Andrew Garfield

Age: 42

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Andrew Russell Garfield (born August 20, 1983) is an British-American actor and producer. He came to international attention when he co-starred in Never Let Me Go (2010) alongside Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley, as well as the supporting role of Eduardo Saverin in the drama The Social Network (2010). He gained wider recognition for playing Peter Parker in the superhero films The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), and in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). He is Jewish on his father's side, and describes himself as a "Jewish artist". Garfield began taking acting classes in Guildford, Surrey, when he was nine, and appeared in a youth theatre production of Bugsy Malone. 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 received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayals of Desmond Doss in the war film Hacksaw Ridge (2016) and Jonathan Larson in the musical drama Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021). He also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the latter. His other film credits include Never Let Me Go (2010), Silence (2016), The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) and We Live in Time (2024). On television, he starred as a Mormon detective in the crime drama mini-series Under the Banner of Heaven (2022), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor.

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for Max in The Silent Patient

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The Silent Patient

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations―a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

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