In 2017, he starred as Nick in the indie thriller The Strange Ones directed by Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein. In 2016, Pettyfer played the role of Jerry Schilling in the biography film Elvis & Nixon. In 2014, he starred in the romantic drama Endless Love. In 2013, Pettyfer had a small role as Thomas Westfall in The Butler. In 2012, he played Adam, a 19-year-old who enters the world of male stripping in Magic Mike. He was in line to star in The Paperboy, based on the Pete Dexter novel of the same name, but was dropped for the role. Pettyfer had also been offered a part in a film adaption of Joseph Delaney's The Wardstone Chronicles, but he declined the role. Jamie Campbell Bower was later cast as Jace Wayland. He was offered the part of Jace Wayland in the film adaption of Cassandra Clare's best selling book, City of Bones. Pettyfer portrayed the main character in I Am Number Four, released in February 2011 and directed by D.J. He finished filming on 13 August 2009, and the film was released on 4 March 2011. He starred in the film Beastly, based on the novel by Alex Flinn. In 2009, he played the callous ringleader of a group of cool but cruel teenagers who are picked off one by one by the ghost of one of their former victims, in the horror-comedy Tormented. He next appeared in Wild Child, a film set in California, Kent and Yorkshire part of which took place at Cobham Hall Girls' School in Kent. Īt around age 17, due to his earlier acting success and to supplement his income, Pettyfer started modelling, notably in some advertising campaigns for Burberry. In September 2006, it was reported that Pettyfer would not reprise the role if there was another Alex Rider film because he had become too mature for the role. Media reports specified that the film was expected to make Pettyfer a " teen idol".
One review of Pettyfer's performance described him as playing the role with an "earnest intensity", although another noted that he "isn't quite at ease as an actor". In 2006, Stormbreaker was released on 21 July in the United Kingdom, 6 October in the United States, and 21 September in Australia. Pettyfer chose to appear in the film over a role in the film Eragon, noting that he preferred Stormbreaker because it would be filmed in Britain, in the Isle of Man, while Eragon would film in Hungary Pettyfer has a fear of flying, and he liked the looks of the cast for Stormbreaker. He was one of 500 who auditioned for the role. In June 2005, he was cast in his most prominent role so far, that of teenage MI6 spy Alex Rider in the film Stormbreaker, based on the novel by Anthony Horowitz.
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In 2005, Pettyfer made his professional acting début in the British television production of Tom Brown's Schooldays, playing the lead character, Tom Brown he received positive reviews for the role.
Before his GCSEs, he left Shiplake College to attend the independent Sylvia Young Theatre School in London. He subsequently attended two other independent boarding schools: Millfield School in Street, Somerset and Shiplake College near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. Pettyfer was educated at two junior independent schools: The Mall School, a small school in Twickenham, followed by the Lambrook Haileybury school in Winkfield, Berkshire. His first commercial was at age six.Īs a schoolboy, he performed in plays, including in the role of Willy Wonka in a production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Jack in his school play "Jack and the Beanstalk" and Robin Hood in the adaptation of The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). He also did advertisements for some yogurt brands. Pettyfer was brought up in Esher and then Windsor, Berkshire and began his career initially being managed by his mother as a young fashion model at the age of seven, for Gap, after meeting Ralph Lauren in a toy store in New York. Ireland, a retired builder and property developer. He has a younger half-brother, James Ireland, a professional tennis player and regional coach, from his mother's remarriage to Michael J. Both parents met while performing in London's West End in West Side Story, Cats and Miss Saigon. Pettyfer was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, the son of Lee Robinson, an actress and Richard Pettyfer, an actor.
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