History Creator / AndrewGarfield

* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'' and ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' as [[Characters/TheAmazingSpiderManSeriesSpiderMan Peter Parker / Spider-Man]]

* ''Film/HacksawRidge'' (2016) as Desmond Doss -- UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Actor.

* ''Film/TickTickBoom'' (2021) as Jonathan Larson -- UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Actor.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He was cast as the Monster in Creator/GuillermoDelToro's upcoming adaptation of ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts and was replaced by Creator/JacobElordi.

* ''Film/BoyA'' (2007)
* ''Film/LionsForLambs'' (2007)
* ''Film/TheOtherBoleynGirl'' (2008)
* ''Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus'' (2009)
* ''Series/RedRiding'' (2009)
* ''Film/{{Im Here|2010}}'' (2010)
* ''Literature/NeverLetMeGo'' (2010)
* ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'' (2010)

* ''Film/NinetyNineHomes''
* ''Film/HacksawRidge'' (2016) -- UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Actor.
* ''Film/{{Silence}}'' (2016)
* ''Film/UnderTheSilverLake'' (2019)
* ''Film/TheEyesOfTammyFaye'' (2021)
* ''Film/TickTickBoom'' (2021) -- UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Actor.
* ''Series/UnderTheBannerOfHeaven'' (2022)

Garfield was born in Los Angeles, to a British mother and an American father, and is of English and Polish Jewish descent. He has spent most of his life in the UK, giving him an English accent, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. If you're on TV Tropes at all, you've probably seen him in a [[Series/DoctorWho television show]] or two. With a BAFTA for his performance for ''Film/BoyA'', it was strange that Hollywood didn't pay that much attention to him in the earlier years of his career.

* FakeAmerican: Although American-born with an American father, he was raised his entire life in Surrey, predominantly speaks in a thick British accent, and identifies himself as British. He's played plenty of Americans, including Spider-Man.

Garfield was born in Los Angeles, to a British mother and an American father, and is of English and Polish Jewish descent. He has spent most of his life in the UK. If you're on TV Tropes at all, you've probably seen him in a [[Series/DoctorWho television show]] or two. With a BAFTA for his performance for ''Film/BoyA'', it was strange that Hollywood didn't pay that much attention to him in the earlier years of his career.

His StarMakingRole was Franchise/SpiderMan in the short-lived ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries''. He then appeared in historical dramas such as Creator/MelGibson's ''Film/HacksawRidge'' and Creator/MartinScorsese's ''Film/{{Silence}}''. When he is not on the screen, he has been known to take on theatre roles such as Prior Walter in ''Theatre/AngelsInAmerica'', for which he won a Tony Award.

That is until he burst onto the scene with his performance as Eduardo Saverin in ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'' and as Tommy in ''Film/NeverLetMeGo'', both released in 2010. (Also in 2010, he starred in a delightful short film called ''I'm Here''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qow5_R0ab7w Trailer here]] ) Showing some amazing skill and giving some wonderful and [[TearJerker heart-wrenching]] performances in both of his films, Hollywood has taken notice.

* ''Film/NeverLetMeGo'' (2010)

Andrew Russell Garfield (born 20 August 1983) is an English and American actor. With a dorky smile, a friendly disposition, and heaps of talent, it's not hard to see why Garfield is one of the most sought after actors working today.

Andrew Russell Garfield (born 20 August 1983) is a British-American actor. With a dorky smile, a friendly disposition, and heaps of talent, it's not hard to see why Garfield is one of the most sought after actors working today.

Garfield was born in Los Angeles, to a British mother and an American father, and is of English and Polish Jewish descent. He has spent most of his life in the UK. If you're on TV Tropes at all, then you've probably seen him in a [[Series/DoctorWho television show]] or two. With a BAFTA for his performance for ''Film/BoyA'', it was strange that Hollywood didn't pay that much attention to him in the earlier years of his career.

That is, until he burst onto the scene with his performance as Eduardo Saverin in ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'' and as Tommy in ''Film/NeverLetMeGo'', both released in 2010. (Also in 2010, he starred in a delightful short film called ''I'm Here''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qow5_R0ab7w Trailer here]] ) Showing some amazing skill and giving some wonderful and [[TearJerker heart-wrenching]] performances in both of his films, Hollywood has taken notice.

