Alex Garfin

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]

Film

Television