Andrew Russell Garfield is a British-American actor. An alumnus of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, he is the recipient of various accolades, including a Tony Award, a British Academy Television Award, and a Golden Globe Award.

Born in Los Angeles and raised in Epsom, England, Garfield began his career on the UK stage and in television productions. His performance in the television film Boy A earned him a BAFTA for Best Actor. He came to international attention in 2010 with his supporting role in the The Social Network, for which he received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations. Garfield subsequently gained wider recognition for playing Spider-Man in the superhero film The Amazing Spider-Man and its 2014 sequel. In 2016, Garfield starred in the historical dramas Mel Gibson's war film Hacksaw Ridge and Martin Scorsese's religious epic Silence. His portrayal of Desmond T. Doss in the former earned him nominations for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Golden Globe Award, all for Best Actor.

In 2021, he portrayed Jonathan Larson in the musical Tick, Tick... Boom! and reprised his role as Spider-Man in Spider-Man: No Way Home. The former earned Garfield his first Golden Globe Award.

On stage, Garfield has played Biff in a 2012 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman." For his performance he earned his first nomination for a 2012 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Play. In 2017, Garfield starred as Prior Walter in a production of "Angels in America" at the Royal National Theatre in London, a role for which he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play. In 2018, he reprised the role on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre, for which he received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play in the same year.

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