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Asa Butterfield is a Actor British born on 1 april 1997 at Islington (United-kingdom)

Asa Butterfield

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Birth name Asa Maxwell Thornton Butterfield
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1 april 1997 (26 years) at Islington (United-kingdom)

Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield /ˈeɪzə/ AY-zə (born 1 April 1997) is a British actor. He is known for playing the main character Bruno in the Holocaust film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), the young Mordred in the hit BBC TV Series Merlin, Norman in the 2010 film Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, and for lead roles in both Martin Scorsese's 2011 fantasy Hugo as Hugo Cabret and in the 2013 film adaptation of the science fiction novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card as Ender Wiggin. He most recently portrayed Nathan Ellis in Morgan Matthews's X+Y and Jude Keffy-Horn in Ten Thousand Saints.

Biography

Jeunesse
Asa Butterfield est le deuxième enfant de Sam Butterfield et de Jacqueline Farr. Il a un frère aîné, Morgan, une sœur, Loxie, et une demi-sœur, Marlie, issue du remariage de son père.


Carrière

Les débuts au cinéma et à la télévision
À cinq ans, Asa Butterfield est choisi pour la couverture du livre autobiographique Better Than Working de Patrick Skene Catling. À sept ans, sa mère l'inscrit à des cours de théâtre au Young Actor's Theatre d'Islington. Sa famille le fait participer alors à des castings à l'issue desquels Asa obtient des rôles secondaires à la télévision et au cinéma (After Thomas, Le Fils de Rambow, Ashes to Ashes).

En 2008, il obtient son premier grand rôle dans le film Le Garçon au pyjama rayé, avec David Thewlis et Vera Farmiga. Il y incarne Bruno, un jeune enfant naïf qui ne comprend pas les événements tragiques qui se passent autour de lui. Il est nommé pour deux prix : en 2008 aux British Independent Film Awards ; en 2009 aux Young Artist Awards. Dans la même année, il incarne un rôle dans la série de la BBC Merlin qui retrace la jeunesse de l'enchanteur. Il y incarne pendant deux saisons Mordred, un jeune druide pourchassé par le roi Uther Pendragon.


Années 2010 et ascension
En 2010, Asa Butterfield interprète Norman, l'aîné des enfants Green, dans le second épisode du film Nanny McPhee et le Big Bang. La même année, il est choisi pour tourner dans le film Hugo Cabret de Martin Scorsese. Dans ce film relatant l'histoire d'un jeune orphelin vivant dans une gare, Asa est entouré de plusieurs acteurs connus : Jude Law, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Christopher Lee et Chloe Grace Moretz. Le tournage débute en 2010 aux studios de Shepperton et de Longcross dans le comté de Surrey, puis à Paris du 16 au 25 août. Ben Kingsley, qui interprète le rôle du réalisateur Georges Méliès, qualifie Asa d'un des meilleurs enfants acteurs avec lequel il avait joué au long de sa carrière : « On peut même enlever le mot "enfant" d'ailleurs. C'est un très grand acteur ». Le film sort le 14 décembre 2011 en France.

En 2013, il interprète le rôle d'Andrew Wiggin dans La Stratégie Ender de Gavin Hood, avec Harrison Ford, Viola Davis, Ben Kingsley et Hailee Steinfeld. En 2014, il joue un adolescent autiste surdoué des mathématiques dans le film Le Monde de Nathan (A Brilliant Young Mind), inspiré d'une histoire vraie.

Il passe en 2015 des auditions pour le personnage de Peter Parker adolescent dans le troisième reboot des aventures de Spider-Man. La production lui préfère Tom Holland.

En 2016, il interprète le rôle de Jake Portman dans l'adaptation cinématographique du best seller de Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine et les Enfants particuliers, de Tim Burton, avec Eva Green, Samuel L. Jackson et Judi Dench.

