Stranger Things (Netflix show)

[guyver1]

They grow up and leave the laboratory so fast nowadays.

Amazing how she can still look like S1

 

[Asta]

Amazing how she can still look like S1

What an actor!

 

[guyver1]

What an actor!

All the boys look too old now to play Jr high school kids

 

[Asta]

All the boys look too old now to play Jr high school kids

Some of the characters can get away with it, but I was looking at Nancy and in some scenes she was looking much older. Turns out she's actually 27!

I can't remember how much older than the others she was meant to be.

Going through IMDB looking at the actors' ages is like entering The Twilight Zone.

Steve is actually 30!


The cast, the dialogue and the delivery is so good though, that I can look beyond the inconsistencies. The stress of living in Hawkins surrounded by Hellmouths probably added years to them anyway.

 

[guyver1]

Some of the characters can get away with it, but I was looking at Nancy and in some scenes she was looking much older. Turns out she's actually 27!

I can't remember how much older than the others she was meant to be.

Going through IMDB looking at the actors' ages is like entering The Twilight Zone.

Steve is actually 30!


The cast, the dialogue and the delivery is so good though, that I can look beyond the inconsistencies. The stress of living in Hawkins surrounded by Hellmouths probably added years to them anyway.

Finn grew as fast as his career in movies, yet he is still young in his late teens ..I thought he was much older

 

[Asta]

Finn grew as fast as his career in movies, yet he is still young in his late teens ..I thought he was much older

And speaking of careers, IMDB also has the amounts some of the actors were paid per episode for various seasons.

By that you can also see how quickly the value of the series increased between seasons 2 and 3.

 

[guyver1]

And speaking of careers, IMDB also has the amounts some of the actors were paid per episode for various seasons.

By that you can also see how quickly the value of the series increased between seasons 2 and 3.

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Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler

THEO WARGO
Actor age: 19, Born December 23, 2002
Character age: Born on April 7, 1971, according to the graphic novel Stranger Things and Dungeons & Dragons, Mike was 12 in Season 1, 13 in Season 2, 14 in Season 3, and will be 15 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen him: If you're a horror movie fan, you probably saw him as Richie in the adaptation of Stephen King's It as well as It Chapter Two. We also saw him recently in the Ghostbustersreboot, Ghostbusters: Afterlife as new-kid-in-town Trevor. Coming up, we'll get to hear his voice acting debut in the animated musical, Pinocchio.Finn is also making his mark on the music scene, as a vocalist and guitarist in the indie rock band The Aubreys. He was previously a member of the group Calpurnia, until it dissolved in 2019 according to the band's Instagram page.

Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven

THEO WARGO
Actress age: 18, Born February 19, 2004
Character age: Born in 1971, Eleven was 12 in Season 1, 13 in Season 2, 13 or 14 in Season 3, and will be 14 or 15 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen her: Other than Stranger Things, Brown is best known for playing the titular role in another Netflix original, the movie Enola Holmes, in which she portrayed Sherlock Holmes's younger (but no less inquisitive) sister. Enola Holmes is due to have a sequel debuting this year. But this isn't the only two-part series she's appeared in. We also have seen her in Godzilla: King of Monsters and the 2021 sequel, Godzilla vs. Kong. She's been keeping booked and busy, as she's expected to star in and produce the upcoming The Girls I've Been and Damsel. Millie also serves as a youth ambassador for UNICEF and owns the cosmetic line florence by mills.

Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson

THEO WARGO
Actor age: 19, Born September 8, 2002
Character age: Born in 1971, Dustin was 12 in Season 1, 13 in Season 2, 13 or 14 in Season 3, and will be 14 or 15 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen him: While he was the face of the Netflix hidden camera prank show, Prank Encounters, in 2019, he's been up to more voice acting lately, voicing a camel in the upcoming animated movie Hump and adding his sound to the film My Father's Dragon. Gaten has also begun production for his co-starring role in the live-action comedy Honor Society according to Deadline. It was also announced on May 25 that the actor would be returning to his Broadway roots. Having last appeared on Broadway for the 2014 production of Les Misérables, Gaten is set to portray the role of Jared Kleinman in the Tony-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen beginning July 19, 2022.

Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair

VIVIEN KILLILEA
Actor age: 20, Born October 13, 2001
Character age: Born in 1971, Dustin was 12 in Season 1, 13 in Season 2, 13 or 14 in Season 3, and will be 14 or 15 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen him: Just like co-star Gaten, Caleb also got his start on Broadway, starring as young Simba in The Lion King, but he's since strictly shown his talents on-screen. In 2017, he appeared in The New Edition Story miniseries before playing Darius in Steven Soderbergh's Netflix movie High Flying Bird. Most recently, he was seen playing opposite Iris Elba in the feature film Concrete Cowboy, which is based on the novel Ghetto Cowboyby Greg Neri.

Noah Schnapp as Will Byers

LAURENT VITEUR
Actor age: 17, Born October 3, 2004
Character age: As shown in the Season 2 episode "The Mind Flayer," Will was born on March 22, 1971, making him 12 in Season 1, 13 in Season 2, 14 in Season 3, and 14 or 15 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen him: Before his stint as missing kid Will Byers, Noah voiced the iconic role of Charlie Brown in The Peanuts Movie and played the role of Roger Donovan in Steven Spielberg's historical drama Bridge of Spies. Since then, he's appeared in a Panic! At the Disco music video, Drake's "In My Feelings" music video, and the Adam Sandler Netflix movie Hubie Halloween. Deadline reported that Schnapp had also landed a role in The Tutor where he will play a disturbed student with a secret obsession. Apart from acting, Noach launched a sustainability-focused snacking company called To Be Honest in 2021. He also was accepted into The University of Pennsylvania according to a tweet from Netflix.

Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield

THEO WARGO
Actress age: 20, Born April 16, 2002
Character age: Max was born in 1971, which makes her 13 when she first appears in Season 2, 13 or 14 in Season 3, and 14 or 15 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen her: Swifties would say that Sadie's most iconic role aside from Stranger Things was when she starred alongside Dylan O'Brien in Taylor Swift's short film All Too Well, but non-Swifities may remember her from The Glass Castle, Netflix's horror movie Eli, or the second installment and third installment of the Netflix's adaptation R. L. Stine's horror book series, Fear Street. The actress is also slated to appear in at least two films this year, including The Whale (also starring The Mummy actor, Brendan Fraser) and the drama flick Dear Zoe.

Joe Keery as Steve Harrington

ANGELA WEISS
Actor age: 30, Born April 24, 1992
Character age: Steve was born in 1966, making him 17 in Season 1, 18 in Season 2, 18 or 19 in Season 3, and 19 or 20 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen him: Did you know that Keery used to be a musician? It's true! Pre-Stranger Things fame, the actor was known for being a guitarist in the Chicago-based psych-rock band Post Animal. He's since used his BFA from DePaul University in a wide range of acting projects, including the Aaron Sorkin movie Molly's Game and indie film Spree. In 2021, Joe appeared in Free Guy, a video game adventure comedy led by Ryan Reynolds and directed by Stranger Thingsshowrunner, Shawn Levy.

Dacre Montgomery as Billy Mayfield

ARTURO HOLMES
Actor age: 27, Born November 22, 1994
Character age: Billy was born in 1967, which makes him 17 when he first appears in Season 2, 17 or 18 in Season 3, and 18 or 19 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen him: The Australian-born actor first rose to fame when he starred in the 2017 Power Rangers reboot. He then went on to appear in the horror film Better Watch Out and the rom-com The Broken Hearts Gallery. Coming up, you can head to the theaters on June 24 to see him in Baz Luhrmann's biopic about Elvis Presley, Elvis, where Dacre plays music producer Steve Binder. In addition to acting, Montgomery runs a podcast titled "DKMH", which features his own poetry.

Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler

ROY ROCHLIN
Actress age: 27, Born January 13, 1995
Character age: Nancy was born in 1967, making her 16 in Season 1, 17 in Season 2, 17 or 18 in Season 3, and 18 or 19 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen her: If you're into indie films, you probably recognize Natalia from titles like Velvet Buzzsaw, Tuscaloosa, and Yes, God, Yes. In more recent years, she's starred alongside Amanda Seyfried in the Netflix horror movie Things Heard and Seen, based on the book All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. It seems like Natalia is a fan of the horror genre as she's currently filming the thriller All Fun and Games, also starring Asa Butterfield.

Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers

ARTURO HOLMES
Actor age: 28, Born February 6, 1994
Character age: Jonathan was born in 1967, making him 16 in Season 1, 17 in Season 2, 17 or 18 in Season 3, and 18 or 19 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen him: The Stranger Things cast is full of musicians turned actors! Charlie played with a couple of rock bands when he was in his teens, including Comanechi and The Loons. As for acting credits, the star has appeared in The New Mutants as Samuel Guthrie / Cannonball, Shut In as Stephen Portman, and The Souvenir: Part II as Jim Dagger. While he hasn't said what project he will be working on next, we are sure it will be big as he's gained lots of popularity while playing the big brother figure on Stranger Things.

Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley

CINDY ORD
Actress age: 23, Born July 8, 1998
Character age: When Robin first stepped onscreen in Season 3, it was revealed that she is a school year behind Steve, making her born in 1968 and 17. In Season 4, she is either 17 or 18.
Where else you've seen her: The daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke has some serious acting chops. Educated at the prestigious Juilliard School, the actress has gone on to play the iconic role of Jo March in the BBC miniseries adaptation of Little Women, land a role in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, and appeared in the first installment of Netflix's Fear Street trilogy. Coming up, you can catch her opposite Riverdale's Camila Mendes in the Netflix movie Strangers. Aside from acting, Maya dropped a folk-rock album in 2020 titled Blush.

Priah Ferguson as Erica Sinclair

ARTURO HOLMES
Actress age: 15, Born October 1, 2006
Character age: Erica was born in 1975, meaning that she is 9 in Season 2, 9 or 10 in Season 3, and 10 or 11 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen her: Priah first appeared on screen in the 2018 comedy The Oath, and has a handful of TV and short film credits to her name such as FX Networks's show Atlanta created by Donald Glover, and the Civil War drama Mercy Street. Next up, she'll be playing Sydney in the movie Boo! and voicing one of the lead characters on a Netflix children's cartoon called My Dad the Bounty Hunter.

 

[Asta]

Wait for it

Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler

THEO WARGO
Actor age: 19, Born December 23, 2002
Character age: Born on April 7, 1971, according to the graphic novel Stranger Things and Dungeons & Dragons, Mike was 12 in Season 1, 13 in Season 2, 14 in Season 3, and will be 15 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen him: If you're a horror movie fan, you probably saw him as Richie in the adaptation of Stephen King's It as well as It Chapter Two. We also saw him recently in the Ghostbustersreboot, Ghostbusters: Afterlife as new-kid-in-town Trevor. Coming up, we'll get to hear his voice acting debut in the animated musical, Pinocchio.Finn is also making his mark on the music scene, as a vocalist and guitarist in the indie rock band The Aubreys. He was previously a member of the group Calpurnia, until it dissolved in 2019 according to the band's Instagram page.

Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven

THEO WARGO
Actress age: 18, Born February 19, 2004
Character age: Born in 1971, Eleven was 12 in Season 1, 13 in Season 2, 13 or 14 in Season 3, and will be 14 or 15 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen her: Other than Stranger Things, Brown is best known for playing the titular role in another Netflix original, the movie Enola Holmes, in which she portrayed Sherlock Holmes's younger (but no less inquisitive) sister. Enola Holmes is due to have a sequel debuting this year. But this isn't the only two-part series she's appeared in. We also have seen her in Godzilla: King of Monsters and the 2021 sequel, Godzilla vs. Kong. She's been keeping booked and busy, as she's expected to star in and produce the upcoming The Girls I've Been and Damsel. Millie also serves as a youth ambassador for UNICEF and owns the cosmetic line florence by mills.

Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson

THEO WARGO
Actor age: 19, Born September 8, 2002
Character age: Born in 1971, Dustin was 12 in Season 1, 13 in Season 2, 13 or 14 in Season 3, and will be 14 or 15 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen him: While he was the face of the Netflix hidden camera prank show, Prank Encounters, in 2019, he's been up to more voice acting lately, voicing a camel in the upcoming animated movie Hump and adding his sound to the film My Father's Dragon. Gaten has also begun production for his co-starring role in the live-action comedy Honor Society according to Deadline. It was also announced on May 25 that the actor would be returning to his Broadway roots. Having last appeared on Broadway for the 2014 production of Les Misérables, Gaten is set to portray the role of Jared Kleinman in the Tony-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen beginning July 19, 2022.

Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair

VIVIEN KILLILEA
Actor age: 20, Born October 13, 2001
Character age: Born in 1971, Dustin was 12 in Season 1, 13 in Season 2, 13 or 14 in Season 3, and will be 14 or 15 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen him: Just like co-star Gaten, Caleb also got his start on Broadway, starring as young Simba in The Lion King, but he's since strictly shown his talents on-screen. In 2017, he appeared in The New Edition Story miniseries before playing Darius in Steven Soderbergh's Netflix movie High Flying Bird. Most recently, he was seen playing opposite Iris Elba in the feature film Concrete Cowboy, which is based on the novel Ghetto Cowboyby Greg Neri.

