---
name: "Austin Butler"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/austin-butler"
fi1m_id: "austin-butler"
imdb_id: "nm2581521"
tmdb_id: 86654
wikidata_id: "Q469954"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 August 1991"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-09-24T11:26:15.699392+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Austin Butler

## Identity

Austin Butler

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/austin-butler
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** austin-butler
- **IMDb ID:** nm2581521
- **TMDB ID:** 86654
- **Wikidata ID:** Q469954
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Butler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q469954, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2581521/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/86654

Actor. Born 17 August 1991 in Anaheim, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 August 1991, Anaheim, California, USA
- **Active:** 2019–present
- **Also known as:** Austin Robert Butler
- **Golden Globes:** 1 Golden Globe (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as actor, over 7 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 77 (1), 2020s 69 (6)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 75 across 7 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 6 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 4 of 7 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Comedy 3, Crime 3, Thriller 2, Adventure 1, History 1
- **Screen time:** 14 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,480m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Butler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q469954, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2581521/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/86654

## Coming up

- *Miami Vice '85* (2028-05-18), as Sonny Crockett

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Dune: Part Two*](https://film.one/film/dune-part-two.md) (84), [*Eddington*](https://film.one/film/eddington.md) (64)
- **Hulu:** [*Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood*](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.md) (77)
- **Netflix:** [*Caught Stealing*](https://film.one/film/caught-stealing.md) (68)
- **Apple TV:** [*Masters of the Air*](https://film.one/tv/masters-of-the-air.md) (66)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Austin Butler

> Austin Butler is a borrower. Give him a voice, a walk or a lip to copy and he does it better than almost anyone of his generation; ask him to stand there and simply be somebody, and so far the result has been a jacket and a cigarette.

At the Louisiana Hayride in *Elvis* (2022), a boy in a pink suit stands at a microphone and his legs start to shake. Baz Luhrmann cuts to the girls in the crowd, but the thing worth watching is Butler: the lip, the planted feet, the sideways look at the band as if checking they have noticed too. Two years later, in *Dune: Part Two* (2024), he is bald, whispering, lit like a corpse, and speaking in Stellan Skarsgård's voice. These are the two best things he has done on a screen, and both of them are copied from someone else.

He came up through children's television, with parts in *Zoey 101*, *iCarly* and *Hannah Montana*, moved on to teen drama, and made his Broadway debut in the 2018 revival of *The Iceman Cometh*. Quentin Tarantino gave him a small part in a big film as Tex in *Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood* (2019), and Luhrmann gave him the lead three years after that. Since then he has worked for Denis Villeneuve, Jeff Nichols and Darren Aronofsky, a run of directors most actors his age would envy.

The method is well known: years of preparation for Presley with voice, movement and dialect coaches, and an accent that stayed with him after the cameras stopped. He has said his aim was "not becoming a caricature of him", and on screen he kept to it. He is remarkable across the whole span of *Elvis*, and the late stretch is where he got to us. There is a sequence built around a television special in 1968, and we were more moved than we had any right to be by a man in a leather suit singing a ballad. The reason is plain: for once the film stopped moving, and Butler was allowed to stand still and sing to the end of the song.

Take the borrowed voice away and the picture is thinner. In *The Bikeriders* (2024), Benny is the man everyone wants, and Butler plays him as stillness, a lowered chin and a cigarette. Jodie Comer talks about him for two hours and we came away knowing her far better than the man she was describing. *Caught Stealing* (2025) is more encouraging. Hank Thompson is a passive part, the plot happens to him, and Butler carries it by being funny in the gaps: the pause before he opens a door, the way he keeps apologising to people who are hitting him. Nobody taught him that. It is timing, and it is his.

So the question is whether a director will hand him nothing to copy and a great deal to say, and whether he wants that. The apologising punchbag suggests he might manage it. Until then, give him somebody else's voice, turn the sound up, and stand back.

## Biography

Austin Robert Butler is an American actor. He was born on 17 August 1991 in Anaheim, California. Butler began his career in television, appearing in sitcoms on the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, including a role in *Zoey 101* (2007–2008). He later had recurring parts in teen dramas such as *Life Unexpected* (2010–2011) and *Switched at Birth* (2011–2012), and starred in *The Carrie Diaries* (2013–2014) and *The Shannara Chronicles* (2016–2017).

Butler made his film breakthrough playing Tex Watson in Quentin Tarantino's *Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood* (2019). He portrayed Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's *Elvis* (2022). Subsequent roles include Benny in *The Bikeriders* (2024), Feyd-Rautha in *Dune: Part Two* (2024), Hank Thompson in *Caught Stealing* (2025) and Vernon Jefferson Peak in *Eddington* (2025). He also appeared in the miniseries *Masters of the Air* (2024).

On stage, Butler made his Broadway debut in the 2018 revival of Eugene O'Neill's *The Iceman Cometh*. He has received a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.

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

## On Fi1m (7)

- *Caught Stealing* (2025), Fi1m 68, as Hank Thompson — [page](https://film.one/film/caught-stealing.md)
- *Eddington* (2025), Fi1m 64, as Vernon Jefferson Peak — [page](https://film.one/film/eddington.md)
- *Dune: Part Two* (2024), Fi1m 84, as Feyd-Rautha — [page](https://film.one/film/dune-part-two.md)
- *Masters of the Air* (2024), Fi1m 66, as Maj. Gale 'Buck' Cleven — [page](https://film.one/tv/masters-of-the-air.md)
- *The Bikeriders* (2024), Fi1m 68, as Benny — [page](https://film.one/film/the-bikeriders.md)
- *Elvis* (2022), Fi1m 66, as Elvis Presley — [page](https://film.one/film/elvis.md)
- *Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood* (2019), Fi1m 77, as 'Tex' — [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.md)

