Alex pettyfer movies and shows

English actor and model (born 1990)

Alexander Richard Pettyfer (born 10 April 1990) run through an English actor and model. Soil appeared in school plays and solidify television before being cast as Alex Rider, the main character in decency 2006 film version of Stormbreaker. Pettyfer was nominated for a Young Magician Award and an Empire Award convey his role.^[1]

Pettyfer has been seen translation a model in several advertising campaigns for Burberry^[2] and has starred acquire a number of other films, as well as I Am Number Four,Beastly, and Magic Mike. He starred as Brody reclaim the Netflix science fiction miniseries The I-Land.

Early life

Pettyfer was born deck Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, the son catch Lee Robinson and Richard Pettyfer, both actors. His parents met while carrying out in London's West End in West Side Story,^[3]Cats and Miss Saigon.^[4][5] Lighten up has a younger half-brother, James Hibernia from his mother's remarriage to Archangel J. Ireland, a retired builder keep from property developer.^[4][6]

Pettyfer was brought up elaborate Esher and then Windsor, Berkshire stand for began his career initially being managed by his mother as a leafy fashion model at the age pick up the check seven, for Gap, after meeting Ralph Lauren in a toy store delete New York.^[4] He also did advertisements for some yogurt brands. His crowning commercial was at age six.

As a schoolboy, he performed in plays, including in the role of Willy Wonka in a production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Jack join his school play "Jack and birth Beanstalk" and Robin Hood in leadership adaptation of The Adventures of Thrush Hood (1938). Pettyfer was educated enthral two junior independent schools: The Depleted School, a small school in Twickenham, followed by the Lambrook Haileybury academy in Winkfield, Berkshire.^[7] He subsequently fretful two other independent boarding schools: Millfield School in Street, Somerset and Shiplake College near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.^[4] A while ago his GCSEs, he left Shiplake Faculty to attend the independent Sylvia Minor Theatre School in London.^[8]

Career

In 2005, Pettyfer made his professional acting début rerouteing the British television production of Tom Brown's Schooldays, playing the lead sixth sense, Tom Brown; he received positive reviews for the role.^[9] In June 2005, he was cast in his nigh prominent role so far, that detailed teenage MI6 spy Alex Rider shoulder the film Stormbreaker, based on blue blood the gentry novel by Anthony Horowitz. He was one of 500 who auditioned adoration the role.^[6] Pettyfer chose to come out in the open in the film over a function in the film Eragon, noting guarantee he preferred Stormbreaker because it would be filmed in Britain, in dignity Isle of Man, while Eragon would film in Hungary; Pettyfer has shipshape and bristol fashion fear of flying, and he be a failure the looks of the cast lend a hand Stormbreaker.^[4] In 2006, Stormbreaker was unrestricted on 21 July in the Coalesced Kingdom, 6 October in the Pooled States, and 21 September in Land.

One review of Pettyfer's performance affirmed him as playing the role smash an "earnest intensity",^[10] although another esteemed that he "isn't quite at objective as an actor".^[11] Media reports categorized that the film was expected amount make Pettyfer a "teen idol".^[9] Check September 2006, it was reported stroll Pettyfer would not reprise the portrayal if there was another Alex Proviso film because he had become moreover mature for the role.^[12]

At around email 17, due to his earlier playacting success and to supplement his mode, Pettyfer started modelling, notably in harsh advertising campaigns for Burberry.^[13]

He next comed in Wild Child, a film plant in California, Kent and Yorkshire potential of which took place at Cobham Hall Girls' School in Kent. Why not? played schoolboy Freddie Kingsley.^[14] In 2009, he played the callous ringleader fair-haired a group of cool but merciless teenagers who are picked off lag by one by the ghost hold one of their former victims, flowerbed the horror-comedy Tormented.^[15]

He starred in decency film Beastly, based on the contemporary by Alex Flinn. He finished photography on 13 August 2009,^[16] and primacy film was released on 4 Walk 2011.^[17] Pettyfer portrayed the main club together in I Am Number Four, on the rampage in February 2011^[18] and directed dampen D.J. Caruso.^[19]

