Finn Wolfhard

Finn Wolfhard (born December 23, 2002) is a Canadian actor and musician. His acting roles include Jamo in the 2015 Universal animated film Paradoria, Mike Wheeler in the Netflix series Stranger Things and Richie Tozier in the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King's It.

As a musician, he is the lead vocalist and guitarist for the rock band Calpurnia.

Acting
Wolfhard got his first acting job from Craigslist. He made his television debut as Zoran in The 100, followed by a role as Jordie Pinsky in Supernatural. In 2015, Wolfhard provided the voice of Jamo in the Universal Pictures animated film Paradoria.

In 2016, Wolfhard began to play the role of Mike Wheeler in the Netflix series Stranger Things. He auditioned for the role via video after seeing an open casting call. The cast of the series won a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. 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.

He played Richie Tozier in the film adaptation of Stephen King's It, which was released on September 8, 2017. The casting of Wolfhard in both Stranger Things and It, both set in the '80s, had been a coincidence. According to Wolfhard, 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, Wolfhard had to re-audition for the role of Richie. Wolfhard will also reprise his role as young Richie in flashbacks for the sequel, It Chapter Two.

On September 22, 2017, it was announced that Wolfhard had been cast as Tyler, an altruistic and thoughtful pizza delivery boy, in the Ken Marino-directed film, Dog Days. In addition, Wolfhard was also cast in Amblin’s haunted house film The Turning, an adaptation of Henry James’ novella The Turn of the Screw.

In 2018, Wolfhard joined the cast of The Goldfinch, the John Crowley-directed adaptation of the Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, playing Young Boris Pavlikovsky, a Ukrainian student and troublemaker. Crowley praised Wolfhard's casting, calling him "really special" as Wolfhard had not been the director's first choice. Crowley had wanted to cast an authentic young Russian actor for Boris, but Wolfhard auditioned and astonished the director with a near perfect Russian accent. It was announced on June 5, 2018, he would provide the voice of Pugsley Addams in the 2019 remake of The Addams Family, set to premiere on October 11, 2019.

He currently stars in the Netflix animated series Carmen Sandiego as "Player", the title character's chief accomplice and friend. The series premiered on January 18, 2019.

On March 1, 2019, it was announced that Wolfhard and Carrie Coon were in talks to star in Jason Reitman's Ghostbusters sequel, with Coon playing a single mother and Wolfhard playing her son. It was officially confirmed on March 29, 2019 by Reitman through social media that Wolfhard was cast in the sequel, along with Coon and Mckenna Grace. Soon after on May 27, 2019, Wolfhard made his modeling debut in Saint Laurent's Fall/Winter '19 campaign.

Music
Aside from acting, Wolfhard is the lead vocalist and guitarist, as well as songwriter, for Vancouver-based rock band, Calpurnia. They are signed to Royal Mountain Records in the United States and Canada, and Transgressive Records and its imprint, paradYse, for Europe and the United Kingdom.