Andrew Garfield
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 (68 Appearances)
Artificial
Instrumental
The Uprising
Voyagers
Wild Things
The Magic Faraway Tree
After the Hunt
Celebrity Substitute
We Live in Time
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Under the Banner of Heaven
Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom!
Spider-Man: No Way Home
tick, tick... BOOM!
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Mainstream
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
Under the Silver Lake
Breathe
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
The Soul of War: Making 'Hacksaw Ridge'
Silence
Hacksaw Ridge
99 Homes
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Chicken Shop Date
The Wages of Heroism: Making The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Arcade Fire: We Exist
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
The Amazing Spider-Man T4 Premiere Special
The Amazing Spider-Man
Heroes and Demons
How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
Air
The Social Network
Never Let Me Go
I'm Here
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Red Riding
Boy A
The Other Boleyn Girl
Lions for Lambs
The Graham Norton Show
Simon Schama's Power of Art
Swinging
Mumbo Jumbo
Sugar Rush
Doctor Who
Who Do You Think You Are?
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Trial & Retribution
The View
The Daily Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Jeopardy!