Millie Bobby Brown is a British actress and model, known for her role as Eleven in the
series Stranger Things.
She was born on February 19th in Marbella, Spain, even tho she moved to Bournemouth,
England,with her family when she was 4.
This is why her nationality and native language is English.
Her parents are Kelly and Robert Brown, a real estate agent, and she has 3 siblings,
Paige, Charlie and Ava.
Millie was born with a severe problem in one of her ears, and she had to undergo treatment.
After several years, she lost all her hearing.
But even with this, she is able to have a normal life.
In 2011, her family moved again, to Orlando this time, in the US, to start a new business.
There, her dad signed her up for a weekend school, where Millie developed her acting,
dancing and singing skills.
It didnt take long for her talent to be discovered by an agent, who adviced her to move to Hollywood
and search for an oportunity there.
In order to help her, her family had to make a big financial effort, and it was worth it!
Millie debuted on TV, in the series “Once Upon a Time in Wonderland”.
Even tho the series only lasted for a season, and it was canceled 6 months after its release,
her appearance in it opened the doors for her in other projects.
With the following year came the opportunity of continuing growing as an artist, when she
wa sselected for the main cast of the series “The Intruders”, from the BBC America.
In this science-fiction thriller, she got her first protagonist role, even tho the series
was also canceled after the first season ended.
During 2015, Millie appeared in several series such as NCIS, Grey’s Anatomy and Modern
Family.
This roles werent enough to keep her family in the US, and so they had to move back to
the UK, to her aunt’s house.
But finally, in 2016, she was selected for the main cast of a new series in Netflix,
called Stranger Things.
A fantasy story starred by teenagers, a tribute to the Hollywood of the 80s, where Millie
has the protagonist role of Eleven, a girl with special powers.
For the auditions, she had to cry, and since for personal reasons her feelings were on
edge, she nailed it.
The series became an immediate success.
Her performance was acclaimed by the critics, and rewards soon started coming her way.
She was nominated for best supporting actress in the Emmy Awards, and for best actress in
a drama series in the prestigious Screen Actors Guild Awards, where the whole cast of the
series won the award for outstanding performance by an ensemble on TV..
Millie also got several awards such as the Saturn Award for best performance by a younger
actor in a television series, best actress and best performance on a show in the MTV
awards, Best Dramatic TV Performance in the People’s Choice Awards and favorite tv actress
in the Kid’s Choice Awards.
The final touch came with the Time Magazine, when they included her in the “list of the
100 most influential people in the world.
2017 meant another step in her career.
Apart from being part of the second season of Stranger Things, Millie took the leap to
the big screen when she was selected for the protagonist cast of the two new Godzilla sequels.
Millie is also expected to be the protagonist and adapt to the big screen the series of
teenage novels “The Enola Holmes Mysteries”.
The protagonist is the sister of the famoous Sherlock Holmes.
Apart from cinema and series, in 2016 she appeared in several ads of the bank Citigroup,
and in early 2017, she debuted as a model in a Calvin Klein campaign.
After this, she signed with the agency IMG Models.
She also appeared in several music videoclips.
Millie is also famous for using her popularity and repercusion to promote social activism.
For example, during the Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards in 2018, she wore a shirt with
the names of all the victims of the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,
Florida.
She has also used her accounts in social media to launch a campaing agaisnt bullying, asking
her fans to share their experiences related to it.
Unfortunately, fame also has its downside.
In Twitter, a meme of her became popular, putting together her image with homophobic
commentaries.
This meme’s repercusion was such that Millie ended up deciding to deactivate her Twitter
account in June 2018, publicly stating that there should be no room for bullying.
As for her personal life, Millie lives between London, where she lives with her family, and
Atlanta, US, where the shooting of Stranger Things takes place.
She supports Liverpool Football Club, same as her dad and brother.
By the end of 2017, there started to circulate rumors about a relationship between Millie
and the singer Jacob Sartorius.
Rumors that were confirmed when the couple made their relationship public through Instagram,
on Saint Valentines 2018.
Only 14 yeards old, and Milly Bobby Brown’s career is already impressive, especially her
maturity and engagement.
All this leads us to think that she could become one of the most important actresses
in the world, and a great ambassador of social causes.