Asa Butterfield
Acting
Born April 1, 1997 · Islington, London, England, UK
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. Descr…
Known For · 40 titles
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Graham Norton Show
Sex Education
The One Show
Merlin
Unchosen
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Thunderbirds Are Go!
Ashes to Ashes
Hugo
50 States of Fright
Ender's Game
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
The Wolfman
Our Hero, Balthazar
The Space Between Us
Slaughterhouse Rulez
The Land of Sometimes
X+Y
Stitch Head
Time Freak
Journey's End
Your Christmas or Mine?
Then Came You
The House of Tomorrow
Watch the Skies
All Fun and Games
Greed
Choose or Die
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Son of Rambow
10,000 Saints
Rogue Trooper
Flux Gourmet
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
If She Burns
Right Place, Wrong Tim
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'