What you need to know
- Charlie Heaton’s son has a new love for TV
- While talking to people at the venue industry On the Season 4 premiere, the actor shared a comment about how his son Archie is “just going nuts” stranger things
- Heaton welcomed his son along with former bandmate Akiko Matsuura
Charlie Heaton’s son has a newfound obsession with television.
While talking to people at the venue industry The Season 4 premiere will be held at Regal Union Square on Thursday, January 8th. stranger things The 31-year-old actor said his son Archie is “just getting into” the hit Netflix show.
“He just started getting into it,” the doting father tells PEOPLE. “He ended up coming on set last year and it was really great.”
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The actor and former Comaneci bandmate Akiko Matsuura reportedly gave birth to son Archie in 2014. GQ. Heaton and Matsuura eventually go their separate ways.
for many people stranger things For fans, watching the show means watching the young cast grow up on screen. But for Heaton, who has played Jonathan since the series premiered in 2016, that evolution has also happened off-screen, and he said it was largely shaped by fatherhood. wonderland magazine Ahead of the Season 5 premiere.
He gave a rare glimpse of being Archie’s father when speaking to the media in November 2025.
“As a young father, I have to grow up quickly,” he told the outlet. “You have to learn ethical priorities, and you have to look after someone.”
“That’s a big deal,” Heaton said. “You want to give them good experiences and a lot of love. And the hard part is obviously the distance. But that’s part of the sacrifice.”
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For the past 11 years of Archie’s life, Heaton has managed to keep his son out of the spotlight. He has not shared any photos or details of Archie’s life on social media.
It is well known that actors do not reveal private details about their private lives, such as parent-child relationships and romantic relationships. In fact, Heaton and his current girlfriend Natalia Dyer kept their real-life romance a secret for several months.
“We didn’t really know what the relationship was,” Heaton said. GQ In February 2020, they kept their romance private at the time. “Maybe the capriciousness was unnecessary anyway.”