---
name: "Ross Duffer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ross-duffer"
fi1m_id: "ross-duffer"
imdb_id: "nm1819973"
tmdb_id: 1179422
wikidata_id: "Q28830397"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "15 February 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T21:50:15.622937+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."
---

# Ross Duffer

## Identity

Ross Duffer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ross-duffer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ross-duffer
- **IMDb ID:** nm1819973
- **TMDB ID:** 1179422
- **Wikidata ID:** Q28830397
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Duffer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28830397, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1819973/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1179422

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
- **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/Ross_Duffer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28830397, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1819973/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1179422

## 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

Ross Duffer is an American writer, director and producer. With his identical twin brother Matt Duffer, he works professionally as the Duffer Brothers on all projects.

Born on 15 February 1984 in Durham, North Carolina, he graduated from Chapman University with a BFA. The brothers are best known as the creators, writers and directors of the Netflix series *Stranger Things* (2016–2025). They wrote and directed the film *Hidden* (2015) and wrote episodes of the series *Wayward Pines* (2015–2016).

Duffer provided the voice of Kwei's Ship Computer in the film *Predator: Badlands* (2025). The brothers founded the production company Upside Down Pictures.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.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 (17)

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
- *Fear Street: 1978* (2021), Thanks
- *Fear Street: 1994* (2021), Thanks — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/fear-street-1994.md)
- *Stranger Things* (2016), series, Writer, Director, Teleplay, Executive Producer, Creator — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/stranger-things.md)
- *Hidden* (2015), Director, Writer
- *Vessel* (2012), Writer
- *Road to Moloch* (2009), Screenplay
- *Eater* (2007), Writer, Director
- *Stranger Things: The First Shadow*, Story

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