Il incarne Gardner Elliott, premier être humain à être né sur Mars, dans le film Un monde entre nous (2017), avec Gary Oldman, Britt Robertson et Carla Gugino. La même année, il tourne dans Journey's End de Saul Dibb, d'après l'œuvre de R.C. Sheriff, avec Sam Claflin et Paul Bettany. En 2018, il interprète le rôle de Stillman aux côtés de Sophie Turner dans le film Time Freak réalisé par Andrew Bowler.

En 2019, il apparaît dans le rôle principal, aux côtés de Gillian Anderson, Ncuti Gatwa et Emma Mackey dans la série télévisée Sex Education sur Netflix. Dans la même année, il incarnera Calvin en tant que personnage principal aux côtés de Maisie Williams et Nina Dobrev dans le film Then Came You.

Best films

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
(Actor)
Hugo (2011)
(Actor)
Ender's Game (2013)
(Actor)

Usually with

Luc Besson
Luc Besson
(1 films)
Mark Herman
Mark Herman
(1 films)
Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Asa Butterfield (15 films)

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Actor

Greed
Greed (2019)

Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher, David Mitchell, Asa Butterfield, Sophie Cookson, Shirley Henderson
Roles Finn McCreadie
Rating57% 2.899252.899252.899252.899252.89925
Une satire sur un homme avide d'argent et sa femme, qui est la seule personne capable de le comprendre.
Slaughterhouse Rulez, 1h43
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Asa Butterfield, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Hermione Isla Conyngham Corfield, Michael Sheen, Jamie Blackley
Roles Willoughby Blake
Rating53% 2.6540352.6540352.6540352.6540352.654035
D'origine modeste, le jeune Don Wallace intègre la prestigieuse école privée de Slaughterhouse. Alors qu'il découvre l'établissement et ses règles très strictes, un gouffre se forme près d'un site de fracturation hydraulique, livrant le passage à d'impitoyables monstres. Un nouvel ordre hiérarchique s'établit alors que les élèves, leurs professeurs et la directrice de l'école s'engagent dans une bataille sanglante pour leur survie...
The Space Between Us, 2h1
Directed by Peter Chelsom
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure, Romance
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film
Actors Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson, Gary Oldman, B.D. Wong, Carla Gugino, Janet Montgomery
Roles Gardner Elliot
Rating64% 3.213613.213613.213613.213613.21361
A sixteen-year-old boy who grows up on Mars falls in love with a girl on Earth, whom he has been communicating with, so he starts his journey to see her.
Journey's End, 1h47
Directed by Saul Dibb
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Sam Claflin, Asa Butterfield, Paul Bettany, Tom Sturridge, Toby Jones, Stephen Graham
Roles Raleigh
Rating66% 3.344483.344483.344483.344483.34448
En mars 1918, vers la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, dans les tranchées de l'Aisne, un petit groupe de soldats attend la mort sous les bombardements de l'ennemi. Le lieutenant Raleigh, dix-huit ans, rejoint les hommes dirigés par son ami d'enfance, le capitaine Stanhope, âgé de vingt ans. Mais ce dernier est gravement fragilisé par la guerre…
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, 2h7
Directed by Tim Burton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Time travel films, Temporal paradox, Children's films
Actors Asa Butterfield, Eva Green, Samuel L. Jackson, Ella Purnell, Allison Janney, Terence Stamp
Roles Jacob Portman
Rating67% 3.35313.35313.35313.35313.3531
A 16-year-old boy named Jacob Portman accidentally works himself onto a mysterious island where he helps a group of peculiar orphan children at Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, protecting them and leading them away from horrible creatures who are out to destroy them.
10,000 Saints, 1h53
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Ethan Hawke, Emile Hirsch, Emily Mortimer, Julianne Nicholson
Roles Jude Keffy-Horn
Rating59% 2.9514952.9514952.9514952.9514952.951495
