Millie Bobby Brown Biography, Age, Movies, Seasons, Net Worth

Millie Bobby Brown [ˈmɪli ˈbɒbi bɹaʊn], is an actress and model British, born February 19, 2004, in Marbella in Andalusia, Spain.

She started her career in 2013 in the series Once Upon a Time in Wonderland at the age of nine, she plays the role of Alice as a child. She is best known for her role in the Stranger Things series, in which she plays the character of Eleven.

Millie Bobby Brown Biography

Early Life of Millie Bobby Brown

Millie Bobby Brown was born on February 19, 2004, in Marbella, near Malaga, in the south of Spain. Her parents, Kelly and Robert Brown are British. Her father is a real estate agent. She is the third of four siblings: she has an older sister, Paige, born December 27, 1993 (26 years old); an older brother, Charley, said Charlie, born on August 16, 1997 (23 years old); and a younger sister, Ava, born on January 20, 2012 (8 years).

She was born with partial hearing in one ear, gradually losing all hearing in that ear over several years. Kelly and Robert Brown and their two children, Paige and Charley, move to Marbella in 2003. When they arrive in the seaside resort of the Costa del Sol, where Robert’s parents run a restaurant, Kelly is already pregnant with Millie.

After the death of her paternal grandfather, four-year-old Millie Bobby Brown and her parents leave Marbella for another seaside resort: Bournemouth, in Dorset, in the south of England. She then attended Pokesdown Community Primary School, the local public primary school in Pokesdown, a district of Bournemouth. Gemma Hill, her teacher and future guardian, remembers her as a child “charming, bright and sparkling” (“lovely, bright, bubbly”).

Millie Career in Film/TV Industry

Hill contradicted the actress’ claims that she did not participate in school shows, “not even a living crib” (“not even a nativity”). Indeed, according to Hill, it was at the age of five that she had her first stage experiences, first as an extra in the living crèche presented to her school, then by participating, with “natural confidence”, to several school singing shows.

In 2011, eight years old, she left Bournemouth for Orlando, Florida, where her parents opened a dental whitening business. From an early age, Millie has enjoyed singing and prefers watching musical films – such as Bugsy Malone, Annie, Moulin Rouge and Chicago – to cartoons. Her father suggested that she take a performing arts course.

He ended up enrolling her in a multidisciplinary school so that she could learn theatre, dance and singing, four hours a week, Saturdays. The school regularly presents shows. During one of them, an agent spots her. Convinced that it could become one of the best child actors of Hollywood, he persuaded her parents to leave Orlando to Los Angeles in California.

In one week, she obtains several appointments with talent agencies who all offer to represent her. But her parents prefer to sign with Melanie Greene, the agent of David Duchovny, Michael Sheen, Natascha McElhone and Paul Bettany, who was introduced to them by a friend. Millie then goes around the auditions and does not take long to land a role for television.

Since the age of nine, she has been homeschooled by Gemma Hill.

Millie Bobby Brown As an Actress

Less than three months after arriving in Los Angeles, ABC Studios hired him to play young Alice, the character created by Lewis Carroll, in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, a spinoff series of Once Upon a Time. The viewers of ABC and City to discover October 13, 2013, in Down the Rabbit Hole (“The Burrow Rabbit”), the first episode of the series. But the series is stopped at the end of its first season.

On February 24, 2014, the day after her tenth birthday, BBC America announces that she has been selected to appear in the cast of the Intruders series and play her first regular role: that of Madison O’Donnell. His interpretation is noticed: it particularly attracts the attention of Stephen King who describes his appearance as “terrific” on Twitter. But the BBC decides to stop the series at the end of the first season.

After the premature stops of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland and Intruders, she appears for an episode, in NCIS then, in 2015, in Modern Family and Grey’s Anatomy. She even tries her hand at reality TV by appearing in Hell’s Kitchen, the show presented by Gordon Ramsay. She is auditioned for The Boss by Ben Falcone as well as for The BFG by Steven Spielberg, but she is not engaged, the producers preferring Ella Anderson and Ruby Barnhill to her…

The financial situation of his parents, who took on debt to move to Los Angeles, deteriorates and, in the summer of 2015, the family has to return to Bournemouth and be hosted by an aunt. August 20, 2015, Netflix announces that it has been selected to appear in the cast of Stranger Things.

