Gaten Matarazzo

Gaten Matarazzo is genuinely one of those rare performers who makes you forget you're watching acting. He got his start on Broadway as a kid — Gavroche in Les Misérables, which is not exactly a training-wheels role — so by the time Stranger Things landed him in living rooms worldwide as Dustin Henderson, he already had real theatrical chops backing up all that goofy, gap-toothed charm. What I love is that he doesn't coast on the lovable-sidekick thing; Dustin has actual arcs, actual weight, and Gaten carries every bit of it without breaking a sweat. He's also been open about living with cleidocranial dysplasia and has used his platform to raise awareness, which takes a kind of quiet confidence that a lot of adults twice his age never find. Born in 2002 and already a SAG Award winner as part of the Stranger Things ensemble — the ceiling on this guy is genuinely hard to see.

Name (English)

Gaten Matarazzo

Name (Japanese)

ゲイテン・マタラッツォ

Reading

げいてん・またらっつぉ

Born

September 8, 2002 (age 23)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Horse

Origin

New London, Connecticut, United States

Occupation

actor / stage actor / film actor / television actor

High school

Pinelands Regional High School

Awards & achievements

• Actor Awards

Motto

Private

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%BF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%84%E3%82%A9

Tags

• Connecticut
• actor
• stage actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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