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Andrew Garfield

Actor

Born 1983

Andrew Garfield is a British-American actor whose career spans television, film, theatre and audio. Born in Los Angeles to Lynn and Richard Garfield, he moved to Surrey as a child. Acting classes and youth theatre accompanied his school years at Priory Preparatory and City of London Freemen’s. He completed training at the Central School of Speech and Drama in 2004. He moved to London at seventeen for drama school and worked at Starbucks. His first professional acting job was Kes at Manchester’s Royal Exchange, after casting director Camilla Evans saw him during drama-school scouting. He also played Romeo there. London productions and touring followed. He has recalled a period of unemployment and support jobs after drama school, including telemarketing, waiting tables and assisting a cricket coach. A National Theatre performance in Chatroom led to a screen test for an unmade Stephen Daldry film. That tape reached casting director Avy Kaufman and helped open the path to Robert Redford’s Lions for Lambs. Television parts in Sugar Rush and Doctor Who preceded the contrasting screen opportunities of Boy A and Lions for Lambs. Boy A earned a television BAFTA. He moved between Red Riding, fantasy, short films and adaptations before playing Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network. Two Amazing Spider-Man films brought a much larger audience. Alongside them, he made his Broadway debut as Biff in Death of a Salesman and later returned to independent film with 99 Homes. His work continued through Silence, Hacksaw Ridge, Breathe and Under the Silver Lake. The two-part Angels in America gave him sustained theatre work in London and on Broadway; its Broadway run brought a Tony and a Drama Desk award. For tick, tick... BOOM!, he undertook extended voice training with Liz Caplan to portray Jonathan Larson. A Golden Globe followed. His later television work included detective Jeb Pyre in Under the Banner of Heaven. After We Live in Time and After the Hunt, his released work includes The Magic Faraway Tree and The Uprising. He portrays Sam Altman in the forthcoming Artificial. Apple also announced him as Roy Horn and an executive producer of Wild Things. Upcoming release expectations remain separate from completed credits. In an August 2026 interview, he described a renewed need for rest after successive projects. He contrasted the intensity of making work with ordinary life away from it. He has discussed grief after his mother’s death in 2019, including baking her chocolate chip cookies and retaining her perfume. Interviews document reading, karaoke and surfing, while production diets are bounded to the roles concerned. Public reporting identifies Monica Barbaro as his partner; his private family life and unverified beauty routines remain undisclosed.

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ConnectionJohn CrowleyDirected Boy A and We Live in Time.

ConnectionLin-Manuel MirandaDirected his Jonathan Larson performance.

ConnectionLiz CaplanVoice coach for tick, tick... BOOM!.

Andrew Garfield at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2013. — Profile image · Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 3.0

NewNews9 Sept 2026

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Garfield discusses The Uprising and playing Roy Horn and Sam Altman.

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Artificial releases its first trailer
Neon plans a Christmas opening, then a wider January rollout; the release is still upcoming.
8 Sept 2026Source checked
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Apple announces Wild Things
Garfield will star as Roy Horn and executive produce the limited series.
12 May 2025Source checked
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Reflecting on love and loss
He discusses We Live in Time and his experience of grief in a direct Q&A.
4 Jan 2025Source checked
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Remembering his mother through baking
He describes maintaining a connection through her cookie recipe and keepsakes.
28 Dec 2024Source checked
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Broadcast
An audio performance as Winston
Audible announces its April dramatization of Orwell’s 1984 with Garfield in the lead.
9 Jan 2024Source checked
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Selected Credits

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Year	Title	Role
2026	The Magic Faraway TreefilmIMDb	Tim Thompson
2026	The UprisingfilmIMDb	Ploughman
2026	Artificial (upcoming)filmIMDb	Sam Altman
2027	Wild Things (upcoming)seriesIMDb	Roy Horn
2027	Wild Things (upcoming)seriesIMDb	Executive producer

Timeline

1983—2026

1983August 20: Born in Los Angeles.
YouthGrows up in Surrey; acting classes and youth theatre accompany school.
2004Graduates from Central; performs in Mercy and Kes.
2005Sugar Rush introduces his television work.
2007Boy A and Lions for Lambs bring contrasting screen roles.
2008Wins BAFTA’s television acting award for Boy A.
2009Plays Eddie Dunford in Red Riding.
2010Plays Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network.
2012Broadway debut as Biff; The Amazing Spider-Man reaches cinemas.
2014Returns as Spider-Man and stars in 99 Homes.
2016Silence and Hacksaw Ridge expand his dramatic work.
2017Plays Prior Walter at the National Theatre.
2018Broadway Angels in America brings Tony and Drama Desk wins.
2019His mother, Lynn, dies.
2021Portrays Jonathan Larson and returns in No Way Home.
2022Wins a Golden Globe and appears in Under the Banner of Heaven.
2024April 4: Audible releases its dramatized 1984; We Live in Time follows.
2025Appears in After the Hunt.
2026September: Discusses The Uprising, Artificial and Wild Things in a new interview.
FutureArtificial has an announced Christmas theatrical opening; Wild Things is forthcoming.

A new conversation about work

Latest Index

Artificial releases its first trailer

Apple announces Wild Things

Reflecting on love and loss

Remembering his mother through baking

An audio performance as Winston