Asa Bopp Farr Butterfield (born on 1 April 1997) is an English entertainer. He has gotten selections for two Critics' Choice Awards, two Saturn Awards, and three Young Artist Awards. 

Starting his profession as a kid entertainer, Butterfield initially accomplished acknowledgment as the lead of the authentic show film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008).

He kept on featuring films during the 2010s, featuring in the experience show Hugo (2011), the conflict sci-fi Ender's Game (2013), the dramatization X+Y (2014), and the dream Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016). In 2019, Butterfield started depicting the lead of the Netflix satire show series Sex Education. 

Early life 

Butterfield was born in Islington, London, and is the child of Jacqueline Farr, a therapist, and Sam Butterfield, a promoting marketing specialist. He was instructed at Stoke Newington School. 

Profession 

Butterfield initially began acting at 7 years old at the Young Actors Theater Islington. Afterward, he got minor jobs in the 2006 TV show After Thomas and the 2007 film, Son of Rambow. 

In 2008, he had a visitor pretending Donny in the TV series Ashes to Ashes. In that very year, matured 10, Butterfield played the lead job in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Chief Mark Herman said that they ran over Butterfield almost immediately in the tryout cycle.

He was on the primary tryout tape he got and he was the third confident he met face to face. Herman thought Butterfield's exhibition was remarkable, yet simply chose to project him in the wake of trying out many other young men, "so no stone was left unturned".

Maker David Heyman and chief Mark Herman were searching for somebody who had the option to depict the primary person's honesty, so they requested each of the youngsters what they thought about the Holocaust.

Butterfield's information was thin and it was intentionally kept that way all through recording so it would be simpler for him to pass on his person's blamelessness.

The last scenes of the film were taken shots toward the finish of the creation time frame to plan both him and Jack Scanlon for the emotional closure of the film. 

Butterfield beat many young men to the job and furthermore effectively passed the tryouts for a job in Mr. No one for which he tried out simultaneously. He chose not to seek after the last job.

In 2008, he depicted Mordred in the Merlin scene "The Beginning of the End"; Butterfield showed up as Mordred in various resulting scenes. In 2010, he had a little part in The Wolfman.

He featured as Norman Green in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010). The film, and his presentation, both got positive surveys. 

At 13 years old he played the fundamental and title character in Martin Scorsese's Hugo, adjusted from the original The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

Hugo was delivered on 23 November 2011 and made basic progress. Butterfield played the lead spot of Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is the film variation of the Orson Scott Card novel Ender's Game. The film was delivered in 2013. 

After the shooting of Ender's Game, Butterfield was projected in transitioning British show X+Y as Nathan Ellis, a numerical intellectual on the chemical imbalance range chose to contend in a globally eminent math rivalry.

The film debuted on 5 September 2014 at the Toronto International Film Festival. Butterfield's presentation got boundless basic approval and saw him selected for the BIFA Award for Best Actor. 

Butterfield at the 2014 Moet BIFA British Independent Film Awards 

In 2015, Butterfield showed up in a film variation of Ten Thousand Saints. Sometime thereafter, he joined the gathering cast of Shane Carruth's third film, The Modern Ocean. In 2016, he depicted Jacob Portman in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

He additionally featured as Gardner Elliot in the film The Space Between Us and as Sebastian in The House of Tomorrow in 2017.

In 2018, Butterfield was projected in the principal job of Otis Milburn on the Netflix satire dramatization series, Sex Education. The series was delivered on 11 January 2019 to basic recognition. 

Different endeavors 

Butterfield appreciates making and creating music, and delivered a mashup of the melodies "Teen Dirtbag" by Wheatus and "Making Arrangements for Nigel" by XTC. Alongside his sibling, he is important for a music bunch called Mambo Fresh.

In late 2012, Butterfield co-planned a turn-based computer game for iPad with his dad and sibling called Racing Blind. The game was delivered to the App Store on 7 April 2013. 

Butterfield is associated with serious Nintendo gaming. In 2017, he contended in the Nintendo World Championships, where he was dispensed with right on time in the invitational.

He is an excited player of serious Super Smash Bros. furthermore, has endorsed with esports group Panda Global under the tag "Stimpy". His first appearance with the association was at Genesis 6. In October 2020, he was endorsed by Team Liquid. 

Since 2017 Butterfield has shown a yearly acting masterclass at The Reel Scene acting school in London. The three-day "Asa Butterfield Masterclass" course covers ad-lib strategies and understudies work on scenes from Butterfield's movies, which are then shot on the last day.

In 2018, understudies showed up as additional items in the film Greed where Butterfield showed up.