Noah Schnapp as Will Byers

LAURENT VITEUR
Actor age: 17, Born October 3, 2004
Character age: As shown in the Season 2 episode "The Mind Flayer," Will was born on March 22, 1971, making him 12 in Season 1, 13 in Season 2, 14 in Season 3, and 14 or 15 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen him: Before his stint as missing kid Will Byers, Noah voiced the iconic role of Charlie Brown in The Peanuts Movie and played the role of Roger Donovan in Steven Spielberg's historical drama Bridge of Spies. Since then, he's appeared in a Panic! At the Disco music video, Drake's "In My Feelings" music video, and the Adam Sandler Netflix movie Hubie Halloween. Deadline reported that Schnapp had also landed a role in The Tutor where he will play a disturbed student with a secret obsession. Apart from acting, Noach launched a sustainability-focused snacking company called To Be Honest in 2021. He also was accepted into The University of Pennsylvania according to a tweet from Netflix.

Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield

THEO WARGO
Actress age: 20, Born April 16, 2002
Character age: Max was born in 1971, which makes her 13 when she first appears in Season 2, 13 or 14 in Season 3, and 14 or 15 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen her: Swifties would say that Sadie's most iconic role aside from Stranger Things was when she starred alongside Dylan O'Brien in Taylor Swift's short film All Too Well, but non-Swifities may remember her from The Glass Castle, Netflix's horror movie Eli, or the second installment and third installment of the Netflix's adaptation R. L. Stine's horror book series, Fear Street. The actress is also slated to appear in at least two films this year, including The Whale (also starring The Mummy actor, Brendan Fraser) and the drama flick Dear Zoe.

Joe Keery as Steve Harrington

ANGELA WEISS
Actor age: 30, Born April 24, 1992
Character age: Steve was born in 1966, making him 17 in Season 1, 18 in Season 2, 18 or 19 in Season 3, and 19 or 20 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen him: Did you know that Keery used to be a musician? It's true! Pre-Stranger Things fame, the actor was known for being a guitarist in the Chicago-based psych-rock band Post Animal. He's since used his BFA from DePaul University in a wide range of acting projects, including the Aaron Sorkin movie Molly's Game and indie film Spree. In 2021, Joe appeared in Free Guy, a video game adventure comedy led by Ryan Reynolds and directed by Stranger Thingsshowrunner, Shawn Levy.

Dacre Montgomery as Billy Mayfield

ARTURO HOLMES
Actor age: 27, Born November 22, 1994
Character age: Billy was born in 1967, which makes him 17 when he first appears in Season 2, 17 or 18 in Season 3, and 18 or 19 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen him: The Australian-born actor first rose to fame when he starred in the 2017 Power Rangers reboot. He then went on to appear in the horror film Better Watch Out and the rom-com The Broken Hearts Gallery. Coming up, you can head to the theaters on June 24 to see him in Baz Luhrmann's biopic about Elvis Presley, Elvis, where Dacre plays music producer Steve Binder. In addition to acting, Montgomery runs a podcast titled "DKMH", which features his own poetry.

Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler

ROY ROCHLIN
Actress age: 27, Born January 13, 1995
Character age: Nancy was born in 1967, making her 16 in Season 1, 17 in Season 2, 17 or 18 in Season 3, and 18 or 19 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen her: If you're into indie films, you probably recognize Natalia from titles like Velvet Buzzsaw, Tuscaloosa, and Yes, God, Yes. In more recent years, she's starred alongside Amanda Seyfried in the Netflix horror movie Things Heard and Seen, based on the book All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. It seems like Natalia is a fan of the horror genre as she's currently filming the thriller All Fun and Games, also starring Asa Butterfield.

Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers

ARTURO HOLMES
Actor age: 28, Born February 6, 1994
Character age: Jonathan was born in 1967, making him 16 in Season 1, 17 in Season 2, 17 or 18 in Season 3, and 18 or 19 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen him: The Stranger Things cast is full of musicians turned actors! Charlie played with a couple of rock bands when he was in his teens, including Comanechi and The Loons. As for acting credits, the star has appeared in The New Mutants as Samuel Guthrie / Cannonball, Shut In as Stephen Portman, and The Souvenir: Part II as Jim Dagger. While he hasn't said what project he will be working on next, we are sure it will be big as he's gained lots of popularity while playing the big brother figure on Stranger Things.

Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley

CINDY ORD
Actress age: 23, Born July 8, 1998
Character age: When Robin first stepped onscreen in Season 3, it was revealed that she is a school year behind Steve, making her born in 1968 and 17. In Season 4, she is either 17 or 18.
Where else you've seen her: The daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke has some serious acting chops. Educated at the prestigious Juilliard School, the actress has gone on to play the iconic role of Jo March in the BBC miniseries adaptation of Little Women, land a role in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, and appeared in the first installment of Netflix's Fear Street trilogy. Coming up, you can catch her opposite Riverdale's Camila Mendes in the Netflix movie Strangers. Aside from acting, Maya dropped a folk-rock album in 2020 titled Blush.

Priah Ferguson as Erica Sinclair

ARTURO HOLMES
Actress age: 15, Born October 1, 2006
Character age: Erica was born in 1975, meaning that she is 9 in Season 2, 9 or 10 in Season 3, and 10 or 11 in Season 4.
Where else you've seen her: Priah first appeared on screen in the 2018 comedy The Oath, and has a handful of TV and short film credits to her name such as FX Networks's show Atlanta created by Donald Glover, and the Civil War drama Mercy Street. Next up, she'll be playing Sydney in the movie Boo! and voicing one of the lead characters on a Netflix children's cartoon called My Dad the Bounty Hunter.

Some of those age comparisons are crazy.

Actresses can often get away with playing much younger characters, and I think they're purposely selected for certain roles because they can bring the maturity of their actual age to the complexity of the acting required.

When the series began many of the main cast were both young and bringing a high quality of acting. It's taking so long to tell this story that real time has inevitably moved on much further than the in-universe chronology.

There's at least one more season, so I think there will have to be a time jump.

 

[Asta]

I was pondering on this subject and it unearthed a long forgotten memory.

There was a time when quality child actors were the rare exception (e.g., Hayley Mills), and most of them were merely precocious, uncoordinated or obnoxiously annoying brats. That is, they were just children, and not much was expected from them. Thinking back to myself and my peers at that age, it would be almost impossible to imagine how much more competent kids on TV and in films would become, and how much higher the bar would be set.

That was when I remembered the long forgotten memory. There was a boy in our school who got an acting job in the kids' TV show, Letty. It was rubbish, and so was the acting.

Unfortunately, we made fun of him for both. We were also envious of the amount of money we imagined he'd earned from it. He later spent some of it on a Sinclair C5, which only drew more ridicule!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0224905/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I remembered his name, and confirmed it from the cast list, but I'll protect the innocent and not name him.

 

[e30ernest]

Amazing how she can still look like S1

I think this was her face plastered on a double's body? IIRC there was an actress credited as "Young Eleven".

 

[Johnny Utah]

Yup face replacement. Good job too.

 

[e30ernest]

It's also amazing how well her wig came out. Would have never thought that as a wig!

 

[guyver1]

I think this was her face plastered on a double's body? IIRC there was an actress credited as "Young Eleven".

Yeah I read something about that they used an effect because Millie is too mature now But I also heard Millie was willing to do it , but the producers thought it would be easier this way because she had upcoming movie projects

 

[Otomofan]

Wait, that black girl was Lucas's little sister? The one that's like 10??

That picture makes her look somewhere around 30 years old. I thought she's someone's mom on the show or something. She's only 15? Man, make up and hairstylists can do some crazy stuff.

 

[surforia]

Saw this article on barstool: The Finale For Stranger Things 4 Part 1 Is Some Of The Best Television I Have Seen In Years That Makes The Whole Season And Series Even Better

There is a tidbit in the article with an embedded TikTok video showing evidence of Vecna’s clock chiming before some of the killings in prior seasons. Pretty nuts.

 

[e30ernest]

Cool catch about the clock. It could be a reach, or maybe the Duffer Brothers had this planned out from the beginning (IIRC they had an entire story plotted out for the series).

 

[SwedishHeat]

Binged this last season over the weekend. It took me about till Ep 4/5 to get back into it. It's been such a long time between seasons, it was hard to empathize with the characters anymore. But by the time the finale came around, I was totally into it. I was really impressed by the production value.

 

[Johnny Utah]

I relished every second. I found season 4 to be absolutely incredible. I hope Threezero paid attention and don't take years to make Eddie, Vecna and Flamethrower Hopper.

 

[greygoose]

Nevermind being just the best season of Stranger Things, this is one of the best seasons of any series. Story, production, acting, everything was on point.

 

[Johnny Utah]

I would put it up there with Lost season 1, TNG season 5, Mr Robot season 4, and X-Files season 3.

It really is amazing. Every episode was a joy to watch.