---
name: "Matt Duffer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/matt-duffer"
fi1m_id: "matt-duffer"
imdb_id: "nm1819972"
tmdb_id: 1179419
wikidata_id: "Q28830394"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "15 February 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T21:50:15.615992+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Matt Duffer

## Identity

Matt Duffer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/matt-duffer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** matt-duffer
- **IMDb ID:** nm1819972
- **TMDB ID:** 1179419
- **Wikidata ID:** Q28830394
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Duffer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28830394, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1819972/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1179419

Producer and director. Born 15 February 1984 in Durham, North Carolina, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 15 February 1984, Durham, North Carolina, USA
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Also known as:** Duffer Brothers, The Duffer Brothers, Matthew Ross Duffer
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 1 directing, 1 producing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 77 (1), 2020s 72 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Duffer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28830394, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1819972/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1179419

## Coming up

- *Untitled Duffer Brothers Film* (2028-11-02), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Stranger Things*](https://film.one/tv/stranger-things.md) (77)
- **Disney+:** [*Predator: Badlands*](https://film.one/film/predator-badlands.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Matt Duffer is an American writer, director and producer. Born on 15 February 1984 in Durham, North Carolina, he is one half of the Duffer Brothers with his identical twin Ross Duffer. The pair graduated from Chapman University and began working together on short films before entering feature films and television.

They are best known as the creators, writers and directors of the Netflix series *Stranger Things* (2016–2025). Their other credits include writing and directing the film *Hidden* (2015) and writing episodes of the series *Wayward Pines* (2015–2016). They voiced Kwei's Ship Computer in the film *Predator: Badlands* (2025). They founded the production company Upside Down Pictures.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, movieweb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *Predator: Badlands* (2025), Fi1m 70, as Kwei's Ship Computer (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/predator-badlands.md)

### Directed (1)

- *Stranger Things* (2016), Fi1m 77, Director, Creator, Teleplay, Writer, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/stranger-things.md)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Boroughs* (2026), Fi1m 73, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-boroughs.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Untitled Duffer Brothers Film* (2028), Director, Writer
- *The Boroughs* (2026), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-boroughs.md)
- *Stranger Things: Tales from '85* (2026), series, Executive Producer, Original Series Creator
- *Stranger Things: Tales from '85 Theatrical Preview* (2026), Executive Producer, Original Series Creator
- *Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen* (2026), series, Executive Producer
- *One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5* (2026), Thanks
- *Predator: Badlands* (2025), as Kwei's Ship Computer (voice) — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/predator-badlands.md)
- *Hell of a Summer* (2025), Thanks
- *The Spot* (2023), Thanks
- *Stranger Things* (2016), series, Writer, Director, Teleplay, Executive Producer, Creator — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/stranger-things.md)
- *Hidden* (2015), Writer, Director
- *Vessel* (2012), Writer
- *Abraham's Boys* (2009), Writer
- *Road to Moloch* (2009), Screenplay
- *Eater* (2007), Director, Writer
- *Stranger Things: The First Shadow*, Story

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