The Kids Of Stranger Things Then & Now: They’ve Grown Up Right Before Our Eyes!

Actor Finn Wolfhard, who plays Mike Wheeler, was 13 when the show first started streaming on Netflix.

These days, Wolfhard is a 19-year-old actor who most recently starred in Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

Gaten Matarazzo was 13 years old when he filmed Stranger Things Season 1 as Dustin Henderson.

Aside from Stranger Things, Matarazzo, 19, has been on Broadways shows; Priscilla of the Desert as Benji and Les Miserables as Gavroche. He’s also an advocate for people with cleidocranial dysplasia.

Did you know Caleb McLaughlin played young Simba on Broadway before he landed the role of Lucas Sinclair when he was 14?

Today, McLaughlin, 20, is a Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actor and artist. The music video for his single “Soul Travel” is on YouTube.

Before Noah Schnapp joined the Stranger Things family at 15 as Will Byers, he voiced Charlie Brown in the 2015 Peanuts Movie.

Today Schnapp, 17, is a Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actor and was recently accepted to the University of Pennsylvania.

English actress Millie Bobby Brown was 11 when she played first played Eleven. The role earned her an Emmy nomination and SAG award when she was 13.

In addition to acting, Brown, 18, is also the founder of the skincare and makeup line, Florence By Mill.

Actor Joe Keery was one of the oldest characters when he started playing his 17-year-old character, Steve Harrington, at the age of 24.

Keery, now 30, recently starred in the movie Free Guy and his character Harrington is a 19-year-old young man.

Charlie Heaton was 22 when he took the role of 16-year-old Jonathan Byers, the brother of Will Byers.

Heaton, 28, has a 10-year difference compared to his character and is also the star of the 2020 movie, The New Mutants.

Natalia Dyer took the role of 15-year-old Nancy Wheeler when she was 21 years old.

Dyer, now 27, reprised her role as an 18-year-old Nancy.

Actress Sadie Sink was 15 years old when she started playing the character Max Mayfield on Stranger Things in Season 2.

Today Sink, 20, is a Hollywood International Independent Documentary awardee and her character Max has turned sweet 16.