Is there a casting director that doesn’t have Millie Bobby Brown on their shortlist? 

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The actress, born in Marbella, Spain in 2004, seems to have her pick of the top films across the genres. SPYSCAPE traced the incredible career of Stranger Things’ kinetically super-powered Eleven.

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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland 

Millie made her acting debut as young Alice in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013), a fantasy drama series that sees Alice placed in an asylum and treated by doctors who want to make her forget about Wonderland. Even at the age of nine, her father was certain Millie would be a star (she was already singing show tunes) and Millie felt different from her classmates: “No one was quite like me in school.”

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Grey’s Anatomy

Millie followed up with guest appearances on the sitcom Modern Family and the medical drama series Grey's Anatomy, Millie appears as Ruby, a girl who has to step up and perform medical treatment when her mother is injured in a Seattle earthquake.

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Intruders & NCSI

Millie also appeared in Intruders as Madison O’Donnell, a nine-year-old who has nightmares after meeting a stranger on a beach, and she landed another haunting role - a child murderer who killed her mother on an episode of NCIS.

She was 10 years old when an influential casting director told her she was "too mature" to make it in Hollywood, leaving Millie in tears. “Being told that it wasn’t, that I wouldn’t make it in this industry, it was so hurtful,” she told Allure. “I got really down about that. My parents told me, ‘Just do this one last audition on tape and then you can go outside and play with your friends again.’ So I said, ‘Okay, yeah, I should do this one because it looks cool.’”

The audition was for Netflix’s Stranger Things, a life-changing role that catapulted Millie to stardom as super-powered Eleven. 

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Stranger Things

Millie may have been the breakout star when Stranger Things debuted in 2016 but her quirky role and short, cropped hair led to online bullying and threats. "It's really hard to be hated on when you don't know who you are yet," Brown said. "So it's like, 'What do they hate about me? 'Cause I don't know who I am.'"

The trolling was so bad she went to therapy to cope with it and no longer has social media on her phone. Someone else manages her Instagram and Facebook pages. She spreads her positive thoughts on her Twitter account. Millie also joined UNICEF as their youngest-ever Goodwill Ambassador at the age of 14 and continues to campaign against bullying.
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The Enola Holmes Mysteries

Brown was cast to star in - and produce - the movie adaptation of The Enola Holmes Mysteries in 2018, the first in the film franchise. Several months later, in April 2018, she was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine, the youngest person to be included in the list at the age of 14.

Two years earlier actor Aaron Paul, the Emmy Award-winning star of Breaking Bad, met Millie for the first time and told Time: “She may have been 12 in years, but her spirit and mind were timeless. A wise woman was speaking from her cherubic face. It was like speaking to a future mentor with a perspective and groundedness that I could only have dreamed of at that age. Or at any age, if I’m being honest.”

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The Godzilla franchise

Millie Bobby Brown made her feature film debut in 2019, in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and reprised her role in the sequel, Godzilla vs. Kong. In 2019, Millie also agreed to star in the film adaptation of The Thing About Jellyfish and launched a beauty line - Florence by Mills. 

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The Electric State‍

Her PCMA Productions company has plans for Millie to star in and produce a suspense thriller called The Girls I've Been as well as star and executive produce the fantasy film Damsel for Netflix. The Russo brothers - who directed superhero films including Avengers: Endgame - chose Millie to star in their adaptation of Simon Stålenhag's graphic novel The Electric State for Universal Pictures.

In 2022, Brown reportedly earned $10m to reprise her role as the young sister of British detective Sherlock Holmes in the sequel, Enola Holmes 2.

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Superhero Millie Bobby Brown

Is there anything Millie can’t do? Fans are still awaiting her appearance in the Marvel or DC world, although the young actress is definitely interested in the superhero genre.

When Millie was asked to audition for the role of superhero Laura Kinney (X-23) in Logan (2017), the talented actress was excited to read in front of star Hugh Jackman and director James Mangold. “I was like, ‘It’s going to be amazing, I’m going to really prepare,’ and I sat in my room reading the lines,” she told Variety. “Honestly, for me, I felt so - I felt an actor, in the audition room, hitting Hugh Jackman, and James Mangold sitting right in front of me.” 

Despite her enthusiasm, the role went to Dafne Keen. Brown was complimentary to her rival: ”I watched it; she was incredible.”