Austin Butler

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 (date to be announced), starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Michael Ward, and Clifton Collins.