Dylan O’Brien was born in Manhattan and raised in Hermosa Beach, California. He started uploading original videos to his YouTube channel when he was 14 years old.
A local producer approached him during his senior year of high school about working on a web series. O’Brien met an actor who introduced him to a manager while working on the show.
He abandoned his plans to study sports broadcasting at Syracuse University in order to pursue acting.
Is Dylan O’Brien in Stranger Things?
O’Brien has never starred in an episode of the Stranger Things horror TV series.
He’s been linked to the smash hit horror series because he played a role alongside Sadie Sink in Taylor Swifts All Too Well short film.
Sadie Sink starred as max in Stranger Things.
Dylan has appeared in a total of six television series in his short career. The longest-spanning TV series he has ever starred in is Teen Wolf(2011-2017).