38 Facts About Eleven (Stranger Things)

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Eleven is a fictional character and one of the protagonists of the Netflix science fiction horror drama series Stranger Things, written and produced by the Duffer Brothers.

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Eleven is primarily portrayed by British actress Millie Bobby Brown.

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Eleven has psychokinetic and telepathic abilities, and is considered the breakout character of Stranger Things.

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Eleven is the daughter of Teresa "Terry" Ives, and a participant in the Project MKUltra experiments conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Eleven appears to have been born a psychic with notable telekinetic and extrasensory abilities.

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At birth, Eleven was taken away from her mother by Dr Martin Brenner and was raised in a national laboratory in fictional Hawkins, Indiana, as a test subject, in order to develop her psychokinetic skills.

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Eleven unknowingly opens a gate between the Hawkins National Laboratory and an alternate dimension called the Upside Down that allows creatures from either side to pass through.

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Eleven is encountered by Mike Wheeler, Dustin Henderson and Lucas Sinclair, who are looking for their missing friend, Will Byers.

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Eleven helps to locate Will and determines that he is trapped in the Upside Down, using a homemade sensory deprivation tank.

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The group sets out to find Will using their compasses, but Eleven interferes with their search when she realizes they are being led toward the Hawkins laboratory.

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11.

Eleven flees, steals boxes of frozen waffles from a store, and eats them in a forest.

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12.

Eleven uses her powers during the chase to cause a laboratory van to flip through the air.

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13.

Eleven helps the group escape by using her powers to kill most of the agents, leaving her drained.

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14.

Eleven eventually finds the Eggos Hopper left for her and seeks him out.

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15.

Eleven uses the latter ability to listen to Mike's attempts to contact her, though she is increasingly frustrated at her inability to reply.

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Eleven becomes restless and longs to reunite with Mike, and this causes tension between her and Hopper.

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17.

Eleven mistakenly thinks Max is flirting with Mike and, out of spite, uses her powers to knock Max off her skateboard before leaving.

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18.

Eleven, using her powers, views a flashback from her mother.

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19.

Eleven goes back to Hawkins and finally reunites with Mike with a heartfelt embrace and her friends after saving them from a Demodog.

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20.

Eleven meets up with Mike, dances with him, and they share their first kiss as a couple.

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21.

Eleven holds off the Mind Flayer when the cabin is attacked, but the Flayer wounds her and leaves a piece of itself in the wound.

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22.

Eleven loses her powers after removing the piece of the monster from her leg, but helps Billy to break free of the Mind Flayer's possession by recalling his childhood memories.

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23.

At the start of season four, Eleven begins going to school in California alongside Will and struggles with the loss of her powers, as well as being bullied by a girl named Angela.

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When Mike comes to visit, Eleven pretends she has many friends to please Mike, but she is humiliated at a roller rink and strikes Angela in the face in retaliation.

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25.

Eleven is taken into police custody, but Dr Owens intercepts her arrest and takes her with him.

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26.

Eleven is taken to a facility in Nevada and discovers Dr Brenner is still alive.

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27.

Eleven is placed into a sensory deprivation tank and relives her repressed memories of her time at Hawkins lab.

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28.

Eleven discovers she was often ostracized by the other children, but a kindly orderly watched over her and gave her advice on how to control her powers.

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29.

The orderly, who is in fact subject One in Brenner's experiments, manipulated Eleven into removing an implant in his neck that suppressed his powers, then went on to massacre the rest of the children and staff in the lab.

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30.

Eleven discovers the Hawkins' groups plan to kill Henry by using Max as bait to lure him out, and convinces Owens to help her return to Hawkins.

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31.

However, Brenner locks up Owens and traps Eleven, placing a shock collar on her so she is unable to leave.

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32.

Brenner unlocks the collar and tells Eleven they are family, but she refuses to forgive him and he dies.

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33.

Brothers believed Eleven was the most difficult role to cast, as the character had few lines.

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34.

Eleven makes a silent cameo appearance in Odder Stuff, an in-universe television series in The Simpsons thirtieth season episode "I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can", released February 10,2019.

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Violent parody of Eleven, Cindy, is portrayed by Ess Hodlmoser in the 2020 second season of the Amazon Prime Video streaming television series The Boys and the promotional web series Vought News Network: Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman.

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36.

Eleven won Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series at the 43rd Saturn Awards.

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37.

Eleven was twice nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series in 2017 and 2018.

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38.

Eleven won a Kids Choice Award for Best Female Actor in 2018 and 2020.

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