Noah Schnapp (born October 3, 2004) is a Canadian-American actor. He played Will Byers in the Netflix science fiction horror web television series Stranger Things, for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. His film roles include Roger Donovan in Steven Spielberg's historical drama Bridge of Spies (2015) and the voice of Charlie Brown in the animated The Peanuts Movie (2015).
Early life
Schnapp was born in Scarsdale, New York to Mitchell and Karine Schnapp (née Peretz). He has a twin sister named Chloe. Schnapp is Jewish, and had his Bar Mitzvah in Israel. His family is from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and he visits the city often. His mother is of Moroccan Jewish descent. He has Canadian citizenship. Schnapp's desire for acting started when he was about 5 years old after watching the Broadway production of Annie.
