Asa Butterfield is an acting name that you really should keep an eye out for as he is back on the big screen this week with Hugo.
At the tender age of fourteen the London born actor is set to lead the an all star cast in Martin Scorsese's Hugo, the first 3D movie for the filmmaker.
At the age of eight years old Butterfield kicked off his acting career and during that time he has mixed and matched his TV & film roles.
Roles in After Thomas and Ashes to Ashes saw him on TV but it was the role of Bruno in The Boy With The Striped Pyjamas that really marked his arrival.
Directed by Mark Herman the movie was a big screen adaptation of the John Boyne novel and was set during World War II.
The movie follows eight year old Bruno who is the son of a commandant at a concentration camp who befriends a young Jewish boy on the other side of the fence.
The movie was met well by the critics upon release and the filmed showed off Butterfield as a talent that we should all be excited about.
He switched back to TV to appear in several episode of Merlin, taking on the role of Mordred before returning to movies with The Wolfman.
He followed this up last year when he took on the part of Norman Green in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, which also starred Emma Thompson and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
But it is Hugo that promises to be Butterfield's biggest role to date as he teams up with Oscar winner Scorsese.
The movie is based on the Brian Selznick's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Butterfield takes on the title character.
Hugo tells the story of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station.
With the help of an eccentric girl, he searches for the answer to a mystery linking the father he recently lost, the ill-tempered toy shop owner living below him and a heart shaped lock, seemingly without a key.
He is joined on the cast list by Chloe Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley and Jude Law.
And the future looks bright for the young actor as he has been linked to Ender's Game, which is based on the novel by Orson Scott Card
Hugo is released 2nd December.
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