40 Fun Facts About Millie Bobby Brown

Millie Bobby Brown is a British actress with British parents, but in which country was she born?

Spain is her birthplace: she was born in Marbella, on the Andalusian coast, and her family went back to England when she was four.

What did Millie Bobby Brown have to do to her hair to play Eleven in Stranger Things?

Shave her head: she and her parents feared it would cost her later roles, until they saw a photo of Charlize Theron as Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road.

Millie Bobby Brown's husband Jake, whom she married in 2024, is the son of which rock star?

Jon Bon Jovi is her father-in-law: the couple got engaged in 2023, married in a private ceremony, and she chose to take her husband's family surname.

Millie Bobby Brown was born with partial loss of which sense, later losing it fully on one side?

Hearing is the sense: she was born with partial loss in her left ear and gradually went fully deaf in that ear over several years.

Which frozen breakfast food does Eleven steal from a grocery store in Stranger Things?

Eggo waffles became her trademark: the character renewed global interest in the brand, and its maker sold themed boxes when the series ended in 2025.

Who plays Sherlock Holmes opposite Millie Bobby Brown's teenage detective in the Enola Holmes films?

Henry Cavill plays him as Enola's older brother, and the Conan Doyle Estate sued over how emotional his Sherlock was before the case was dismissed.

Which UN agency made Millie Bobby Brown, then 14, its youngest Goodwill Ambassador in 2018?

UNICEF, the children's fund, appointed her, and she has used the role to campaign against bullying, including in a speech at a United Nations event in 2019.

Millie Bobby Brown made her feature film debut in a 2019 sequel named after which giant monster?

Godzilla: King of the Monsters made her its first cast member in 2017, and she returned for a 2021 sequel that pitted the creature against Kong.

In the fantasy film Damsel, Millie Bobby Brown's bride Elodie is sacrificed to which creature?

A dragon, voiced by Shohreh Aghdashloo, waits in the chasm where her new husband throws her to repay his royal family's ancient debt.

Which Stranger Things co-star and close friend of Millie Bobby Brown is godfather to her daughter?

Noah Schnapp, who plays Will Byers, became godfather after she and her husband announced in 2025 that they had adopted a girl.

Stranger Things, which made Millie Bobby Brown famous, is set in which fictional Indiana town?

Hawkins was not the first choice of setting: the series was originally called Montauk and set on Long Island, New York.

Who plays Mike Wheeler, who shelters and later dates Millie Bobby Brown's Eleven in Stranger Things?

Finn Wolfhard plays Mike, who gives her the nickname El and lets her live in his basement in the first season.

Who plays police chief Jim Hopper, who adopts Millie Bobby Brown's Eleven in Stranger Things?

David Harbour plays Hopper, who hides her in a cabin in the woods for almost a year and adopts her with a forged birth certificate.

Which sibling duo created Stranger Things and cast Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven?

The Duffer Brothers, Matt and Ross, modelled her character partly on the alien in E.T. and on the heroine of Stephen King's Carrie.

In Stranger Things, Millie Bobby Brown's Eleven can open gates to a parallel dimension called what?

The Upside Down was named by the children in the story, who coined the term while searching for their missing friend Will.

Who plays the smuggler Keats opposite Millie Bobby Brown in the 2025 film The Electric State?

Chris Pratt plays Keats, a former soldier, in a film whose reported $320 million budget made it one of the most expensive ever produced.

Which actress plays Eudoria, the missing mother of Millie Bobby Brown's character, in Enola Holmes?

Helena Bonham Carter plays Eudoria, who taught her daughter chess and jujitsu and turns out to have joined a radical group of suffragettes.

Millie Bobby Brown made a cameo as herself in which singer's 2020 Magical Christmas Special?

Mariah Carey gave her the cameo alongside Bette Midler and Heidi Klum, a year after Brown appeared in a Carey video for the singer's best-known festive hit.

Millie Bobby Brown appears in the star-filled 2018 music video for Girls Like You by which band?

Maroon 5 filled the video with famous women, among them Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer Lopez and Gal Gadot, with Cardi B as the featured rapper.

Millie Bobby Brown auditioned for, but did not get, the part of Lyanna Mormont in which series?

