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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Andrew Garfield

Baruch

for Baruch in The Subtle Knife

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The Subtle Knife

The Subtle Knife is the second in the dark materials trilogy. Northern Lights follows with the addition of a new protagonist Will, who, at the same time as Lyra, discovers a window to access Cittàgazze, a world haunted by Wraiths and a city inhabited entirely by children, Lyra begins to get a bit less selfish and begins to realize some of the true complexities of the alethiometer. The Adventure also deals a lot with the question of Dust or Dark Matter. He also begins to explain about Lord Asriel's rebellion against the Authority and the church. The film will have a much darker tone and add more meaning to the characters' actions in Northern Lights.

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