Biography

Andrew Russell Garfield (born 20 August 1983) is an English and American actor. He came to international attention in 2010 with the supporting role of Eduardo Saverin in the drama The Social Network. He 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). 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 and a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in Boy A (2007). 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 miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven (2022), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor. On stage, Garfield made his Broadway debut playing Biff Loman in the 2012 revival of Death of a Salesman, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He played Prior Walter in Angels in America on the West End in 2017, receiving a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role on Broadway in 2018, winning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrew Garfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.