His mother was also a teaching assistant at a nursery school, and his father became head coach of the Guildford City Swimming Club. Garfield's parents ran a small interior-design business. 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 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. Richard's parents were also from the United Kingdom. His mother, Lynn (née Hillman), was from Essex, England, and his father, Richard Garfield, is from California. For playing Prior Walter in a 2017 London production of Angels in America, Garfield was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award he reprised the role on Broadway the following year and won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.Īndrew Russell Garfield was born on 20 August 1983, in Los Angeles, California. On stage, Garfield appeared in the 2012 Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, which garnered him a Tony Award nomination. In 2022, he starred as a Mormon detective in the crime drama miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven, earning nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Garfield also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the latter. He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for starring as Desmond Doss in the war film Hacksaw Ridge (2016) and as Jonathan Larson in the musical Tick, Tick. Garfield 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). He came to international attention in 2010 with the supporting role of Eduardo Saverin in the drama The Social Network, for which he received nominations for a BAFTA Film Award and a Golden Globe Award. He won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for his performance in the television film Boy A (2007).

He made his feature film debut in the 2007 ensemble drama Lions for Lambs.

Time included Garfield on its list of 100 most influential people in the world in 2022.īorn in Los Angeles and raised in Epsom, England, Garfield trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and began his career on the UK stage and in television productions. He has received various accolades, including a Tony Award, a BAFTA TV Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Laurence Olivier Award and two Academy Awards. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Īndrew Russell Garfield (born 20 August 1983) is an English-American actor.

A Way Home by Keira Andrews