Andrew Garfield Bio: The Amazing Spider-Man Actor

release date:July 3, 2012
Friday November 9, 2012 (dvd)
genre:Action
running time:137 min.
director:Marc Webb
studio:Columbia Pictures
producer(s):Matt Tolmach, Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad
screenplay:James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent, Steve Kloves
cast:Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen, Sally Field
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Andrew Garfield Biography

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.

In 2010, Andrew landed a role in The Social Network based on the start of Facebook. The film went on to win three Oscars. Andrew's role also earned him nominations from the BAFTAs, the Golden Globes, the MTV Movie Awards and the Screen Actors Guild. In 2012, he landed another monumental role in his career. He headlines as the famous webslinger in Marc Webb's reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man.

After meeting on the set, Andrew began dating his on-screen love from The Amazing Spider-Man, Emma Stone.

Filmography:

The Amazing Spider-Man 2(2014)
The Amazing Spider-Man(2012)
The Social Network(2010)
Never Let Me Go(2010)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus(2009)
Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009)
Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)
Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009)
The Other Boleyn Girl(2008)
Lions for Lambs(2007)
Boy A(2007)

Filmography

ActorNever Let Me Go (2010)
ActorRed Riding: 1974 (2010)
ActorThe Social Network (2010)
ActorBoy A (2008)
ActorLions For Lambs (2007)