Austin Butler

Austin Robert Butler (born August 17, 1991) is an American actor. Known for his performances on stage and screen, he has received a BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, two Critics' Choice Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023.^[1]

Butler began his career on television, first in roles on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, most notably on Zoey 101 (2007–2008), and later on teen dramas, including recurring parts on The CW's Life Unexpected (2010–2011) and Switched at Birth (2011–2012). He gained recognition for starring in The Carrie Diaries (2013–2014) and The Shannara Chronicles (2016–2017). Butler made his Broadway debut in the revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh (2018) and portrayed Tex Watson in Quentin Tarantino's period dramedy Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).

Butler gained wider recognition for his portrayal of Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's biopic Elvis (2022), for which he won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award, and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has since starred as Gale Cleven in the Apple TV+ war drama miniseries Masters of the Air (2024), Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in the Denis Villeneuve science fiction film Dune: Part Two (2024), and a bartender caught up in a web of crime in Darren Aronofsky's thriller Caught Stealing (2025).