Andrew Garfield
Andrew Russell Garfield (born 20 August 1983) is an actor, of dual citizenship in the United States and the United Kingdom. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Surrey, Garfield began his career in the United Kingdom stage and television productions. He made his feature film debut in the 2007 ensemble drama Lions for Lambs. Garfield first came to international attention in 2010 with a supporting role in the drama film The Social Network, for which he received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. His performance as Spider-Man / Peter Parker in the superhero film The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), a reboot of the Spider-Man film series, was generally well received. Garfield is set to reprise his role in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which is scheduled for release in 2014.
Garfield was born in Los Angeles. His mother, Lynn (née Hillman), is from Essex, England, and his father, Richard Garfield, is from California. Garfield's paternal grandparents were also from the United Kingdom. His parents moved the family from Los Angeles to Britain when he was three years old, and Garfield was raised in Epsom, Surrey, in a middle class home. Garfield has described himself as Jewish. His father's family is Jewish (his paternal grandparents' families moved to London from Eastern Europe (Poland, Russia, and Romania)); the surname had been changed from "Garfinkel" to "Garfield" by his grandparents.
Garfield's parents ran a small interior design business; his mother is a teaching assistant at a nursery school, and his father became head coach of the Guildford Swimming Club. He has an older brother who is a doctor. Garfield 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.
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