 Nancy Drew movie starring Emma Roberts, and though not a box office smash, it was still a delightful little outing. Then, in 2002, Disney Studios put forth a Nancy Drew movie in the hopes of kick-starting a new series, but it failed to garner much praise and is mostly forgotten.

In films, she first appeared in the 1930s film series starring Bonita Granville, which ran four films concluding with Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, then she made her television debut in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries back in the 70s, where she shared billing with her male counterparts, then she got a second shot at television with a 90s show simply titled Nancy Drew - sadly this one was a dud and only lasted 13 episodes. Nancy Drew has been solving mysteries going on 90 years now, and as such, this teen sleuth has constantly been evolving with the times.

Cast of nancy drew and the hidden staircase