Andrew Garfield

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television Nominees: Taron Egerton (Black Bird) Colin Firth (The Staircase) Andrew Garfield (Under the Banner of Heaven) Evan Peters (Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story) Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy) Taron Egerton – Black Bird Welsh-born actor Taron Egerton is no stranger to the award-show beat. Already a Golden Globe winner for his electrifying portrayal of Elton John in Rocketman, he has also been nominated for a Grammy and a BAFTA for the same role.

Reflecting on playing Jonathan Larson in tick, tick… BOOM!, Andrew Garfield shared while doing press for the film how the late playwright’s story affected him and how he lives his life. “We all leave here with an unfinished song.

In tick, tick… Boom!, Andrew Garfield tackles his first major musical role by stepping into the shoes of the acclaimed American composer and playwright Jonathan Larson. The Netflix movie is based on the autobiographical musical by Larson, who also wrote the award-winning musical Rent, and it serves as the feature directorial debut of Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Right now he's singing and dancing in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tick…tick… BOOM!, an adaptation of writer and composer Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical play. Back in September of 2010, over 11 years ago, we met Andrew Russell Garfield for the first time.

From playing a superhero in spandex to the first man in U. S.

Desmond Doss, a World War II Army medic, was the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot – even though this conscientious objector saved dozens of lives in one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific front, Okinawa. Andrew Garfield plays Doss with the mix of grit, sweetness and tenacity that, he says, were the real man’s essential traits: “His impetus came from knowing violence within himself and knowing his own ability to do harm to others.

In Mel Gibson’s true-life epic Hacksaw Ridge, Andrew Garfield plays Desmond Doss, a Virginia farm boy who enlisted in the army as a medic during World War II but steadfastly clung to his pacifist Seventh Day Adventist faith refusing to touch a weapon. Doss was initially court-martialed by the army but having won the right to his conscientious objection and later proved uncommon bravery in the Pacific saving scores of wounded comrades while wholly unarmed in the face of fierce fighting.

Andrew Garfield plays Desmond Doss in Mel Gibson’s true-life epic Hacksaw Ridge. A Virginia farm boy who enlisted in the army as a medic during World War 2 but steadfastly clung to his pacifist 7th Day Adventist faith refusing to touch a weapon, Doss was initially court-martialed by the army but having won the right to his conscientious objection and later proved uncommon bravery in the Pacific saving scores of wounded comrades while wholly unarmed in the face of fierce fighting.