Kevin Paul · CC BY 4.0

An American actor who, still a child, voiced Charlie Brown in The Peanuts Movie and appeared in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies before landing the role that made him widely known: Will Byers, the boy who vanishes into an alternate dimension at the start of Stranger Things. He stayed with the Netflix series across its full run from 2016 to 2025, growing up on screen alongside the character.