ANDREW GARFIELD
Date of Birth: August 20, 1983
Andrew Garfield was born in Los Angeles to Anglo-American parents and was brought up in Surrey, England. He graduated from London's Central School of Speech and Drama in 2004, immediately winning several Most Promising Newcomer awards for his professional theater work. He was cast by director Robert Redford to play opposite him as a disillusioned Californian university student in Lions For Lambs, which also starred Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep.
This resulted in him being named as a Shooting Star by the European Film Promotion Board and one of Variety's "10 Actors To Watch." His acclaimed performance in the title role of John Crowley's film for Channel Four, Boy A, about the attempt to rehabilitate a childhood killer, saw him winning the 2008 BAFTA Award as Best Actor.
Since somersaulting on from Terry Gilliam's Doctor Parnassus's theater troupe in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), Andrew has played the lead role in 1974, the first of Channel Four's major drama trilogy adapted from David Peace's Red Riding novels and has completed work on Never Let Me Go, in which he co-stars with Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan.