Millie Bobby Brown

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.[9] 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.[10][11]

In 2016, Brown was cast to play Eleven in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things.[12] She received critical praise for her performance[13] 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[14] and won the 43rd Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series.[15] 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.[16]

Brown in October 2016

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.[17] In January 2017, she made her modelling debut in Calvin Klein's "By Appointment" campaign.[18] The following month, she was signed to the agency IMG Models.[19] Brown appeared in the campaign of the Italian brand Moncler in the summer of 2018.[20] Brown has also made appearances on the cover of Vogue.[21]

She was chosen to voice in the Darren Aronofsky-produced virtual reality experience Spheres: Songs of Spacetime.[22] 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.[23][24] In addition she was named by Time magazine as one of the most influential teens of 2017 and of 2018.[25][26] That year, she become the youngest person ever to be appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.[27] EA Games announced that Brown collaborated with The Sims 4 programmers to feature in the Sims 4 Positivity Challenge.[28] In 2018, The Hollywood Reporter ranked Brown as among Hollywood's top thirty stars under age eighteen.[29]

Brown made her feature film debut in 2019, in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, the sequel to the 2014 film Godzilla.[30] She reprised her role in the next sequel, Godzilla vs. Kong (2021).[31] She became the ambassador of UEFA's Together #WePlayStrong campaign.[32] 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.[33][34][35][36][37][38] In 2020, Brown starred in and produced the film adaptation of The Enola Holmes Mysteries.[39]

In 2022, 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.[40][41] Also that year, she was made an ambassador of the fashion brand Louis Vuitton.[42][43]

Brown will next star and executive produce the fantasy film Damsel for Netflix, under the direction of Spanish filmmaker Juan Carlos Fresnadillo based on a screenplay by Dan Mazeau.[44] She will also star in the Russo brothers's The Electric State, an adaptation of Simon Stålenhag's graphic novel of the same name.[45] Brown is also set to release her novel, Nineteen Steps, a historical novel based on her own family history, on 12 September 2023. The novel is described as an "epic story of love, loss and secrets."[46]