Gaten Matarazzo

Gaten Matarazzo

Born in 2002, Gaten Matarazzo is a young American actor.  With a career that began on the stage, Matarazzo portrayed Benjamin in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Les Miserables as Gavroche. He held a guest role in the television show, The Blacklist, in which he appeared beside James Spader.

Best known for his portrayal of Dustin Henderson in the hit Netflix television show Stranger Things, he worked with actors such as Winona Ryder and David Harbour. Suffering from cleidocranial dysostosis, he uses his fame to spread awareness of the disease and to raise funds for the treatment of the disease. Matarazzo has won a Shorty Awards for Best Actor and Screen Actors Guild Award for his work on Stranger Things.

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