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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18 Facts About Tom Holland's Life and Family
- #003
Tom Holland's favorite acting performance is Edward Norton's in Primal Fear (1996).
- #005
Tom Holland lives in Kingston upon Thames, close to the home of his parents and brothers, and considers his father a role model; his father has unofficially served as his manager given his entertainment-industry experience.
- #008
Tom Holland's parents enrolled him and his brothers at Donhead Preparatory School, an all-male Catholic private school in Wimbledon, south-west London, so that he could receive special attention.
- #011
Tom Holland later studied at the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Selhurst, Croydon.
- #012
Tom Holland has three younger brothers: twins named Harry Holland and Sam Holland, and his youngest brother, Paddy Holland.
- #013
As a child, Tom Holland was a fan of Janet Jackson's songs and often danced to them, and his mother enrolled him in a dance class advertised at Donhead.
- #015
During his teens, Tom Holland briefly attended a carpentry school in Cardiff, Wales.
- #018
Tom Holland is the first actor not born in the United States to play the film adaptation of Peter Parker/Spider-Man. His predecessor Andrew Garfield was also raised in the United Kingdom but was born in the United States.
- #022
Tom Holland's favorite film is Saving Private Ryan (1998).
- #023
While performing in the musical, Tom Holland learned gymnastics, and he said that when his school peers discovered his dancing activities they began bullying him.
- #029
After his stage success, Tom Holland wanted to be popular at school and hoped his classmates would stop bullying him; having worked in a professional setting, he matured ahead of his peers and found it hard to fit in, which hurt his GCSE results.
- #034
From March 2011, his father wrote the blog "Eclipsed," a weekly serialized story about how "somewhat famous comedian is being outshone by his more illustrious son." The blog detailed the main events of Holland's past and present professional life. It ended in December 2012 with the Los Angeles premiere of The Impossible (2012).
- #042
While working on Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Tom Holland became close friends with Zendaya. They have been in a relationship since then and announced their engagement in January 2025.
- #044
Tom Holland is the son of Dominic Holland, one of the United Kingdom's best comedians and a regular panelist on Channel 5's current affairs series The Wright Stuff (2000).
- #046
His paternal grandfather, John Charles Anthony Holland, was from the Isle of Man, and his paternal grandmother, Teresa Quigley, was from Ireland. On his mother's side, Tom is the grandson of Robert Walter Frost and Christina Winifred Berry.
- #051
Tom Holland was a Spider-Man fan in his youth, owning 30 costumes and bed sheet covers of the character.
- #054
Tom Holland appeared alongside Joel Kinnaman and Percy Hynes White in the 2016 psychological thriller Edge of Winter, which he made without his parents' knowledge.
- #060
Tom Holland's parents founded The Brothers Trust, a charitable organisation that aims to use his popularity to raise funds for humanitarian causes.
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