Aired on Netflix in July 2016, she plays the character of Eleven. With this character, “not only one of the most important in the series, but also one of the most appreciated by the public and the critics”, she reaches relative notoriety. While touring the series, she appeared in TV shows: The August 31 in The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon and September 13, 2016, in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

On September 18, 2016, She participates in the organization of the 68th ceremony Primetime Emmy Awards in taking Uptown Funk of Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars and then distributing peanut butter and jam sandwiches.

On October 10, 2016, the American magazine Variety reveals that it has signed a contract with the talent agency William Morris Endeavor (WME). In November, she appears in the clip Find Me by Sigma ft. Birdy as well as in a series of commercials for Citigroup. On December 12 at UN headquarters in New York, she co-presents the memorial evening of the 70th anniversary of UNICEF; there she interviews former British international footballer David Beckham.

End May 2017, she reveals to have been absent from the shooting of the first season of Stranger Things in order to audition for the role of Laura Kinney (X-23) in Logan by James Mangold. End of June, she appears in the “I Dare You” music video of The xx, directed by Alasdair McLellan in collaboration with Raf Simons. She is one of eleven actors brought together by the American fashion magazine W to cover a capella excerpts from Wannabe from the Spice Girls, for the twenty-first anniversary of its release in the United Kingdom.

May 30, 2018, she appears in the first volume of the Girls Like You clip of “Maroon 5” then in the second on October 16, 2018.

September 23, 2018, she replaces singer Cardi B by singing, on stage with the Maroon 5, the latter’s verse in the song Girls Like You during a concert in Nashville.

Jan 9, 2018, Deadline Hollywood reveals that she has signed an agreement with Legendary Entertainment to co-produce a series of films based on Enola Holmes Investigations.

In 2019, she will appear for the first time in a feature film: Godzilla: King of Monsters, the sequel to Godzilla by Gareth Edwards, released in 2014.

Millie Bobby Brown as a Model

Millie Bobby Brown is billed as a fashionista. The magazine Vogue and its variation, Teen Vogue, celebrated the 13th anniversary of the actress by dedicating an article to his dress style, considered the influence of pre-teen girls.

On September 13, 2016, as part of New York Fashion Week, she attends her first fashion show: with Winona Ryder, she is one of the celebrities invited to follow, from the front row, the presentation of the spring-summer collection 2017 by Coach 1941, the ready-to-wear brand launched in 2014 by Coach, the luxury American leather goods maker. Ten days later, the September 23, at the invitation of Nicolas Ghesquière, the artistic director of Louis Vuitton, she visits the studios of the French house of luxury leather goods and ready-to-wear.

At the beginning of the month of October 2016, So It Goes, a British biannual, is the first magazine to devote one of its covers to it. Other covers will follow: that of Interview, end-October, then Dazed’s in November. On December 8, it appears for the first time on the cover of a French magazine: the French weekly Stylist.

On January 22, 2017, Raf Simons, Creative Director of Calvin Klein, announces that she is one of the fifteen muses of the first collection of Calvin Klein by Appointment, the new department of accessories and tailor-made feminine clothing of the brand. In February, she becomes one of the Converse muses for the Forever Chuck advertising campaign. On 12 February, the American edition of the women’s magazine Elle announces that she has signed a contract with the model agency IMG Models. EndJuly, she participates in First Day Feels, her second advertising campaign for Converse.

Brands and collaborations

Collaborations

Millie Bobby Brown is a big fan of fashion and beauty. She signed with the agency IMG Models where she goes on the covers of well-known magazines (“ELLE”; “L’officiel”; “Bazar”; etc…) she collaborated with Calvin Klein a big brand, Converse Millie by You (whose first theme was on the sea) and Vogue Eyewear for which she released a collection.

