Tom Holland

For other people named Tom Holland, see Tom Holland (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Tom Hollander.

Tom Holland
A picture of Tom Holland smiling towards the camera
Holland at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con
Born
Thomas Stanley Holland

(1996-06-01) 1 June 1996 (age 28)
London, England
EducationBRIT School
OccupationActor
Years active2006–present
WorksRoles and awards
FatherDominic Holland
Signature

Thomas Stanley Holland (born 1 June 1996) is an English actor. His accolades include a BAFTA Award and three Saturn Awards. He featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list of 2019. Some publications have called him one of the most popular actors of his generation.[a]

Holland's career began at the age of nine, when he enrolled in a dancing class, where a choreographer noticed him and arranged for him to audition for a role in Billy Elliot the Musical at London's Victoria Palace Theatre. After two years of training, he secured a supporting part in 2008 and was upgraded to the title role that year, which he played until 2010. Holland made his film debut in the disaster drama The Impossible (2012) as a teenage tourist trapped in a tsunami, for which he received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Goya Award for Best New Actor. After this, Holland decided to pursue acting as a full-time career, appearing in How I Live Now (2013) and playing historical figures in the film In the Heart of the Sea (2015) and the miniseries Wolf Hall (2015).

Holland achieved international recognition playing Spider-Man in six Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) superhero films, beginning with Captain America: Civil War (2016). The following year, Holland received the BAFTA Rising Star Award and became the youngest actor to play a title role in an MCU film in Spider-Man: Homecoming. The sequels, subtitled Far From Home (2019) and No Way Home (2021), each grossed more than $1 billion worldwide, and the latter became the highest-grossing film of the year. He had another action film role in Uncharted (2022), and also expanded to play against-type roles in the crime dramas The Devil All the Time (2020) and Cherry (2021). Holland has additionally directed the short film Tweet (2015) and voiced roles in animated features, including Spies in Disguise (2019) and Onward (2020).

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  2. ^ "Tom Holland's 10 Best Roles (That Aren't Spider-Man)". Comic Book Resources. 10 April 2022. Archived from the original on 10 May 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  3. ^ Langmann, Brady (21 February 2022). "'Uncharted' Doesn't Know What to Do With Tom Holland". Esquire. Archived from the original on 22 April 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  4. ^ Lucas, Robyn (13 December 2021). "Tom Holland on the highs and lows of being Spider-Man – and how Zendaya helped him to cope with fame". News24. Archived from the original on 8 May 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  5. ^ "Happy Birthday Friendly Neighborhood Spider Man: Tom Holland". The Statesman. 2 June 2022. Archived from the original on 8 May 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023.


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