Alexander Richard Pettyfer, known as Alex Pettyfer, was born on April 10, 1990, in Stevenage, England
Alexander Richard Pettyfer, known as Alex Pettyfer, is a British actor and model. He was born on April 10, 1990, in Stevenage, England. His parents, Lee Robinson, an actress, and Richard Pettyfer, an actor, met while performing in London's West End. He has a younger half-brother, James Ireland, from his mother's remarriage to Michael J. Ireland, a retired builder and property developer.
Pettyfer began his career as a young fashion model at the age of seven, for Gap, after meeting Ralph Lauren in a toy store in New York. He also did advertisements for some yogurt brands. As 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).
In 2005, Pettyfer made his professional acting début in the British television production of Tom Brown's Schooldays, playing the lead character, Tom Brown. 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. He was one of 500 who auditioned for the role¹. Pettyfer was nominated for a Young Artist Award and an Empire Award for his role.
Pettyfer has been seen as a model in several advertising campaigns for Burberry and has starred in a number of other films, including "I Am Number Four", "Beastly", and "Magic Mike"¹. He starred as Brody in the Netflix science fiction miniseries "The I-Land".
In 2020, Pettyfer married German model Toni Garrn. They have one child together.
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