Andrew Garfield

Andrew Garfield
Garfield in 2023
Born
Andrew Russell Garfield

(1983-08-20) 20 August 1983 (age 40)
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 has received various accolades, including a Tony Award, a BAFTA TV Award and a Golden Globe, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Laurence Olivier Award and two Academy Awards. Time included Garfield on its list of 100 most influential people in the world in 2022.

Born in Los Angeles and raised in Epsom, England, Garfield trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and began his career on the UK stage and in television productions. He made his feature film debut in the 2007 ensemble drama Lions for Lambs, and gained praise for his performance in the television film Boy A (2007). He came to international attention in 2010 with the supporting role of Eduardo Saverin in the drama The Social Network.

Garfield 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). He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for starring as Desmond Doss in the war film Hacksaw Ridge (2016) and as Jonathan Larson in the musical Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021). Garfield also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the latter. He has since starred as a Mormon detective in the crime drama miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven (2022).

On stage, Garfield appeared in a 2012 Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman and played Prior Walter in a 2017 London production of Angels in America. He reprised the latter role on Broadway the following year and won 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.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference keaveny pod 1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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