Asa Butterfield
Born 1997 · English actor
Asa Bopp Farr Butterfield is an English actor. Beginning his career as a child actor, he 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), the fantasy Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) and the romantic science-fiction The Space Between Us (2017). From 2019 to 2023, Butterfield was the lead of the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education.
Asa Butterfield, in order
- 2007 Son of Rambow: acted · directed by Garth Jennings
- 2008 Merlin (TV series): acted
- 2008 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: acted · directed by Mark Herman
- 2009 Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard: acted · directed by Luc Besson
- 2010 Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang: acted · directed by Susanna White
- 2010 The Wolfman: acted · directed by Joe Johnston · critics 32%, audiences 33% · streaming on HBO Max, Shudder
- 2011 Hugo: acted · directed by Martin Scorsese · critics 93%, audiences 78% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, MGM+
- 2013 Ender's Game: acted · directed by Gavin Hood · critics 62%, audiences 65% · streaming on Tubi
- 2014 X+Y: acted · directed by Morgan Matthews
- 2015 Ten Thousand Saints: acted · directed by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman
- 2016 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: acted · directed by Tim Burton
- 2017 Journey's End: acted · directed by Saul Dibb
- 2017 The Space Between Us: acted · directed by Peter Chelsom
- 2018 Slaughterhouse Rulez: acted · directed by Crispian Mills
- 2018 The House of Tomorrow: acted · directed by Peter Livolsi
- 2019 Sex Education (TV series): acted
- 2020 50 States of Fright (TV series): acted
- 2022 Choose or Die: acted · directed by Toby Meakins
- 2022 Flux Gourmet: acted · directed by Peter Strickland
- 2022 Your Christmas or Mine?: acted · directed by Jim O'Hanlon
- 2023 All Fun and Games: acted · directed by Ari Costa and Eren Çeleboğlu
- 2023 Your Christmas or Mine 2: acted
- 2025 Our Hero, Balthazar: acted
- 2026 The Land of Sometimes: acted · directed by Leon Joosen