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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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Connected people

ConnectionJohn CrowleyDirected Boy A and We Live in Time.

ConnectionLin-Manuel MirandaDirected his Jonathan Larson performance.

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

Selected career chronology

Credits Index

Major screen, stage, music, sport or broadcast work. This is a selected public-career index, not a complete employment history.

Year	Title	Medium	Role	IMDb
2004	Mercy	stage	Performer	—
2004	Kes	stage	Billy Casper	—
2005	Mumbo Jumbo	film	Simmo	IMDb
2005	Sugar Rush	series	Tom	IMDb
2005	Romeo & Juliet	stage	Romeo Montague	—
2006	Power of Art	series	Boy with Fruit	IMDb
2006	Burn / Chatroom / Citizenship	stage	Performer	—
2006	The Overwhelming	stage	Performer	—
2007	Trial & Retribution: Closure, Part 1	episode	Martin Douglas	IMDb
2007	Doctor Who: Daleks in Manhattan	episode	Frank	IMDb
2007	Lions for Lambs	film	Todd Hayes	IMDb
2007	Boy A	film	Jack Burridge	IMDb
2008	The Other Boleyn Girl	film	Francis Weston (credit only)	IMDb
2009	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus	film	Anton	IMDb
2009	Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974	film	Eddie Dunford	IMDb
2009	Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983	film	Eddie Dunford	IMDb
2009	Air	film	Tom	IMDb
2010	I’m Here	film	Sheldon	IMDb
2010	Never Let Me Go	film	Tommy	IMDb
2010	The Social Network	film	Eduardo Saverin	IMDb
2012	The Amazing Spider-Man	film	Peter Parker / Spider-Man	IMDb
2012	Death of a Salesman	stage	Biff	—
2014	The Amazing Spider-Man 2	film	Peter Parker / Spider-Man	IMDb
2014	99 Homes	film	Dennis Nash	IMDb
2014	Arcade Fire: We Exist	music	Lead	IMDb
2014	Saturday Night Live: Andrew Garfield/Coldplay	television	Self - Host	IMDb
2016	Hacksaw Ridge	film	Desmond Doss	IMDb
2016	Silence	film	Rodrigues	IMDb
2017	Breathe	film	Robin Cavendish	IMDb
2017	National Theatre Live: Angels in America Part One — Millennium Approaches	film	Prior Walter	IMDb
2017	National Theatre Live: Angels in America Part Two — Perestroika	film	Prior Walter	IMDb
2018	Under the Silver Lake	film	Sam	IMDb
2018	Angels in America: Millennium Approaches	stage	Prior Walter / The Man in the Park	—
2018	Angels in America: Perestroika	stage	Prior Walter	—
2020	Mainstream	film	Link	IMDb
2020	Mainstream	film	Producer	IMDb
2021	The Eyes of Tammy Faye	film	Jim Bakker	IMDb
2021	tick, tick... BOOM!	film	Jonathan Larson	IMDb
2021	Spider-Man: No Way Home	film	Peter Parker / Spider-Man	IMDb
2022	Under the Banner of Heaven	series	Detective Jeb Pyre	IMDb
2024	We Live in Time	film	Tobias	IMDb
2024	George Orwell’s 1984	audio	Winston Smith (audio drama)	—
2025	After the Hunt	film	Hank	IMDb
2026	The Magic Faraway Tree	film	Tim Thompson	IMDb
2026	The Uprising	film	Ploughman	IMDb
2026	Artificial (upcoming)	film	Sam Altman	IMDb
2027	Wild Things (upcoming)	series	Roy Horn	IMDb
2027	Wild Things (upcoming)	series	Executive producer	IMDb