Dacre Montgomery is an Australian actor best known for his role as “Billy Hargrove” in the famous American TV series “Stranger Things” (2017-19).
Wiki/Biography
Dacre Montgomery was born as Dacre Cade Montgomery-Harvey on Tuesday, November 22, 1994 (26 years old in 2020) in Perth, Western Australia. His star sign is Scorpio. He graduated from Mount Lawley Senior High School in Perth. He majored in Dramatic Arts in high school. In 2015, he obtained a degree in acting from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) at Edith Cowan University.
appearance
Height: 5′ 10″
Eye Color: Blue
Hair color: Brown
Family and Race
Parents and siblings
Dacre Montgomery’s father is Canadian Judith Barrett-Leonard and his mother is New Zealander Scott Montgomery-Harvey. In the 1990s, his mother worked in broadcasting and his father was a lecturer in the sound department at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. His parents worked in the film and television industry in Australia.
Dacre Montgomery and his mother
He has a younger sister, Saskia.
Dacre Montgomery and his sister
relation
In March 2018, he began a relationship with model Liv Pollock and has been together ever since.
Dacre Montgomery and Liv Pollock
Profession
As an actor
At the age of nine, he began working as a screen and theatre actor. In 2011, he made his screen debut as “Will” in the Australian television short film “The Family Tree Pilot”.
Still from the pilot film of Family Tree (2011)
He has also appeared in short films: Bertrand Terrible (2011), Tryptophan (2015) and Gordo Clinic (2015). He made his television screen debut in the American TV series Stranger Things (2017-19), playing the lead role of “Billy Hargrove”.
Dacre Montgomery, Stranger Things (2017-19)
In 2016, he made his American film debut, playing the role of “Jeremy” in the film Better Watch Out.
He also appeared in the American films Power Rangers (2017) and The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020). In 2017, he made his Australian film debut as “Mike” in A Few Men Less.
Other works
He made his debut as a director, producer and screenwriter with the American short film In Vitro (2020).
In July 2019, he released his new podcast, “DKHM,” which is beat poetry in musical form. According to Dacre, he spent two years compiling the poems and worked with various musicians to bring them to life. The podcast is available on Spotify and iTunes.
DKHM Podcast logo
On October 27, 2020, he published his first collection of poetry, titled DKMH: The Poems of Dacre Montgomery, through Andrews McMeel Publishing.
DKMH The Poems of Dacre Montgomery (2020)
Favorite things
- Actors: Jack Nicholson, Tom Hardy, Benicio Del Toro, Adam Sandler, Brad Pitt
- Movies: Warrior (2011), Uncut Gems, Ad Astra (2019), Mystic River (2003)
- TV series: Escape at Dannemora (2018)
- Books: The Sun and Her Flowers (by Rupi Kaur), Milk and Honey (by Rupi Kaur)
- Fictional characters: Batman, Spider-Man
salary
He received $150,000 (as of 2019) for his role in Stranger Things.
Car Collection
- Mercedes-Benz Maybach 6 Cabriolet
Dacre Montgomery’s Mercedes-Benz Maybach 6 Cabriolet
Facts/Trivia
- He enjoys watching TV shows, movies, and reading.
- As a student, Dacre was fat, had no friends, and was often bullied. He incorporated his experience of being bullied as a student into the character “Billy” in “Stranger Things”.
- In his 2011 high school yearbook, he was voted “Most Likely to Become a Hollywood Celebrity.”
Dacre Montgomery’s school days
- In his first year at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, he was asked to drop out three times due to personal problems, which made him indifferent and arrogant. Later, he overcame the problem and started over. Speaking of this, he said:
It took me a long time to come up with the idea of going to drama school, but once I got there, I was probably a little arrogant. I didn’t want to pay for tuition and learn these multiple vocal techniques. A lot of things were happening in my life: I got fired, I took a break from my girlfriend, and all of that happened at the end of my first year. My teacher told me, ‘Listen, if you want to come back after the summer, you have to think seriously about your abilities.’ After the short break, I came back with a different perspective and attitude. I came back, and we had our first public performance, which was amazing.”
- According to Dyke, he was a descendant of King Charles II of England, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1660-1685) and King of Scotland (1649-1651). He was a descendant of Charles’ daughter, Anne Leonard, Countess of Sussex. In fact, his name “Dyke” was taken from Baron Dyke of England (a barony title dating back to 1321), his predecessor on his mother’s side.
- In 2016, he appeared in Angus & Julia Stone’s music video “Chateau”.
- In 2017, he played “Robert” in the music video “Old Souls” by the Australian metal band “Make Them Suffer”.
- In his audition for Stranger Things, he played the role of bully Ace Merrill from the American film Stand By Me (1986), a role played by Kiefer Sutherland in the original film.
- In 2018, he completed an internship with Los Angeles celebrity interior designer Adam Hunter and announced that the two would collaborate to open a Los Angeles restaurant in two years.
- In 2020, he became an ambassador for the Australian Red Cross and actively expressed his support for the organization through social media.
Dacre Montgomery tweets his support for the Australian Red Cross
- He hates Vegemite, an iconic Australian spread made from leftover brewer’s yeast extract with various vegetable and spice additives that is loved by most Australians.
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