26 Facts About Alex Pettyfer

Alex Pettyfer appeared in school plays and on television before being cast as Alex Rider, the main character in the 2006 film version of Stormbreaker.

Alex 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.

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

Alex Pettyfer was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, the son of Lee Robinson, an actress and Richard Alex Pettyfer, an actor.

Alex Pettyfer has a younger half-brother, James Ireland from his mother's remarriage to Michael J Ireland, a retired builder and property developer.

Alex 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.

Alex 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.

Alex Pettyfer subsequently attended two other independent boarding schools: Millfield School in Street, Somerset and Shiplake College near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.

In 2005, Alex Pettyfer made his professional acting debut in the British television production of Tom Brown's Schooldays, playing the lead character, Tom Brown; he received positive reviews for the role.

Alex Pettyfer was one of 500 who auditioned for the role.

Alex 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; Alex Pettyfer has a fear of flying, and he liked the looks of the cast for Stormbreaker.

One review of Alex 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".

At around age 17, due to his earlier acting success and to supplement his income, Alex Pettyfer started modelling, notably in some advertising campaigns for Burberry.

Alex Pettyfer next appeared in Wild Child, a film set in California, Kent and Yorkshire part of which took place at Cobham Hall Girls' School in Kent.

Alex Pettyfer starred in the film Beastly, based on the novel by Alex Flinn.

Alex Pettyfer finished filming on 13 August 2009, and the film was released on 4 March 2011.

Alex Pettyfer was offered the part of Jace Wayland in the film adaptation of Cassandra Clare's best selling book, City of Bones.

Alex Pettyfer had been offered a part in a film adaptation of Joseph Delaney's The Wardstone Chronicles, but he declined the role.

Alex Pettyfer was in line to star in The Paperboy, based on the Pete Dexter novel of the same name, but was dropped for the role.

In 2013, Alex Pettyfer had a small role as Thomas Westfall in The Butler.

In June 2009, Alex Pettyfer was voted number 35 on British women's magazine Company's list of the top 50 most eligible bachelors.

Alex 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".

Alex Pettyfer 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 Alex Pettyfer threatened Agron over the phone and had a "heated confrontation" with actor Sebastian Stan, someone with whom Agron was close in early 2011.

Alex Pettyfer 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.

Alex Pettyfer was briefly engaged to actress Riley Keough in 2012.