Millie Bobby Brown Biography
Millie Bobby Brown Bongiovi is a British actress who gained prominence for starring as Eleven in Netflix’s Stranger Things. Her performance in the series won her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Time Magazine featured her in their Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people in 2018. Further, she was chosen as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, making her the youngest person ever selected for this position.
Millie Bobby Brown Age
Bobby was born Millie Bonnie Brown on February 19, 2004, in Marbella, Spain. She is 21 years old as of 2025. Bobby celebrates her birthday on February 19th. She was born with partial hearing loss in her left ear and slowly lost all hearing in that ear over multiple years.
Millie Bobby Brown Height
Bobby stands at an approximate height of 5 feet and 2 inches.
Millie Bobby Brown Family
Bobby was born in Marbella to British parents Kelly and Robert Brown. She has two older siblings and a younger sibling. Her family relocated to England when she was four and settled in Bournemouth. When she was 8, her family relocated to Orlando, Florida.
Millie Bobby Brown Husband
Bobby got married to Jake Bongiovi in a private ceremony in May 2024. People broke news of their marriage on May 27, 2024. Further, she revealed that she would take her husband’s last name.
They started dating in 2021, sharing news of their engagement in April 2023. The pair made their red carpet debut together at the March 2022 BAFTA Awards. Jake is an American model and actor. He was born on May 7, 2022, to rock musician Jon Bon Jovi and Dorothea Hurley. He is 22 years old as of 2024.
Millie Bobby Brown Net Worth
Bobby has an estimated net worth of approximately $14 million, which she has earned through her successful career as an actress.
Millie Bobby Brown Education
As of August 2022, Bobby enrolled to Purdue University Global as an online student. There, she studies health and human services.
Millie Bobby Brown Stranger Things
Bobby gained prominence for starring as Eleven in Netflix’s Stranger Things. Eleven is a psychokinetic and telepathic girl who runs away from a secretive government laboratory where she was experimented on. She is found by Mike, Dustin, and Lucas, who are searching for their missing friend Will Byers. The group goes on supernatural adventures in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana.
Bobby stars opposite Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Sadie Sink, and Caleb McLaughlin. She and her fellow Stranger Things cast members won a nomination for the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Additionally, her portrayal of Eleven in Season 2 of the show won her nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Primetime Emmy Award in 2018.
Bobby won critical acclaim for her performance and nominations for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Moreover, she won the 43rd Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series.
Millie Bobby Brown Drake
Bobby and Drake’s friendship has gained public attention and controversy due to their notable age difference. They first met in Australia in 2017 when she was 13 or 14 and he was in his early 30s. They formed a friendship and texted each other regularly, with him advising on matters like relationships.
People found their relationship controversial, questioning the appropriateness of a close friendship between a teenage girl and an adult man after taking into account his public image and the rumors about his relationships with young women. This controversy intensified after she said that they often text and exchange messages like “I miss you so much.” Both Bobby and Drake have defended their friendship, with her stressing that she sees him as a mentor and seeks his advice.
Millie Bobby Brown Career
Bobby debuted her acting career in 2013 with a guest role in ABC’s Once Upon a Time in Wonderland as Young Alice. The following year, she played the role of Madison O’Donnell in BBC America’s Intruders. She had a guest roles in CBS’s NCIS, ABC’s Modern Family, and ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy.
Bobby joined the cast of Netflix’s Stranger Things as Eleven in 2016. She won critical acclaim for her performance and nominations for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
Bobby made an appearance in the music video for Sigma and Birdy’s Find Me in November 2016. Since then, she has appeared in commercial ads for Citigroup, an investment and financial services company.
In January 2017, Bobby kickstarted her modelling career in Calvin Klein’s “By Appointment” campaign. She was signed to IMG Models in the following month. She made an appearance in the ad campaign of the Italian brand Moncler in the summer of 2018. Also, she appeared on the cover of Vogue.
2018 to present;
Bobby provided the voice-over for Spheres: Songs of Spacetime, the Darren Aronofsky-produced virtual reality experience. Time Magazine featured her in their Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people in 2018, making her the youngest person to earn a spot in the list.
Time magazine featured her among the most influential teens of 2017 and of 2018. Further, she was chosen as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, making her the youngest person ever selected for this position. EA Games revealed that she had collaborated with The Sims 4 programmers to feature in the Sims 4 Positivity Challenge.
The Hollywood Reporter mentioned Bobby amongst Hollywood’s top thirty stars under age eighteen. In 2019, she made her feature film debut in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. She reprised her role in the sequel, Godzilla vs. Kong. She became the ambassador of UEFA’s Together #WePlayStrong campaign. That same year, she debuted her beauty product line, Florence by Mills.
Bobby made an appearance and produced The Enola Holmes Mysteries in 2020. 2 years later, she reprised the role of Enola Holmes in the sequel, Enola Holmes 2, allegedly making $10 million for the role according to Variety. This made her the year’s highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. She was also made ambassador of Louis Vuitton.
Brown published her debut novel, Nineteen Steps, based on her family history, in September 2023. In 2024, she acted in and served as the executive producer of Netflix’s Damsel. The following years, she starred in the Russo brothers’ The Electric State.
Millie Bobby Brown Movies and TV Shows
Bobby has starred in several movies and TV shows during her career like
- Spheres: Songs of Spacetime
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters
- Intruders
- Enola Holmes
- Godzilla vs. Kong
- Enola Holmes 2
- Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special
- Damsel
- The Electric State
Millie Bobby Brown Social Media Platforms
She is active on her social media accounts and often posts on her Instagram, Facebook, and X(formerly known as Twitter). She has over 4M followers on Facebook, over 63M on Instagram, and 745K on X.
When she was 14, memes using homophobic quotes falsely attributed to her began circulating on social media. Bobby said that this was one of the reasons she ultimately left Twitter(now known as X).
Besides online bullying, social media users and articles sexualized her. As a result, she commented on her Instagram account on her 16th birthday that these remarks frustrate her and have caused pain and insecurity for her. After she turned 18 in February 2022, her platforms began to overflow with sexually explicit material from users.