Millie Bobby Brown (born February 19, 2004 in Marbella, Spain) is a British actress, model and producer.
At a very young age, Brown met a well-respected Hollywood talent scout who informed her parents that she had "instincts that couldn't be taught". After a series of small parts on television shows beginning in 2013 — many of them guest appearances but also including a memorably foul-mouthed
note starring role in Intruders when she was only 10 — she gained worldwide fame for her role as Eleven in the Netflix series Stranger Things.
She has since appeared in roles of bigger prominence, including Madison Russell in Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs. Kong as well as the eponymous lead in both film adaptations of Enola Holmes (which she also co-produced).
In 2018, Brown was featured in the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people, and was also appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, at the time becoming the youngest-ever person selected for this position at 14 years old.
Brown currently resides in the United States. In 2023, she announced her engagement to actor Jake Bongiovi, son of Jon Bon Jovi, whom she had been in a relationship with for two-and-a-half years. That year she also published her first novel, titled Nineteen Steps.
No relation to Bobby Brown.
Filmography:
- Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013): Young Alice
- Intruders (2014): Madison/Marcus
- NCIS (2014): Rachel Barnes
- Modern Family (2015): Lizzie
- Grey's Anatomy (2015): Ruby
- Stranger Things (2016-): Eleven
- MonsterVerse: Madison Russell
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
- Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
- Enola Holmes (2020): Enola Holmes
- Enola Holmes 2 (2022)
- Damsel (2024): Elodie
This actress' roles include the following tropes:
- Creepy Child:
- Eleven, the sweet-natured yet deadly dangerous telekinetic lab experiment in Stranger Things.
- Madison, the frightened girl possessed by a serial killer in Intruders.
- Rachel, a child sociopath who shot her own mother in the back in an episode of NCIS.
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Averted; her American accent for Eleven in Stranger Things is spot on and aside from when she laughs has never made a mistake keeping it. It's helpful that she spends half her time in America; in fact, she's apparently so used to using an American accent that she had to relearn her British accent for her role in Enola Holmes.
- In 2024, her use of an American accent when appearing on The Tonight Show led to social media comment, resulting in her saying that her accent varies depending on who is with.
- Prefers Going Barefoot: She's done a fair few interviews and photoshoots barefoot. In one interview, when looking at a photo of her at a party with the caption "typical me: shoes come off in 5 minutes", she responded by showing she was barefoot at that moment and said "I take my shoes off. I don't like having shoes on. Shoes are not my thing."
- She also spends much of Damsel barefoot.
- Star-Making Role: As Eleven in Stranger Things. Previously, Millie mostly had small roles on television on series such as NCIS and Grey's Anatomy. Stranger Things catapulted her into the national spotlight overnight, and the beginning of a film career with the major role of Madison Russell in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019).
- Screaming Woman: Screams a lot in Stranger Things. Subverted in that they tend to be aggressive screams, not frightened ones, generally when using Eleven's Psychic Powers to hand a monster its ass.
- Played pretty much straight in Damsel.
- What Could Have Been:
- Millie auditioned for Laura in Logan, ultimately losing out on the role to Dafne Keen. In a double case of the trope, had she been cast as Laura, she very likely would have been unavailable to take on her Star-Making Role as Eleven on Stranger Things.
- She revealed that she auditioned for the role of Lyanna Mormont in Game of Thrones (which went to Bella Ramsey) and that she was so disheartened when she didn't get it she considered quitting acting. Luckily, she persisted and went on to be cast as Eleven in Stranger Things.
- Younger Than They Look: There are times when she looks as though she's in her mid-to-late-20s, when in reality, she only turned 20 in 2024.
