Asa Butterfield

Movies:
-The Invention of Hugo Cabret as Hugo Cabret (2010).
-Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang as Norman (2010).
-The Wolfman as young Ben (2010).
-The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas as Bruno (2008).
-Son of Rambow as Brethren Boy (2007).
-After Thomas (TV) as Andrew (2006).

Television:
-Merlin as Mordred (2008-2009).
-Ashes to Ashes as Donny (2008).

Asa beat hundreds of children in the auditions for Martin Scorsese's movie The Invention Of Hugo Cabret. He got the main role but it wasn't written thinking of him.

While filming Merlin, Katie McGrath caught a 12 year-old Asa with a Maxim magazine featuring Megan Fox on the cover.

Asa considers his role of Kevin, a boy abused by his mother in The Kid one of his more challenging interpretations so far.

Asa has blue eyes, dark brown hair and is 4'4".

Asa attends school in Stoke Newington.

While filming for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Asa had a tutor onset and took three hours of school lessons every day.

Asa Butterfield beat hundreds of other boys when casting for his role in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas while at the same time auditioning for Jaco van Dormael's Mr. Nobody, although he dropped from the casting process of the second one voluntarily.

Mark Herman, director of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, chose Asa for the role of Bruno because the kid's knowledge about the Holocaust was scarce which fit the innocent quality that was sought for the character and it was kept that way. Asa was the third person among the hundreds he saw for the role and he could hold the screen like no other, 'having the right blend of innocence and curiosity' together with some 'compelling, watchful eyes'.

Nominations:
2008 British Independent Film Awards - 'Most Promising Newcomer' for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
2008 NSPCC Award (London Critics Circle Film Awards) – 'Young British Performer of the Year' for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
2009 Young Artist Awards – 'Best Performance in an International Feature Film for Leading Young Performers' (shared with Jack Scanlon) for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008).

Asa likes to spend his summer holidays with his cousins and brother.

Asa plays the piano and the guitar and loves singing. Despite he prefers jazz and funk over rock, in 2003 he recorded a song (a remix from the hits Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus and Making Plans For Nigel by XTC) for the XFM Rock School competition which was placed out for a while and for which he won a Fender guitar.

Favourites:
-Videogames, especially fighting ones.
-Swimming.

Asa has an older brother named Morgan. His mother is named Jake and she is a teacher.

A 5 year-old Asa appears behind a desk on the cover of the book Better than Working, a Patrick Skene Catling's autobiography.

Asa has two cats named Leo and Missy.