His StarMakingRole was Franchise/SpiderMan in the short-lived ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries''. He then appeared in historical dramas such as Creator/MelGibson's ''Film/HacksawRidge'' and Creator/MartinScorsese's ''Film/{{Silence}}''. When he is not on screen, he has been known to take on theatre roles such as Prior Walter in ''Theatre/AngelsInAmerica'', for which he won a Tony Award.

* FakeAmerican: Although American-born, he was raised his entire life in Surrey, predominantly speaks in a thick British accent, and identifies himself as British. He's played plenty of Americans, including Spider-Man.

** Two of his biggest roles, ''Film/HacksawRidge'' and ''Film/{{Silence}}'', have him playing a devoted Christian, but Garfield himself is actually ''very'' Jewish, and even then by his own admission a Jewish Agnostic.

* PromotedFanboy: To the point that he actually shed tears when he got to wear the Spider-Man suit for the first time.

* FakeAmerican: [[invoked]]Although American-born, he was raised his entire life in Surrey, predominantly speaks in a thick British accent, and identifies himself as British. He's played plenty of Americans, including Spider-Man.
* IronyAsHeIsCast: Two of his biggest roles, ''Film/HacksawRidge'' and ''Film/{{Silence}}'', have him playing a devoted Christian, but Garfield himself is actually ''very'' Jewish, and even then by his own admission a Jewish Agnostic.

* PromotedFanboy: To the point that he actually shed tears when he got to wear the Spider-Man suit for the first time.[[invoked]]
* RomanceOnTheSet: He dated Creator/EmmaStone, his co-star in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'', for four years before they broke up in 2015.[[invoked]]

* CreatorBacklash: Although he enjoyed portraying Spider-Man, he doesn't seem particularly proud being in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2''. He told interviewers about WhatCouldHaveBeen prior to some ExecutiveMeddling in the editing room, and actually [[http://www.showbiz411.com/2015/05/01/spider-man-actor-andrew-garfield-got-himself-fired-from-series-by-insulting-sony-chief blew off a dinner meant to announce the third movie]]. Sony was seriously considering firing him and [[TheOtherDarrin replacing him with another actor]] a la ''Film/BatmanForever'', but the series was canceled before anything could come to fruition (and Spider-Man was recast anyway for a ContinuityReboot set in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, though he and fellow cinematic Spider-Man Tobey Maguire came back in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' via [[TheMultiverse Multiverse]] shenanigans).[[invoked]]

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

->''"You seriously think I'm a cop, dressed in a skin-tight red and blue suit?"''
-->-- '''Garfield''' as '''Franchise/SpiderMan''' in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan''

** ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries''
*** ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' (2012)
*** ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' (2014)
** ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''
*** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' (2021)

** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' (2021)

Garfield was born in Los Angeles, to a British mother and an American father, and is of English and Polish Jewish descent. He has spent most of his life in the UK. If you're on TV Tropes at all, then you've probably seen him in a [[Series/DoctorWho television show]] or two. With a BAFTA for his performance for ''[[Film/Boy A]]'', it was strange that Hollywood didn't pay that much attention to him in the earlier years of his career.

Garfield was born in Los Angeles, to a British mother and an American father, and is of English and Polish Jewish descent. He has spent most of his life in the UK. If you're on TV Tropes at all, then you've probably seen him in a [[Series/DoctorWho television show]] or two. With a BAFTA for his performance for ''Boy A'', it was strange that Hollywood didn't pay that much attention to him in the earlier years of his career.

* CreatorBacklash: Although he enjoyed portraying Spider-Man, he doesn't seem particularly proud being in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2''. He told interviewers about WhatCouldHaveBeen prior to some ExecutiveMeddling in the editing room, and actually [[http://www.showbiz411.com/2015/05/01/spider-man-actor-andrew-garfield-got-himself-fired-from-series-by-insulting-sony-chief blew off a dinner meant to announce the third movie]]. Sony was seriously considering firing him and [[TheOtherDarrin replacing him with another actor]] a la ''Film/BatmanForever'', but the series was canceled before anything could come to fruition (and Spider-Man was recast anyway for a ContinuityReboot set in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, though ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' eventually brought ''all'' cinematic Spider-Man incarnations back via [[TheMultiverse Multiverse]] shenanigans, including him).[[invoked]]
* FakeAmerican: Although American-born, he was raised his entire life in Surrey, predominantly speaks in a thick British accent, and identifies himself as British.[[invoked]]

* ''Film/TickTickBoom'' (2021)