Biography
Asa Bopp Farr Butterfield (born Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield; 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 2...
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Stitch Head
2025
Follows Stitch Head, a small creature awoken by a Mad Professor in a castle to protect the professor's other creations from the townspeople of Grubber...

Our Hero, Balthazar
2025
as Solomon
A wealthy teenager from New York City tries to win over his activist crush by traveling to Texas and befriending a would-be mass shooter.

Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023
as James
They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent family Christmas or has their future together gone off...

All Fun and Games
2023
as Marcus
A group of Salem teens discover a cursed knife that unleashes a demon that forces them to play gruesome, deadly versions of childhood games where ther...

Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
as James
Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-secon...

Flux Gourmet
2022
as Billy Rubin
At an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas and gas...

Choose or Die
2022
as Isaac
In pursuit of an unclaimed $125,000 prize, a broke college dropout decides to play an obscure, 1980s survival computer game. But the game curses her, ...

Rhythm of Life
2021
as Self
A star-studded short film encouraging people to get COVID-19 vaccines and featuring the song "The Rhythm of Life" from the 1966 classic musical, Sweet...

Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021
as Self
Since 2017, Letters Live has produced 11 shows at the Union Chapel, with no two shows being the same.

Greed
2019
as Finn McCreadie
A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.

The House of Tomorrow
2019
as Sebastian Prendergast
The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and ...

Then Came You
2018
as Calvin
An American hypochondriac who is working as a baggage handler is forced to confront his fears when a British teenager with a terminal illness enlists ...

Time Freak
2018
as Stillman
Stillman, a heartbroken physics student, builds a time machine when his girlfriend breaks up with him. Going back in time, he attempts to save their r...

Slaughterhouse Rulez
2018
as Willoughby Blake
An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakab...

Right Place, Wrong Tim
2018
as Tim Bell / Andrew
Right Place, Wrong Tim follows the Bell family, a dynasty of clockmakers who run Dagenham’s infamous ‘Hells Bells’ clock shop, in Channel 4’s most suc...

Journey's End
2017
as Raleigh
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.

The Space Between Us
2017
as Gardner Elliot
A young man raised by scientists on Mars returns to Earth to find his father.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016
as Jacob Portman
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroyin...

10,000 Saints
2015
as Jude Keffy-Horn
A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hard...

X+Y
2014
as Nathan Ellis
A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathem...

Ender's Game
2013
as Ender Wiggin
Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in t...

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
2012
as Self
The cast and crew of "Hugo" discuss the process of adapting the book to screen, the work of director Martin Scorsese, the story's themes, the origins ...

The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
2012
as Self
This documentary looks back at the history of automata but also briefly examines the design of the automaton seen in the film "Hugo."

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
2012
as Self (archive footage)
A look back at the life, style and influences of the famed filmmaker Georges Méliès and an examination of his role in the story of "Hugo."

Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
2012
as Self
A humorous short piece that looks at Sacha Baron Cohen's approach to his role in the film "Hugo."

Hugo
2011
as Hugo Cabret
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the statio...

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010
as Norman Green
Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arriv...

The Wolfman
2010
as Young Ben
Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonl...

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008
as Bruno
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of t...

Son of Rambow
2007
as Brethren Boy
Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to ma...

After Thomas
2006
as Andrew
Television film adaptation of the true story ("A Friend Like Henry" by Nuala Gardner) of a young autistic boy and his extraordinary friendship with hi...
If She Burns
N/A
A young woman travels to Europe with her family following a traumatic incident. There, she begins to bond with her mysterious neighbor, while also pus...

Rogue Trooper
N/A
Rogue is a "Genetic Infantryman", a genetically-engineered, blue-skinned, manufactured super soldier who, alongside his three comrades, is searching f...

Watch the Skies
N/A
as (voice)
When a small starship crashes to earth, it is not a monster or alien overlord that emerges, but a teenage boy who has run away from home - a home on t...
College Republicans
N/A
as Karl Rove
A young Karl Rove vies for the position of chief campus conservative under the guidance of Lee Atwater.

The Liar
N/A
as Adrian Healey
Adrian Healey is clever, charming and witty, but above all he is an expert liar. His unparalleled ability to consummately cheat and deceive is a skill...
The Carnival at the End of Days
N/A
as Adam
God, disgusted with what has become of humanity, decides to eliminate his creatures for good. Paradoxically, Satan is the only one standing in his way...