Garfield was born in
Los Angeles, California, to a
British mother from
Essex and an American father from California.
[5][6] His family moved to
England when he was three years old.
[5] Garfield is
Jewish[7] and was raised in a "
middle class home".
[7] 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.
[8][9] Garfield was raised in
Surrey, England and was a
gymnast during his early years.
[6][9] He attended the
City of London Freemen's School in Ashtead, before training at the
Central School of Speech and Drama, from which he graduated in 2004.
[9]Garfield started taking acting classes in Guildford when he was fifteen, and appeared in a youth theater production of
Bugsy Malone.
[8] He also joined a small youth theater 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.
[10]Garfield made his British television debut in 2005, appearing in the
Channel 4 teenage drama
Sugar Rush.
[10] In October 2007, he was named one of
Variety's "10 Actors to Watch",
[11] 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,
[11] 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[7] and the
Red Riding television trilogy. In 2010, he co-starred in the British sci-fi drama
Never Let Me Go,
[12] as well as in
David Fincher's
The Social Network, alongside
Brenda Song,
Justin Timberlake and
Jesse Eisenberg, and about the founders of
Facebook.
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.
[13]Garfield has been chosen to play
Spider-Man opposite
Emma Stone in
Marc Webb's
Spider-Man reboot.
[14][15][16] Filming began in December 2010, and the film is scheduled for a July 3, 2012 release date.
On December 14, 2010,
The Social Network received six nominations for The 68th annual
Golden Globe Awards, which will be held on January 16, 2011. Garfield was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.
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