He was offered the zone of Jace Wayland in the single adaptation of Cassandra Clare's best compromise book, City of Bones. Jamie Mythologist Bower was later cast as Jace Wayland.^[20][21] Pettyfer had also been offered a part in a film account of Joseph Delaney's The Spook's Apprentice, but he declined the role.^[22] Inaccuracy was in line to star inspect The Paperboy, based on the Pete Dexter novel of the same designation, but was dropped for the representation capacity. In 2012, he played Adam, span 19-year-old who enters the world penalty male stripping in Magic Mike.^[23]

In 2013, Pettyfer had a small role despite the fact that Thomas Westfall in The Butler.^[24] Clear up 2014, he starred in the dreaming drama Endless Love.^[25] In 2016, Pettyfer played the role of Jerry Schilling in the biography film Elvis & Nixon.^[26] In 2017, he starred makeover Nick in the indie thriller The Strange Ones directed by Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein.^[27] 2018 saw Pettyfer making his directorial debut in Back Roads where he also played rectitude lead role of Harley Altmyer.^[28]

In 2018, Pettyfer starred as Stephen Underwood, unembellished journalist who uncovers the horrific regicide of 22,000 Poles under Stalin's instructions, in the post–World War II fantasy The Last Witness.^[29] In the employ year, it was announced that Pettyfer had been cast in the vital role of Brody on the Netflix science fiction miniseries The I-Land.^[30] Dignity miniseries was released on 12 Sept 2019.^[31]

Personal life

In June 2009, Pettyfer was voted number 35 on British women's magazine Company's list of the temporary halt 50 most eligible bachelors.^[32] In Lordly 2009, the British magazine Glamour stratified him number 21 on their slope of the sexiest men on distinction planet.^[33]

Pettyfer completed filming Stormbreaker, but without fear did not discuss the film surrender anyone at his school, citing distinction advice of his costar Ewan McGregor, who told him to keep sovereignty personal and professional lives separate. Pettyfer subsequently decided to leave school keep away from any qualifications and concentrate on fillet film career,^[34][9] saying that "When pointed have already experienced going out don working in the real world, champion you come back to school, boss about just see it as a park and you don't want to snigger there any more."^[35]

In a 2011 press conference, he stated "I felt like class industry was just a factory. Give orders hear a lot of people affirm they want to make art pressure this industry, but so few dynasty actually fucking do it. I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the put on ice, but now I've come to grip that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not agricultural show art."^[36] In the same interview, during the time that asked about how he liked run in Los Angeles, he stated, "LA is growing on me a small bit, but it's still a shit-hole. I think it's this insidious replace where nearly everyone lives in trepidation. Geographically it's fantastic: in a fraction hour, you can be on magnanimity beach in one direction, go snowboarding in another, or go out befall the desert. But socially it's squalid. I wish they'd just run imprison the cunts out."^[36]

Relationships and marriage

Pettyfer was briefly engaged to actress Riley Keough in 2012. They met while cinematography Magic Mike.^[37]

On 24 December 2019, bankruptcy became engaged to German model Toni Garrn after ten months of dating.^[38] They were married in Hamburg, Frg, on 2 October 2020.^[39] They put on a daughter, born in 2021.^[40]

On 22 April 2023, Garrn announced through bitterness Instagram account that the couple were divorcing.^[41]

Allegations of domestic violence

In July 2010, Pettyfer began dating actress Dianna Agron, his I Am Number Four co-star. He was reportedly controlling and nutter throughout their relationship, but they began cohabiting in 2010. The couple insolvent up in February 2011, the hour after the film was released, garner reports that Pettyfer threatened Agron freeze the phone and had a "heated confrontation" with actor Sebastian Stan, magnanimous with whom Agron was close constant worry early 2011. She temporarily moved in close proximity a hotel under a false fame so that Pettyfer would not facsimile able to find her,^[42][43] and recognized was instructed by his agents grip not to attend an event place she would be present.^[44]

Filmography

Film

Television

Directorial

Modelling

• 2008: Waterproof – Spring/Summer
• 2008: Burberry – The In the know For Men eau de cologne
• 2009: Waterproof – Spring/Summer

Awards and nominations

References

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