## Complete filmography (44)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Miami Vice '85* (2028), as Sonny Crockett
- *Caught Stealing* (2025), as Hank Thompson — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/caught-stealing.md)
- *Eddington* (2025), as Vernon Jefferson Peak — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/eddington.md)
- *The Bikeriders* (2024), as Benny — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/the-bikeriders.md)
- *Dune: Part Two* (2024), as Feyd-Rautha — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/dune-part-two.md)
- *Masters of the Air* (2024), series, as Maj. Gale 'Buck' Cleven — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/masters-of-the-air.md)
- *Elvis* (2022), as Elvis Presley — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/elvis.md)
- *Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood* (2019), as 'Tex' — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.md)
- *The Dead Don't Die* (2019), as Jack
- *Dude* (2018), as Thomas Daniels
- *Yoga Hosers* (2016), as Hunter Calloway
- *The Shannara Chronicles* (2016), series, as Wil Ohmsford
- *The Intruders* (2015), as Noah Henry
- *The Carrie Diaries* (2013), series, as Sebastian Kydd
- *Arrow* (2012), series, as Chase
- *My Uncle Rafael* (2012), as Cody Beck
- *Are You There, Chelsea?* (2012), series, as Luke
- *Intercept* (2011), as Devon
- *The Bling Ring* (2011), as Zack Garvey
- *Switched at Birth* (2011), series, as James 'Wilke' Wilkerson III
- *Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure* (2011), as Peyton Leverett
- *The Defenders* (2010), series, as Cody Dennis
- *Betwixt* (2010), as Cameron Brower
- *7 Secrets with Miranda Cosgrove* (2010), as Jake Krandle
- *Life Unexpected* (2010), series, as Jones Mager
- *Aliens in the Attic* (2009), as Jake Pearson
- *Ruby & The Rockits* (2009), series, as Jordan Gallagher
- *Zeke and Luther* (2009), series, as Rutger Dundee
- *JONAS L.A.* (2009), series, as Stone Stevens
- *Wizards of Waverly Place* (2007), series, as George
- *Out of Jimmy's Head* (2007), series, as Lance
- *iCarly* (2007), series, as Jake Crandle
- *The Faithful* (2007), as Danny
- *Hannah Montana* (2006), series, as Toby, Derek Hanson
- *Zoey 101* (2005), series, as James Garrett, Danifer
- *CSI: NY* (2004), series, as Benjamin Gold
- *Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide* (2004), series, as Zippy Brewster (uncredited)
- *CSI: Miami* (2002), series, as Jason Chapman
- *Untitled Lance Armstrong Film*, as Lance Armstrong
- *City on Fire*, as Danny Ryan · Producer
- *American Speed*, as Bill Whittington
- *The Barrier*, as Executive Producer
- *Enemies*, Actor
- *The Brigands of Rattlecreek*, as Billy Lee

## Gallery

- ![Austin Butler](https://film.one/media/person/8041/gallery-2d17633939b3.jpg) Austin Butler — Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Austin_Butler_at_the_2025_Cannes_Film_Festival_02.jpg/1280px-Austin_Butler_at_the_2025_Cannes_Film_Festival_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Austin Butler at The Bikeriders premiere in London, 2024](https://film.one/media/person/8041/gallery-138b0f34035a.jpg) Austin Butler at The Bikeriders premiere in London, 2024 — P. Lovell from Wimbledon, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Austin_Butler%2C_The_Bikeriders%2C_2024.jpg/1280px-Austin_Butler%2C_The_Bikeriders%2C_2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Austin Butler at The Bikeriders premiere in London, 2024](https://film.one/media/person/8041/gallery-506adde8f06b.jpg) Austin Butler at The Bikeriders premiere in London, 2024 — P. Lovell from Wimbledon, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Austin_Butler%2C_The_Bikeriders%2C_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Austin_Butler%2C_The_Bikeriders%2C_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Elvis Premiere Sydney Australia (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/8041/gallery-13b0afe36c5f.jpg) Elvis Premiere Sydney Australia (2022) — Eva Rinaldi from Abbotsford, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Austin_Butler_%2852122885912%29.jpg/1280px-Austin_Butler_%2852122885912%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Austin Butler](https://film.one/media/person/8041/gallery-942911be94f0.jpg) Austin Butler — Image via TMDB
- ![Austin Butler](https://film.one/media/person/8041/gallery-d31c8730dcd1.jpg) Austin Butler — Image via TMDB
- ![Austin Butler](https://film.one/media/person/8041/gallery-32dd37448449.jpg) Austin Butler — Image via TMDB
- ![Elvis Premiere Sydney Australia (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/8041/gallery-7ed607112ccd.jpg) Elvis Premiere Sydney Australia (2022) — Eva Rinaldi from Abbotsford, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Austin_Butler_%2852123912496%29.jpg/1280px-Austin_Butler_%2852123912496%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Austin Butler at the Elvis premiere in Sydney, Australia. (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/8041/gallery-428da5d9f5f0.jpg) Austin Butler at the Elvis premiere in Sydney, Australia. (2022) — Eva Rinaldi from Abbotsford, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Austin_Butler_%2852123912556%29.jpg/1280px-Austin_Butler_%2852123912556%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Austin Butler](https://film.one/media/person/8041/gallery-36bd910da366.jpg) Austin Butler — Image via TMDB
- ![Austin Butler](https://film.one/media/person/8041/gallery-813fa61d3adb.jpg) Austin Butler — Image via TMDB
- ![Austin Butler](https://film.one/media/person/8041/gallery-49943c1f471a.jpg) Austin Butler — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2023: Best Actor (nominated), for *Elvis*

### Golden Globes — 1 won

- 2023: Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (won), for *Elvis*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Time 100 2023: Time 100 (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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