ACTOR · BORN 1996
Tom Holland
- Born
- 1 June 1996, Kingston upon Thames, London, England, UK
- Known for
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
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10 Facts From Tom Holland's Career
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Choreographer Lynne Page spotted Tom Holland at the Richmond Dance Festival and arranged an audition for him; the musical's director Stephen Daldry felt Holland had great potential and was a natural actor.
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Tom Holland and fellow performer Tanner Pflueger were elevated to the title role in the musical Billy Elliot in 2008.
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Once his Billy Elliot run ended in 2010, Tom Holland voiced a part in the British dub of the Japanese animated fantasy film Arrietty (2011) and sent an audition tape to Juan Antonio Bayona for The Impossible (2012); Bayona set up a meeting and asked Holland to write a letter to his mother and recite it, then cast him after being impressed by his emotional delivery.
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Working with Naomi Watts on The Impossible led Tom Holland to decide he wanted to act professionally on a permanent basis.
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Tom Holland earned critical praise for his performance in The Impossible and won awards including the National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance and the London Film Critics Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year.
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Tom Holland directed Tweet, a three-minute 2015 short film about a young man building a birdhouse with his grandfather, and later said he was interested in directing feature films in his 40s.
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In June 2015, Tom Holland signed a six-picture deal with Marvel Studios to play a teenage Peter Parker, also known as Spider-Man.
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Tom Holland received the Rising Star Award at the 70th British Academy Film Awards in 2017.
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Tom Holland's second 2017 film was his solo starring role as the title character in Spider-Man: Homecoming, for which he earned a Guinness Book of World Records entry as the youngest actor to play a title role in the MCU.
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Tom Holland won a third consecutive Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor for Spider-Man: Far From Home, after earlier wins for Captain America: Civil War and Spider-Man: Homecoming.
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