Birth Name: Alexander Richard Pettyfer

Place of Birth: Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, U.K.

Date of Birth: 10 April, 1990

Ethnicity: English

Alex Pettyfer is an English model and actor. His roles include the films Tom Brown’s Schooldays, Alex Rider: Operation Strombreaker, Wild Child, Tormented, I Am Number Four, Beastly, In Time, Magic Mike, Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Endless Love, The Strange Ones, Back Roads, The Last Witness, Echo Boomers, Warning, and The Infernal Machine.

He is the son of Lee (Robinson), an interior decorator, and Richard A. Pettyfer, an actor. He is married to German model Toni Garrn, with whom he has a daughter.

Alex’s patrilineal line can be traced to Alexander Pettifer, who was born, c. 1540, in Bampton, Oxfordshire, England.

Alex’s paternal grandfather was Arthur Alexander Pettyfer (the son of Alexander R. Pettyfer and Marguerite Florence Holmes). Arthur was born in Guildford, New South Wales, Australia, to English parents. Alex’s great-grandfather Alexander was the son of John Alfred Pettyfer and Lucy Elizabeth Sales. Marguerite was the daughter of Arthur Henry Holmes and Alice Mary Bower.

Alex’s paternal grandmother is named Rita M. Spooner.

Source: Genealogy of Alex Pettyfer (focusing on his father’s side) –