Millie Bobby Brown (born February 19th, 2004[1]) is a Spanish-born British actress who had her big breakout in 2016 with her lead role in the Netflix original series Stranger Things as Eleven, receiving multiple awards, as well as two nominations at the Emmy Awards for her incredible performance.
She is the youngest person ever to be named by Time magazine on its list of the 100 most influential people of 2018[2] and also the youngest person to be appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF.[3]
Career
Millie started her acting career after she moved from Orlando, Florida to Los Angeles, California in the year 2013. She has appeared in some popular television shows such as Grey's Anatomy and NCIS, but only played minor roles. But portraying Eleven in Stranger Things was her first major role, for which she rose to prominence at a very early age.
Her first ever film role will be in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Millie will also produce and feature in the film adaptation of the Enola Holmes Mysteries book. With that, she will become one of the youngest people in Hollywood to earn a producer credit on a feature film, which will be produced through her own company, PCMA Productions. [4] She is also set to narrate an episode of Spheres, a VR series produced by Darren Aronofsky.[5]
Though she does like Eggos similar to her character Eleven, she has stated the number of times she had to eat them during filming made her sick.
She was signed to the modeling company IMG at the age of 13.
She is the ambassador of UEFA's Together #WePlayStrong campaign. [7]
Facing harassment by some Twitter users who would edit pictures of her and add anti-LGBT captions, Millie deactivated her Twitter account, but pleaded to end online bullying after alluding to her disappearance from Twitter during her acceptance of the Best Performance award at the MTV. Her side account, created for the purpose of preventing bullying, remains active.[8]
For the first and second seasons of Stranger Things, Millie along with her co-stars earned $20,000 and $60,000 per episode respectively. However, for the third season, the majority of the cast including Millie got a raise, with her receiving approximately $350,000 per episode.
