Andrew Garfield
Andrew Russell Garfield (born August 20, 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. 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. He won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor 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, for which he received nominations for a BAFTA Film Award and a Golden Globe Award.
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. In 2022, he starred as a Mormon detective in the crime drama miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven, earning nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
On stage, Garfield appeared in the 2012 Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, which garnered him a Tony Award nomination. For playing Prior Walter in a 2017 London production of Angels in America, Garfield was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award; he reprised the role on Broadway the following year and won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
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. He won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor 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, for which he received nominations for a BAFTA Film Award and a Golden Globe Award.
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. In 2022, he starred as a Mormon detective in the crime drama miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven, earning nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
On stage, Garfield appeared in the 2012 Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, which garnered him a Tony Award nomination. For playing Prior Walter in a 2017 London production of Angels in America, Garfield was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award; he reprised the role on Broadway the following year and won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
Known for
![We Live in Time](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/t7clSlDlb0tVb11Km8pWXniQLUG.jpg)
We Live in Time
![Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/e2LLmI5wKIrWGAy9Of3yyWu7Szn.jpg)
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
![Under the Banner of Heaven](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/gKyXUkyKRg9LdZzZWRzk0eKD5HJ.jpg)
Under the Banner of Heaven
![Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom!](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/1SVZiOwRb0vjAYufemgdRfAyy74.jpg)
Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom!
![Spider-Man: No Way Home](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/1g0dhYtq4irTY1GPXvft6k4YLjm.jpg)
Spider-Man: No Way Home
![tick, tick... BOOM!](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/DPmfcuR8fh8ROYXgdjrAjSGA0o.jpg)
tick, tick... BOOM!
![Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/fmI1oIAwXjfX8LcZYT8Rs2rZe2R.jpg)
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
![The Eyes of Tammy Faye](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/h09nsvxZH72zx2U8gS8vrg47aRk.jpg)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
![Mainstream](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/9KXWDsbbp2dcjMNzYRzkuRfrpzc.jpg)
Mainstream
![RuPaul's Drag Race UK](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/2nBI8epgFpmxM9gx3M1qBVVzzce.jpg)
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
![Under the Silver Lake](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/cJ9aKlEgTLYtpYjNqin06YqJRUl.jpg)
Under the Silver Lake
![Breathe](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/wLu2N0QVfSpk10RJ17HLHyRUmww.jpg)
Breathe
![National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ySBBhylWUKCqB9TXhjS8YOkg7CT.jpg)
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
![National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/10Im51sjHN4yrBpQpBxUYNk8bWb.jpg)
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
![Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/fpJ7IMvUbRTcA12UmISUsUt6kVw.jpg)
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
![The Soul of War: Making 'Hacksaw Ridge'](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/zpAhD2QUyCz5bifjZUGVTabplMo.jpg)
The Soul of War: Making 'Hacksaw Ridge'
![Silence](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/x5T0cQDYws0xRBVG4Q3wpcrcmax.jpg)
Silence
![Hacksaw Ridge](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/wuz8TjCIWR2EVVMuEfBnQ1vuGS3.jpg)
Hacksaw Ridge
![99 Homes](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/gD2DRIAOCIszyHlrYYbUXjsHHlr.jpg)
99 Homes
![The Late Show with Stephen Colbert](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/9jkThAGYj2yp8jsS6Nriy5mzKFT.jpg)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
![Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/h7X59O3T4VWVAUzZ00LEpbwA3GP.jpg)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
![Variety Studio: Actors on Actors](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/pgWZXYG0gTKkwRH9pTxoscFmq4H.jpg)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
![The Wages of Heroism: Making The Amazing Spider-Man 2](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/z5nm4z5dCS06mptUKKJpVBIq1aX.jpg)
The Wages of Heroism: Making The Amazing Spider-Man 2
![The Amazing Spider-Man 2](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/kV61FAIsRWZP6JhgWFOKug9RbBx.jpg)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
![Late Night with Seth Meyers](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/g6MrJxNaHYGYU7Sxo72e5B8gKOV.jpg)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
![The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/d735cGL2G07Tb0ysLHStu8c0uo8.jpg)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
![Off Camera with Sam Jones](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/wFzCudeLabyjvwh0n5C9rEtCqVy.jpg)
Off Camera with Sam Jones
![Her](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/lEIaL12hSkqqe83kgADkbUqEnvk.jpg)
Her
![Heroes and Demons](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/bGwEuV6u91naC6g3c1983rDI5uW.jpg)
Heroes and Demons
![Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/n7qOW6GkspVb53G92CZMRSwk7Ed.jpg)
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
![The Amazing Spider-Man](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/BgcvtsVWLQfjHD6Dr3YYgeSLYk.jpg)
The Amazing Spider-Man
![How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/gu83t0D0UYOGk2p9ufDjT5YllUa.jpg)
How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
![Air](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/w4VxJqVYFBD1Z0AASMe4f644TpB.jpg)
Air
![The Social Network](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/n0ybibhJtQ5icDqTp8eRytcIHJx.jpg)
The Social Network
![Never Let Me Go](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/8F0r5ng9Fp60OhzQfR5v33fppq.jpg)
Never Let Me Go
![I'm Here](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/1jq9zUwPIFGid3BMrLLcm3YY2nY.jpg)
I'm Here
![The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/DtrqQHa0wT9AWrk2WA9beROJJx.jpg)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
![Red Riding](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/y614CZxl5HjN0iae59na5n1Fjui.jpg)
Red Riding
![Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/8DeTSHV2gkT3HYTWb3o2Z8wKbIe.jpg)
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
![The Other Boleyn Girl](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/9zD3hXV24zJzYvSuakXZU8yMEY4.jpg)
The Other Boleyn Girl
![Boy A](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/dfX5bbDmOpqiMge49W5wjUPrUz0.jpg)
Boy A
![Lions for Lambs](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/rvpxNsR0n4zh40WM6MiUlkV60on.jpg)
Lions for Lambs
![The Graham Norton Show](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vrbqaBXB8AALynQzpWz6JdCPEJS.jpg)
The Graham Norton Show
![Simon Schama's Power of Art](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/bWo7XzCSrqC10B5Gu9uCZYbenKR.jpg)
Simon Schama's Power of Art
![Swinging](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/t9D2R1dBuKK3WHoyzx8Q6r1R9bv.jpg)
Swinging
![Mumbo Jumbo](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vHwrC6pWv4NAqYOdW84bS0gQzZR.jpg)
Mumbo Jumbo
![Sugar Rush](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/YEW7UwhDpVo6N1tpNHGmC9ZjNO.jpg)
Sugar Rush
![Doctor Who](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4edFyasCrkH4MKs6H4mHqlrxA6b.jpg)
Doctor Who
![Trial & Retribution](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/k6jgpAh3sfUdL5wGsgDJNkKlsKL.jpg)
Trial & Retribution
![The View](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/zn5ZtKXYo8XOoXUgtQxw7q2CjVt.jpg)
The View
![The Daily Show](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ixcfyK7it6FjRM36Te4OdblAq4X.jpg)
The Daily Show
![LIVE with Kelly and Mark](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/b90Z7Nlw1EzPz38oL3utlvFjmFR.jpg)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
![Saturday Night Live](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/sHGuKFjIBisPk8cvtCZTDVktYfs.jpg)
Saturday Night Live
![The Oscars](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/wyMHJMQp8WpmBg9CxefvbQnFhrm.jpg)
The Oscars
Acting
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
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Prior Walter/The Man In The Park