Asa Butterfield

Asa Butterfield
Butterfield in 2019
Born (1997-04-01) 1 April 1997
Islington, London, England
OccupationActor
Years active2006–present

Asa Bopp Farr Butterfield (/ˈsə/ AY-sə; born 1 April 1997) is an English actor. Beginning his career as a child actor, Butterfield 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), 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.