FrameThrower · Actors · Asa Butterfield
Asa Butterfield
6 films · 545 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2010–2023
Born 1 April 1997 · Islington, London, England, UK
Asa Bopp Farr Butterfield is an English actor. Beginning his career as a child actor, Butterfield first achieved recognition as the lead of the historical drama film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008). He continued to headline films during the 2010s, starring in the adventure drama Hugo (2011), the science fiction film Ender's Game (2013), the drama X+Y (2014), and the fantasy Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016). From 2019 to 2023, Butterfield portrayed the lead of the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 545 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Asa takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 50% of their frames are day, 42% natural — the look of the work Asa takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 545 frames from Asa Butterfield's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.