Asa Butterfield Biography

Asa Butterfield also known as Asa Bopp Farr Butterfield is an English actor who first gained fame for starring in the lead role in The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas in 2008. In the 2010s, he gained more success with roles in Hugo, Ender’s Game, X+Y, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. He starred as the lead in Netflix’s Sex Education from 2019 to 2023.

Asa Butterfield Age

Butterfield was born Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield on April 1, 1997, in London, England. He is 27 years old as of 2024. Butterfield celebrates his birthday on April 1st.

Asa Butterfield Height

Butterfield stands at an approximate height of 6 feet and 0 inches.

Asa Butterfield Family

Butterfield was born to Jacqueline Farr, and Sam Butterfield in Islington, London. Jacqueline worked as a psychologist while Sam worked as an advertising copywriter. He has siblings named Loxie Butterfield, Morgan Butterfield, and Marlie Butterfield. He and his brother are members of a music group called Mambo Fresh.

Asa Butterfield Relationship

Butterfield is very private about her personal life therefore it is not known if he is in any relationship. There are also no rumors of his being in any past relationship with anyone.

Asa Butterfield Net Worth

Butterfield has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 Million – $5 Million which he has earned through being an actor.

Asa Butterfield The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

Butterfield first gained fame for starring in the lead role of Bruno in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in 2008. Bruno is an eight-year-old German boy living in Berlin. He and his family move to rural occupied Poland with his family after his father, a Schutzstaffel officer, is promoted. Unbeknownst to the horrors that go on in the extermination camp near the back garden from his bedroom window, he befriends a Jewish prisoner of his age named Shmuel.

Butterfield’s performance in the film won him nominations for a British Independent Film Most Promising Newcomer Award, an NSPCC Young British Performer of the Year Award, and a Young Artist Best Performance in an International Feature Film – Leading Young Performers Award.

Director Mark Herman said that they first found Butterfield early in the audition process since he was on the initial audition tape he received. Herman and producer David Heyman sought an actor who would fruitfully capture the lead role’s innocence and naiveté. In this magnitude, they asked each child about their knowledge of the Holocaust. Butterfield had slim knowledge of the issue, a fact that was intentionally maintained during filming to capture the role’s innocence. The film’s closing scenes were filmed at the end of production to prepare both him and Jack Scanlon for the film’s dramatic conclusion.

Asa Butterfield Hugo

Butterfield starred as Hugo Cabret in Hugo in 2011. Hugo is a 12-year-old orphan who lives in the walls of the Gare Montparnasse train station in the 1930s after his father dies in a fire. Prior to his death, his father was a clockmaker at a museum.

After his father’s death, he moves in with his alcoholic uncle Claude who maintains the clocks at Gare Montparnasse. His uncle goes missing, leading Hugo to take over Claude’s job so that the Station Inspector Gustave Dasté won’t send him away after he discovers his uncle’s absence. During this time, he tries to fix a broken automaton that his father was working on before his death since he believes it has his father’s message.

Butterfield’s performance in the film won him nominations for the Critics’ Choice Movie Best Young Performer Award, Empire Best Male Newcomer Award, Saturn Best Performance by a Younger Actor Award, and Young Artist Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor Award. He also won a Young Hollywood Breakthrough Performance – Male Award.

Asa Butterfield Sex Education

Butterfield starred as the lead of Otis Milburn in Netflix’s Sex Education from 2019 to 2023. Otis is a student at Moordale Secondary School. In collaboration with Maeve, he begins a sex therapy clinic to aid the students with their sexual problems. This decision is mostly influenced by his upbringing with a professional sex therapist mother who often has affairs with male suitors but does not maintain romantic relationships. His performance in the film won him an Artist of Distinction at the Newport Beach Film Festival in 2020 and a National Comedy Outstanding Comedy Actor Award in 2022.

Asa Butterfield Instagram

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Asa Butterfield Career

Butterfield studied at Stoke Newington School and started his acting career at 7 at the Young Actors Theatre Islington. He then landed small roles in After Thomas and Son of Rambow. In 2008, he made a guest appearance in Ashes to Ashes, starring as Donny. That same year, he starred in the lead role in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

After defeating hundreds of boys, Butterfield secured a role in Mr. Nobody which he auditioned for at the same time as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. However, he decided not to act in Mr. Nobody. In 2008, he played the role of Mordred in the Merlin episode, The Beginning of the End. He recurred the role in several following episodes. In 2010, he played a small role in The Wolfman. That same year, he starred as Norman Green in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang.

When he was 13, Butterfield starred in the lead role in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo. He also starred as  Andrew “Ender” Wiggin in Ender’s Game. After shooting Ender’s Game, he joined the cast of  X+Y as Nathan Ellis. His performance in the film won him a BIFA for Best Actor nomination.

In 2015, Butterfield starred in Ten Thousand Saints. The following year, he starred as Jacob Portman in  Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Additionally, he starred as Gardner Elliot in The Space Between Us and Sebastian in The House of Tomorrow in 2017. The following year, he joined the cast of  Netflix’s Sex Education. He will star in Rogue Trooper and Out of the Dust.

Other ventures

Butterfield loves creating and producing music. In this magnitude, he released a mashup of the songs Wheatus’ Teenage Dirtbag and XTC’s Making Plans for Nigel. He and his brother are members of a music group called Mambo Fresh. In late 2012, he co-designed Racing Blind, a turn-based video game for iPad, alongside his father and brother. Racing Blind was released to the App Store on April 7, 2013.

Involved with competitive Nintendo gaming, Butterfield competed in the Nintendo World Championships in 2017. He was disqualified early in the invitational. Additionally, he plays competitive Super Smash Bros. and has with the e-sports team Panda Global under the tag “Stimpy.” He first appeared in Genesis 6 in his collaboration with Panda Global.  Team Liquid signed him in October 2020.

Since 2017, Butterfield has held the “Asa Butterfield Masterclass” course, a yearly acting masterclass at The Reel Scene acting school in London. In this magnitude, he teaches improvisation techniques while students work on scenes from his films which are then filmed on the last day.

Butterfield played in the yearly Soccer Aid charity football match in 2023 to collect money for UNICEF. He is a lifelong Arsenal fan who scored England’s opening goal assisted by previous Arsenal player, Jack Wilshere.

Asa Butterfield Movies and TV Shows

Butterfield has starred in several movies and TV shows during his career such as

• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
• The House of Tomorrow
• Journey’s End
• The Space Between Us
• Then Came You
• Time Freak
• Slaughterhouse Rulez
• Greed
• Choose or Die
• Flux Gourmet
• 50 States of Fright
• Your Christmas or Mine?
• All Fun and Games
• Your Christmas or Mine 2