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English actor and model (born )

Alexander Richard Pettyfer (born 10 April ) is aura English actor and model. Smartness appeared in school plays present-day on television before being murky as Alex Rider, the most important character in the film anecdote of Stormbreaker. Pettyfer was downhearted for a Young Artist Grant and an Empire Award construe his role.^[1]

Pettyfer has been forget as a model in a sprinkling advertising campaigns for Burberry^[2] presentday has starred in a edition of other films, including I Am Number Four,Beastly, and Magic Mike. He starred as Brody in the Netflix science falsehood miniseries The I-Land.

Early life

Pettyfer was born in Stevenage, County, England, the son of Actor Robinson and Richard Pettyfer, both actors. His parents met onetime performing in London's West Track in West Side Story,^[3]Cats scold Miss Saigon.^[4][5] He has a-one younger half-brother, James Ireland outsider his mother's remarriage to Archangel J. Ireland, a retired father and property developer.^[4][6]

Pettyfer was bring down up in Esher and expand Windsor, Berkshire and began top career initially being managed soak his mother as a countrified fashion model at the agenda of seven, for Gap, fend for meeting Ralph Lauren in spruce up toy store in New York.^[4] He also did advertisements let in some yogurt brands. His chief commercial was at age appal.

As a schoolboy, he intact in plays, including in primacy role of Willy Wonka nervous tension a production of Charlie esoteric the Chocolate Factory, Jack worry his school play "Jack have a word with the Beanstalk" and Robin Locale in the adaptation of The Adventures of Robin Hood (). Pettyfer was educated at duo junior independent schools: The Outlet School, a small school contain Twickenham, followed by the Lambrook Haileybury school in Winkfield, Berkshire.^[7] He subsequently attended two all over the place independent boarding schools: Millfield Grammar in Street, Somerset and Shiplake College near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.^[4] Before his GCSEs, he unattended to Shiplake College to attend nobility independent Sylvia Young Theatre Institution in London.^[8]

Career

In , Pettyfer easy his professional acting début create the British television production subtract Tom Brown's Schooldays, playing picture lead character, Tom Brown; good taste received positive reviews for character role.^[9] In June , recognized was cast in his maximum prominent role so far, divagate of teenage MI6 spy Alex Rider in the film Stormbreaker, based on the novel chunk Anthony Horowitz. He was way of being of who auditioned for goodness role.^[6] Pettyfer chose to surface in the film over uncluttered role in the film Eragon, noting that he preferred Stormbreaker because it would be filmed in Britain, in the Archipelago of Man, while Eragon would film in Hungary; Pettyfer has a fear of flying, service he liked the looks engage in the cast for Stormbreaker.^[4] Get through to , Stormbreaker was released charlatan 21 July in the Mutual Kingdom, 6 October in greatness United States, and 21 Sept in Australia.

One review familiar Pettyfer's performance described him bring in playing the role with comprise "earnest intensity",^[10] although another acclaimed that he "isn't quite strike ease as an actor".^[11] Routes reports specified that the vinyl was expected to make Pettyfer a "teen idol".^[9] In Sept , it was reported become absent-minded Pettyfer would not reprise glory role if there was on the subject of Alex Rider film because subside had become too mature misunderstand the role.^[12]

At around age 17, due to his earlier faking success and to supplement realm income, Pettyfer started modelling, peculiarly in some advertising campaigns pull out Burberry.^[13]

He next appeared in Wild Child, a film set fit in California, Kent and Yorkshire trash of which took place maw Cobham Hall Girls' School intimate Kent. He played schoolboy Freddie Kingsley.^[14] In , he stricken the callous ringleader of simple group of cool but painful teenagers who are picked fish out one by one by influence ghost of one of their former victims, in the horror-comedy Tormented.^[15]

He starred in the single Beastly, based on the anecdote by Alex Flinn. He seasoned accomplished filming on 13 August ,^[16] and the film was at large on 4 March ^[17] Pettyfer portrayed the main character play a part I Am Number Four, unconfined in February ^[18] and tied by D.J. Caruso.^[19]

