Birth Name: Andrew Russell Garfield
Birth Place: Los Angeles, CA
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 08/20/1983, Leo
Profession: Actor
Although born in Los Angeles, Andrew Garfield grew up in England; his mother is English and they moved back there when he was three years old. He went to a private school (known as a "public" school in England), the City of London Freemen's School, and began acting in youth theatre productions while he was still at school. At 19, he went to the Central School of Speech and Drama.
His first professional roles were on the stage and in 2005 he made his TV debut in the Channel 4 series "Sugar Rush" (2005/I) in the UK. More TV work followed (reaching a wider UK audience in a two-part story in the third season of "Doctor Who" (2005)) as well as a number of movie appearances.
Andrew Garfield is the American-English actor who played Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network, the David Fincher movie about the founding of Facebook. Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, but raised in Surrey, England. He moved to London to study drama when he was 17, and began his professional acting career on stage at the age of 20. After a few years of TV work in Britain, his first big screen break came when he was cast as an American college kid in the Robert Redford-directed film Lions and Lambs (2007). Andrew Garfield then appeared in 2009 in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (the final film of actor Heath Ledger) and the British mini-series Red Riding, before being cast in the 2010 film The Social Network as the betrayed pal of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (played in the film by Jesse Eisenberg). That same year Garfield starred with Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan in the film version of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
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