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IMDb profile of Andrew Garfield, an actor, producer and soundtrack artist. Learn about his life, career, roles, nominations and upcoming projects.
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Andrew Russell Garfield (born 20 August 1983) is an English and American actor. He has received various accolades, including a Tony Award, a BAFTA TV Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Laurence Olivier Award and two Academy Awards.
Learn about the life and career of Andrew Garfield, an American-British actor who starred in The Social Network, Spider-Man, Hacksaw Ridge and more. Find out his birth date, height, awards, trivia, quotes and salaries.
- August 20, 1983
- Overview
- Early life and stage performances
- Television and film roles
- Budding onscreen career and breakthrough in The Social Network
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Film roles from the late 2010s
- Onstage roles from the 2010s
- Roles from the 2020s
Andrew Garfield (born August 20, 1983, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) American-born English screen and stage actor, known for giving his roles a unique vulnerability and emotional depth. Garfield began his acting career onstage and gained international celebrity with roles in such films as The Social Network (2010) and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)...
Garfield was born to a middle-class Jewish family in Los Angeles, and as a child he moved with his parents, Richard and Lynn Garfield, and elder brother, Benjamin, to Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom. He began acting at a young age, joining a youth theater workshop and performing in productions. He graduated from the famed Royal Central School of Spee...
In 2005 Garfield launched his onscreen career, appearing in the British teenage television series Sugar Rush. After a guest role on Doctor Who in 2007, Garfield starred in the movie Boy A (2007) as a young man recently released from prison for committing murder when he was a juvenile. His performance garnered him a BAFTA Award for best actor. About...
After his Hollywood debut, Garfield performed alongside Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008); Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009); and Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan in the film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2010). He also continued to take roles on television, starring ...
In 2012 Garfield signed onto Marvel’s Spider-Man revival, The Amazing Spider-Man, in the lead role of Peter Parker, opposite actress Emma Stone. They both starred in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), but subsequent installments were canceled because of the movie’s poor box-office performance and mixed reviews. Years later Garfield made a welcome app...
Other film roles from the 2010s include Desmond Doss in Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge (2016), a real-life World War II medic who refused to bear arms but managed to save 75 soldiers during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Garfield received an Academy Award nomination for his performance. He also appeared in Martin Scorsese’s Silence (2016), an adaptation of the novel by Shūsaku Endō. Garfield played Father Rodrigues, a 17th-century Jesuit monk who travels to Japan to find his mentor (played by Liam Neeson). He took the role to heart, attending a Jesuit silent retreat in Wales and identifying the film as a galvanizing experience for his ongoing spiritual journey. Garfield also had starring parts in Breathe (2017), a biopic of Robin Cavendish, a newlywed who is paralyzed after a severe case of polio, and in Under the Silver Lake (2018), an off-the-wall neo-noir.
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In between movie roles, Garfield continued to act onstage. He made his Broadway debut in 2012, playing Biff Loman, the eldest son of Willy Loman (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) in a revival of Death of a Salesman. In 2017 Garfield starred as Prior Walter in the National Theatre, London, production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America and returned...
In the 2020s Garfield starred as a social media influencer in Mainstream (2020), Gia Coppola’s satire about Internet culture, and as Jim Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021), the story of the infamous televangelist couple. While Garfield was filming the latter, his mother died from pancreatic cancer, and he later spoke about how he was able to c...
6 days ago · Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield are showing off their rom-com chops in John Crowley’s “ We Live in Time .”. A24 released the trailer for the romantic comedy, set for an Oct. 11 limited ...
6 days ago · Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield are starring in a new film together.. On Wednesday, the official trailer for their upcoming movie, "We Live in Time," was released and features the two actors ...
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Learn about Andrew Garfield, an English and American actor who has starred in The Social Network, Spider-Man, Hacksaw Ridge and more. Find out his latest projects, awards, photos and videos on The Movie Database.
