- Born
- Birth nameAsa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Asa Butterfield was born in Islington, London, England, to Jacqueline Farr and Sam Butterfield. He began acting at the age of 8, after a talent spotting casting director saw him at his local after school drama club, The Young Actors Theatre in Islington. Following on from a couple of small roles in films, he was cast, at 10 as Bruno in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008). Since then, he has been acclaimed for his titular roles in Hugo (2011) and Ender's Game (2013), as well as other major roles as Nathan in A Brilliant Young Mind (2014), Jude in Ten Thousand Saints (2015), Jake in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), Gardner Elliot in The Space Between Us (2017), Norman in Nanny McPhee Returns (2010), and Mordred in the BBC's Merlin (2008).
Asa was born Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield, but now uses the middle name "Bopp" on his passport instead (after Comet Hale-Bopp), and is known as Asa Bopp Farr Butterfield.- IMDb mini biography by: Sam Butterfield
- ParentsJacqueline FarrSam Butterfield
- RelativesMorgan Butterfield(Sibling)Loxie Farr(Half Sibling)Marlie Butterfield(Half Sibling)
- Striking blue eyes
- He developed an iPad app called "Racing Blind" together with his father and brother. It is the only game available on the app store that is meant to be played with the eyes closed.
- He grew two inches while shooting Ender's Game (2013).
- His dream role would be to play James Bond.
- He was one of the final candidates for the third film incarnation of Peter Parker/Spider-Man, though Tom Holland was cast instead. On May 14, 2015, film journalist Umberto Gonzalez reported that Asa had already been chosen for the role, a story carried by most film news sites. In both the 2010 and 2015 casting cycles for Spider-Man, no actor reported by film websites as being all-but-confirmed for the role has ever ended up actually cast as Spider-Man. The other actors erroneously reported to have been cast are Logan Lerman (in April 2010), Jamie Bell (in early June 2010), Josh Hutcherson (on June 30, 2010, one day before the official casting of Andrew Garfield), and Dylan O'Brien (in March 2015).
- Don't do piracy. Piracy's a crime.
- I think I can speak for a lot of people in that they would be pretty nervous about meeting Harrison Ford, and I was definitely one of those people.
- My little sister, who is four, can work my mom's iPhone better than she can.
- When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.
- People think when you're moving in Zero-G, it's like moving in jelly. But it's not. You're completely free to move however fast as you want.
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