Andrew Garfield

Andrew Russell Garfield, born August 20, 1983 is an American-British actor who has appeared in radio, theatre, film, and television. His early roles include the films Lions for Lambs, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and Boy A, which garnered him the 2007 BAFTA Television Award for "Best Actor".

Garfield achieved wider recognition and critical acclaim for his role in the 2010 Academy Award-winning film The Social Network, for which he received two BAFTA award nominations (for "Best Actor in a Supporting Role" and the "BAFTA Rising Star"). He also received a Golden Globe award nomination for "Best Supporting Actor". He has been cast as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the franchise's reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man. Garfield is a dual citizen of the U.S. and the U.K.

Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to a British mother from Essex and an American father from California. His family moved to the United Kingdom when he was three years old. Garfield is Jewish and was raised in a "middle class home". His parents ran a small interior design business; his father, Richard, later became head coach of the Guildford City Swimming Club, and his mother is a teaching assistant at a nursery school. He also has an older brother who is a doctor. Garfield was raised in Surrey, England and was a gymnast during his early years. He attended Priory Preparatory School in Banstead and later City of London Freemen's School in nearby Ashtead, before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama, from which he graduated in 2004.

Career

Garfield started taking acting classes in Guildford when he was fifteen, and appeared in a youth theatre production of Bugsy Malone. He also joined a small youth theatre workshop group in Epsom, and 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.

Garfield made his British television debut in 2005, appearing in the Channel 4 teenage drama Sugar Rush. In October 2007, he was named one of Variety's "10 Actors to Watch", and in November 2007, appeared in the ensemble drama Lions for Lambs, playing an American university student. Also that month, he starred in the Channel 4 drama Boy A, for which he won the 2008 BAFTA for Best Actor. In 2008, he had a minor role in the film The Other Boleyn Girl, and was named one of the shooting stars at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Garfield appeared in Vogue's December 2009 issue, modeling alongside Lily Cole, in a photographed retelling of Hansel and Gretel. Also that year, Garfield had a supporting role in the Terry Gilliam film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and the Red Riding television trilogy. In 2010 he co-starred in the British film based on the novel by Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, as well as in David Fincher's The Social Network, alongside Brenda Song, Justin Timberlake and Jesse Eisenberg, about the founders of Facebook.

On August 5, 2010, Garfield appeared briefly as Terry Gilliam's assistant in the Arcade Fire webcast pre-show at Madison Square Garden. On September 12, 2010, he co-presented at the 2010 MTV VMAs with Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake.

Garfield has been chosen to play Spider-Man opposite Emma Stone in Marc Webb's Spider-Man reboot. Filming began in December 2010, and the film is scheduled for a July 3, 2012 release date.

On December 14, 2010, The Social Network received six nominations for the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards, four of which it won, including Best Motion Picture-Drama, on January 16, 2011. Garfield was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.

Filmography

Lions for Lambs 2007 Todd Hayes

Boy A 2007 Jack Burridge British Academy Television Award for Best Actor

The Other Boleyn Girl 2008 Francis Weston Credit only

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 2009 Anton

Never Let Me Go 2010 Tommy

Hollywood Award for Breakthrough Actor (also for The Social Network)

Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor (also for The Social Network)

Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor

Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Rising Star (also for The Social Network)

Nominated — British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor

Nominated — Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Breakthrough Performance (also for The Social Network)

The Social Network 2010 Eduardo Saverin

Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor (also for Never Let Me Go)

Hollywood Award for Breakthrough Actor (also for Never Let Me Go)

Hollywood Film Award for Best Ensemble of the Year

London Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Supporting Actor

Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Nominated — BAFTA Rising Star Award (also for Never Let Me Go)

Nominated — Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor

Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Acting Ensemble

Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor

Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor

Nominated — Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor

Nominated — Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Breakthrough Performance (also for Never Let Me Go)

Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

Nominated — Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor

Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor

Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor

Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Nominated — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble

Nominated — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor

I'm Here 2010 Sheldon Short film

The Amazing Spider-Man 2012 Peter Parker / Spider-Man Post Production

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