Though he rose to fame as the earnest little boy in the Holocaust drama
"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" (2006), English actor Asa Butterfield
transcended the film's sub-par reviews and was lauded for his breakout
performance as a German boy who befriends a youth trapped inside a
concentration camp. From there, Butterfield went on to play the
not-yet-evil Mordred on the BBC's young King Arthur adventure series
"Merlin" (2008-09) and appeared alongside Anthony Hopkins in the remake
of "The Wolfman" (2010). He charmed audiences as Maggie Gyllenhaal's son
in the family fantasy "Nanny McPhee Returns" (2010) and garnered the
attention of director Martin Scorsese, who cast Butterfield as the lead
in "Hugo" (2011), a 3-D family film about a little boy living in the
walls of a 1930s train station, trying to unravel the parallel mysteries
of his father's death and a magical machine. Though his bread and
butter had always been all brood and drama, it was clear that young
Butterfield came to the screen armed with deeply intuitive and
well-rounded talent.
Asa Maxwell Thornton Butterfield was born on
April 1, 1997 in London, England. He began performing early in his youth
and acting professionally at age eight. First cast as a small character
in the television drama "After Thomas" (2006), Butterfield made his
feature film debut in "Son of Rambow" (2007) before appearing in an
episode of the BBC One science fiction procedural series "Ashes to
Ashes" (2008). He rose to celebrity in the Holocaust drama "The Boy in
the Striped Pajamas" (2006). One of the first to audition for the film,
Butterfield was among the top choices for the lead role of Bruno from
the beginning. Casting directors wanted Bruno - a young boy whose father
is named the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp - to be innocent,
and Butterfield's lack of familiarity with some of the more terrifying
Holocaust atrocities made him the preferred choice. In the film, Bruno
meets a boy about his age who lives in the camp, and little by little,
learns about what is going on behind the barbed wire. Based on the book
by Irish novelist John Boyne, the film received low-grade reviews for
its lack of authenticity and dramatic glaze. The British Independent
Film Awards, however, nominated Butterfield as Most Promising Newcomer.
Butterfield
returned to television on the BBC series "Merlin" (2008-09), which
chronicles the adventures of a young King Arthur. He played a druid boy
who is later revealed in the final episode to be the traitor, Mordred.
Next, Butterfield appeared in "The Wolfman" (2010) thriller with Anthony
Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro before playing Maggie Gyllenhaal's son in
"Nanny McPhee Returns" (2010), starring Gyllenhaal as a young mother
left to run a farm by herself while her husband is off at war. In 2011,
Butterfield was cast as the lead in Martin Scorsese's 3-D fantasy film
"Hugo," set in 1930s Paris and based on the best-selling Brian Selzniak
book The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Also starring Sacha Baron
Cohen and Jude Law, "Hugo" was the tale of a young orphan who lives
inside the walls of a train station, trying to unravel the mystery of
his father's death and his connection with a magical machine
Filmography
Filmography
| 2006 | After Thomas | Andrew | |||||||||||
| 2007 | Son of Rambow | Brethren Boy | |||||||||||
| 2008 | Ashes to Ashes | Donny (Episode 1.6) | |||||||||||
| The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | Bruno | ||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Merlin | Mordred (Episodes 1.8, 2.3 & 2.11) | |||||||||||
| 2010 | The Wolfman | Younger Ben Talbot | |||||||||||
| 2010 | Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang | Norman Green | |||||||||||
| 2011 | Hugo | Hugo Cabret | |||||||||||
| 2013 | Ender's Game | Ender Wiggin |
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