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Asa Butterfield

Asa Butterfield

Actor · Born April 1, 1997 · Islington, London, England, UK

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Biography

Asa Bopp Farr Butterfield (born Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield; 1 April 1997) is an English actor. Beginning his career as a child actor, Butterfield first achieved recognition as the lead of the historical drama film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008). He continued to headline films during the 2010s, starring in the adventure drama Hugo (2011), the science fiction film Ender's Game (2013), the drama X+Y (2014), and the fantasy Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016). From 2019 to 2023, Butterfield portrayed the lead of the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education. Description above from the Wikipedia article Asa Butterfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acted in 37

Appearances8

2020s

  1. 2021

    Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel

    Self

2010s

  1. 2014
  2. 2012

    Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'

    Self

  3. The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'

    Self

  4. The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès

    Self (archive footage)

  5. Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime

    Self