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. 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 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. He starred as Brody in the Netflix science fiction miniseries The I-Land. 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. Pettyfer was nominated for a Young Artist Award and an Empire Award for his role. He appeared in school plays and on television before being cast as Alex Rider, the main character in the 2006 film version of Stormbreaker. Alexander Richard Pettyfer (born 10 April 1990) is a British actor and model.
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