Alex Pettyfer

At 34 years old, Alex Pettyfer has this physical status:

Alexander Richard Pettyfer (born 10 April 1990) is a British 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 and has starred in a number of other films, including I Am Number Four, Beastly, and Magic Mike.

He starred as Brody in the Netflix science fiction miniseries The I-Land.

Early life

Pettyfer was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, the son of Lee Robinson, an actress and Richard Pettyfer, an actor. Both parents met while performing in London's West End in West Side Story, Cats and Miss Saigon. He has a younger half-brother, James Ireland from his mother's remarriage to Michael J. Ireland, a retired builder and property developer.

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. He also did advertisements for some yogurt brands. His first commercial was at age six.

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). 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. He subsequently attended two other independent boarding schools: Millfield School in Street, Somerset and Shiplake College near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. Before his GCSEs, he left Shiplake College to attend the independent Sylvia Young Theatre School in London.

Personal life

In June 2009, Pettyfer was voted number 35 on British women's magazine Company's list of the top 50 most eligible bachelors. In August 2009, the British magazine Glamour ranked him number 21 on their list of the sexiest men on the planet.

After Pettyfer completed filming Stormbreaker, he did not discuss the film with anyone at his school, citing the advice of his Stormbreaker star Ewan McGregor, who told him to keep his personal and professional lives separate. Pettyfer subsequently decided to leave school without any qualifications and concentrate on his film career, saying that "When you have already experienced going out and working in the real world, and you come back to school, you just see it as a playground and you don't want to be there any more".

In a 2011 interview, he stated "I felt like the industry was just a factory. You hear a lot of people say they want to make art in this industry, but so few people actually fucking do it. I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art." In the same interview, when asked about how he liked living in Los Angeles, he stated, "LA is growing on me a little bit, but it's still a shit-hole. I think it's this insidious pool where nearly everyone lives in fear. Geographically it's fantastic: in a half hour, you can be on the beach in one direction, go snowboarding in another, or go out into the desert. But socially it's disgusting. I wish they'd just run all the cunts out."

In July 2010, he began dating actress Dianna Agron, his I Am Number Four co-star. He was reportedly controlling and paranoid throughout their relationship, but they began cohabiting in 2010. The couple broke up in February 2011, the day after the film was released, with reports that Pettyfer threatened Agron over the phone and had a "heated confrontation" with actor Sebastian Stan, someone with whom Agron was close in early 2011. She temporarily moved to a hotel under a false name so that Pettyfer would not be able to find her, and he was instructed to not attend an event where she would be present.

Pettyfer was briefly engaged to actress Riley Keough in 2012. They met while filming Magic Mike.

On 24 December 2019, he became engaged to German model Toni Garrn after ten months of dating. They were married in Hamburg, Germany, on 2 October 2020. They have a daughter, born in 2021. On 19 June 2022, he and Garrn had a second marriage ceremony on the island of Paros, Greece.

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Career

Pettyfer made his professional appearance debut in Tom Brown's Schooldays in 2005, portraying lead actor Tom Brown; he received raves for his role. He appeared in his most well-known role so far, namely, teen MI6 spy Alex Rider in the film Stormbreaker, based on Anthony Horowitz's novel. He was one of 500 people to audition for the role. Pettyfer preferred Stormbreaker over a role in the film Eragon, noting that it would be shot in Britain, on the Isle of Man, while Eragon would film in Hungary; Pettyfer loved the cast's appearances for Stormbreaker. Stormbreaker was first released in the United Kingdom on July 21 in the United States, 6 October in the United States, and on September 21 in Australia.

According to one review of Pettyfer's appearance, he was described as "playing with the most ferocious ferocity," but another said that he "isn't quite at ease as an actor." According to media reports, the film was supposed to make Pettyfer a "teen idol." Pettyfer would not reprise his role if another Alex Rider film were released in September 2006 because he had grown too old for the role.

Pettyfer began modeling around age 17, owing to his earlier acting success and to supplement his income, particularly in Burberry's commercial campaigns.

He was next seen in Wild Child, a film set in California, Kent, and Yorkshire, which was part of Cobham Hall Girls' School in Kent. He appeared as Freddie Kingsley as a schoolboy. In the horror-comedy Tormented's 2009, he played the callous ringleader of a group of cool but cruel teenagers who are selected one by one from one by the ghost of one of their former victims.

He appeared in the film Beastly, which is based on Alex Flinn's book. On August 9, 2009, he finished filming and the film was released on March 4th, 2011. Pettyfer played the central role in I Am Number Four, which was released in February 2011 and directed by D.J. Caruso is a Mexican girl from Caruso.

In the film version of Cassandra Clare's best-selling book, City of Bones, he was given the role of Jace Wayland. Jamie Campbell Bower was later cast as Jace Wayland in the film Jace Wayland. Pettyfer had also been given a part in Joseph Delaney's The Wardstone Chronicles film version, but he turned down the role. He was supposed to appear in The Paperboy, a Pete Dexter book of the same name, but he was turned down for the role. In 2012, he played Adam, a 19-year-old who enters the world of male stripping in Magic Mike.

Pettyfer appeared in The Butler in 2013 as Thomas Westfall. He appeared in the romantic drama Endless Love in 2014. In 2016, Pettyfer appeared in the biography film Elvis & Nixon as Jerry Schilling. In 2017, he appeared as Nick in Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein's indie thriller The Strange Ones directed by Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein. Pettyfer made his directorial debut in Back Roads, where he also appeared in the lead role of Harley Altmyer in 2018.

In the post-World War II drama In 2018, Pettyfer starred Stephen Underwood, a journalist who uncovers the horrific murder of 22,000 Poles under Stalin's orders. Pettyfer had been cast in the main role of Brody on Netflix's science fiction miniseries The I-Land this year. On September 12, 2019, the miniseries was released.

In 2019, Pettyfer and his production partner James Ireland launched Dark Dreams Entertainment. Dark Dreams is a multi-platform production firm that produces original content for film, television, and emerging networks. Echo Boomers, their first film, was sold to Saban Entertainment and Universal International.

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