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