Millie Bobby Brown

Some Lesser Known Facts About Millie Bobby Brown

• Millie was given the name ‘Bobby’ by her father.

  

• Both her parents are of British ancestry.

• Millie Bobby Brown was born with partial hearing loss in her left ear and she gradually lost all hearing in that ear over several years.

• When she was four years old, Millie and her family moved to England. At the age of eight, Millie and her family moved to Orlando, Florida.

• Even though she was born in Spain, Millie cannot speak Spanish because her family moved to the United States when she was very little.

• Millie Bobby Brown used to play football since childhood and her whole family is a major football fan.

• Her dream as a child was to be the fictional character named ‘Hannah Montana.’

• After moving to Florida with her family, Millie started attending acting workshops to pass time on a Saturday, and that is where a top Hollywood talent scout called and told Millie’s parents that she has strong acting instincts that no one can teach.

• The talent scout convinced Millie’s parents, and they sold everything and packed up and drove from Orlando to Los Angeles and within a week, Millie started meeting the town’s top children’s talent agencies.

• She taught herself the perfect American accent by watching the Disney channel.

• In 2013, Millie was offered the role of Madison O’Donnell in the BBC American paranormal drama-thriller series titled ‘Intruders’ (2014) after seeing just one self-taped audition that she gave without even meeting the producers and directors of the show.

• During her appearance in the American talk show titled ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,’ Millie Bobby Brown performed and rapped Nicki Minaj‘s verse from Kanye West’s song titled ‘Monster.’

• In 2016, she was cast in the English drum and bass DJ and record production duo Sigma and Birdy’s music video titled ‘Find Me.’

  

• In the same year, Millie Bobby Brown appeared in commercial advertisements for the American multinational investment bank and financial service company named ‘Citigroup.’

  

• Millie was not quite happy with the limited amount of work that she was getting in Hollywood and she was on the verge of quitting the industry. That was when he parents urged her to make an audition tape for ‘Stranger Things.’

• In 2016, Millie Bobby Brown was cast in the American science fiction horror television series titled ‘Stranger Things.’ The series was released on Netflix and Millie played the character of Eleven in the show.

  

• She was just 12 years old when she was cast in the American TV series titled ‘Stranger Things’ (2016).

• In 2017, Millie Bobby Brown made her modelling debut in Calvin Klein’s ‘By Appointment’ campaign.

  

• In the same year, she was signed to the agency ‘IMG Models,’ which is a global sports, fashion, events and media company based in New York.

• In 2018, Millie appeared in the advertisement campaign of the Italian brand ‘Moncler.’

• In the same year, she lent her voice in the three-part virtual reality (VR) experience titled ‘Spheres: Songs of Spacetime.’

• Millie Bobby Brown has been on various covers for the American fashion and lifestyle magazine named ‘Vogue.’

  

• In 2018, Millie Bobby Brown was featured in the Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people and she became the youngest person to be included in the list.

• In the same year, the American video game company named EA Games announced that Millie Brown collaborated with the game named ‘The Sims 4’ programmers to feature in the Sims 4 Positivity Challenge.

• In 2018, Millie was appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Millie was the youngest person ever selected for this position. She pledged to speak out for the millions of children whose voices are silenced across the world, empower them, and make sure they know their rights.

• Millie is also actively involved in UNICEF’s #GoBlue campaign, for World Children’s Day, as of 2025.

  

• Millie Bobby Brown was named by Time magazine as one of the most influential teens of 2017 and of 2018.

• In 2018, the American digital and print magazine named ‘The Hollywood Reporter’ ranked Millie Bobby Brown as amongst Hollywood’s top thirty stars under age eighteen.

• In 2019, Millie Bobby Brown became the ambassador of the Union of European Football Associations’ (UEFA) ‘Together #WePlayStrong’ campaign which was all about supporting girls’ and women’s football around the world.

  

• In the same year, Millie Bobby Brown founded her own cosmetic and fashion brand named ‘Florence by Mills.’ The name of the brand was derived from both Millie’s great-grandmother, named Florence and the nickname Mills for Millie Brown herself.

