# Alex Garfin

Alex Garfin is an American actor. 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. He played Jordan Kent, a son of Superman and Lois Lane, in the superhero drama television series Superman & Lois from 2021 through 2024; for his performance in that role he was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series in 2022.

## Early life

Garfin was born and raised in Manhattan, in New York City, to Jeffrey Garfin and Karin Carnaroli Garfin. He has a brother, Max Garfin, who is also an actor.
Garfin attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan in New York City.

## Career
### 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.
He voiced the character Linus in the 2015 animated comedy film The Peanuts Movie, a big screen adaptation of the comic strip Peanuts. For his performance, in 2015 Garfin received a 43rd Annie Awards nomination for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in a Feature Production. Garfin won the 2016 Young Entertainer Award - Best Young Ensemble Cast - Voice Over, with the cast of the Peanuts movie.
Garfin has worked in the animated television series Whisker Haven Tales with the Palace Pets.
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. 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."

### 2020–present

Garfin appeared in New Amsterdam.
In November 2022, Garfin performed in his first solo singing gig in Vancouver, Canada. He has written over 110 original songs, and plays guitar and piano.
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. 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. 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. Garfin spent much of his time filming the show in Vancouver, Canada. In 2022, Garfin was nominated for a 50th Anniversary Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series. A fourth season of the series was announced in June 2023. The fourth season finale, in which Garfin finally received his own superhero suit, aired in December 2024.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Refs |
| 2010 | Salt | Youngest Chenkov | uncredited | |
| 2015 | The Peanuts Movie | Linus | voice; received a 43rd Annie Awards nomination for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in a Feature Production; won the 2016 Young Entertainer Award - Best Young Ensemble Cast - Voice Over. | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2009 and 2011 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Luke Thomas and Anthony Maxwell | 2 episodes; "Stranger" and "Double Strands" |
| 2016–17 | Whisker Haven Tales with the Palace Pets | Stripes | 3 episodes; voice |
| 2020 | New Amsterdam | Elio | Episode: Liftoff |
| 2021–24 | Superman & Lois | Jordan Kent | Main cast; 53 episodes; received a 2022 nomination for a 50th Anniversary Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series |

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Refs |
| 2013 | On Borrowed Time | | Two River Theater, Red Bank, New Jersey | |
| 2019 | Fear | Jamie | Lucille Lortel Theatre, Off-Broadway, New York City | |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
| 2015 | 43rd Annie Awards | Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in a Feature Production | The Peanuts Movie | Nominated |
| 2016 | Young Entertainer Award | Best Young Ensemble Cast - Voice Over | The Peanuts Movie | Won |
| 2022 | 50th Anniversary Saturn Award | Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series | Superman & Lois | Nominated |