Joe Keery
Birthdate: April 24, 1992 (34 Years Old)
Birthplace: Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA
Joe Keery (birthname: Joseph David Keery) is an actor and psychedelia rock musician best known for his recurring role as Steve in Netflix’s megahit series, Stranger Things (2016-2025), delivering his first performance in the direct-to-video feature Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015), and then making his debut in a theatrical feature, the supernatural horror movie The Charnel House (2016), starring Callum Blue, Nadine Velazquez, Makenzie Moss and Erik LaRay Harvey under Craig Moss’s direction, and released by Freestyle Releasing.
Keery joined the impressive cast of director/writer Aaron Sorkin’s biopic based on Molly Bloom’s 2014 memoir, Molly’s Game (2017), starring Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Chris O’Dowd, Brian D’Arcy James and Bill Camp, produced by Mark Gordon, Amy Pascal and Matt Jackson and which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival before a theatrical release by STX (which also co-produced) in the U.S. and China and Sierra/Affinity (International) to a $59.3 million global gross.
Keery joined the cast of directors/writers Hannah Marks and Joey Power’s romantic comedy-drama, After Everything (2018), starring Jeremy Allen White, Maika Monroe, DeRon Horton, Sasha Lane, Dean Winters, Gna Gershon, and Marisa Tomei, launching at the South by Southwest Film Festival and released by Good Deed Entertainment. Keery was cast in the ensemble of director/writer Austin Vesely’s horror comedy about murdered pizza delivery workers, Slice (2018), alongside Zazie Beetz, Chance Bennett, Will Brill, Chris Parnell, and Paul Scheer, and released by A24.
Joe Keery had his first above-the-title starring credit in director/co-writer/producer Eugene Kotlyarenko’s found-footage horror comedy, Spree (2020), with Sasheer Zamata, Mischa Barton, John DeLuca, Kyle Mooney, and David Arquette, and, after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, was released by RLJE Films. Keery was cast in one of the first movies produced under the reorganized 20th Century Fox studio, director/producer Shawn Levy’s sci-fi action comedy produced and starring Ryan Reynolds, Free Guy (2021), co-starring Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Taika Waititi, co-written by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, premiering in the Locarno Film Festival and grossing $331.5 million.
Keery co-starred in his first Italian-made film alongside Lily James and Willem Dafoe in director/writer Saverio Costanzo’s 1950s Rome-set drama, Finalmente l’alba/Finally Dawn (2023), co-starring Rachel Sennott, Michele Bravi, and Alba Rohrwacher, and which premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival. Keery co-starred above the title with Camila Morrone and Aldis Hodge in director/writer Keir O’Donnell’s heist movie, Marmalade (2024), which was produced in the U.K. by Signature Films and Tea Shop Productions.
Joe Keery joined director/writer/producer Alex Ross Perry for his experimental music movie about the U.S. indie band Pavement titled Pavements (2024), with Rebecca Clay Cole, Gary Young, Nat Wolff, Fred Hechinger, Tim Heidecker, Jason Schwartzman, Michael Esper, and Zoe Lister-Jones, premiering at the Venice Film Festival and released in a limited pattern by Utopia. Keery co-starred with Georgina Campbell, Liam Neeson, Sosie Bacon, Vanessa Redgrave, and Lesley Manville in writer/producer David Koepp’s and director Jonny Campbell’s comedy horror movie Cold Storage (2026), produced by Gavin Polone with StudioCanal/Pariah, and which was released wide by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Personal life
Joe Keery was born and raised in Newburyport, Massachusetts, by his parents, David and Nina. Keery has siblings. Keery attended and graduated from Newburyport High School, and then attended DePaul University in Chicago, where he studied at DePaul’s The Theatre School, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2014. Keery was in a relationship with actor Maika Monroe from 2017 to 2023. Keery’s height is 5’ 10½”. Keery’s estimated net worth is $4 million.
Joe Keery Movies
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- 2025 |
- 2025 |
Stranger Things: Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up
asSteve Harrington
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.”
- 2021 |
- 2020 |
- 2017 |
Molly's Game
asTrust Fund Cole
The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.
- 2016 |
The Charnel House
asScott
A long abandoned slaughterhouse is transformed into modern lofts in a re-gentrified urban neighborhood. Soon after tenants move in they are tormented by a dark secret that has been trapped in the building for over 30 years.
- -- | as Travis (Teacake) Meacham
Facts About Joe Keery
What’s In a Name? Joe Keery adopted the stage name of “Cool Cool Cool” for his music performances from 2014 to 2018 and then adopted the stage name “Djo” (pronounced “Joe”) a year later, which Keery has been using since for his recordings and touring.
Music Man: Keery has had a successful music career as a vocalist/keyboardist/drummer/guitarist in psychedelic rock with several albums, including Twenty Twenty (2019), Decide (2022), The Crux (2025), and The Crux Deluxe (2025), and has also done his own tours, including the Back on You World Tour in 2025.
