Trivia

Was in a relationship with Emma Stone from 2011 to October 2015. They met while filming The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).

Has been considered the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who (2005). He previously appeared in two episodes of the show.

Won the 2018 Best Actor in a Play Tony Award for his performance in "Angels in America".

He is close friends with Robert Pattinson and Matt Smith, whom he has known since they started acting.

He was originally asked to audition for Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network (2010) but David Fincher decided he was too good at wearing his heart on his sleeve to play such an emotionally guarded character. Garfield found it helpful to go from reading for Mark to reading for his eventual role of Eduardo, because he felt that Eduardo tried to understand Mark through Mark's point of view.

He was a huge fan of Spider-Man long before playing the part. He has said in interviews that Spider-Man was his hero growing up.

He holds both British and American citizenship. Because of this, he tends to be the only British actor in American films he is in, and the only American actor in British films he is in.

His father is American, and his mother is British. Andrew was born in Los Angeles, and moved to Surrey, United Kingdom at the age of three. He was brought up in Epsom, Surrey.

Very good friends with The Social Network (2010) co-star, Jesse Eisenberg.

His father is a swimming coach and his mother is a nursery school assistant.

Does not participate in social media.

Andrew's paternal grandfather, Samuel Garfinkel, was born in London, to Sarah and Harry Garfinkel, who were Polish Jewish immigrants; Samuel later changed the surname to "Garfield". Andrew's paternal grandmother, Doris May (Savage), also born in London, was of Russian Jewish and Romanian Jewish descent. Andrew's mother is the daughter of Peter Hillman and Florence A. Luckens, and is of English background. Andrew was raised in a secular household, though he has described himself as Jewish. In terms of his religious beliefs, he has also said, "I would consider myself pantheist, agnostic and occasionally atheist and a little bit Jewish.".

He has appeared in two films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Social Network (2010) and Tu ne tueras point (2016).

Starred in two films in 2016 with religious overtones and mostly set in Japan, Tu ne tueras point (2016) and Silence (2016). In the former, he played real life war medic Desmond Doss, who saved 75 men without firing a weapon.

After moving to Los Angeles in 2007 quickly became friends with Katy Perry, Shannon Woodward, Bo Barrett and Mia Moretti.

His mother, Lynn Garfield passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2019.

Auditioned for the role of Prince Caspian in Le Monde de Narnia : Chapitre 2 - Le Prince Caspian (2008), but was turned down for not being handsome enough.

Trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama, graduating in 2004.

Was in a relationship with Shannon Woodward from 2008-2011.

Counts Au nom du père (1993) as a harrowing and unforgettable film that made him cry.

Shared the 2007 London Theatre Critics Circle Most Promising Newcomer Award with Connie Fisher.

2008: Named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by the European Film Promotion Board.

Is one of the first five people born in the 1980s to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, along with Ryan Gosling (born in 1980), the first to be nominated, as well as Eddie Redmayne (born in 1982), Jesse Eisenberg (born in 1983), and Daniel Kaluuya (born in 1989).

One of Variety Magazine's '10 Actors to Watch' (2007).

Won the 2004 Manchester Evening News Most Promising Newcomer Theatre Award for his performance in "Kes" at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.

Was offered a role in L'Exception à la règle (2016) but turned it down.

Andrew has close ties with producer and entrepreneur, Terry McGinnis who helped Garfield practice lines for his Spider-Man role. With Terry McGinnis noting that Garfield would never be Spider-Man.

Won the Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer at the 2006 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

He has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Social Network (2010).

Supports Arsenal FC.

As of 2019, remains as the only Spider-Man/Peter Parker performer who is an Oscar-nominated actor and the only whose name doesn't begin with a T (Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland come before and after him).

Is a fan of Cobra Kai 2018-2025.

He is a Leo.

Born at 8:40 PM (PDT).

Two actors who had already worked with Andrew Garfield, which are Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network (2010) and with Jamie Foxx in The Amazing Spider-Man : Le Destin d'un héros (2014) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) then they would meet again in Rio (2011) and Rio 2 (2014), Eisenberg playing the role of Blu and Foxx playing the role of Nico.

Andrew Garfield has worked with two actors of Rio (2011) and Rio 2 (2014), with Jesse Eisenberg (Blu) in The Social Network (2010) and with Jamie Foxx (Nico) in The Amazing Spider-Man : Le Destin d'un héros (2014) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).