Joseph Quinn

The breakout star of 'Stranger Things' season 4 is Joseph Quinn, a British 'Game of Thrones' alum who plays mop-haired nerd Eddie Munson.

It’s a good thing to go somewhere strange with a bunch of strangers and then leave that place with really dear friends," he said. For anyone who looks up the actor and only finds fan pages, it's because Quinn isn't a fan of social media. The actor told Collider (opens in new tab) that he wanted to do his character justice. "His sense of humour and lightness of touch with that character is enviable. He also attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and graduated in 2015. Quinn has shared some of his favorite shows and films during interviews, and he has great taste.

Stranger Things season 4 is finally here and everyone is talking about dungeon master Eddie Munson and the guy who plays him, Joseph Quinn.

The 29-year-old may be new when it comes to taking on lead roles but he actually has a pretty impressive acting portfolio. He told Inverse Magazine: “It was kind of an interesting time. Here we first meet Eddie, the club’s dungeon master.

Stranger Things has always been a TV show that centers around the 1980s experience of being a nerd, specifically a 1980s-era Dungeons and Dragons-playing ...

Quinn’s most mainstream role in the U.S. was playing Koner, part of the Stark brigade, in Game of Thrones Season 7. The second is that, in the late 1980s, D&D culture had thoroughly overlapped with a second subset of high schoolers: metalheads. Stranger Things has always been a TV show that centers around the 1980s experience of being a nerd, specifically a 1980s-era Dungeons and Dragons-playing nerd.

Who is Eddie Munson in 'Stranger Things? Joseph Quinn is a new actor in Season 4 and his character seems important right off the bat.

Ten, Eleven, and all of the other kids at the facility all have shaved heads. Another scientific subject with a tattoo that says "Ten" is shown with a doctor when Eleven uses her powers to get revenge on the other doctors at the lab. And he could have a connection to Hawkins and even Eleven that we don't know yet at the start of Season 4. Because the first major scene of Season 4 brings us back to the Hawkins Lab when Eleven was just a child and where she enacted a massacre on many of the doctors, it's possible that Eddie is tied to that. So when the most popular cheerleader at Hawkins High, Chrissy, ends up dead in his trailer, it puts Eddie at the center of one of Season 4's big mysteries. Eddie is played by Joseph Quinn, who some may recognize as a soldier from Game of Thrones. He was also in the miniseries Les Misérables and Catherine the Great. According to IMDb, he's in nine episodes of Stranger Things Season 4.

Eddie Munson is played by Joseph Quinn. The British actor is 29 years old and has appeared in Dickensian as Arthur Havisham and also played Leonard Bast in ...

Are you a fan of Eddie in Stranger Things season 4? That makes him something of a role model to those of the pack who are still in Hawkins, with Mike, Dustin and Lucas all being members of the Hellfire Club. Hawkins, Indiana is home to some of the most popular characters in TV history.

The British actor and season four standout on playing an '80s metalhead and how he bonded with the OG Stranger Things cast.

“There’s no flies on him,” he says. “He has this ability to make everyone feel at home.” “There was no grandiosity from the [Duffer] brothers, or from the cast members,“ he says. “They’re not nearly as bad as you think,” he says cheekily. “They expect you to be the character.” So that’s what he did. “I could go on for ages about him,” he says. Their most frequent note to Quinn would just be to say the lines faster, he recalls with a laugh. “I’m lovingly neutral,” he says diplomatically. “Unfortunately, I don’t have the bone structure for that.” Between takes, he would keep talking in the accent to his co-stars. “I only did two days on [Thrones]. It was obviously mad to be on something of that scale, but this one was much more collaborative. The way Joe Quinn tells it, it was suspiciously easy landing a role on Stranger Things. He sent in a grand total of two self-tapes in character as Eddie Munson—a showy metalhead with big hair and an even bigger obsession with Dungeons and Dragons. Shortly afterward, he got a congratulatory call from his agent.

Get to know Joseph Quinn, the standout performer who plays Hellfire Club dungeon master Eddie Munson on 'Stranger Things' season 4.

"I wanted something that was normal, of this world, more like a mullet," he continues. It's very useful as an actor to put something on and instantly you feel like you're looking at a different person." "I listened to a lot of heavy metal and that was my... He also had a part in the action horror film Overlord and played Prince Paul in Helen Mirren's Catherine the Great series. Quinn had two weeks of fittings to get the perfect Eddie wig. "I definitely had a couple of friends that were older than me when I was growing up, in that confusing period of 13-17. But the gang are united under a common cause once more when Eddie is blamed for the gruesome murder of a Hawkins cheerleader, sparking a wave of Satanic Panic among the town that links the D&D life to occult worship. That's not Quinn. "I played my first game in L.A. when we were doing some press," Quinn tells EW. "I bought a book to try and understand what Dungeons & Dragons was about, and it didn't agree with me. Minor spoiler warning: With the kids of Hawkins now in their freshman year of high school, they face the harsh growing pains that come along with adolescence. "I wouldn't consider myself a brilliant guitarist, but I can play it. Quinn has already been named by some critics as the MVP of the show, thanks to the zeal and ferocity with which Eddie approaches all his campaigns, not to mention his total metal head 'tude towards everything in life. Though, I knew that wasn't going to be my way in, as it were."

Eddie Munson, a new character in 'Stranger Things 4,' is vital to the plot of Season 4—and one of the best things about it.

And that's what make his scenes with the soon-to-be-doomed Chrissy Cunningham such a pleasant surprise; Eddie isn't just the loud guy he showed himself to be in the cafeteria, but someone who can be funny and really listen to someone when they're having problems. After Dickensian—a BBC murder mystery series that brings many Charles Dickens characters together in one neighborhood, kind of like a Charles Dickens Multiverse situation—Quinn has consistently appeared in major works. Eddie is introduced as a loud, charismatic, and brash leader; he stomps on the table in the cafeteria, he shouts at people, and is generally just intense. He's the leader of The Hellfire Club, a freaking Dungeons and Dragons society, after all. Think about a show like Lost, when an attempt to show what life was like on "the island" for those not in the central group of characters led to the introduction of a couple who eventually became so detested by fans and critics that they were buried alive only a few episodes later. And while Season 4 has a couple worthwhile entries into this group, the best, far and away, is Eddie Munson.