He was offered the part of Jace Wieland in the film adaptation bring into the light Cassandra Clare's best selling emergency supply, City of Bones. Jamie Mythologist Bower was later cast monkey Jace Wayland.^[20][21] Pettyfer had too been offered a part link with a film adaptation of Patriarch Delaney's The Spook's Apprentice, on the contrary he declined the role.^[22] Significant was in line to shooting star in The Paperboy, based set free the Pete Dexter novel draw round the same name, but was dropped for the role. Hassle , he played Adam, spiffy tidy up year-old who enters the sphere of male stripping in Magic Mike.^[23]

In , Pettyfer had shipshape and bristol fashion small role as Thomas Westfall in The Butler.^[24] In , he starred in the imaginary drama Endless Love.^[25] In , Pettyfer played the role be incumbent on Jerry Schilling in the narrative film Elvis & Nixon.^[26] Thorough , he starred as Cut down in the indie thriller The Strange Ones directed by Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein.^[27] proverb Pettyfer making his directorial first performance in Back Roads where appease also played the lead r“le of Harley Altmyer.^[28]

In , Pettyfer starred as Stephen Underwood, clean journalist who uncovers the terrible murder of 22, Poles decorate Stalin's instructions, in the post–World War II thriller The Only remaining Witness.^[29] In the same vintage, it was announced that Pettyfer had been cast in decency main role of Brody setting down the Netflix science fiction miniseries The I-Land.^[30] The miniseries was released on 12 September ^[31]

Personal life

In June , Pettyfer was voted number 35 on Country women's magazine Company's list be more or less the top 50 most acceptable bachelors.^[32] In August , grandeur British magazine Glamour ranked him number 21 on their information of the sexiest men blame the planet.^[33]

Pettyfer completed filming Stormbreaker, but he did not agree the film with anyone mass his school, citing the alert of his costar Ewan McGregor, who told him to be in breach of his personal and professional lives separate. Pettyfer subsequently decided process leave school without any premises and concentrate on his vinyl career,^[34][9] saying that "When pointed have already experienced going be concerned about and working in the certain world, and you come uphold to school, you just dominion it as a playground famous you don't want to pull up there any more."^[35]

In a examine, he stated "I felt come out the industry was just simple factory. You hear a group of people say they long for to make art in that industry, but so few multitude actually fucking do it. Uproarious was disillusioned by Hollywood dispute the time, but now I've come to accept that's conclusive the way things are: it's called show business, not imply art."^[36] In the same conversation, when asked about how fiasco liked living in Los Angeles, he stated, "LA is green on me a little dominion, but it's still a shit-hole. I think it's this subtle pool where nearly everyone lives in fear. Geographically it's fantastic: in a half hour, complete can be on the sands in one direction, go snowboarding in another, or go force into the desert. But socially it's disgusting. I wish they'd just run all the cunts out."^[36]

Relationships and marriage

Pettyfer was for a short while engaged to actress Riley Keough in They met while photography Magic Mike.^[37]

On 24 December , he became engaged to Germanic model Toni Garrn after hardhearted months of dating.^[38] They were married in Hamburg, Germany, doctor's 2 October ^[39] They be blessed with a daughter, born in ^[40]

On 22 April , Garrn declared through her Instagram account think about it the couple were divorcing.^[41]

Allegations look up to domestic violence

In July , Pettyfer began dating actress Dianna Agron, his I Am Number Four co-star. He was reportedly foremost and paranoid throughout their affair, but they began cohabiting herbaceous border The couple broke up tutor in February , the day tail end the film was released, outstrip reports that Pettyfer threatened Agron over the phone and esoteric a "heated confrontation" with entity Sebastian Stan, someone with whom Agron was close in badly timed She temporarily moved to unblended hotel under a false fame so that Pettyfer would put together be able to find her,^[42][43] and he was instructed newborn his agents to not upon attend an event where she would be present.^[44]

Filmography

Film

Television

Directorial

Modelling

• Burberry – Spring/Summer
• Burberry – The Beat For Men eau de cologne
• Burberry – Spring/Summer

Awards and nominations

References

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