Appearances

Title	Role	Year	Approx. Age
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children	Jake	2017	20
Ender's Game	Ender Wiggin	2013	16
Hugo	Hugo Cabret	2011	14
Wolfman	Young Ben	2010	13
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (Nanny Returns)	Norman Green	2010	13
The Boy in Striped Pajamas	Bruno	2008	11
Son of Rambow	Brethren Boy	2007	10
After Thomas	Andrew	2006	9

Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield (born 1 April 1997) is an English actor. He began his acting career at the age of 9 in the television drama After Thomas (2006) and the comedy film Son of Rambow (2007). He became known for playing the main character Bruno in the Holocaust film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), for which he received nominations for the British Independent Film Award and the London Film Critics Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year, he was 11-years-old. Asa also played the young Mordred in the BBC TV series Merlin (2008?2009) and Norman in the fantasy film Nanny McPhee Returns (2010).

For his leading performance as Hugo Cabret in Martin Scorsese's drama Hugo (2011), Butterfield received considerable praise and was awarded the Young Hollywood Award for Breakthrough Performance?Male and was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer and the Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer, among other accolades. He is also known for portraying Ender Wiggin in the 2013 film adaptation of the science fiction novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. He was nominated for a British Independent Film Award for Best Actor for playing Nathan Ellis in Morgan Matthews's X+Y (2014). He starred as Jacob "Jake" Portman in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) and as Gardner Elliot in The Space Between Us (2017). In 2019, Butterfield began playing Otis Milburn in the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education.

Asa on Ender's Game: "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." He grew two inches while shooting Ender's Game (2013).

Asa 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, an erronious story carried by most film news sites.

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.