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My Take
What strikes me most about Joseph Quinn is how quickly he turned a single season of television into genuine stardom. Plenty of actors get a breakout role; very few make a late-arriving character feel like the emotional center of a global phenomenon. That tells me his Stranger Things moment was craft, not luck — the payoff of years of British stage and television work. Moving from Netflix to a spectacle like Gladiator II suggests he is choosing scale without abandoning character work. Born in 1994, he has decades ahead of him, and I suspect his most interesting performances are still to come. He is one of the British actors I watch most closely.
Overview
Joseph Quinn (born 26 January 1994) is a British actor. After graduating from drama school, Quinn began his acting career on stage and television, earning roles in the BBC One series Dickensian (2016), Howards End (2017), and Les Misérables (2018), and the Sky Atlantic series Catherine the Great (2019). His breakthrough role came as Eddie Munson in the fourth season of the Netflix series Stranger Things (2022).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Joseph Quinn
- Name (Japanese)
- ジョセフ・クイン
- Reading
- じょせふ・くいん
- Born
- January 26, 1994 (age 32)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Dog
- Origin
- London, Roman Empire
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / voice actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Stranger Things | — | |
| Notable work | Gladiator II | — |
6. Links
Actor — see all → · Voice actor — see all → · More people from Roman Empire →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.