Yup, he is the newest Spiderman and he is the hottest actor I've ever seen :) He was born on August, 20th 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA. His full name is Andrew Russell Garfield. His height is 5' 10¾ (1.80 m) (how tall he is -__-).
Early Life
Garfield was born in Los Angeles, to an English mother from Essex and an American father from California. His family moved to England when he was three years old. Garfield is Jewish and was raised in a "middle class home". His parents ran a small interior design business; his father, Richard, later became head coach of the Guildford City Swimming Club, and his mother is a teaching assistant at a nursery school. He also has an older brother who is a doctor. Garfield was raised in Surrey, England and was a gymnast during his early years. He 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, from which he graduated in 2004.
Career
Garfield started taking acting classes in Guildford when he was fifteen, and appeared in a youth theatre production of
Bugsy Malone.
He also joined a small youth theatre workshop group in
Epsom, and began working primarily as a stage actor. In 2004, he won a MEN Theatre Award 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 Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2006.
Garfield made his British television debut in 2005, appearing in the
Channel 4 teenage drama
Sugar Rush.
In October 2007, he was named one of
Variety's "10 Actors to Watch",
and in November 2007, appeared in the ensemble drama
Lions for Lambs, playing an American university student. Also that month, he starred in the Channel 4 drama
Boy A, for which he won the 2008
BAFTA for Best Actor. In 2008, he had a minor role in the film
The Other Boleyn Girl, and was named one of the shooting stars at the
Berlin International Film Festival.
Garfield appeared in
Vogue's December 2009 issue, modeling alongside
Lily Cole, in a photographed retelling of
Hansel and Gretel. Also that year, Garfield had a supporting role in the
Terry Gilliam film
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and the
Red Riding television trilogy. In 2010 he co-starred in the British film based on the novel by Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro,
Never Let Me Go,
as well as in
David Fincher's
The Social Network, alongside
Brenda Song,
Justin Timberlake and
Jesse Eisenberg, about the founders of Facebook. For the film, he received two
BAFTA award nominations (for "
Best Actor in a Supporting Role" and the "
BAFTA Rising Star"). On December 14, 2010,
The Social Network received six nominations for the 68th annual
Golden Globe Awards, four of which it won, including Best Motion Picture-Drama, on January 16, 2011. Garfield was nominated for a
Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.
On August 5, 2010, Garfield appeared briefly as
Terry Gilliam's assistant in the
Arcade Fire webcast pre-show at
Madison Square Garden. On September 12, 2010, he co-presented at the 2010 MTV VMAs with
Jesse Eisenberg and
Justin Timberlake.
Garfield has been chosen to play
Spider-Man opposite
Emma Stone in
Marc Webb's
Spider-Man reboot. Filming began in December 2010, and the film is scheduled for a July 3, 2012 release date.