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Andrew Garfield
Garfield at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 11, 2010
Born	Andrew Russell Garfield
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2004–present

Andrew Russell Garfield (born August 20, 1983) is an American-British actor who has appeared in radio, theatre, film, and television. He is known for his roles in the 2007 films Lions for Lambs and Boy A, 2009's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and the 2010 drama The Social Network. He has been cast as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the franchise's 2012 reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man. Garfield is a dual citizen of the U.S. and the U.K.

Early life

Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to a British mother from Essex and an American father from California. His family moved to England 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. Garfield was raised in Surrey, England and was a gymnast during his early years. He attended The Priory School, 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 theater production of Bugsy Malone. He also joined a small youth theater 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 his boyfriend 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

Television credits

Stage credits

Radio credits

References

1. "Baftas: The Actors". Metro. 2008-04-15. Retrieved 2009-12-28. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
2. Donaldson, Brian (2009-02-15). "Rising Star". The Sunday Herald. Retrieved 2010-07-15. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

   "Q: You were born in California but moved to Britain at the age of three. How American do you feel?
   
   Andrew Garfield: ... I feel equally at home in both places. I don't feel any more or less either one, but enjoy having a varied cultural existence."

3. Paskin, Willa (2009-12-25). "The New Leading Man: Andrew Garfield". Black Book Magazine. Retrieved 2010-07-16. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

   Andrew Garfield: I have two nationalities, so I can be either here or there, so it doesn’t really matter. I’m ok with being kind of slightly nomadic.

4. Associated Press (2008-08-01). "Andrew Garfield: From unknown to 'Boy A'". MSNBC. Retrieved 2010-05-27. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
5. ^ Shenton, Mark (2006-05-15). "Andrew Garfield". Broadway.com in London. Archived from the original on 2008-02-07. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
6. ^ Fielder, Miles (2007-11-01). "Andrew Garfield". The List. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
7. ^ Carnevale, Rob (11/07). "Lions For Lambs - Andrew Garfield interview". IndieLondon. Retrieved 2007-11-12. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
8. ^ Albiston, Isabel (2007-10-27). "Andrew Garfield: ready for take-off". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
9. ^ Singh, Anita (2010-07-02). "Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man: who is he?". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
10. ^ Graham, Jane (2010-10-07). "Andrew Garfield: our No 1 hottest young British movie talent". The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-10-25. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
11. ^ Idelson, Karen (2007-11-12). "Andrew Garfield: 'Lions' actor certainly not a lamb anymore". Variety. Retrieved 2007-10-19.
12. Jaafar, Ali (2009-03-01). "Keira Knightley set for 'Never'". Variety. Retrieved 2009-05-16.
13. "Andrew Garfield". TVGuide.com. 2010-09-09.
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15. "British actor Andrew Garfield cast as new Spider-Man". BBC. July 2, 2010. Retrieved July 5, 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
16. Dave, Itzoff (2010-07-02). "New 'Spider-Man' Finds Its New Spider-Man". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
17. UKPA (2010-12-14). "Firth film leads Golden Globe nods". The Press Association. Retrieved 2010-12-25. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
18. "Firth, Garfield, Ahmed compete at Evening Standard Awards". ScreenDaily. 2011. Retrieved 2011-1-21. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

External links

• Andrew Garfield at IMDb

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