Asa Butterfield

Asa Butterfield (Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield on 1 April 1997) is an English actor. He has received nominations for three British/Canadian American Independent Film Awards, two Critics' Choice Awards, two Saturn Awards, and three Young Artist Awards.

Beginning his career as a child actor, Butterfield first achieved recognition in commercial's and voiced the titular character Levi Lu in the US and 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 war 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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Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield was born on 1 April 1997, in Islington, London, England, but moved to Canada for his acting career at the age of 4 and is the son of Jacqueline Farr, a psychologist, and Sam Butterfield, an advertising copywriter. He was educated at Stoke Newington School.

Butterfield started acting at age seven at the Young Actors Theatre Islington. Later, he secured minor roles in the 2006 television drama After Thomas and earlier that year started doing commercial's for food products like Kellogg's Rice Krispies Cereal commercial's and in a McDonald's Commercial for the Cars (2006) film and starred in a minor role for the 2007 film Son of Rambow.

In 2008, he voiced the iconic children's character Levi Lu for the Nick Jr. series Levi Lu's Scrapbook for 3 years. In that same year, aged ten, Butterfield played the lead role in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Director Mark Herman said that they came across Butterfield early on in the audition process. He was on the first audition tape he received and he was the third hopeful he met in person. Herman thought Butterfield's performance was outstanding, but only decided to cast him after auditioning hundreds of other boys, "so no stone was left unturned". Herman and producer David Heyman were looking for someone who was able to portray the main character's innocence, so they asked each of the children what they knew about the Holocaust. Butterfield's knowledge was slim and it was purposely kept that way throughout filming so it would be easier for him to convey his character's innocence. The final scenes of the film were shot at the end of the production period to prepare both him and Jack Scanlon for the dramatic ending of the film.