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Andrew Garfield
Garfield at the premiere of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Roy Thompson Hall, Toronto, September 18, 2009
Born	Andrew Russell Garfield 20 August 1983 (1983-08-20) (age 26) Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Andrew Russell Garfield^[1] (born 20 August 1983) is a BAFTA award-winning English actor, who has appeared in radio, theatre, film, and television, including the 2007 releases Lions for Lambs and Boy A.

Early life

Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to a British mother from Essex and an American father from California.^[2][3] His family moved to England three years after he was born.^[2] Garfield is Jewish^[4] and was raised in a "middle class home".^[4] Garfield's parents ran a small interior design business.^[5] His father later worked as a swimming teacher and his mother as a teaching assistant at a nursery school. He was raised in Surrey, England^[3] and attended the City of London Freemen's School in Ashtead before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Career

Garfield began working primarily as a stage actor. In 2004, he won a MEN Theatre Award for his performance in Kes at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre (where he also played Romeo the year after), and won the outstanding newcomer award at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2006.

In October 2007, he was named one of Variety's "10 Actors to Watch".^[6] At the Berlinale 2008 (Berlin International Film Festival) he was one of the shooting stars.

In November 2007, he featured in the ensemble drama Lions for Lambs, playing an American university student, as well as the Channel 4 drama Boy A, for which he won the BAFTA for Best Actor in 2008. He appeared in the film The Other Boleyn Girl.^[6]

In 2009, he appeared in the Terry Gilliam film The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus^[4] and the Red Riding trilogy.

He appears in the forthcoming British sci-fi thriller Never Let Me Go^[7] and is filming The Social Network, alongside actors Justin Timberlake and Jesse Eisenberg. The film, about the founders of Facebook, is based on Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal.

Garfield made a modeling debut and appeared in a Vogue December 2009 issue alongside Lily Cole as Hansel in the photographed retelling of Hansel and Gretel.

Filmography

Television credits

Stage credits

Radio credits

References

External links

• Andrew Garfield at the Internet Movie Database