Asa Butterfield
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
as Bruno
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
as Jacob
The Space Between Us (2017)
as Gardner Elliot
Hugo (2011)
as Hugo Cabret
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)
as Norman Green
Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018)
as Willoughby Blake
Ender's Game (2013)
as Ender Wiggin
The Wolfman (2010)
as Young Ben
Our Hero, Balthazar (2026)
as Solomon
Then Came You (2018)
as Calvin
Stitch Head (2025)
as Stitch Head (voice)
Time Freak (2018)
as Stillman
The Land of Sometimes (2026)
as The Lad With The Flying Feet (voice)
Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
as James
Choose or Die (2022)
as Isaac
All Fun and Games (2023)
as Marcus
Journey's End (2017)
as Raleigh
X+Y (2014)
as Nathan Ellis
The House of Tomorrow (2019)
as Sebastian Prendergast
Greed (2019)
as Finn McCreadie
Son of Rambow (2007)
as Brethren Boy
Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023)
as James
Watch the Skies (2025)
as (voice)
10,000 Saints (2015)
as Jude Keffy-Horn
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' (2012)
as Self
Rogue Trooper (2026)
as (voice)
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' (2012)
as Self
Flux Gourmet (2022)
as Billy Rubin
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel (2021)
as Self
After Thomas (2006)
as Andrew
Happy (—)
as Myles
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime (2012)
as Self
Right Place, Wrong Tim (2018)
as Tim Bell / Andrew
The Liar (—)
as Adrian Healey
If She Burns (—)
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