Age, Biography, and Wiki
- Full Name: Andrew Russell Garfield
- Date of Birth: August 20, 1983
- Age (2025): 41 years old
- Nationality: British-American
- Ethnicity: Father of Ashkenazi Jewish descent (from Poland, Russia, Romania), mother of English descent.
- Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
- Early Life: Raised in the UK from age three.
- Biography: Garfield established a reputation in the UK with television roles before achieving global fame as Spider-Man. Renowned for his intense preparation and versatility, he has balanced commercial and independent film success.
| Occupation | Stage Actor |
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| Date of Birth | 20 August 1983 |
| Age | 41 Years |
| Birth Place | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Horoscope | Leo |
| Country | U.S |
Height, Weight & Measurements
- Height: Approximately 5'10" (1.78 m)
- Weight: Estimated around 165 lbs (75 kg)
- Measurements: No official measurements listed, though Garfield is known for a lean build, especially evident in roles requiring physical transformation.
| Height | 78 m |
| Weight | 165 lbs |
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Dating & Relationship Status
- Marital Status: Not married.
- Current Relationship: As of 2025, Garfield has not confirmed a current relationship. Previously, he has been linked to actresses Emma Stone and Monica Barbaro, as well as Dr. Kate Tomas.
- Personal Life: Garfield keeps details of his private life largely out of the public eye.
His mother, Lynn (née Hillman), was from Essex, England, and his father, Richard Garfield, is from California. Richard's parents were also from the United Kingdom. Garfield's parents moved the family from the United States to the United Kingdom when he was three years old, and he was brought up in Epsom, Surrey.
He is Jewish on his father's side, and describes himself as a "Jewish artist". His paternal grandparents were from Jewish immigrant families who moved to London from Poland, Russia and Romania, and the family surname was originally "Garfinkel". In April 2025, Garfield participated in the British TV show Who Do you Think You Are? He uncovered his Jewish roots in Kielce, Poland, and also found that a great-great aunt, Ruchla Garfinkiel, married the first cousin of Władysław Szpilman, the subject of the 2002 film The Pianist.
Garfield's parents ran a small interior-design business. His mother was also a teaching assistant at a nursery school, and his father became head coach of the Guildford City Swimming Club. He has an older brother who is an NHS doctor at Royal Brompton Hospital. 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 16 when a friend convinced him to take theatre studies at A-level, as they were one pupil short of being able to run the class. Garfield attended Priory Preparatory School in Banstead and later City of London Freemen's School in Ashtead, before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. His first job was at Starbucks, being moved between three separate establishments in Golders Green and Hendon.
Garfield's sole film release of 2017 was the biopic Breathe, in which he portrayed Robin Cavendish, a young man paralysed by polio. In preparation, he interacted with individuals who had polio and collaborated closely with Cavendish's wife and son. Stephen Dalton of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that despite an exceptional story, the film had glossed over the complexities in Cavendish's life, and thought that Garfield was "hampered by a role that restricts him to little more than nodding and grinning". In March 2018, Garfield reprised the role of Prior when the Angels in America production transferred to Broadway for an eighteen-week limited engagement at the Neil Simon Theatre, alongside a majority of the London cast. Reviewing the production for The Washington Post, Peter Marks remarked that "nothing [Garfield's] done prepares you for the star-powered dexterity of his Prior" and considered his performance to be the "persuasive moral core of the piece". He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance.
Garfield holds dual citizenship in the United States and the United Kingdom. In 2009, he told the Sunday Herald that he felt "equally at home" in both countries and enjoyed "a varied cultural existence". When asked again in 2019, he stated, "I identify more as Jewish than anything... I have a love-hate relationship with both countries and used to be very proud to have both passports. Today, I'm slightly less proud." Garfield's primary place of residence is in North London near Hampstead Heath. He told Shaun Keaveny on a podcast in 2021 that he considers England home as that is where his family and friends are. He is a fan of basketball.
Garfield customarily gives interviews about his work but does not publicly discuss details of his private life. In 2011, Garfield began dating his The Amazing Spider-Man co-star Emma Stone sometime during production of the film. In 2015, they were rumoured to have broken up although no formal statement was released. When asked about his sexuality, Garfield identified himself as heterosexual, but has stated, "I have an openness to any impulses that may arise within me at any time."
Garfield's mother, Lynn, died of pancreatic cancer while he was filming The Eyes of Tammy Faye and shortly before Tick, Tick... Boom! began production. He was able to fly home to be with her. In 2021 he spoke about his grief on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He discussed it again in 2024 in an interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN, as well as in an episode with Elmo on Sesame Street.
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Net Worth and Salary
- Net Worth (2025): $16 million
- Primary Sources: Film salaries, endorsements, and investments
- Notable Earnings: Significant income from "The Amazing Spider-Man" films, other blockbusters, and independent projects
- Recent Ventures: Luxury watch collection (notably Omega), a passion that led to his being named a Friend of the Brand in 2023.
Business and Investments
- Real Estate: Owned a $2.5 million property in Beverly Hills; currently resides in London near Hampstead Heath.
