Millie Bobby Brown

Millie Bonnie Bongiovi (née Brown; born 19 February 2004), known professionally as Millie Bobby Brown, is a British actress and film producer. She gained international recognition for playing Eleven in the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things (2016–2025), for which she received nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2018, Brown was featured in the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people. She was the youngest person ever appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Brown starred in the film Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and its sequel Godzilla vs. Kong (2021). She also starred in and produced the Netflix films Enola Holmes (2020), Enola Holmes 2 (2022), Damsel (2024), The Electric State (2025), and Enola Holmes 3 (2026).

Millie Bonnie Brown was born on 19 February 2004 in Marbella, Andalusia, Spain. She is the third of four children born to British parents Kelly and Robert Brown, an estate agent. She has an older sister, Paige, and brother, Charlie, and a younger sister, Ava. Her middle name is "Bonnie", but "Bobby" became the stage name. Brown was born with partial hearing loss in her left ear and gradually lost all hearing in that ear over several years. At the age of four, she moved with her family back to England, settling in Bournemouth, Dorset. The family moved to Orlando, Florida, when she was eight. Brown has said that she grew up with "no money", and the financial insecurity of her upbringing had affected her relationship with money in adulthood, even after achieving success through Stranger Things as a child actress. Due to growing up in the United States, Brown naturally oscillates between an American accent and her native British accent depending on her environment.

In 2013, 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. In 2014, she had a starring role in the BBC America paranormal drama-thriller series Intruders as Madison O'Donnell. She made guest appearances in the CBS police procedural drama NCIS, the ABC sitcom Modern Family and the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy. Those roles weren't enough to keep her family in the U.S. and they moved back to England to stay with her aunt.

In 2016, she auditioned for Lady Lyanna Mormont on Game of Thrones but did not get the role. Then, Brown was cast to play Eleven in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things. She 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. She 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. For her role as Eleven in the second season of Stranger Things, she received her second nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Primetime Emmy Award in 2018. She reprised the role through to the series' fifth and final season in 2025.

In November 2016, Brown starred in the music video for Sigma and Birdy's single "Find Me". Since November 2016, she has appeared in commercial advertisements for investment and financial service company Citigroup. In January 2017, she made her modelling debut in Calvin Klein's "By Appointment" campaign. The following month, she was signed to the agency IMG Models. Brown appeared in the advertisement campaign of the Italian brand Moncler in the summer of 2018. Brown has also made appearances on the cover of Vogue.

Brown was chosen to voice in the Darren Aronofsky-produced virtual reality experience Spheres: Songs of Spacetime. In 2018, she was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time, becoming the youngest person to be included in the list. Additionally, she was named by Time magazine as one of the most influential teens of 2017 and 2018. That year, she became the youngest person ever to be appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. EA Games announced that Brown collaborated with The Sims 4 programmers to feature in the Sims 4 Positivity Challenge. In 2018, The Hollywood Reporter ranked Brown as amongst Hollywood's top thirty stars under age eighteen.

Brown made her feature film debut in 2019 in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, the sequel to the 2014 film Godzilla. She reprised her role in the next sequel, Godzilla vs. Kong (2021). She became the ambassador of UEFA's Together #WePlayStrong campaign. In 2019, Brown launched Florence by Mills, her own beauty product line. It is available at UK pharmacy Boots, Walmart in the United States and Shoppers Drug Mart in Canada. In 2020, Brown starred in and produced the film adaptation of The Enola Holmes Mysteries, and later reprised the role in the 2022 sequel, Enola Holmes 2. According to Variety, she earned $10 million for the role, emerging as one of the year's highest paid actresses in Hollywood. That year, she was also made an ambassador of the fashion brand Louis Vuitton. Brown released her debut novel, Nineteen Steps, based on her own family history, in September 2023. The novel is described as an "epic story of love, loss and secrets".

In 2024, 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. In 2025, she starred in the Russo brothers's The Electric State, an adaptation of Simon Stålenhag's graphic novel of the same name.

In July 2025, Brown and Gabriel LaBelle were set to star in the Netflix romantic comedy film Just Picture It. In 2026, she reprised her role in Enola Holmes 3.

