Austin Butler

Austin Robert Butler (born August 17, 1991) is an American actor. Born in Anaheim, Butler began his career on television, first in roles on the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, most notably on Zoey 101 and later on teen dramas, including recurring parts on The CW's Life Unexpected (2010–2011) and Switched at Birth (2011–2012). He gained recognition for starring in The Carrie Diaries (2013–2014) and The Shannara Chronicles (2016–2017). Butler made his Broadway debut in the 2018 revival of The Iceman Cometh and portrayed Tex Watson in Quentin Tarantino's film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).

Butler gained international prominence and critical acclaim for his portrayal of Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis (2022), for which he won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award, and was also nominated for the Academy Award in that category. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023.[1] He has since starred as Gale Cleven in the war drama miniseries Masters of the Air (2024) and Feyd-Rautha in the epic science fiction film Dune: Part Two (2024).

Early life

Butler was born on August 17, 1991, in Anaheim, California, the son of Lori Anne (née Howell), an aesthetician,[2] and David Butler.[3][4][5][6] The two divorced when he was seven.[7] He has an older sister, Ashley (born in 1986), who worked as a background actress alongside him on Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.[5][8] His maternal great-greatgrandparents, Matti Matinpoika Sillanpää and Liisa Jaakontytär Järvelä, were Finnish immigrants from Ostrobothnia, Finland, who had settled in Wisconsin.[9][10]

When Butler was thirteen, he was approached by a representative from a background acting management company at the Orange County Fair who helped him get started in the entertainment industry.[4][5][11][12] He found that he enjoyed it and soon began taking acting classes.[4][11][12]

Butler attended public school until the seventh grade, when he left to be homeschooled to better accommodate his work schedule.[8][11] He continued his homeschooling until the tenth grade and later passed the CHSPE, the state's high school equivalency diploma exam.

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