  

• Millie started selling her brand’s beauty products at the UK pharmacy Boots, Walmart in the United States, and Shoppers Drug Mart in Canada. She was only 15 years old when she started her own beauty brand.

• In 2020, Millie produced and was cast in the mystery film titled ‘Enola Holmes’ which was the adaptation of the first novel in ‘The Enola Holmes Mysteries’ series by Nancy Springer. Millie played the lead character of Enola Holmes.

  

• In the same year, Millie Bobby Brown was cast in the Christmas special TV show titled ‘Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special’ and the TV show was telecast on Apple TV+.

• In 2021, Millie got in contact with the actor Jake Bongiovi through Instagram and they both became really good friends. They both started dating soon after and in 2023, Millie and Jake announced their engagement after 2 years of dating each other. The couple got married in a private ceremony in 2024.

• In 2022, according to the Variety magazine, Millie Bobby Brown earned $10 million for her role in the sequel film titled ‘Enola Holmes 2.’ Her earnings made her emerge as one of the year’s highest paid actresses in Hollywood.

  

• In the same year, Millie Bobby was made an ambassador of the fashion brand ‘Louis Vuitton.’

• In 2023, Millie Bobby launched her coffee line named ‘Florence by Mills Coffee.’

• In the same year, she published her first novel titled ‘Nineteen Steps’ which was based on her own family history. Millie described her novel as an epic story of love, loss, and secrets.

  

• Her first novel ‘Nineteen Steps’ also included stories her grandmother Ruth told her about the horrific Bethnal Green tube disaster of World War II. 

• As of 2023, Millie Bobby Brown has a total of ten pets from which four are dogs, two cats, two tortoises named Becky and David, a rabbit named Eeyore, and a donkey named Bernard. She loves to spend time with them and often shares photos and videos with her pets on social media.

  

• In the same year, Millie announced a long-term pet apparel and accessories agreement with Kanine Group subsidiary named ‘Kanine Pets World Limited’ in a deal negotiated by Millie’s global licensing partner IMG.

• In 2024, Millie Bobby Brown was cast in the American dark fantasy film titled ‘Damsel’ in which she played the character of Elodie.

  

• In 2025, Millie Bobby Brown was cast in the American science fiction adventure comedy-drama film titled ‘The Electric State’ which was loosely based on the 2018 illustrated novel of the same name by Simon Stålenhag. She played the character of Michelle in the film.

  

• Before Millie Bobby Brown was cast in the TV series titled ‘Stranger Things’ (2016), her family was facing major financial crisis, and because of that, they used to live with one of Millie’s aunts for some time.

• Her biggest fear in life is sharks, darkness, and bungalows.

• Millie Bobby Brown’s mother selects all of her outfits to make sure that she is dressed appropriately for her age.

• Millie considers the Canadian rapper and singer Drake as her career mentor.

• Millie Bobby Brown has been part of many TV series and some of them include ‘NCIS’ (2014), ‘Modern Family’ (2015), and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ (2015).

  

• Millie Bobby Brown has been featured in many music videos and some of them are ‘I Dare You’ by ‘The xx’ (2017), ‘Girls Like You’ by Maroon 5 (2018), ‘In My Feelings’ by Drake (2018), and ‘Happy Anniversary, All I Want for Christmas Is You!’ (2019) by Mariah Carey.

• Millie Bobby Brown does not have many friends and she was quoted saying in an interview that
  

  I don’t have many friends, because of who I am,” she says. “I didn’t go to school, so I don’t have the best social skills when it comes to people my own age and friendships. I struggle with that quite a bit. I missed out on a few things. But I’m working through them.”

• At the age of 16, Millie Bobby Brown started her own production company named ‘PCMA Productions.’ In 2024, she partnered with Netflix to adapt her novel ‘Nineteen Steps’ into a film.

• As of 2025, Millie reduces animal and provides them with rehabilitation. 

• In an interview, she described her desire to record an album or star in a Broadway musical for at least once in her life. 

• Millie and her husband Jake Bongiovi both wanted to get married very early on in because both of their parents got married when they were in their ear 20s and that was the age Millie and Jake got married too.

• Millie was just 20 years old and Jake was only 22 years old when they both got married to each other.