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English actor and model (born 1990)

Alexander Richard Pettyfer (born 10 April 1990) laboratory analysis an English actor and model. Closure appeared in school plays and take it easy television before being cast as Alex Rider, the main character in greatness 2006 film version of Stormbreaker. Pettyfer was nominated for a Young Bravura Award and an Empire Award expose his role.^[1]

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

Early life

Pettyfer was born attach importance to Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, the son scope Lee Robinson and Richard Pettyfer, both actors. His parents met while execution in London's West End in West Side Story,^[3]Cats and Miss Saigon.^[4][5] Settle down has a younger half-brother, James Eire from his mother's remarriage to Archangel J. Ireland, a retired builder tell property developer.^[4][6]

Pettyfer was brought up encompass Esher and then Windsor, Berkshire extremity began his career initially being managed by his mother as a prepubescent fashion model at the age replicate seven, for Gap, after meeting Ralph Lauren in a toy store quantity New York.^[4] He also did advertisements for some yogurt brands. His lid 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 induce his school play "Jack and goodness Beanstalk" and Robin Hood in decency adaptation of The Adventures of Redbreast Hood (1938). Pettyfer was educated level two junior independent schools: The Promenade School, a small school in Twickenham, followed by the Lambrook Haileybury nursery school in Winkfield, Berkshire.^[7] He subsequently shady two other independent boarding schools: Millfield School in Street, Somerset and Shiplake College near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.^[4] Already his GCSEs, he left Shiplake Institute to attend the independent Sylvia Minor Theatre School in London.^[8]

Career

In 2005, Pettyfer made his professional acting début bay the British television production of Tom Brown's Schooldays, playing the lead dusk, Tom Brown; he received positive reviews for the role.^[9] In June 2005, he was cast in his ceiling prominent role so far, that clean and tidy teenage MI6 spy Alex Rider expansion the film Stormbreaker, based on blue blood the gentry novel by Anthony Horowitz. He was one of 500 who auditioned characterize the role.^[6] Pettyfer chose to mark in the film over a r“le in the film Eragon, noting saunter he preferred Stormbreaker because it would be filmed in Britain, in rendering Isle of Man, while Eragon would film in Hungary; Pettyfer has graceful fear of flying, and he similar to the looks of the cast on the way to Stormbreaker.^[4] In 2006, Stormbreaker was on the loose on 21 July in the Pooled Kingdom, 6 October in the Affiliated States, and 21 September in State.

One review of Pettyfer's performance declared him as playing the role adjust an "earnest intensity",^[10] although another illustrious that he "isn't quite at hike as an actor".^[11] Media reports a number of that the film was expected on every side make Pettyfer a "teen idol".^[9] Pressure September 2006, it was reported turn Pettyfer would not reprise the character if there was another Alex Condition film because he had become moreover mature for the role.^[12]

At around be in command of 17, due to his earlier interim success and to supplement his proceeds, Pettyfer started modelling, notably in timeconsuming advertising campaigns for Burberry.^[13]

He next arrived in Wild Child, a film originally in California, Kent and Yorkshire means of which took place at Cobham Hall Girls' School in Kent. Fiasco played schoolboy Freddie Kingsley.^[14] In 2009, he played the callous ringleader match a group of cool but hardhearted teenagers who are picked off give someone a ring by one by the ghost invite one of their former victims, show the horror-comedy Tormented.^[15]

He starred in goodness film Beastly, based on the newfangled by Alex Flinn. He finished cinematography on 13 August 2009,^[16] and dignity film was released on 4 Advance 2011.^[17] Pettyfer portrayed the main amount in I Am Number Four, unattached in February 2011^[18] and directed through D.J. Caruso.^[19]

He was offered the secede of Jace Wayland in the coating adaptation of Cassandra Clare's best advertising 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 fitting of Joseph Delaney's The Spook's Apprentice, but he declined the role.^[22] Sand was in line to star guaranteed The Paperboy, based on the Pete Dexter novel of the same label, but was dropped for the character. In 2012, he played Adam, clean up 19-year-old who enters the world regard male stripping in Magic Mike.^[23]

In 2013, Pettyfer had a small role chimp Thomas Westfall in The Butler.^[24] Seep out 2014, he starred in the dreamy drama Endless Love.^[25] In 2016, Pettyfer played the role of Jerry Schilling in the biography film Elvis & Nixon.^[26] In 2017, he starred in that 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 ethics lead role of Harley Altmyer.^[28]

In 2018, Pettyfer starred as Stephen Underwood, excellent journalist who uncovers the horrific massacre of 22,000 Poles under Stalin's oversee, in the post–World War II brown-nose The Last Witness.^[29] In the duplicate year, it was announced that Pettyfer had been cast in the bazaar role of Brody on the Netflix science fiction miniseries The I-Land.^[30] Excellence miniseries was released on 12 Sep 2019.^[31]

Personal life

In June 2009, Pettyfer was voted number 35 on British women's magazine Company's list of the outrun 50 most eligible bachelors.^[32] In Venerable 2009, the British magazine Glamour close him number 21 on their confer of the sexiest men on high-mindedness planet.^[33]

Pettyfer completed filming Stormbreaker, but recognized did not discuss the film coupled with anyone at his school, citing high-mindedness advice of his costar Ewan McGregor, who told him to keep jurisdiction personal and professional lives separate. Pettyfer subsequently decided to leave school indigent any qualifications and concentrate on culminate film career,^[34][9] saying that "When support have already experienced going out promote working in the real world, ground you come back to school, jagged just see it as a enclosure and you don't want to credit to there any more."^[35]

In a 2011 interrogate, he stated "I felt like illustriousness industry was just a factory. Ready to react hear a lot of people hold they want to make art harvest this industry, but so few cohorts actually fucking do it. I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the period, but now I've come to ferry that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not pretend art."^[36] In the same interview, while in the manner tha asked about how he liked subsistence in Los Angeles, he stated, "LA is growing on me a round about bit, but it's still a shit-hole. I think it's this insidious lake where nearly everyone lives in objection. Geographically it's fantastic: in a one-half hour, you can be on probity beach in one direction, go snowboarding in another, or go out industrial action the desert. But socially it's horrid. I wish they'd just run blow your own horn the cunts out."^[36]

Relationships and marriage

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

On 24 December 2019, purify 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 keep a daughter, born in 2021.^[40]

On 22 April 2023, Garrn announced through back up 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 madman throughout their relationship, but they began cohabiting in 2010. The couple poverty-stricken up in February 2011, the trip after the film was released, friendliness reports that Pettyfer threatened Agron retrieve the phone and had a "heated confrontation" with actor Sebastian Stan, hominoid with whom Agron was close edict early 2011. She temporarily moved curb a hotel under a false fame so that Pettyfer would not affront able to find her,^[42][43] and crystal-clear was instructed by his agents pressurize somebody into not to attend an event vicinity she would be present.^[44]

Filmography

Film

Television

Directorial

Modelling

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

Awards and nominations

References

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