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Andrew Garfield Profile |
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Birth Date: August 20, 1983
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Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, USA
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Birth Name: Andrew Russell Garfield
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Height: 6'0"
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Biography |
Andrew Garfield is a BAFTA award-winning English actor, who
has appeared in radio, theatre, film, and television,
including the 2007 releases Lions for Lambs and Boy A.
Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of a
British mother and an American father. His family moved to
England three years after he was born. Garfield is Jewish
and was raised in a "middle class home". Garfield's parents
ran a small interior design business. He was raised in
Surrey, England and attended the City of London Freemen's
School in Ashtead before training at the Central School of
Speech and Drama. |
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Other Information |
Born in the United States to Anglo-American parents, he
moved to England when he was aged four and was brought up in
Epsom in Surrey.
Won the Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer at the
2006 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Shared the 2007 London Theatre Critics Circle Most Promising
Newcomer Award with Connie Fisher.
Won the 2004 Manchester Evening News Most Promising Newcomer
Theatre Award for his performance in "Kes" at the Royal
Exchange Theatre, Manchester.
Trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama, graduating
in 2004.
2008: Named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by the
European Film Promotion Board.
One of Variety Magazine's '10 Actors to Watch' (2007). |
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since December 28, 2009