“It would be hypocritical for me to be any other way.”
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Asa Butterfield
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 Pecu…
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entertainment · English actor (born 1997) · actor · film actor · television actor · also Asa Butterfield, Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield, Asa Bopp Farr Butterfield, Butterfield
Born 1 April 1997 · Q312524
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2026· 6 entries
“But I do feel more confident talking about this stuff.”
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“With my older brother, I spent equal time with both. We’ve got half-sisters on either side, who are friends as well. So we’re all – yeah – pretty lucky.”
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“and the bits that stick with me were the hardest.”
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“That was the first time I felt like I wasn’t the kid on set. I got to know these older actors, good people, who’d done everything: Stephen Graham , Sam Claflin , Paul Bettany , Toby Jones .”
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“It was zeitgeist-y, and people really wanted something like this, given what was going on with feminism, with toxic masculinity, everything.”
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2024· 3 entries
Deadline.com: ‘Sex Education’ Star Asa Butterfield Lands First Theater Role; Luti Fagbenle Indie; ‘Masked Singer’ India; Federation Stories & Soho Studios Hires – Global Briefs
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Variety: Asa Butterfield, Molly Windsor, Fra Fee, Siobhan Finneran and Christopher Eccleston Set for Netflix Series ‘Out of the Dust’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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collider: Asa Butterfield Went Completely Against Type in This Horror Movie
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2023· 4 entries
Yahoo: Is That Really Asa Butterfield's Penis in 'Sex Education' Season 4?
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collider: The Asa Butterfield Movie That Is Way More Cringey Than 'Sex Education'
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Yahoo: Who is 'Sex Education's Asa Butterfield dating? A glimpse into Otis' IRL love life
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Butterfield played in the annual Soccer Aid charity football match, raising money for UNdICEF
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2022· 2 entries
Business Insider: Asa Butterfield says it was 'surreal' filming new festive movie 'Your Christmas or Mine?' during a heatwave: 'We were sweating buckets'
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PopSugar: Every Major Film and TV Show Asa Butterfield Has Starred In
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2018· 2 entries
Was cast in the main role of Otis Milburn on the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education
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Students appeared as extras in the film Greed in which Butterfield appeared
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2017· 1 entry
Competed in the Nintendo World Championships, where he was eliminated early in the invitational
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2016· 1 entry
Portrayed Jacob Portman in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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2015· 1 entry
Butterfield appeared in a film adaptation of Ten Thousand Saints
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2008· 3 entries
Portrayed Mordred in the Merlin episode "The Beginning of the End"; he appeared as Mordred in a number of subsequent episodes
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At 10, Butterfield played the lead role in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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Had a guest role playing Donny in the television series Ashes to Ashes
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1997· 1 entry
Born 1997-04-01.
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