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Andrew Garfield

Aug 20, 1983 (42 years old) in Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

Known For

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Doctor Who
Frank
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Spider-Man: No Way Home
Peter Parker / Spider-Man
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The Amazing Spider-Man
Spider-Man / Peter Parker
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man / Peter Parker
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Hacksaw Ridge
Desmond T. Doss
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Silence
Rodrigues
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The Oscars
Self
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We Live in Time
Tobias Durand
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The Social Network
Eduardo Saverin
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Anton

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