Jude Keffy-Horn (Asa Butterfield) is a teenage boy who lives in Vermont with his adoptive mother, Harriet (Julianne Nicholson), and sister, Prudence (Nadia Alexander). Mixed up in the complicated world of drugs and alcohol, his best friend, Teddy (Avan Jogia), dies of a drug overdose on the last day of 1987 after Teddy, Jude and their new friend, Eliza (Hailee Steinfeld) from Manhattan spend the night out partying, leaving Jude devastated. Jude is eventually sent to Manhattan to reconnect with his father, Les (Ethan Hawke), and discovers kinship with Teddy's half-brother, Johnny (Emile Hirsch). He soon starts hanging out with Johnny's group of straight-edge friends, that have strict no-drugs, no-sex, no-meat, and no-alcohol rules, keeping Jude out of trouble for the first time in years. When he finds out that Eliza, who is also the daughter of Les' girlfriend, Di (Emily Mortimer), is pregnant with the child of deceased Teddy after an encounter on the night Teddy died, he and Johnny, along with Les, become Eliza's rock as she struggles through pregnancy so early on in life, and the three become a family of sorts, in hopes to raise the child together. Meanwhile, Di struggles with her relationship with Les, and Harriet struggles with the prospect of her growing children.
X+Y
X+Y (2014)
, 1h51
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about mathematics, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Martin McCann, Alex Lawther
Roles Nathan Ellis
Rating70% 3.5462053.5462053.5462053.5462053.546205
Nathan est un garçon autiste. À l'âge de neuf ans, il perd son père avec qui il avait réussi à développer une complicité. Parce qu'il est un prodige en mathématiques, il suit des cours particuliers chez un professeur, Martin Humphreys, puis lors de ses 14 ans, il est sélectionné pour représenter la Grande-Bretagne aux Olympiades internationales de mathématiques. Avec l'équipe britannique, il va à Taipei pour s'entraîner deux semaines avec des compétiteurs chinois, en dehors de son monde connu. Il se lie d'amitié avec Zhang-Mei, une jeune Chinoise sélectionnée elle aussi, et découvre avec elle un monde nouveau. De retour à Cambridge, le grand concours se déroule, pour lui une grande histoire d'angoisses, de curiosité, d'amour et de mémoire qui va le transformer.
Ender's Game, 1h54
Directed by Gavin Hood
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, War, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Space adventure films, Films about computing, Jeu, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about insects, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Moisés Arias, Aramis Knight, Hailee Steinfeld
Roles Ender Wiggin
Rating65% 3.2998853.2998853.2998853.2998853.299885
In the future, humanity is preparing to launch an attack on the homeworld of an alien race called the Formics who had attacked Earth and killed millions. Over the course of fifty years, gifted children are trained by the International Fleet to become commanders of a new fleet for this counter-attack.
Hugo
Hugo (2011)
, 2h7
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Adventure
Themes Films about films, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Transport films, Rail transport films, Steampunk films, Children's films, Robot films
Actors Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer
Roles Hugo Cabret
Rating74% 3.74673.74673.74673.74673.7467
In 1931, 12-year-old Hugo Cabret lives in Paris with his father, a widowed, but kind and devoted master clockmaker. Hugo's father takes him to see films and loves those of Georges Méliès best of all.
The Wolfman, 1h43
Directed by Joe Johnston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror, Historical
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, Geraldine Chaplin, Elizabeth Croft
Roles Young Ben
Rating58% 2.9008552.9008552.9008552.9008552.900855
In 1891, Ben Talbot is confronted by a fierce creature in the Blackmoor woods. He tries to escape, but is killed by the beast.
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, 1h49
Directed by Susanna White
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Children's films
Actors Emma Thompson, Rhys Ifans, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Asa Butterfield, Ewan McGregor, Maggie Smith
Roles Norman Green
Rating61% 3.0540553.0540553.0540553.0540553.054055
On a farm during World War II, while her husband is away at war, Isabel Green is driven to her wits end by her hectic life. Between trying to keep the family farm up and running and her job in the village shop, run by the slightly mad Mrs. Docherty, she also has three boisterous children to look after, Norman, Megsie, and Vincent. When her children's two wealthy cousins, Cyril and Celia, also then come to live with them, Isabel requires childcare help.
Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard, 1h33
Directed by Luc Besson
Origin France
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Selena Gomez, Fergie, Ron Crawford, Jimmy Fallon
Roles Arthur - 5 ans
Rating52% 2.635322.635322.635322.635322.63532
In 1963, protagonist Arthur stays with his grandparents for the holidays, during which the Bogo Matassalai (a fictitious African society) assign Arthur a series of tests including camouflage and environmental nonviolence. Having passed these tests, Arthur prepares to see the Minimoys to celebrate, until his father decides to take him and his mother back to the metropolis. When a spider gives Arthur a grain of rice containing a distress-call, which he believes has come from the Minimoys, he returns to his grandparents' house, where the Bogo Matassalai's attempt to give him Minimoy stature through a telescope fails, and they instead wrap him in vines of increasing tightness until he falls in a drop of sap into the Minimoy Max's bar. En route to investigate the Minimoys' condition, Arthur and Max rescue Betameche, who leads Arthur to the King. He then learns that Selenia is held by Maltazard, who is inspired to invade the human world by increasing his own size. Maltazard tricks the Minimoys into completing this design. The telescope itself is destroyed in the process, leaving Arthur trapped at his Minimoy size.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, 1h34
Directed by David Heyman, Mark Herman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Jack Scanlon, Vera Farmiga, Rupert Friend, Amber Beattie
Roles Bruno Hoess
Rating77% 3.85193.85193.85193.85193.8519
An 8-year-old boy named Bruno (Asa Butterfield) lives with his family in Berlin, in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. He learns that his father Ralf (David Thewlis) has been promoted, due to which their family, including Bruno's mother Elsa (Vera Farmiga) and 12-year-old sister Gretel (Amber Beattie), relocate to the countryside. Bruno hates his new home as there is no one to play with and very little to explore. After commenting that he has spotted people working on what he thinks is a farm in the distance, he is also forbidden from playing in the back garden.
Son of Rambow, 1h36
Directed by Garth Jennings
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about films, Films about religion
Actors Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Jules Sitruk, Jessica Hynes, Adam Godley, Neil Dudgeon
Roles Brethren Boy
Rating69% 3.4979953.4979953.4979953.4979953.497995
Will (Bill Milner) is quiet and shy, and comes from a family that belongs to the strict Plymouth Brethren church. Will is forbidden to watch films or television and is made to leave his classroom when the teacher puts on a documentary. In the corridor, he meets Lee Carter (Will Poulter), the worst-behaved boy in school, thrown out of another class for bad behaviour. They accidentally break a fish bowl in the corridor; Lee volunteers to take the blame, pretending that the punishment is torture, in exchange for Will's watch, which belonged to his dead father. Moreover, Lee demands that Will performs the stunts in a film Lee is making with home video equipment owned by his bullying older brother, Lawrence (Ed Westwick), which Lawrence uses in his video pirating enterprise. He intends to enter the Screen Test Young Film-Makers' Competition.
After Thomas, 1h33
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors Keeley Hawes, Ben Miles, Sheila Hancock, Duncan Preston, Asa Butterfield, Clive Mantle
Roles Andrew
Rating74% 3.7306553.7306553.7306553.7306553.730655
Kyle Graham (Andrew Byrne) is scared. Not of monsters under the bed like any average six-year-old but of everything. Normal, everyday activities prove terrifying to him. He can’t communicate his fears or share them with friends, because he can’t use language and he has no friends. Kyle has autism, a condition it took his parents two desperate years to get diagnosed. So his day consists of endless traumas and tantrums… and unimaginable stress for his mother Nicola (Keeley Hawes).