Austin Butler
Birthdate: Aug 17, 1991
Birthplace: Anaheim, California, USA
Spotted by a talent scout at the Orange County Fair, Austin Butler (birthname: Austin Robert Butler) studied acting and began to make an impression in multiple Nickelodeon shows. He landed his first significant movie role in the 20th Century Fox family comedy, Aliens in the Attic (2009), with Ashley Tisdale. Cult filmmaker Kevin Smith cast Butler in his 2016 comedy, Yoga Hosers (2016), with Harley Quinn Smith, Lily Rose-Depp, and Johnny Depp.
Austin Butler’s career took a major upswing after an acclaimed 2018 Broadway debut performance in George C. Wolfe’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, and casting in Jim Jarmusch’s vampire film, The Dead Don’t Die (2019), closely followed by a standout appearance in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) as the lead killer in the Manson Family, Tex Watson. Shortly after this, Butler was cast as Elvis Presley for Baz Luhrmann’s anticipated biopic, Elvis (2022), with Tom Hanks and Olivia DeJonge.
Butler made a supporting appearance as arch-nemesis Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in director/co-writer/producer Denis Villeneuve’s acclaimed sequel, grossing $712 million for Warner Bros., Dune: Part Two (2024), starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Javier Bardem, and Christopher Walken. Butler co-starred with Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy in filmmaker Jeff Nichols’ biker drama, The Bikeriders (2023), premiering at the Telluride Film Festival and released by Focus Features and Universal Pictures.
Austin Butler joined the cast of filmmaker Ari Aster’s contemporary Western for A24, Eddington (2025), starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Michael Ward, and Clifton Collins premiering in competition and to highly divisive reviews at the Cannes Film Festival but failing to connect with summer audiences for a poor $12 million U.S. theatrical box office. Butler was picked by director/producer Darren Aronofsky to star in his crime thriller, Caught Stealing (2025), adapted by Charlie Huston from his novel, co-starring Regina King, Zoe Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Griffin Dunne, Benito A Martinez Ocasio aka Bad Bunny and Carol Kane, produced via Columbia Pictures and released by Sony Pictures Releasing.
Butler was pitted against co-star Jeremy Allen White as a detective pursues a contract killer in director/writer Henry Dunham’s Chicago-set Enemies (date to be announced), with Anna Sawai, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Payman Maadi, Franz Rogowski, and Charles Parnell, including Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen as lead producers and A24 as distributor. Butler co-starred with Saoirse Ronan in the music-based drama directed and written by Sean Durkin (based on Holly Brickley’s novel), Deep Cuts (date to be announced), produced by Josh Safdie, Ronan, Ronald Bronstein, and Eli Bush, and produced/released by A24.
Austin Butler led the cast and was an executive producer of director/producer Edward Berger’s first foray into sci-fi, The Barrier (date to be announced), adapted by MacMillan Hedges (who also produced) from his story, and which was backed by production company Nine Hours. Butler starred alongside Tom Holland in the racecar-crime drama, American Speed (date to be announced), written by Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt and produced by Douglas Banker, Charles Roven, and RD Whittington, and released/produced by Amazon MGM Studios.
Butler took the starring role and was a lead producer for the big-screen adaptation of Don Winslow’s Rhode Island-set mafia saga, City on Fire (date to be announced), adapted by Winslow and Justin Kuritzkes under Matt Ross’s direction, and backed by Sony Pictures/3000 Pictures/Heyday Films.
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Personal life
Raised in Anaheim by parents Lori Anne and David Butler, Austin Butler has one sister, Ashley Butler. Butler’s mother Lori Anne died of cancer in 2014. Austin Butler had a relationship with actor Vanessa Hudgens from 2011 to 2020. He has no children. His height is 6’.
Austin Butler Movies
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- 2025 |
Caught Stealing
asHank Thompson
Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.
- 2025 |
- 2024 |
The Bikeriders
asBenny
After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.
- 2024 |
Dune: Part Two
asFeyd-Rautha
Paul Atreides unites with the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future.
- 2022 |
- 2019 |
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
asTex Watson
As Hollywood's Golden Age is winding down during the summer of 1969, television actor Rick Dalton and his stunt double Cliff Booth endeavor to achieve lasting success in Hollywood while meeting several colorful characters along the way.
Facts About Austin Butler
Home Sweet Home: Due to his busy acting schedule, Austin Butler left junior high school in the 7th grade and was home-schooled until the 10th grade, when he passed the California High School Proficiency Exam and graduated two grades early.
Real-Life Figures: Butler made the fairly stark jump of roles from Tex Watson—the lead killer in the Charles Manson family—in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, to rock n’ roll legend, Elvis Presley, in Elvis.
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