Alex Pettyfer Biography

BirthName : Alexander Richard Pettyfer

Date of Birth :10 April 1990, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Height : 5' 11" (1.80 m)

Occupation : Actor, Model

Specifically, Alex Pettyfer was born on April 10, 1990 in Stevendage, Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. He attened Millifield School for a short while and then entered the boarding school Shiplake College. All the while, he was attending the Sylvia Young Theater School. After graduation from Shiplake, Pettyfer went on to attend the Drama College.

At age 7, Alex started modeling for Gap's children range. He also appeared in TV commercials for other brands. When he was older, he modeled for Burberry to fund his traveling adventures.

During this time, Pettyfer was doing child modeling for various advertisements. Perhaps his biggest break came at the age of 15 when he was cast in the lead role as "Tom Brown" in the British television series "Tom Brown's Schooldays". Soon afterwards he was cast for the role of "Alex Rider" in the film Stormbreaker, his breakthrough on the silver screen.

Alex appeared in school plays, including Willy Wonka, as a kid before taking a school field trip to the I-TV television studios in London when he was 13, where he auditioned for the title role in the TV movie Tom Brown’s School Days. After the filming of Tom Brown, he moved to Los Angeles and got himself an American agent. Not long after, Alex was cast as Alex Rider, the main character in Alex Rider: Stormbreaker (2006), based off of the popular book series. Alex was nominated for a Young Artist Award and an Empire Award for his role. He appeared as the main love interest in Wild Child (2008) opposite Emma Roberts and Georgia King, playing the son of the headmistress, Freddie Kingsley, and not long after, he played a popular jerk named Bradley in a prep school in the British teen horror flick Tormented (2009).

Alex decided to take a break from acting and travel Europe. To finance the trips, he booked a few jobs modeling for Burberry. When Alex returned to the states, he immediately landed the role of Kyle Kingston in Beastly (2011) based on the novel by Alex Flinn, opposite Vanessa Hudgens, Mary-Kate Olsen and Neil Patrick Harris. Not long after wrapping Beastly, Alex began filming I Am Number Four (2011), a sci-fi action flick opposite Glee star Dianna Agron and Timothy Olyphant.

Alex wanted to try something different for his next role, In Time (2011), a drama based on a future world in which humans stop aging at 25, then use time as a currency to extend their lives, he plays a villain. He based the madness of his character on Charles Manson, but made him clean-cut. “I like classically twisted, so he’s in a Tom Ford suit, his hair is slicked back, and he’s supremely intelligent.” The movie also stars Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde and Amanda Seyfried.