Finn Wolfhard

## About

Finn Michael Wolfhard (born December 23rd, 2002) is a Canadian actor, musician, screenwriter and director. He is best known for his portrayal of main character **Mike Wheeler** in the Netflix original television series *Stranger Things*.

## Career

In 2012-13, Finn Wolfhard got his first acting job from Craigslist.

In 2014, he made his acting and television debut as Zoran in The CW original series *The 100.*

In 2015, he got a short role as Jordie Pinsky in another The CW original series *Supernatural*.

In 2016, he began portraying **Mike Wheeler** in the Netflix series *Stranger Things*. He auditioned for the role in a video when he was sick in bed after seeing an open casting call.

*Stranger Things* became a big success on Netflix in the summer of 2016 and it won a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series with him and the cast. He and co-stars **Noah Schnapp**, **Gaten Matarazzo**, and **Caleb McLaughlin** competed against one another in a 2017 episode of Spike's *Lip Sync Battle*.

On January 18, 2019, he also currently stars in the Netflix animated series *Carmen Sandiego* as "Player", the title character's chief accomplice and friend.

On September 8, 2017, He made his feature film debut playing Richie Tozier in the film adaptation of Stephen King's *It*. The casting of Finn in both *Stranger Things* and *It*, both set in the 1980's, had been a coincidence.  He had been initially cast as Richie when Cary Fukunaga was attached as director and co-writer, but when Fukunaga left the project over creative differences, the role fell through which allowed him to pursue *Stranger Things*. Once Andy Muschietti became attached to *It*, he had to re-audition for the role of Richie.

On October 27, 2017, the second season of *Stranger Things* was released.

On January 9, 2018, Wolfhard signed with talent agency, CAA.

On August 8, 2018, he played Tyler, an altruistic and thoughtful pizza delivery boy, in the Ken Marino-directed ensemble romantic comedy film, *Dog Days*.

On January 18, 2019, the first season of *Carmen Sandiego* was released on Netflix.

On July 4, 2019, the third season of *Stranger Things* was released on Netflix.

On September 6, 2019, he repriced his role as young Richie in flashbacks for the sequel *It Chapter Two* (2019).

On September 13, 2019, he co-starred in *The Goldfinch*, the John Crowley-directed adaptation of the Donna Tartt's novel, playing Young Boris Pavlikovsky, a Ukrainian student and troublemaker. He had not been the director's first choice. He had wanted to cast an authentic Russian actor for Boris, but his near perfect Russian accent in his audition helped him get the role.

On October 1, 2019, the second season of *Carmen Sandiego* was released on Netflix.

On October 11, 2019, he was the voice of Pugsley Addams in an animated remake of *The Addams Family.*

On 8 November 2019, he and his band Calpurnia announced on Instagram that they had split up because of Finn's acting career and he's other projects. Two of the members Ayla Tesler-Mabe join a new band called Ludic and Jack Anderson left the band to focus on school and play guitar for free time, Finn and Malcolm stay together after the band broke up. A few weeks later, they broke up Finn and Malcolm started a new band together called, The Aubreys, and they would debut a song on the soundtrack of Finn's movie, *The Turning*.

In January 2020, he portrayed Miles in Amblin’s haunted house film *The Turning*, an adaptation of Henry James’ novella *The Turn of the Screw*.

Also that month, he made his Sundance Film Festival debut with the Miami-set omnibus film, *Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia*, masterminded by filmmaking collective Borscht Corp, which also features Robert Redford.

He will also be making his 2020 SXSW Film Festival debut in March with the Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux directed proof of concept short film, *Rules for Werewolves*, based off playwright and novelist Kirk Lynn's adapted screenplay from his debut novel. It was also announced that the short film was set to become a feature-length film, with he attached to star and production occurring late in 2020 or in early 2021.

On March 10, 2020, an interactive special, *Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to Steal* was released on Netflix.

On April 1, 2020, he lent his voice to the Adult Swim animated special titled, *Smiling Friends* with his brother, Nick by Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack. He is also set to lend his voice as a guest star in the upcoming 2020 animated series *JJ Villard's Fairy Tales* on Adult Swim as Boypunzel, a gender-swapped version of Rapunzel.

On April 9, 2020, it was announced that he is starring and voicing the role of Ziggy in the upcoming six-part Audible Original, *When You Finish Saving the World*, written by Jesse Eisenberg. Additionally, the audiobook will be adapted into a comedy-drama movie, *When You Finish Saving the World*, with Julianne Moore and he's set to star as mother and son, directed and written by Jesse Eisenberg and produced by Moore, Emma Stone and Dave McCary.

On June 29 - July 8, 2020, he joined the Jason Reitman directed Quibi television series adaptation *Home Movie: The Princess Bride*, to raise money for World Central Kitchen, which was released in July 2020, and then a live reading of The Princess Bride's script, as the Grandson, for a Democratic Party of Wisconsin charity event in September 2020

On July 15, 2020, it was also announced that he and his brother, would be headlining the voice cast of sci-fi animation series *NEW-GEN*, playing twin brothers, alongside The Witcher star Anya Chalotra.

In August 2020, he co-starred in the Audible Original, *When You Finish Saving the World*, written by Jesse Eisenberg. The story is told from the perspective of three family members, at different stages of their lives. He narrates Ziggy Katz, a 15-year-old boy recording audio sessions to a futuristic bot therapist. Additionally, the audiobook will be adapted into a comedy-drama movie, *When You Finish Saving the World*, with Julianne Moore and he's set to star as mother and son, directed and written by Jesse Eisenberg and produced by Moore, Emma Stone and Dave McCary.

On August 19, 2020, it was announced that he had joined director Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion animated musical feature, *Pinocchio*.

On September 9, 2020, he and his *Ghostbuster: Afterlife* and *When You Finish Saving the World* co-star Billy Bryk host this podcast discussing and dissecting their favorite movies, TV shows and movies and TV shows that do not exist, also podcast is available on Headgum website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and RSS.

On October 1, 2020, the third season of *Carmen Sandiego* was released on Netflix.

On October 8, 2020, *The Addams Family* (2019) sequel is scheduled to be theatrically released on October 8, 2021 with original cast back but Javon Walton replaces Finn Wolfhard as the voice of Pugsley.

On January 15, 2021, the fourth season of *Carmen Sandiego* was released and it was the final season on Netflix.

On May 23rd, 2021, he had a guest star, voicing an undisclosed character in the season 2 premiere of the Fox Broadcasting Company animated series *Duncanville.*

In November 6, he revealed that he is working on his feature-length directorial debut film, he reveals it's will be a “horror-comedy-slasher movie that takes place at a camp,” but didn’t want to reveal any more details just yet.

On November 19, 2021, he starred with Carrie Coon in Jason Reitman's *Ghostbusters: Afterlife*, as Trevor the son of Coon's single mother, and Mckenna Grace also starring as Phoebe his younger sister.

On November 10, 2021, it was announced that he had joined in A24's fantasy film The Legend Of Ochi, directed by Isaiah Saxon, and with Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, and Helena Zengel.

On January 20, 2022, When You Finish Saving the World is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.