Name
Gaten Matarazzo
Known For
Acting
Birthday
2002-09-08 (24 years old)
Place of Birth
New London, Connecticut, USA
Biography
Gaetano John "Gaten" Matarazzo III (Born September 8, 2002) is an American actor. He began his career on the Broadway stage as Benjamin in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (2011–12) and Gavroche in Les Misérables (2014–15). Matarazzo gained recognition for playing Dustin Henderson in the Netflix science-fiction-horror drama series Stranger Things (2016–2025). He also hosted the Netflix show Prank Encounters (2019–2021). In 2022, he co-starred in the coming-of-age comedy film Honor Society. In the animated fantasy comedy film My Father's Dragon, he voiced Boris the Dragon.
Known For
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A group of college students go downstairs to their dorm lobby to get a delivery pizza. The...
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An inside look at the years of effort and craft that went into the final installment of th...
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Honor is an ambitious high school senior whose sole focus is getting into Harvard, assumin...
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When three friends who live together realize that they don't like their life trajectory, t...
- 2022 Honor Society as Michael Dipnicky
- 2022 My Father's Dragon as Boris the Dragon (voice)
- 2023 Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain as Gaten Matarazzo
- Soon Hump as Rami (voice)
- 2019 The Angry Birds Movie 2 as Bubba (voice)
- 2026 Animal Farm as Lucky (voice)
- 2026 Pizza Movie as Jack
- 2026 One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 as Self - Dustin Henderson
- Soon Octet as Toby
- 2015 Lip Sync Battle ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2016 Stranger Things ( 42 episodes ) as Dustin Henderson
- 2013 The Blacklist ( 1 episode ) as Finn
- 2011 The Jonathan Ross Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2011 Halloween Wars ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest Judge
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2017 Carpool Karaoke: The Series ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2017 Drop the Mic ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2017 Beyond Stranger Things ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 5 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2015 Celebrity Family Feud ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2019 Prank Encounters ( 15 episodes ) as Self - Host
- 2024 LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy ( 4 episodes ) as Sig Greebling (voice)
- 2025 LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy - Pieces of the Past ( 4 episodes ) as Sig Greebling (voice)
- 2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2024 Hot Ones Versus ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1992 MTV Movie & TV Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
- 1975 Good Morning America ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 2016 Geeking Out ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2021 Waffles + Mochi ( 1 episode ) as Casey The Electrician
- 2023 Foul Play ( 1 episode ) as Kevin Kindness
- 2025 Haunted Hotel ( 1 episode ) as Randy (Voice)
- 2016 Chelsea ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2007 Young Hollywood ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1949 The Emmy Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Performer
- 2016 Quotidien ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1994 Extra ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1998 TRL ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1952 Today ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1996 The Daily Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2021 Last Meals ( 1 episode ) as Self