Florence by Mills

Millie Bobby Brown also launched her own vegan cosmetics brand under the name “Florence by Mills“. The brand was launched on August 26, 2019. “Florence” is the name of her great-grandmother passed away that she wanted to honor.

The company created to carry the “Florence by Mills” brand is Florence Beauty, LLC. A US limited liability company domiciled in Delaware and was created on March 29, 2018.

Controversies and polemics

In September sandwiches peanut butter and jelly prepared by the mother of Jimmy Kimmel and distributed to the guests of the 68th ceremony of Emmy Awards by Millie and two child actors of the series Stranger Things – Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin – create a brief controversy, guests allergic to peanuts and/or intolerant to gluten that have perhaps not been sufficiently warned of the composition sandwiches.

In October, Millie is at the heart of a controversy after The Hollywood Reporter revealed that her father had asked for 100,000 dollars from talent agencies to represent her, contrary to the practice of the profession.

The series of photographs of fashion dress published late October 2016 by Interview magazine contributes to fuel the debate on the precocious sexualization of children and their commercial exploitation by the luxury industry. The question of the possible exploitation of the actress is asked at the end of March 2017 when exhausted, it is forced to cancel its participation in a convention.

In June 2017 The New York Post reveals the “panic” in which agents of the young actress was taken after his confused with the controversial namesake, the painter and performer British Millie Brown, and so believed, mistakenly, that their client, the thirteen-year-old, was planning to participate in an event organized by Tumblr, as part of the upcoming Los Angeles Fashion Week, in which she “would cover her body in multicolored wax to become a human candle.

Commitments and positions

For Valérie de Saint-Pierre, of Madame Figaro, Millie is one of the young adolescents whose adults expect exemplary behavior for themselves and their children. If the humility which the actress shows during her interviews and her participation in talk shows is appreciated by parents, she is sometimes criticized for “lacking spontaneity” and for being “too smooth” in particular on its public social media accounts.

In august 2016Millie involved in the awareness campaign posttraumatic stress disorder in the challenge 22 Push-Up Challenge (“Challenge 22 pumps”) 74 that Aaron Paul launched his.

Since March 2017 It supports a campaign fundraising online to adjourn the sum of 80,000 pounds for a four-year-old child diagnosed with glioma midbrain: Christina, the daughter of Kenny Thomas.

On May 7, 2017, during the 26th ceremony of MTV Movie & TV Awards, she makes political awareness shown by wearing two pins: the ribbon blue of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ampersand blue sky of the Alliance Gays and Lesbians Against Defamation (GLAAD).

July 17, 2017, she created @milliestopshate, an anti-bullying Twitter account.

Internet and social media

Millie Bobby Brown has been on social media for2014, year in which, aged ten, she created her YouTube channel under the name “Millie Brown”. The actress will deposit only seven videos made by herself and covers of songs by her favorite artists: a “female version” of Imagine by John Lennon; You Know I’m No Good by Amy Winehouse; All Of Me by John Legend; Thinking Out Loud to Ed Sheeran; Wings of Birdy; When We Were Young and Make You Feel My Love by Adele. A time administered by the aunt of the actress, the channel will have up to 445 subscribers or even more than 83,000 depending on the sources.

She no longer has a YouTube channel and no official website but has public accounts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter since the end of June 2016. Her sister Paige manages her Instagram account; his brother Charley, his account on Twitter. She told Dazed magazine that July 15, 2016, the day of the release of the first season of Stranger Things, the number of his followers on Instagram increased second by second, from 25 to 1.4 million.

Millie Bobby Brown Nicknames

Millie Bobby Brown is the actress “real name”. It was initially not made use of “Bobby” his middle name (middle name), and it’s like “Millie Brown” it appears in the distribution of ‘ Once Upon a Time in Wonderland and Intruders well as in the episode of Modern Family where it appears. Her fans sometimes refer to her by the acronym “MBB”, as do some media, in particular Bustle, an online women’s magazine.