Brown has engaged in activism with the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and serves in prominent global ambassador and rescue roles. She was the youngest person ever appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador at age 14 in 2018. She particularly focusing on bullying, online cyberbullying, mental health, climate change, environmental sustainability, animal rights, gun control, children's rights and educational rights. Brown delivered anti-bullying speeches at the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards and the 2019 United Nations World Children's Day event. Brown cites actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn as her style icon and personal hero.

Brown has publicly supported stricter gun control and actively advocated against gun violence. She honored the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and supported the March for Our Lives movement by dedicated the movement on her Favorite TV Actress winning acceptance speech and wearing a custom Calvin Klein denim outfit with the names of the victims on the back at the 2018 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.

Brown signed up to be cast in Godzilla: King of the Monsters for her passion on animal rights and environmentalism as the film itself explore heavy real-world themes like animal conservation, environmental protection, and climate change. In 2020, she partnered with Samsung to advocate for greener technology and sustainable futures to empower young people to tackle widespread environmental and social issues through micro-actions within their own communities.

In March 2025, Brown visited a school in São Paulo, Brazil to talked with teenage girls of women’s rights and education in Brazil. Some of these include girls’ experiences with gender-based violence, school dropout, period poverty and limited access to job opportunities.

Brown co-founded the fostering initiative Joey's Friends and uses microchip scanners to help reunite lost pets or take in abandoned animals. She has turned her rural property in Georgia into an active animal rescue sanctuary housing over 60 animals.

Brown launched her own cosmetics and fashion brand, Florence by Mills, on 26 August 2019. The brand has been marketed toward Gen Z adolescent girls, and the products are intended to fit young people's skin. Brown later added fashion and clothing, only available online and not in stores.

She collaborated with Converse called "Millie By You", which launched on 11 July 2019. This was a customizable collection featuring classic Chuck Taylor styles with designs inspired by her love for the ocean and whales. In late 2019 she released a second Converse collaboration, also called "Millie By You", that included three new sneakers inspired by her love of DIY crafting.

Brown then became the face of Pandora's new Pandora Me collection in October of 2019. The brand announced a two-year partnership with Brown, who helped promote the line of customizable charms, bracelets, and earrings focused on self-expression. She also hosted "Pandora Me Charm Academy" events to celebrate the collection.

In early 2020, she collaborated with Vogue Eyewear to co-design a collection of sunglasses and eyeglasses inspired by the 1990s, her travels, and her personal aesthetic. Key features included pastel colors, interesting shapes, and '90s retro-chic materials. Some models came with a unique crossbody pouch.

Brown worked with Chips Ahoy on cookies inspired by Stranger Things as part of the promotion for the series' fifth season in 2025.

Brown has been dubbed a "Stream Queen" by some media outlets due to her predominantly appearing in content originally released on streaming services, mainly Netflix. Louis Chilton of The Independent wrote that while actors were often segregated based on medium such as film or television, "as the money and creative prestige migrated to television, the line between movie stars and TV actors has become more porous, and it was into this amorphous environment that streaming was born – meaning that there's never really been such a thing as a 'streaming actor'. Until Brown, that is".

Brown came into the public eye at age 12 after being cast in Stranger Things. At age 14, memes using homophobic quotes which were falsely attributed to Brown began circulating on social media, which Brown stated was one of the reasons she eventually deactivated her Twitter. In addition to online bullying, she has also faced social media users and articles sexualising her. In response, Brown captioned a 2020 Instagram post on her 16th birthday with the following comment: "There are moments I get frustrated from the inaccuracy, inappropriate comments, sexualisation and unnecessary insults that have ultimately resulted in pain and insecurity for me." After Brown turned 18 in February 2022, her social media profiles began to be flooded by sexually explicit material from users.

In 2018, Brown was in a relationship with social media personality and singer Jacob Sartorius. She briefly dated model Romeo Beckham from late 2018 to early 2019, rugby player Joseph Robinson in early-mid 2019 to mid 2020 and TikTok star Hunter Ecimovic in late 2020 to early 2021.