Andrew Garfield is having a great few months. His surprise appearance in Spider Man: No Man Home delighted Marvel fans in December – the same month he won rave reviews for his performance in the movie-musical Tick, Tick... Boom! He's since picked up an Oscar nomination for the latter. He also has a key supporting role in another Oscar contender, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, which opened in theaters last September. To mark the likable actor's purple patch, here are a few things you might not know about him.
1. He is both British and American. 
Garfield was born in Los Angeles to an English mother, Lynn, and an American father, Richard. When he was three, the family moved to Surrey near London. "I am a mongrel. I do feel English and I don't," he told The Irish Times in 2018. "I feel like nothing a lot of the time. I feel very Jewish quite often, because of my father's side. He has Polish-Jewish ancestry."
2. He was a super-sporty kid.
"I was raised in a sports household," Garfield told The Guardian last year. "Very competitive with my older brother. My dad’s a swimming coach, I did gymnastics and swimming, rugby and cricket and football."
However, Garfield soon realized that chasing sporting glory wasn't for him. The actor added in the same interview: "I said: 'I don't want a big fat Russian gymnastics coach to be sitting on my back while I do the box splits at the age of nine. I wanna go be a punk with my friends and go skateboarding and listen to Rage Against the Machine and be a bit of a f**kup for a minute.'"
3. His mother, who sadly died of cancer in 2019, was a skilled baker.
"I was always trying to convince her to apply for The Great British Bake Off [The Great British Baking Show]," Garfield told The Believer recently. "Because she was a genius. She was a f**king genius. But she was like, 'There's no way, because it takes me three days to make a cake, and I'll throw away the first two tries. There's no way I'm able to do anything within a period of half an hour.'"
4. His first job was at Starbucks, but it didn't go too well.
"I was moved to three different Starbucks... because I kept sitting down," Garfield told The Hollywood Reporter in 2016. "I wasn't allowed to sit down. You're not allowed to sit down. I didn't get it. I kept on going to like, to the storeroom to sit on the boxes of coffee, because [at the time] no one was drinking coffee in Hendon, in North London, attached to the Sainsbury [grocery store]."
5. His first acting job was in a Spanish Doritos commercial.
"I was playing air guitar with a Dorito," Garfield told The Believer. "I think I earned maybe £2,200 ($3,000) for two days of work. And I was like, Holy f**k, that’s it. I’m done. I'm in. It's happened. I've made it, and that's that."

6. He has a nuanced view when it comes to sexuality.
"Up until this point, I've only been sexually attracted to women," Garfield told LGBTQ magazine Out in 2018, shortly before he starred in the iconic queer-themed play Angels in America. "My stance toward life, though, is that I always try to surrender to the mystery of not being in charge. I think most people — we're intrinsically trying to control our experience here, and manage it, and put walls around what we are and who we are. I want to know as much of the garden as possible before I pass — I have an openness to any impulses that may arise within me at any time."
Garfield then added: "But, if I were to identify, I would identify as heterosexual, and being someone who identifies that way, and who’s taking on this seminal role, my scariest thought was, 'Am I allowed to do this?'"
7. His first love asked him out by quoting the Spice Girls... then kind of broke his heart.
Garfield shared the bittersweet but very funny story during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show.

8. He's a huge fan of RuPaul's Drag Race.
When Garfield served as a guest judge on the U.K. version of the show, he totally understood the assignment.

9. He lost out on the lead in 2008's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
"I auditioned for The Chronicles of Narnia, and I thought, 'This could be it, this could be it.'" Garfield recently recalled on Entertainment Tonight. "And that handsome, brilliant actor, Ben Barnes ended up getting the role. I think it was down to me and him and I remember like, I was obsessed, I was obsessed. I was like, 'Why not, why not me, why not me?' And I was saying to my agent, 'Just tell me, tell me straight, tell me straight,' and she was like protecting me and doing all of this stuff and she eventually just broke under my incessant nagging. She was like, 'It was because they don't think you're handsome enough, Andrew.'"
10. And finally, he once vomited in Prince's bathroom.
The embarrassing incident happened in 2007, when Garfield celebrated a little too hard after landing his first big film role – opposite Robert Redford in Lion for Lambs –then found his way into a Prince party.  "I was in the line for the bathroom, just in front of Penélope Cruz and Salma Hayek," Garfield recalled on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Kimmel. "I was just so full of myself, and anxiety, and joy, and alcohol, and I ended up praying to the porcelain god for about five minutes, it was disgusting – I vomited blueberry pancakes made by Prince – and then I came out of the bathroom just so ashamed."
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