Her nickname is The Millster. Gaten Matarazzo contributed to its dissemination by publishing September 19, 2016, on the Netflix Instagram account, a video in which he nicknames the young actress, “the Millster Meister”. It appears on the back of the actress chair made available to her during the filming of the second season of Stranger Things. Millster is composed of Mill, the first syllable of the first name 92 “Millie”, and of -ster, a suffix used, among English speakers, to form a nickname.

As Millie Bobby Brown acknowledged by stating that there are some who call me Eleven on the home page of his Twitter account, the name of the young actress remains associated with that of her character in the Stranger Things series. So, she is sometimes referred to, in order to prevent confusion with her character, by expressions such as “Eleven IRL” or “Millie Bobby Brown IRL”, in which “IRL” is the acronym from the English phrase “in real life” meaning “in real life”.

Honors and Awards

In 2018 she appears in the 100 most important personalities according to Time 100

She also appears on the list of twelve “personalities of the year 2016” (NME People of the Year 2016) published on Dec, 7, 2016by the New Musical Express. It also listed five appointed by the British music magazine for the NME Awards 2017 in the category “Hero of the Year”.

On May 7, 2017, during the 26th ceremony of MTV Movie & TV Awards, she received the award of Best Actor in a show (sic) for her role in “Eleven” in the first season of Stranger Things; this prize is awarded for the first time without distinction of gender, the pre-teenager becomes the first female actress to appear on her list of awards.

The July 13, she receives her first nomination at the Primetime Emmy Awards in the category “best actress in a supporting role in a drama television series” (Supporting actress in a drama). Aged 13 years, 4 months and 24 days, it is not only the youngest players nominated for the 69th edition but especially the one hand, the first players under eighteen years to receive a nomination from Frankie Muniz, appointed in2001, in the category “best actor in a comedy television series”, for the role of Malcolm Wilkerson in Malcolm ( Malcolm in the Middle ) and, on the other hand, the youngest of the child actors to receive a nomination after Keshia Knight Pulliam, nominated at six, for the role of Rudy Huxtable on The Cosby Show.

For this role, Millie was also named:

to 43rd are People’s Choice Awards, in the category “Favorite TV Actress – science fiction/fantasy” (Favorite sci-fi/fantasy TV actress),
the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2017 in the category “Best TV Actress” ( Best TV actress ),
to 43rd are Saturn Awards, in the category “best young actor (actress) in a Television Series”
to 23rd are Screen Actors Guild Awards, in the category “Best Actress in a Drama Series” (Outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series);
at the 8th Dorian Awards, in the category “We are wild of you! Rising star of the year” (We’re Wilde about you! Rising star of the year);
to 26th are MTV Movie & TV Awards, in the category “best hero (heroine)” (Best Hero);
at the 19th Teen Choice Awards, in the category “revelation in a television series” (Breakout TV star)

Millie Bobby Brown Filmography

Cinema

2019: Godzilla: King of Monsters by Michael Dougherty: Madison Russell
2020: Enola Holmes Harry Bradbeer Enola Holmes (also a producer)
2021: Godzilla vs. Kong by Adam Wingard: Madison Russell
Date unknown: The Thing About Jellyfish by Wanuri Kahiu: Suzy Swanson

Television

2013: Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: Young Alice
2014: Intruders: Madison O’Donnell
2014: NCIS: Special Investigations: Rachel Barnes
2015: Grey’s Anatomy: Ruby
2015: Modern Family: Lizzie
since 2016: Stranger Things: Onze / Elfe

Video clip

2016: Find Me by Sigma ft. Birdy
2017: I Dare You by The xx
2018: Girls Like You by Maroon 5 ft. Cardi B
2018: In My Feelings by Drake

Distinctions

Television

Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

Year	Reward	Series	Received?
2017	Best Television Actress	Stranger Things	✔Yes

Gold Derby TV Awards

Year	Reward	Series	Received?
2017	Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series	Stranger Things	❌No
2017	Revelation of the year	Stranger Things	✔Yes

Kids’ Choice Awards

Year	Reward	Series	Received?
2020	Favorite female actress	Stranger Things	✔Yes

Millie Bobby Brown Biography, Age, Movies, Seasons, Net Worth