Andrew Garfield
Acting • Born 1983-08-20
Biography
Andrew Russell Garfield (born August 20, 1983) is an English-American actor and producer. He came to international attention when he co-starred in Never Let Me Go (2010) alongside Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley, as well as the supporting role of Eduardo Saverin in the drama The Social Network (2010). He gained wider recognition for playing Peter Parker in the superhero films The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), and in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). He is Jewish on his father's side, and describes himself as a "Jewish artist". Garfield began taking acting classes in Guildford, Surrey, when he was nine, and appeared in a youth theatre production of Bugsy Malone. Garfield made his British television debut in 2005 appearing in the Channel 4 teen drama Sugar Rush. In 2007, he garnered public attention when he appeared in the series three of the BBC's Doctor Who, in the episodes "Daleks in Manhattan" and "Evolution of the Daleks". Garfield received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayals of Desmond Doss in the war film Hacksaw Ridge (2016) and Jonathan Larson in the musical drama Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021). He also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the latter. His other film credits include Never Let Me Go (2010), Silence (2016), The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) and We Live in Time (2024). On television, he starred as a Mormon detective in the crime drama mini-series Under the Banner of Heaven (2022), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor.
Filmography
77 credits
Air
Movie • 2010
Tom
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
Movie • 2021
Self - Actor
Lions for Lambs
Movie • 2007
Todd Hayes
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Movie • 2009
Anton
The Other Boleyn Girl
Movie • 2008
Francis Weston
We Live in Time
Movie • 2024
Tobias Durand
Never Let Me Go
Movie • 2010
Tommy D.
Boy A
Movie • 2008
Jack Burridge
I'm Here
Movie • 2010
Sheldon
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Movie • 2021
Peter Parker / Spider-Man
The Social Network
Movie • 2010
Eduardo Saverin
Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom!
Movie • 2022
Self
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Movie • 2014
Spider-Man / Peter Parker
Heroes and Demons
Movie • 2011
Tom
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Movie • 2022
Self
Instrumental
Movie
James Rhodes
The Amazing Spider-Man
Movie • 2012
Spider-Man / Peter Parker
99 Homes
Movie • 2015
Dennis Nash
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Movie • 2009
Eddie Dunford
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Movie • 2009
Eddie Dunford
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Movie • 2009
Eddie Dunford
Hacksaw Ridge
Movie • 2016
Desmond T. Doss
The Magic Faraway Tree
Movie • 2026
Tim Thompson
After the Hunt
Movie • 2025
Hank Gibson
Under the Silver Lake
Movie • 2018
Sam
Silence
Movie • 2016
Rodrigues
Breathe
Movie • 2017
Robin Cavendish
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
Movie • 2017
Prior Walter
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
Movie • 2017
Prior Walter/The Man In The Park
Mumbo Jumbo
Movie • 2005
Simmo
The Soul of War: Making 'Hacksaw Ridge'
Movie • 2017
Self
How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
Movie • 2011
Self / Eduardo Saverin
Mainstream
Movie • 2021
Link
The Amazing Spider-Man T4 Premiere Special
Movie • 2012
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Movie • 2021
Jim Bakker
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Movie • 2012
Self
The Wages of Heroism: Making The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Movie • 2014
Self
tick, tick... BOOM!
Movie • 2021
Jonathan Larson
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
Movie • 2017
Self
The Uprising
Movie • 2026
Wat Tyler
Artificial
Movie
Sam Altman
Voyagers
Movie
Carl Sagan
Arcade Fire: We Exist
Movie • 2014
Lead
Odesseus
Movie
Sugar Rush
TV • 2005
Tom
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
TV • 2019
Self - Guest Judge
Trial & Retribution
TV • 1997
Under the Banner of Heaven
TV • 2022
Detective Jeb Pyre
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The View
TV • 1997
Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Frank
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
Simon Schama's Power of Art
TV • 2006
Boy with Fruit
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Swinging
TV • 2005
Various Roles
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2015
Self
Off Camera with Sam Jones
TV • 2014
Self
Chicken Shop Date
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
Chicken Shop Date
TV • 2014
Self - Guest (archive footage)
Celebrity Substitute
TV • 2024
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self - Presenter
Who Do You Think You Are?
TV • 2004
Self
Wild Things
TV
Roy
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter
Jeopardy!
TV • 1984
Self - Clue Presenter
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
Red Riding
TV • 2009
Eddie Dunford
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self