Childhood and Education
Born in Los Angeles, actor Andrew Russell Garfield grew up in England with his older brother, American father and English mother. For most of his life, Garfield has been a fan of his most famous character to date, Spider-Man, even dressing up as the legendary superhero for Halloween.
Andrew Garfield also identified with Spider-Man's alter ego, Peter Parker. Like Parker, he was a skinny kid who got picked on. In an interview in USA Today, Garfield he called the character "an underdog," and confessed that while playing the superhero's alter ego, he "felt like an underdog, too."
After discovering his passion for performing, Garfield enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama at the University of London.