Samantha Lynne Hanratty is an actress from the United States. Hanratty has starred in a number of films and television programs, including the ABC Family original film Hello Sister, Goodbye Life (2006), which she co-starred in with Lacey Chabert. In 2006, she appeared as Holly, a small child whose father is a con artist who formerly stayed at the Tipton, on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. That same year, she starred in Stephen King’s Desperation for ABC. From 2006 through 2009, Hanratty co-starred with her older sister Danielle in the action-drama series The Unit. In 2006, she starred as Glenda, an elf in The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. Additionally, she portrayed Chrissa in 2009’s An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong. And in 2018, she starred as Carl’s wife Kassidi in Showtime’s Shameless. Hanratty is a Starlight Children’s Foundation Celebrity Friend.

In 2021, Hanratty starred in the first season of the Showtime series Yellowjackets. The show follows the members of a high school girls’ soccer team as they face nature and themselves after their plane crashes in the wilderness of Ontario. What follows is a brutal, twisted examination of intimate relationships and social order that chronicles the spiral into cannibalistic lunacy of a group of young females. While the crew maneuvers through their perilous predicament, viewers are concurrently transported to the present day, when their adult selves—played by Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Melanie Lynskey, and Tawny Cypress—attempt to untangle the subsequent trauma.