Asa Butterfield is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actor who was born on April 1, 1997 in Islington, England, United Kingdom. London-born actor who played the precocious Hugo Cabret in the Academy-Award-winning Martin Scorsese film Hugo. He also played leading roles in the films The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Ender’s Game, The Space Between Us, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Time Freak.
He starred opposite Ben Kingsley in both Hugo and Ender’s Game.
Butterfield first started acting at the age of 7 at the Young Actors Theatre Islington. Later, he secured minor roles in the 2006 television drama After Thomas and the 2007 film, Son of Rambow. In 2008, he had a guest role playing Donny in the television series Ashes to Ashes.
In 2008, Butterfield appeared in the Merlin episode “The Beginning of the End”; he played a young druid boy sentenced to death by Uther Pendragon because he feels threatened by the boy’s magic. Butterfield appeared as Mordred in a number of subsequent episodes.
His mother gave birth to him in Islington, London. His older brother, Morgan, became the drummer for the band, Underneath the Tallest Tree.