Game of Thrones gave the part of the young noblewoman to Bella Ramsey instead, and Brown was then cast as Eleven.

Millie Bobby Brown made her acting debut in 2013 playing a young version of which storybook heroine?

Alice was her first role: she played the heroine as a child in two episodes of the ABC fantasy drama Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.

Millie Bobby Brown's family moved from England to which Florida city when she was eight years old?

Orlando nearly did not work out: her early TV parts could not keep the family in America, so they moved back to England to stay with an aunt.

Florence by Mills, Millie Bobby Brown's beauty brand, is named partly after which person?

Her great-grandmother Florence supplied half the name; Mills is Brown's own nickname, and her family bought a majority stake in the company in 2020.

Which footwear brand released the customisable Millie By You range with Millie Bobby Brown?

Converse built the range on its classic Chuck Taylor shoes, with designs inspired by her love of the ocean and whales.

Millie Bobby Brown made her modelling debut in 2017 in a campaign for which American fashion label?

Calvin Klein put her in its By Appointment campaign, and a month later she signed with the agency IMG Models.

Which awards twice nominated Millie Bobby Brown for best supporting actress in a drama series?

The Primetime Emmys shortlisted her in 2017 and 2018 for Stranger Things, making her one of the youngest performers nominated in that category.

Millie Bobby Brown guest-starred in 2015 as a girl named Ruby in which ABC medical drama?

Grey's Anatomy cast her in the episode I Feel the Earth Move, one of a run of guest parts that also took her to NCIS.

Nineteen Steps, the 2023 debut novel by Millie Bobby Brown, is set in London during which conflict?

World War II is the setting: the story follows the 1943 Bethnal Green tube shelter crush, which killed 173 people, and draws on her own family's history.

Millie Bobby Brown turned her rural property in which US state into an animal rescue sanctuary?

Georgia, where Stranger Things was filmed around Atlanta, became her home, and she also co-founded a pet fostering initiative called Joey's Friends.

Which life-simulation series added Millie Bobby Brown as a free downloadable character in 2018?

The Sims 4 added her for its Positivity Challenge, an event she worked on with the title's programmers.

Millie Bobby Brown revealed in 2022 that she was studying health and human services online at which university?

Purdue University is based in Indiana, the same state where Stranger Things is set, and she took its courses remotely.

Enola Holmes 2, starring Millie Bobby Brown, draws on a real 1888 strike by women who made what?

Matches were their trade: the plot follows the matchgirls' strike and the life of labour activist Sarah Chapman instead of adapting one of the novels.

Who plays the runaway Viscount Tewkesbury opposite Millie Bobby Brown in the Enola Holmes films?

Louis Partridge plays Tewkesbury, the young lord she finds hiding in a travel bag on a train, and he returned for both sequels.

Millie Bobby Brown's Stranger Things character was based on survivors of which real CIA programme?

MKUltra ran mind-control experiments on real people; in the series, her mother joins it as a college student, unaware she is pregnant.

What is the real first name of Eleven, the Stranger Things character played by Millie Bobby Brown?

Jane is her birth name, and she later takes the surname Hopper when the police chief who sheltered her becomes her adoptive father.

Millie Bobby Brown played characters with which first name in Intruders and two Monsterverse films?

Madison is the name: Madison O'Donnell in the BBC America thriller Intruders, then Madison Russell, the daughter of two Monarch scientists.

The Enola Holmes films starring Millie Bobby Brown are based on a mystery series by which author?

Nancy Springer began the series in 2006 with The Case of the Missing Marquess, which was nominated for an Edgar Award for juvenile mystery.

In Enola Holmes 3, Millie Bobby Brown's detective is due to marry on which Mediterranean island?

Malta hosts the wedding because the groom's late father served there, and Sherlock promptly goes missing on the island.

At age four, Millie Bobby Brown moved with her family to which seaside town in Dorset, England?

Bournemouth was home for four years before the family left for America, and she still switches between British and American accents.

Millie Bobby Brown appears in the closing montage of the In My Feelings music video by which rapper?

Drake closed the video with clips of celebrities doing the viral dance challenge the song inspired, among them Will Smith and Dua Lipa.