Tyner Rushing

Tyner Rushing is an American actress known for her role portraying Emma Smith in FX on Hulu's Under the Banner of Heaven. Other notable roles include Liz Riley in The Terminal List and Virginia Creel in Stranger Things. 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. In 2025, she joined the cast of the HBO supernatural horror television series It: Welcome to Derry, Hulu’s Murdaugh: Death in the Family and Amazon Prime Video's It's Not Like That.

Early life and education Tyner Rushing was born to Ralph Rushing and Patti Tyner Rushing and grew up in Semmes, Alabama on a farm and plant nursery. 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.’' She lives in Los Angeles with her cat.

Filmography

Television Year Title Role Notes 2020 Lovecraft Country Barb 2021 Creepshow June Aurora Under the Banner of Heaven Emma Smith 5 episodes The Terminal List Liz Riley 5 episodes 2022 Echoes Maria McCleary 5 episodes Stranger Things Virginia Creel 2 episodes 2023 The Last Thing He Told Me Max Parnes 2023–2024 For All Mankind Samantha Massey 10 episodes 2025 Murdaugh: Death in the Family Detective Laura Rutland 3 episodes 2025–present It: Welcome to Derry Young Ingrid Kersh 1 episode 2026 It's Not Like That Jenny