1. Millie Bonnie Brown Bongiovi, known professionally as Millie Bobby Brown, is a British actress.
28 Facts About Millie Bobby Brown
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Millie Bobby Brown gained recognition for playing Eleven in the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things, for which she received nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Millie Bobby Brown starred in and produced the Netflix films Enola Holmes, Enola Holmes 2, and Damsel.
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In 2018, Millie Bobby Brown was featured in the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people, and was appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, the youngest person ever selected for this position.
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Millie Bonnie Brown was born in Marbella, Andalusia, Spain, on 19 February 2004, the third of four children born to British parents Kelly and Robert Brown.
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Millie Bobby Brown was born with partial hearing loss in her left ear and gradually lost all hearing in that ear over several years.
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Millie Bobby Brown moved with her family back to England when she was four, settling in Bournemouth.
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In 2013, Millie Bobby Brown made her acting debut as a guest star in the ABC fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, a spin-off of Once Upon a Time, portraying the role of Young Alice.
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Millie Bobby Brown made guest appearances in the CBS police procedural drama NCIS, the ABC sitcom Modern Family and the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy.
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In 2016, Millie Bobby Brown was cast to play Eleven in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things.
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Millie Bobby Brown received critical praise for her performance and she was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
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Millie Bobby Brown then won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series with her co-stars and won the 43rd Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series.
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In November 2016, Millie Bobby Brown starred in the music video for Sigma and Birdy's single "Find Me".
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Millie Bobby Brown appeared in the advertisement campaign of the Italian brand Moncler in the summer of 2018.
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Millie Bobby Brown was chosen to voice in the Darren Aronofsky-produced virtual reality experience Spheres: Songs of Spacetime.
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EA Games announced that Millie Bobby Brown collaborated with The Sims 4 programmers to feature in the Sims 4 Positivity Challenge.
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Millie Bobby Brown made her feature film debut in 2019 in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, the sequel to the 2014 film Godzilla.
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Millie Bobby Brown reprised her role in the next sequel, Godzilla vs Kong.
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In 2019, Millie Bobby Brown launched Florence by Mills, her own beauty product line.
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In 2020, Millie Bobby Brown starred in and produced the film adaptation of The Enola Holmes Mysteries.
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In 2022, Millie Bobby Brown reprised her role as Enola Holmes in the sequel, Enola Holmes 2, and according to Variety earned $10 million for the role, emerging as one of the year's highest paid actresses in Hollywood.
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Millie Bobby Brown released her debut novel, Nineteen Steps, based on her own family history, in September 2023.
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In 2024, Millie Bobby Brown starred in and executive produced the fantasy film Damsel for Netflix, directed by Spanish filmmaker Juan Carlos Fresnadillo based on a screenplay by Dan Mazeau.
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Millie Bobby Brown came into the public eye at age 12 after being cast in Stranger Things.
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At age 14, memes using homophobic quotes which were falsely attributed to Millie Bobby Brown began circulating on social media, which Millie Bobby Brown stated was one of the reasons she eventually left Twitter.
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In 2021, Millie Bobby Brown began a relationship with actor Jake Bongiovi.
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Millie Bobby Brown announced that she had chosen to take her husband's last name.
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In March 2025, addressing media backlash over her appearance, Millie Bobby Brown posted a video on her Instagram account criticising specific journalists for alleged bullying and body shaming, stating that as an adult she ought not to be expected to continue looking like the child actor she was on the early seasons of Stranger Things.