- Collectibles: Passionate collector of luxury watches, especially Omega, Cartier, Harry Winston, and Jaeger-LeCoultre.
Following a year-long absence from the screen, Garfield had starring roles in two films of 2016, Martin Scorsese's drama Silence and Mel Gibson's war film Hacksaw Ridge. In the former, based on Shūsaku Endō's 1966 novel of the same name, Garfield played Sebastião Rodrigues, a Portuguese Jesuit priest in the seventeenth century who travels to Japan to spread his faith. Garfield spent a year with James Martin studying to be a Jesuit priest and went on a silent retreat in Wales. The film's arduous principal photography took place in Taiwan, and Garfield lost 40 lb to achieve his character's physicality. Kate Taylor of The Globe and Mail disliked the film and wrote that Garfield "is sweetly resolute and gently anguished as the missionary Rodrigues but any hope that the actor might elucidate the psychology of philosophical certitude or the pain of religious doubt proves vain". At the box office, it earned less than half of its $50 million budget. Hacksaw Ridge, however, was a commercial success, earning over $175.3 million worldwide. In it, Garfield portrayed Desmond Doss, a combat medic during World War II, who was the first conscientious objector in American history to be awarded the Medal of Honor. Writing for USA Today, Brian Truitt labelled the film as "brutally intense and elegantly crafted"; he believed that the central role allowed Garfield to bring depth to his career and commended him for portraying Doss with both "simple sweetness" and "steadfast mettle". He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Hacksaw Ridge.
Social Network
- Social Media Presence: Andrew Garfield maintains a low profile on social media. He does not have public personal accounts on major platforms like Instagram or Twitter.
- Public Engagement: Garfield tends to engage with fans through interviews, public appearances, and film promotions rather than social media.
In 2010, Garfield co-starred opposite Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley in Mark Romanek's dystopian science-fiction drama Never Let Me Go, an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel of the same name. He said of his character, Tommy D., "There's a sense of anxiety that runs through these kids, especially Tommy, because he's so sensory and feeling and animalistic, that's my perspective of him." Garfield was attracted to the film based on the existential questions the story expresses. He said the experience of being a part of Never Let Me Go was "just a dream to come true". He further remarked that the scenes in which his character—unable to contain his frustration—erupts with a wail, were "intense" for him. "I think those screams are inside all of us, I just got a chance to let mine out". For his portrayal of a well-meaning, but dim young man caught in a love triangle, he won the 2010 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. Writing for Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman praised the performances of the lead cast, reflecting that "these three all act with a spooky, haunted innocence that gets under your skin." In comparison to Mulligan and Knightley, Scott Bowles, writing for USA Today, deemed Garfield "the real find" of Never Let Me Go.
The same year, Garfield co-starred opposite Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network, a drama based on the founders of Facebook. On his character, Garfield remarked, "No one knows who Eduardo Saverin is, and I don't either. Of course, the fact he's a real-life human being, breathing on this Earth somewhere, creates a whole new dimension to my approach because you feel a greater sense of responsibility". Initially, the film's director, David Fincher, had met Garfield under the auspices of him playing Mark Zuckerberg, having been referred to him by Mark Romanek. However, Fincher did not like Garfield for the part as he found Garfield's "incredible emotional access to his kind of core humanity" better tailored for the role of Saverin. Garfield's performance was very well received; he earned wider recognition and numerous nominations, including BAFTA nominations for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Rising Star, as well as a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance in a Supporting Role. Mark Kermode of the BBC expressed his surprise that Garfield had been overlooked for an Academy Award nomination, opining that "everyone knows he's one of the very best things about The Social Network." Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern thought the role was portrayed with "great subtlety and rueful charm". Rolling Stone said Garfield delivered "a vulnerability that raises the emotional stakes in a movie", and proclaimed: "Keep your eyes on Garfield – he's shatteringly good, the soul of a film that might otherwise be without one."
Education
- Early Education: Attended private schools in the UK.
- Higher Education: Trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, graduating in 2004.
- Continued Learning: Notable for his research and preparation for roles, including studying with a Jesuit priest for "Silence" (2016).
Garfield began taking acting classes in Guildford, Surrey, when he was nine, and appeared in a youth theatre production of Bugsy Malone. He also joined a small youth theatre workshop group in Epsom and took theatre studies at A-level before studying for a further three years at a UK conservatoire, the Central School of Speech and Drama. Upon graduating in 2004, he began working primarily in stage acting. In 2004, he won a Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for Best Newcomer for his performance in Kes at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre (where he also played Romeo the year after), and won the Outstanding Newcomer Award at the 2006 Evening Standard Theatre Awards. 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 commented that it was "an honour" to be a part of Doctor Who. In October 2007, he was named one of Variety's "10 Actors to Watch". He made his American film debut in November 2007, playing an American university student in the ensemble drama Lions for Lambs, with co-stars Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, and Robert Redford. "I'm just lucky to be there working on the same project as them, although I don't really expect to be recognized later by audiences", Garfield told Variety in 2007. In his review for The Boston Globe, Wesley Morris considered Garfield's work "a willing punching bag for the movie's jabs and low blows".
