Caleb McLaughlin
Birthdate: Oct 13, 2001
Birthplace: Carmel, New York, USA
Caleb McLaughlin (birthname: Caleb Reginald McLaughlin) is best known as Lucas in the ensemble of the Netflix hit series, Stranger Things (2016-2025), and three years into the life of the series landed his first feature role in director Steven Soderbergh’s iPhone-shot and basketball-themed drama, High Flying Bird (2019), starring Andre Holland, Zazie Beetz, Melvin Gregg, Sonja Sohn and Zachary Quinto, premiering at the Slamdance Film Festival and released on Netflix. McLaughlin co-starred with Idris Elba (who also produced) and Jharrel Jerome in director/co-writer Ricky Staub’s Concrete Cowboy (2020), with Byron Bowers, Lorraine Toussaint, Clifford “Method Man” Smith, launching at the Toronto Film Festival and released by Netflix.
McLaughlin co-starred with Mookie Cook in the high school basketball drama based on the high school experiences of LeBron James (and based on his memoir), Shooting Stars (2023), with Algee Smith and Dermot Mulroney, and which streamed on Peacock. McLaughlin joined the massive ensemble of director/writer/producer Jeymes Samuel’s Biblical comedy-drama, The Book of Clarence (2023), starring LaKeith Stanfield, Omar Sy, RJ Cyler, Anna Diop, David Oyelowo, Michael Ward, Alfre Woodard, Teyana Taylor, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, James McAvoy and Benedict Cumberbatch, produced by Legendary Pictures/Kilburn Lane and released by TriStar Pictures to a $6.2 million gross.
Caleb McLaughlin co-starred in another Netflix movie that received a brief theatrical window before streaming with director/producer Lee Daniels’s supernatural horror movie, The Deliverance (2024), starring Andra Day, Glenn Close, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Mo’Nique, and which was produced by Lee Daniels Entertainment/Tucker Tooley Entertainment/Turn Left Productions. McLaughlin took on his first voice role in an animated movie, Columbia Pictures’/Sony Pictures Animation’s comedy, Goat (2026), produced and co-starring Stephan Curry, with the voice cast of Gabrielle Union, Nicola Coughlan, Nick Kroll, David Harbour, Jenifer Lewis, Aaron Pierre, Patton Oswalt, Jelly Roll and Jennifer Hudson under Tyree Dillihay’s direction and which was released wide by Sony Pictures Releasing.
Personal life
Caleb McLaughlin was born and raised in Carmel, New York, by parents, April and Corey McLaughlin. McLaughlin has two sisters, Caitlyn and Crystal, and one brother, Corey Jr. McLaughlin attended Kent Primary School and then George Fischer Middle School. McLaughlin studied dance at Happy Feet Dance School, followed by studies in performing arts at Seven Star School of Performing Arts in Brewster, New York, and then at Harlem School of the Arts. McLaughlin’s height is 5’ 8”. McLaughlin’s estimated net worth is $3 million.
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Caleb McLaughlin Movies
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Upcoming (1)
- 2026 |
GOAT
asWill Harris
From Sony Pictures Animation, the studio behind Spider-ManTM: Across the Spider-Verse and the artists that made KPop Demon Hunters, comes GOAT, an original action-comedy set in an all-animal world. The story follows Will, a small goat with big dreams who gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball – a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world. Will’s new teammates aren’t thrilled about having a little goat on their roster, but Will is determined to revolutionize the sport and prove once and for all that “smalls can ball!”
Previous (5)
- 2025 |
Stranger Things: Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up
asLucas Sinclair
Stranger Things: Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up
As Hawkins faces its final battle against the horrors of the Upside Down, Eleven and her friends make their last stand. In the feature-length series finale of Stranger Things, alliances are tested, futures are shaped and the very fabric of reality hangs in the balance. Every choice matters as the gang fights to keep their world “rightside up.”
- 2024 | The Deliveranceas Nate
- 2024 |
The Book of Clarence
asDirty Zeke
Struggling to find a better life, Clarence is captivated by the power of the rising Messiah and soon risks everything to carve a path to a divine existence.
- 2023 | Shooting Starsas Lil Dru Joyce III
- 2021 |
Concrete Cowboy
asCole
Sent to live with his estranged father for the summer, a rebellious teen finds kinship in a tight-knit Philadelphia community of Black cowboys.
Facts About Caleb McLaughlin
Skill Set: Caleb McLaughlin has trained in acting, singing, ballet, tap, and jazz dance, all of which helped him in his Broadway debut as Simba in the stage production, The Lion King on Broadway from 2012 to 2014.
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