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Asa Butterfield

Actor

Asa Butterfield

Born April 1, 1997 in Islington, London, England, UK31 films

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.

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas posterFirst watchThe Boy in the Striped Pyjamas20087.8as BrunoWhen his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Hugo poster7.2Hugo2011Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children poster6.8Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children2016Ender's Game poster6.6Ender's Game2013The Space Between Us poster7.0The Space Between Us2017Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang poster6.3Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang2010Then Came You poster7.5Then Came You2018The Wolfman poster5.9The Wolfman2010X+Y poster6.7X+Y2015

Filmography

31 films as actor
  1. TBAIf She Burns
  2. TBAThe LiarAdrian Healey
  3. TBAHappyMyles
  4. 2026Rogue Trooper(voice)
  5. 2026Our Hero, BalthazarSolomon
  6. 2026The Land of SometimesThe Lad With The Flying Feet (voice)
  7. 2025Watch the Skies(voice)
  8. 2025Stitch HeadStitch Head (voice)
  9. 2023Your Christmas or Mine 2James
  10. 2023All Fun and GamesMarcus
  11. 2022Your Christmas or Mine?James
  12. 2022Flux GourmetBilly Rubin
  13. 2022Choose or DieIsaac
  14. 2019GreedFinn McCreadie
  15. 2019The House of TomorrowSebastian Prendergast
  16. 2018Then Came YouCalvin
  17. 2018Time FreakStillman
  18. 2018Slaughterhouse RulezWilloughby Blake
  19. 2018Right Place, Wrong TimTim Bell / Andrew
  20. 2017Journey's EndRaleigh
  21. 2017The Space Between UsGardner Elliot
  22. 2016Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ChildrenJacob
  23. 201510,000 SaintsJude Keffy-Horn
  24. 2015X+YNathan Ellis
  25. 2013Ender's GameEnder Wiggin
  26. 2011HugoHugo Cabret
  27. 2010Nanny McPhee and the Big BangNorman Green
  28. 2010The WolfmanYoung Ben
  29. 2008The Boy in the Striped PyjamasBruno
  30. 2007Son of RambowBrethren Boy
  31. 2006After ThomasAndrew