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Alexander Richard Pettyfer (born April 10, 1990) is an English actor. He has been cast as Alex Rider, the title character in the film version of Stormbreaker, which is currently scheduled for an August 2006 release.

Pettyfer was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, the son of actor Richard Pettyfer and former model Lee Robinson (currently known as "Lee Ireland"); he has a half-brother, James Ireland, from his mother's re-marriage. He began his career as a child model at the age of seven, and, as a schoolboy, performed in plays such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

In 2005, he made his professional acting debut in the British television production of Tom Brown's School Days, playing the lead character, Tom Brown. In June 2005, Pettyfer 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. The film will be released in the summer of 2006.

Pettyfer lives in Windsor, Berkshire, and currently attends the prestigious all-boys boarding school Shiplake College near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, a school also attended by actor Daniel Radcliffe. When not working, Pettyfer's hobbies include skiing and hockey.

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