Asa Butterfield

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.

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Known For

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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Acting

—		If She Burns
—		Rogue Trooper
—		Watch the Skies as (voice)
—		College Republicans as Karl Rove
—		The Liar as Adrian Healey
—		The Carnival at the End of Days as Adam
—		Out of the Dust as Adam

2025		Our Hero, Balthazar
2025		Stitch Head

2023		Your Christmas or Mine 2 as James
2023		All Fun and Games as Marcus

2022		Your Christmas or Mine? as James
2022		Flux Gourmet as Billy Rubin
2022		Choose or Die as Isaac

2021		Rhythm of Life as Self
2021		Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel as Self

2020

50 States of Fright as Brandon Boyd

2019		Greed as Finn McCreadie
2019		The House of Tomorrow as Sebastian Prendergast
2019		Sex Education as Otis Milburn

2018		Then Came You as Calvin
2018		Time Freak as Stillman
2018		Slaughterhouse Rulez as Willoughby Blake
2018		Right Place, Wrong Tim as Tim Bell / Andrew

2017		Journey's End as Raleigh
2017		The Space Between Us as Gardner Elliot

2016

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children as Jacob Portman

2015		10,000 Saints as Jude Keffy-Horn
2015		Thunderbirds Are Go! as Space Controller Conrad (Voice)

2014		X+Y as Nathan Ellis
2014		Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self

2013

Ender's Game as Ender Wiggin

2012		Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' as Self
2012		The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' as Self
2012		Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime as Self
2012		The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès as Self (archive footage)

2011

Hugo as Hugo Cabret

2010		Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang as Norman Green
2010		The Wolfman as Young Ben

2008		Merlin as Mordred
2008		The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas as Bruno
2008		Ashes to Ashes as Donny

2007		The Graham Norton Show as Self - Guest
2007		Son of Rambow as Brethren Boy

2006		After Thomas as Andrew
2006		The One Show as Self