Andrew Garfield

Andrew Garfield
Garfield in 2023
Born
Andrew Russell Garfield

(1983-08-20) 20 August 1983 (age 41)
Los Angeles, California, US
Citizenship
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Alma materRoyal Central School of Speech and Drama[1]
OccupationActor
Years active2004–present
AwardsFull list

Andrew Russell Garfield (born 20 August 1983) is an English and American actor.[2][3][4] He came to international attention in 2010 with the supporting role of Eduardo Saverin in the drama The Social Network. He gained wider recognition for playing Spider-Man in the superhero films The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), and later in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).

Garfield received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayals of Desmond Doss in the war film Hacksaw Ridge (2016) and Jonathan Larson in the musical drama Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021). He also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the latter. He has also starred in the films Never Let Me Go (2010), Silence (2016), The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) and We Live in Time (2024). On television, he starred as a Mormon detective in the crime drama miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven (2022) for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor.

On stage, Garfield made his Broadway debut playing Biff Loman in the 2012 revival of Death of a Salesman for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He played Prior Walter in Angels in America on the West End in 2017 receiving a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role on Broadway in 2018, winning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.

  1. ^ "High Profile Alumni". The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  2. ^ Garfield, Andrew (19 November 2021). Andrew Garfield Responds to Fans on the Internet – Actually Me. GQ. Event occurs at 7:05. Archived from the original on 28 November 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2021 – via YouTube. It's cause I'm English... My father's American so, I have had this semi-weird, hybrid British-American accent...
  3. ^ Clarke, Donald (27 October 2017). "Andrew Garfield: 'I am a mongrel. I feel English and I don't'". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 24 April 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
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