Asa Butterfield

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Asa Butterfield (2019)

Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield (born April 1, 1997 in Islington , London ) is a British actor . He gained notoriety for his roles as Bruno in the Holocaust film drama The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and as Hugo Cabret in the fantasy film of the same name by Martin Scorsese .

life and career

Butterfield was born in Islington, London . He began acting at the age of eight in the Young Actors Theater in his hometown. A short time later, Asa Butterfield landed smaller roles, such as in the television film My Friend on Four Paws (2006), in the movie The Son of Rambow (2007) and in the series Ashes to Ashes - Back to the 80s (2008).

A year later Butterfield starred in the film adaptation of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas , alongside Vera Farmiga and Rupert Friend . Director Mark Herman chose Asa for the role not only because of his talent, but also because Butterfield knew little about the Holocaust . Thus, as intended, he was able to keep young Bruno's innocence. At the same time as The Boy in the Striped Pajamas , Asa Butterfield also auditioned for a role in the film Mr. Nobody , which he also received. However, since the filming overlapped, Butterfield opted for the former.

Asa Butterfield at the premiere of Hugo Cabret in New York (2011)

Before he starred in the horror film Wolfman in 2010, Butterfield played the role of the druid Mordred in the British television series Merlin - The New Adventures . In this series, his fate is to kill Arthur (the king's son). But Merlin ( Colin Morgan ) has to prevent this. After his role was seen in guest appearances in the first two seasons, it was brought back to the series at the beginning of the fifth season. However, Butterfield was replaced by Alexander Vlahos . In 2010 he starred in the family film A Magical Nanny - Bang on Fall in a new adventure alongside Emma Thompson and Maggie Gyllenhaal . He also shot the 3D film Hugo Cabret, directed by Martin Scorsese . In the film, he starred alongside Chloë Moretz , Sacha Baron Cohen , Ben Kingsley and Jude Law . For his role in Hugo , he was at the Young Artist Awards 2012 as Best Actor in a Motion Picture nomination.

In late 2011 it was announced that Butterfield would play the lead role in the youthful film Ender's Game , which is based on the novel The Big Game . In this film, which premiered in October 2013, he was seen alongside other young actors such as Abigail Breslin , Hailee Steinfeld and Moises Arias , as well as Harrison Ford and again Ben Kingsley .

In 2014 Butterfield played the leading role in mathematics Drama X + Y . In 2015, the film Ten Thousand Saints was released , in which he played the lead role alongside Hailee Steinfeld and Ethan Hawke . In the fantasy adventure film The Isle of Special Children by Tim Burton , which was released in fall 2016, Butterfield plays the lead role as the young Jacob, who meets orphans with superhuman powers on an island. In 2017 Butterfield starred alongside Britt Robertson in the movie The Stars So Close in the lead role of Gardner Elliot. In the film The House of Tomorrow by Peter Livolsi , of the San Francisco International Film Festival 2017 was presented, Butterfield played the role of 16-year-old Sebastian. Two years later, he starred as Otis Milburn in the Netflix series Sex Education .

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Web links

Commons : Asa Butterfield  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Asa Butterfield; Personal http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2633535/
  2. ↑ The full list of nominees for the 36th London Critics' Circle Film Awards In: criticscircle.org.uk. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Butterfield, Asa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Butterfield, Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Islington , London