Joe Keery

A remarkable film star Joe Keery drew his first breath in Massachusetts and became the second out of five children in a family of David and Nina, an architect and a professor of English respectively.

He began demonstrating artistic skills at a young age and that’s why parents signed him up with a theatrical studio, where he could get acting experience and practice.

Along with acting, a future star attended River Valley Charter School and then Newburyport High School. After that he successfully graduated from DePaul University in 2014.

Before getting his breakthrough role in Stranger Things, Joe used to feature in commercials as well as TV series, e.g. Domino’s, KFC, Chicago Fire and Empire. In 2015 he was cast in Stranger Things and got a role of Steve that made him popular worldwide.

It would be also interesting to know that apart from acting, the celebrity deals with music. He used to sing and play the guitar in a band called Post Animal that performed psych-rock music. The band presented several albums and even toured the US. Today, the group stopped its existence, as they don’t want to be associated with Stranger Things.

Currently, the actor is busy featuring for several projects as well as writing music as a solo artist.

Would you like to know more mind-blowing information about Keery’s life? Well, then have a look at these top 5 little-known facts:

• He is a lookalike of Ben Schwartz.
• He used to work as a bartender.
• He went to over a 100 auditions before getting a role in Stranger Things.
• He used to introduce music under the name Cool Cool Cool.
• In 2017 he won the Screen Actors Guild Awards.