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name: "Asa Butterfield"
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born: "1 April 1997"
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# Asa Butterfield

Actor. Born 1 April 1997 in Islington, London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 April 1997, Islington, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 2008–2019
- **Also known as:** Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield, Asa Bopp Farr Butterfield

## Biography

Asa Butterfield is an English actor. He began his career as a child actor and first gained recognition for his leading role as Bruno in the historical drama *The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas* (2008).

Butterfield went on to star in several films during the 2010s, including the title role in Martin Scorsese's *Hugo* (2011), Ender Wiggin in *Ender's Game* (2013), and Jacob in *Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children* (2016). From 2019 to 2023 he portrayed Otis Milburn in the Netflix series *Sex Education*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Sex Education* (2019), Fi1m 78, as Otis Milburn — [page](https://film.one/tv/sex-education.md)
- *Hugo* (2011), Fi1m 70, as Hugo Cabret — [page](https://film.one/film/hugo.md)
- *Ashes to Ashes* (2008), Fi1m 64, as Donny — [page](https://film.one/tv/ashes-to-ashes.md)

## Also known for

- *Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children* (2016), Jacob
- *The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas* (2008), Bruno
- *Ender's Game* (2013), Ender Wiggin
- *The Space Between Us* (2017), Gardner Elliot
- *The Wolfman* (2010), Young Ben
- *Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang* (2010), Norman Green
- *Merlin* (2008), Mordred
- *Choose or Die* (2022), Isaac

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