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Alex Garfin
American actor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alexander Garfin[1] is an American actor.[2] He voiced the character Linus in the 2015 animated comedy film The Peanuts Movie, and for his performance he received a 43rd Annie Awards nomination for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in a Feature Production, and won the 2016 Young Entertainer Award - Best Young Ensemble Cast - Voice Over. In 2021, Garfin landed his breakthrough role as Jordan Kent, a son of Superman and Lois Lane, in the superhero drama television series Superman & Lois until 2024; for his performance, he was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series in 2022.
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Early life
Garfin was born and raised in Manhattan, in New York City, to Jeffrey Garfin and Karin Carnaroli Garfin.[3][4] He has a brother, Max Garfin, who is also an actor.[1][3]
Garfin attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan in New York City.[5]
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Early years
In 2011 at six years old he acted in the police procedural crime drama television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; he has appeared in two episodes of the show.[6][7][8]
He voiced the character Linus in the 2015 animated comedy film The Peanuts Movie, a big screen adaptation of the comic strip Peanuts.[9][1] For his performance, in 2015 Garfin received a 43rd Annie Awards nomination for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in a Feature Production.[10][8] Garfin won the 2016 Young Entertainer Award - Best Young Ensemble Cast - Voice Over, with the cast of the Peanuts movie.[11]
Garfin has worked in the animated television series Whisker Haven Tales with the Palace Pets.[6]
Garfin acted in his Off-Broadway debut in the play Fear at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in 2019, alongside Enrico Colantoni and directed by Tea Alagic, playing the role of the captive boy Jamie.[5][6] Writing for The New York Times, journalist Elisabeth Vincentelli described Garfin as "quite convincing as a hard-to-parse teenager trying to talk his way into escape."[12]
2020–present
Garfin appeared in New Amsterdam.[7][1][6]
In November 2022, Garfin performed in his first solo singing gig in Vancouver, Canada.[13][4] He has written over 110 original songs, and plays guitar and piano.[4][3]
Garfin played Jordan Kent, a son of Superman and Lois Lane, for four seasons in the superhero drama television series Superman & Lois that premiered in February 2021.[14][15][16] He worked with a fight trainer for a year and a half so that he could himself act in a fight scene, rather than have a double do the acting.[17] For the first two seasons he played the role of being a twin son along with Jordan Elsass, who played the character Jonathan Kent and was later replaced by Michael Bishop.[18][19] Garfin spent much of his time filming the show in Vancouver, Canada.[4] In 2022, Garfin was nominated for a 50th Anniversary Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series.[20][21] A fourth season of the series was announced in June 2023.[22] The fourth season finale, in which Garfin finally received his own superhero suit, aired in December 2024.[23]
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Filmography
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Television
Theatre
Awards and nominations
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