Austin Butler Trivia | 30 facts about the famous actor

Austin Butler is an American actor, who is best known for portraying Elvis Presley in the musical biopic Elvis.

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1. His full name is Austin Robert Butler.
2. He was born on August 17th, 1991.
3. His zodiac sign is Leo.
4. He is an American actor.
5. He is best known for portraying Elvis Presley in the musical biopic Elvis (2022), for which he won a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
7. Butler began his career on television, first in roles on the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon and later on teen dramas.
8. He gained recognition for starring in The Carrie Diaries (2013–2014) and The Shannara Chronicles (2016–2017).
9. Butler made his Broadway debut in the 2018 revival of The Iceman Cometh.
10. Also he played Tex Watson in Quentin Tarantino’s film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).
11. His older sister, Ashley, got to do some background acting with him in Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide (2004).
12. He plays guitar and piano.
13. He was approached by a representative from a background-acting management company, who helped him get started in the entertainment industry in 2005.
14. He is good friends with Ashley Tisdale, Lindsey Shaw, Alexa PenaVega, Carter Jenkins and Lucy Hale.
15. His friend, Lindsey Shaw, introduced him to her manager, who offered to represent him, starting from that day till now he is being represented by the same manager.
16. He was the ring bearer at Alexa PenaVega and Sean Covel’s wedding.
17. Was in a relationship with High School Musical actress Vanessa Hudgens [2011-2019].
18. His maternal great-grandmother was the daughter of Finnish parents, from Saukonkylä, Alajärvi and Utajärvi, respectively. Austin’s other roots are English, as well as Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, German, Scottish, Welsh, and distant Swiss-German and Swedish.
19. His audition tape for the role of Elvis Presley in Elvis (2022), he sang an emotional performance of “Unchained Melody”. Director Baz Luhrmann was so moved and impressed with his audition that he gave the role to Austin.
20. Portrays Manson family member and Sharon Tate’s murder Tex Watson in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), and Elvis Presley right next in Elvis (2022) – which depicts the King’s shock and anxieties related to his safety following the brutal murder of Tate.
21. Longtime acting mentor is Larry Moss.
22. Butler enjoys creating and recording music.
23. He taught himself to play guitar at the age of thirteen and piano at sixteen.
24. He was in a relationship with actress Vanessa Hudgens from 2011 to 2019.
25. Since late 2021, Butler has been in a relationship with model Kaia Gerber.
26. In 2014, Butler’s mother died of duodenal cancer.
27. Butler hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live later in 2022.
28. Butler will next star in the war drama miniseries Masters of the Air.
29. He will then play Feyd-Rautha in the science fiction epic Dune: Part Two.
30. He will star alongside Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer in Jeff Nichols’s The Bikeriders.