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Entertainment November 2, 2016
“Stranger Things” sensation Millie Bobby Brown will return as Eleven in the second season of the Netflix hit, marking a happy ending to her family’s struggle to make the British actress a star.
Brown’s parents nearly went bankrupt trying to help their daughter achieve her acting dreams. The family sold everything to move to Hollywood, but Brown at first only landed a few small parts on shows like “Modern Family,” “NCIS” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” Things got so tight that they had to borrow money from Brown’s manager.
“It was very hard,” Brown told the Daily Mail. “There were lots of tears along the way.” The small acting gigs weren’t enough to keep Millie’s family in America, so they moved back to England to stay with her aunt.
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“I was devastated. I wasn’t getting work. I thought I was done,” said the young actress.
But it was back in England that she landed an audition for “Stranger Things.” She recalled that when asked to cry in her audition, “My emotions were so raw, I hit it out of the park.” A few weeks later she landed the part of Eleven, a young girl with psychokinetic gifts, and the family headed back to the U.S., where the show began filming late 2015.
Eleven became the breakout character of the show when it started streaming in the summer and now Millie looks to be here to stay as one of the most well-loved child actresses in Hollywood. Thousands of fans dressed as her for Halloween – Eggos, blonde wig, pink dress and all.
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Maureen Ryan, chief TV critic of Variety, says, “[She] is about to be cast in a lot of projects … Brown has the kind of presence that some actors take a lifetime to acquire.”
Looks like Millie Bobby Brown has found her lucky number: Eleven.
