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Also known as Alexander Richard Pettyfer

English actor and model

Film & TV

Acting · Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Alexander Richard "Alex" Pettyfer (born 10 April 1990) is an English actor and model. He appeared in school plays and on television before being cast as Alex Rider, the main character in the 2006 film version of Stormbreaker. Pettyfer was nominated for a Young Artist Award and an Empire Award for his role.He has been seen as a model in several advertising campaigns for Burberry.His next two…

Known for

  • Under the Stars — Ian2025
  • 5lbs of Pressure — Leff2024
  • The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare — Capt. Geoffrey Appleyard2024
  • Chief of Station — John Branca2024
  • Sunrise — Fallon2024
  • Black Noise2023
  • The Infernal Machine — Dwight Tufford2022
  • Warning — Liam2021
  • Collection — Brandon2021
  • Echo Boomers — Ellis Beck2020

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1910-12-04
Active to
1991-09-08
composerfilm composer

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
43
Total plays
3,814

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Alexander Richard "Alex" Pettyfer (born 10 April 1990) is an English actor and model. He appeared in school plays and on television before being cast as Alex Rider, the main character in the 2006 film version of Stormbreaker. Pettyfer was nominated for a Young Artist Award and an Empire Award for his role. He has been seen as a model in several advertising campaigns for Burberry. He is best known for his roles in "I Am Number Four" (February 18, 2011) <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alex+Pett

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,689x

  2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,569x

  3. ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks

    · 2017 · cited 32,078x

  4. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

    · 2015 · cited 23,802x

  5. Welcome to the Tidyverse

    · 2019 · cited 20,499x

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Key facts

Born
Alexander Richard Pettyfer , ( 1990-04-10 ) 10 April 1990 (age 36) , Stevenage , England
Alma mater
Sylvia Young Theatre School
Occupations
Actor model
Years active
2005–present
Spouse
Toni Garrn ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2020 ) ​

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Encyclopedic overview

Alexander Richard Pettyfer (born 10 April 1990) is an English actor and model. He started acting in school plays and on television before his breakthrough portraying Alex Rider in the spy film Stormbreaker (2006), for which he received various accolades including nominations for a Young Artist Award and an Empire Award for his role. His career progressed with starring roles in the films Wild Child (2008), I Am Number Four (2011), in which he portrayed titular lead, and Beastly (2011).

Pettyfer has since acted in a number of films, with his biggest successes being the comedy drama Magic Mike (2012), and historical dramas The Butler (2013) and Elvis & Nixon (2016), as well as in the Netflix science fiction miniseries The I-Land (2019). Outside of acting, he has modeled in several advertising campaigns for Burberry.

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