Andrew Garfield
English-American actor and producer celebrated for his roles in Spider-Man, The Social Network, Hacksaw Ridge, and tick, tick… BOOM!
Andrew Garfield - Personal Information
- Name: Andrew Garfield
- Date of Birth: August 20, 1983
- Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
- Gender: Male
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Thanks, Producer, Executive Producer
Biography
Andrew Russell Garfield (born August 20, 1983) is an English-American actor and producer. He came to international attention when he co-starred in Never Let Me Go (2010) alongside Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley, as well as the supporting role of Eduardo Saverin in the drama The Social Network (2010). He gained wider recognition for playing Peter Parker in the superhero films The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), and in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).
He is Jewish on his father's side, and describes himself as a "Jewish artist". Garfield began taking acting classes in Guildford, Surrey, when he was nine, and appeared in a youth theatre production of Bugsy Malone. Garfield made his British television debut in 2005 appearing in the Channel 4 teen drama Sugar Rush. In 2007, he garnered public attention when he appeared in the series three of the BBC's Doctor Who, in the episodes "Daleks in Manhattan" and "Evolution of the Daleks".
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. His other film credits include 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 mini-series Under the Banner of Heaven (2022), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor.
Selected Filmography
A selection of Andrew Garfield's most notable recent screen appearances across film and television.
- The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) as Tim Thompson
- After the Hunt (2025) as Hank Gibson
- Celebrity Substitute (TV - 2024) as Self
- We Live in Time (2024) as Tobias Durand
- Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home (2022) as Self
- Under the Banner of Heaven (TV - 2022) as Detective Jeb Pyre
- Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom! (2022) as Self
- Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
- tick, tick… BOOM! (2021) as Jonathan Larson
- Attack of the Hollywood Clichés! (2021) as Self - Actor
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