Andrew Russell Garfield is an American-British actor, producer, and screenwriter, who is best known for his roles as Desmond Doss in the 2016 biographical war film Hacksaw Ridge and Jonathan Larson in the 2021 biographical musical film Tick, Tick... Boom!
For Disney, he played Tommy D in Never Let Me Go, Jim Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye (both from Searchlight Pictures), and reprised the role of Spider-Man from The Amazing Spider-Man films in the 2021 Marvel film Spider-Man: No Way Home.
On April 27, 2022, Garfield announced that he would take a break from acting for a while.[1]
Andrew Russell Garfield was born on 20 August 1983, in Los Angeles, California. His mother, Lynn (née Hillman), was from Essex, England, and his father, Richard Garfield, is from California. Richard's parents were also from the United Kingdom. Garfield's parents moved the family from the United States to the United Kingdom when he was three years old, and he was brought up in Epsom, Surrey. Garfield had a secular upbringing. He is Jewish on his father's side, and describes himself as a "Jewish artist." His paternal grandparents were from Jewish immigrant families who moved to London from Poland, Russia and Romania, and the family surname was originally "Garfinkel."
Garfield's parents ran a small interior-design business. His mother was also a teaching assistant at a nursery school, and his father became head coach of the Guildford City Swimming Club. He has an older brother who is an NHS doctor at Royal Brompton Hospital. Garfield was a gymnast and a swimmer during his early years. He had originally intended to study business but became interested in acting at the age of 16 when a friend convinced him to take theatre studies at A-level, as they were one pupil short of being able to run the class. Garfield attended Priory Preparatory School in Banstead and later City of London Freemen's School in Ashtead, before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. His first job was at Starbucks, being moved between three separate establishments in Golders Green and Hendon.
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- He is the second actor to portray Spider-Man after Tobey Maguire, followed by Tom Holland.
- He is a big fan of Tom Holland's incarnation of Spider-Man.
- Andrew dated his Spider-Man co-star Emma Stone, who played his love interest and on-screen girlfriend Gwen Stacy. He is the second actor to date the actress of his on-screen love after Tobey Maguire who dated Kirsten Dunst, who played Mary Jane Watson in the Sam Raimi movies; and followed by Tom Holland, who is engaged to Zendaya, the actress of his on-screen love Michelle Jones.
