Caleb McLaughlin

Caleb Ronald McLaughlin[1] (born October 13, 2001)[2] is an American actor. He is known for playing Lucas Sinclair in the Netflix series Stranger Things for which he has won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. He has previously performed on the Broadway stage as Young Simba in the musical The Lion King. McLaughlin made his feature film debut in 2020 starring in Concrete Cowboy.

McLaughlin grew up in Carmel, New York.[3] He attended Kent Primary School and later attended George Fischer Middle School for one year. He studied dance for a year at Happy Feet Dance School in Carmel, New York and then attended Seven Star School of Performing Arts in Brewster, New York for one year. He then studied at The Harlem School of the Arts under Aubrey Lynch, former Lion King producer.