“I didn't even really know who Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg were, and my parents kept trying to tell me, 'Noah, what is wrong with you!? This is the biggest actor and director in all of Hollywood!' And then I was like, 'Who cares? Whatever.' I was nine; I didn't know anything.”

American actor, born 2004

Noah Schnapp is an American actor best known for his role as Will Byers in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things. Born in 2004, he began acting in 2015 and quickly became widely recognized through film and television. His screen debut came in The Peanuts Movie, where he voiced Charlie Brown, and in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, where he had a supporting role. He became internationally known through Stranger Things, a part that brought him several awards and wider attention.