Andrew Garfield

Andrew Russell Garfield (born 20 August 1983) is an actor, of dual American and British citizenship. Born in Los Angeles, and raised in Surrey, he became interested in acting at the age of sixteen. Garfield began his career in British television, appearing in the teen drama Sugar Rush in 2005, and gained further exposure appearing in the BBC's Doctor Who in 2007. His early film roles include Lions for Lambs, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and the Channel 4 drama Boy A, which garnered him the 2008 BAFTA Television Award for Best Actor. Garfield achieved wider recognition and critical acclaim for playing Eduardo Saverin in the 2010 film The Social Network, a role which earned him Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations, and in Never Let Me Go, for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. He played Peter Parker / Spider-Man in the 2012 superhero film The Amazing Spider-Man, a reboot of the Spider-Man film series.Garfield was born in Los Angeles, the son of a British mother from Essex and an American father from California. His family moved to Britain when he was three years old. Garfield is Jewish and was brought up in a "middle class home". His parents ran a small interior design business; his father, Richard, later became head coach of the Guildford Swimming Club, and his mother, Lynn, is a teaching assistant at a nursery school. He has an older brother who is a doctor. Garfield was brought up in Surrey, England, and was a gymnast and a swimmer during his early years. He had originally intended to study business, but became interested in acting at the age of sixteen. Garfield attended Priory Preparatory School in Banstead and later City of London Freemen's School in nearby Ashtead, before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, from which he graduated in 2004.In 2010, he co-starred in the British film based on the novel by Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go. On 5 January 2010, Garfield appeared briefly as Terry Gilliam's assistant in the Arcade Fire webcast pre-show at Madison Square Garden. The same year he starred in director David Fincher's The Social Network, alongside Brenda Song, Justin Timberlake and Jesse Eisenberg, about the founders of Facebook. Garfield achieved wider recognition and critical acclaim for his role as Eduardo Saverin in the film, a role which earned him two BAFTA award nominations for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and the BAFTA Rising Star. On 14 December 2010, The Social Network received six nominations for the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards, four of which it won, including Best Motion Picture-Drama, on 16 December 2011. Garfield was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. Toronto Star's Peter Howell asserted Garfield's portrayal of Saverin as "understated brilliance",[24] and USA Today's Claudia Puig wrote, "Garfield is terrific, conveying Saverin's palpable sense of betrayal." Mark Kermode of the BBC expressed his surprise that Garfield had been overlooked for an Oscar nomination, contradicting "everyone knows he's one of the very best things about the Social Network".[26] Rolling Stone acknowledged that Garfield played the role with a "vulnerability that raises the emotional stakes in a movie", and concluded, "Keep your eyes on Garfield — he's shatteringly good, the soul of a film that might otherwise be without one." He received similar plaudits of the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, and The New Yorker. In March 2012, Garfield made his Broadway theatre debut as Biff Loman in the revival of Death of a Salesman, directed by Tony Award winner Mike Nichols at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The production also stars Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman and Tony Award nominee Linda Emond. For the role Garfield received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play nomination. Garfield played Peter Parker / Spider-Man, opposite Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, in director Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man, a reboot of the Spider-Man film series. The film began filming in December 2010 and was released on 3 July 2012. On fans' expectations of his portrayal of the role, Garfield joked; "This is a beloved character and, you know, ironically, I'm gonna be the person in the audience going, 'Who cast this English fool?'". Garfield's performance received positive reviews. Dana Stevens of Slate felt he was an exciting actor to watch, in comparison of Tobey Maguire, she felt Garfield gave the character a "slightly sexier, darker edge". The Atlantic's Christopher Orr felt Garfield offered "rather sharper edges" than Maguire. Orr further wrote "He may still be an outsider, but his restless energy glows deeper and hotter, instead of burning itself off in flares of skittishness." CNN's Tom Charity wrote similiar commentary, "his combination of fresh-faced innocence, nervous agitation and wry humor is immediately appealing." Charity concluded his review dubbing Garfield "utterly engaging". NPR's Bob Mondello opined that Garfield portrayed a more convincing teenager than Maguire. Mondello noted that fans of the original series would be skeptical and that Garfield "better be really something, right?", answering, "Well, as it happens, he is." Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian praised the choice of Garfield for the role, "He looks clever, physically slight yet wiry, with exactly the right hunched and passive-aggressive body language when needed. However, at 28 years old he may not be able to carry off playing 17 for all that much longer." Newsday's Rafer Gunzam dissented of the approval, calling Garfield's portrayal "sullen". Peter Travers of Rolling Stone felt Garfield put his own mark on the character. Travers highlighted Garfield and Stone's chemistry, to "turn a high-flying adventure into something impassioned and moving." Days before release, Garfield stated, "If we do [a sequel], I hope I can do it — I hope they'd let me do it. ... They already have a release date for the second one. But no script! So we have our priorities in order." The second film is slated for release in May 2014.After Emma Stone was cast in The Amazing Spider-Man, confirmed on 5 October 2010, the film's director Marc Webb noted that the chemistry between Stone and Garfield made her the clear choice. That chemistry inspired their off-screen romance.[49] In April 2012, Life & Style reported the duo had moved in together in an apartment in New York City. Garfield and Stone generally avoid discussing their personal lives to the media. In a 2012 interview with USA Today, Garfield and Stone both elaborated, "We're not together in real life!" joked Garfield. "It's weird because of that question. We don't talk about anything personal. That's just the way it is. Right now, we're just actors. Em will soon be a producer, too. It's just something that's personal, and this is work, really. Even though this interview is a genuine connection." Stone also explained her unwillingness to discuss Garfield. "There's such a great sense of comfort in knowing that the only thing you have control over is what you say. People can say and do all they want. If it never comes out of your own mouth, you still get to keep that semblance of what is sacred to you," said Stone. "You can't undo things." Garfield added "It's pretty simple.

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