Tyner Rushing is an American actress known for her role portraying Emma Smith in FX on Hulu's Under the Banner of Heaven . [1] [2] [3] [4] Other notable roles include Liz Riley in The Terminal List [5] [6] [7] and Virginia Creel in Stranger Things . [8] [9] Rushing joined the main cast of For All Mankind in its fourth season as the character Samantha Massey, a blue-collar space worker and aspiring astronaut. [10] [11] In 2025, she joined the cast of the HBO supernatural horror television series It: Welcome to Derry , Hulu’s Murdaugh: Death in the Family [12] and Amazon Prime Video’s It’s Not Like That.
Tyner Rushing was born to Ralph Rushing and Patti Tyner Rushing, [13] and grew up in Semmes, Alabama on a farm and plant nursery. [14] She got her start in the performing arts world as a singer and dancer in various musicals and operas, and attended Birmingham–Southern College as a vocal performance major. Rushing was one of five winners of the Dorsey Whittington Concerto/Aria Competition. She performed with the Red Mountain Chamber Orchestra as part of her prize and sang an aria (as a mezzo-soprano) from ’'Orfeo ed Euridice.’' [13]
Rushing is queer. [15] She lives in Los Angeles. [16]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Lovecraft Country | Barb | |
| 2021 | Creepshow | June Aurora | |
| 2021 | Under the Banner of Heaven | Emma Smith | 5 episodes |
| 2021 | The Terminal List | Liz Riley | 5 episodes |
| 2022 | Echoes | Maria McCleary | 5 episodes |
| 2022 | Stranger Things | Virginia Creel | 2 episodes |
| 2023 | The Last Thing He Told Me | Max Parnes | |
| 2023–present | For All Mankind | Samantha Massey | 10 episodes |
| 2025–present | It: Welcome to Derry | Young Ingrid Kersh | 1 episode |
| 2025 | Murdaugh: Death in the Family | Detective Laura Rutland | 3 episodes |