Austin Butler

Actors

Austin Robert Butler (born August 17, 1991) is an American actor. He has received a British Academy Film Award and Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, two Critics’ Choice Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He made film debut in Aliens in the Attic (2009), with Carter Jenkins,, Ashley Tisdale, Kevin Nealon, Robert Hoffman, Gillian Vigman, Andy Richter, Doris Roberts, Tim Meadows and the voices of Josh Peck, J.K. Simmons, Thomas Haden Church, and Kari Wahlgren.

Other early films include Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure (2011), with Tisdale, Cameron Goodman, Bradley Steven Perry, Alec Mapa, Jack Plotnick, Robert Curtis Brown, and Jessica Tuck; My Uncle Rafael (2012), with John Michael Higgins, Missi Pyle, Vahik Pirhamzei, and Rachel Blanchard; The Intruders (2015), with Miranda Cosgrove, Donal Logue, and Tom Sizemore; Kevin Smith’s Yoga Hosers (2016), with daughter Harley Quinn Smith, Lily-Rose Depp, Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez, Harley Morenstein, Ralph Garman, Smith’s wife Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Vanessa Paradis, Tyler Posey, and Johnny Depp; Dude (2017), with Lucy Hale, Kathryn Prescott, Alexandra Shipp, Awkwafina, and Michaela Watkins; Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die (2018), with Bill Murray, Adam Driver, ChloĂ« Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Tilda Swinton, Tom Waits, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, Carol Kane, RZA, and Selena Gomez; and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019), with Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Dakota Fanning, Timothy Olyphant, Mike Moh, Margaret Qualley, Al Pacino, Emile Hirsch, Kurt Russell, Bruce Dern, Mikey Madison, and Maya Hawke.

He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis (2022), with Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Luke Bracey. Other films in the 2020s include Jeff Nichols’s The Bikeriders (2023), with Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist, and Norman Reedus; and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two (2024), with Timothée Chalamet,
Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, LĂ©a Seydoux, Stellan SkarsgĂĄrd, Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem.

Films in the mid to late 2020s include Ari Aster’s Eddington (2025), with Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Clifton Collins Jr., and Emma Stone; Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing (2025), with Regina King, ZoĂ« Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Benito MartĂ­nez Ocasio, Griffin Dunne, and Carol Kane.

Butler also had starring roles in the short lived series Ruby & the Rockits (2009), with Alexa PenaVega, Patrick Cassidy, Katie Amanda Keane, Kurt Doss, and David Cassidy; The Carrie Diaries (2013-2014), with AnnaSophia Robb, Ellen Wong, Katie Findlay, Stefania Owen, Brendan Dooling, Chloe Bridges, Freema Agyeman, Matt Letscher, and Lindsey Gort; The Shannara Chronicles (2017-2018), with Poppy Drayton, Ivana Baquero, Manu Bennett, Aaron Jakubenko, Marcus Vanco, Malese Jow, Vanessa Morgan, and Gentry White; and the miniseries Masters of the Air (2024), with Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Barry Keoghan, Nikolai Kinski, Stephen Campbell Moore, Sawyer Spielberg, Isabel May, James Murray, Nate Mann, Laurie Davidson, Joanna Kulig, Louis Hofmann, Jamie Parker, Bel Powley, Sam Hazeldine, Josiah Cross, Branden Cook, Ncuti Gatwa, Jerry MacKinnon, and Josh Dylan.

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