Tobey Maguire is an American actor and film producer, who is best known for playing «Spider-Man».
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- His full name is Tobias Vincent Maguire.
- He was born on June 27th, 1975.
- As of 2022 he’s 47 years old.
- His zodiac sign is Cancer.
- His parents separated when he was two years old.
- Tobey Maguire spent much of his childhood living with various family members.
- During his childhood, Maguire entertained the idea of becoming a chef and wanted to enroll in a home economics class as a sixth grader.
- His mother offered him $100 to take a drama class instead, and he agreed.
- The transient nature of his school years began to take a toll on Maguire emotionally, and after another relocation for his freshman year, he dropped out of high school and did not return.
- Instead, he pursued an acting career.
- By 2000, he had obtained his General Educational Development.
- He is best known for playing the title character from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), a role he later reprised in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).
- He started his career in supporting roles in the films This Boys Life (1993), The Ice Storm, Deconstructing Harry (both 1997), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998).
- His leading roles include Pleasantville (1998), Ride with the Devil (1999), The Cider House Rules (1999), Wonder Boys (2000), Seabiscuit (2003), The Good German (2006), Brothers (2009), The Great Gatsby (2013), and Pawn Sacrifice (2014).
- He has received two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture for Cider House Rules (1999) and Seabiscut (2003) as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for Brothers (2009).
- Tobey Maguire established his own production company in 2012 called Material Pictures.
- Actually, he co-produced Good People (2012), and Pawn Sacrifice (2014).
- He has been a vegan/vegetarian since 1992.
- He was voted the world’s sexiest vegetarian by PETA, 2002.
- He enjoys yoga and cooking.
- He got $26 million for the two sequels to Spider-Man (2002).
- He packed on several pounds to fit his role in Spider-Man (2002).
- He bought a $3.5 million Beverly Hills mansion with his Spider-Man (2002) earnings.
- He lost 25 pounds to fit his role as Red Pollard in Seabiscuit (2003).
- He has four half brothers: 2 on his dad’s side: Vincent Jr. (born 1973) and Timothy (born 1984); and two on his mother’s side: Jopaul Van Epp (born 1991), and Weston Epp (born 1994).
- He offten portrays heroes that are close to animals or creatures.
- During the Australian release period of Spider-Man (2002), he appeared on an Australian late-night variety show with his co-star Willem Dafoe. During this interview, when asked if he was a fan of the comic book, he claimed that he had never touched a Spider-Man comic book before and that he never wanted to read them.
- He is a good friend with his Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), and Spider-Man 3 (2007) co-star Kirsten Dunst.
- He was originally set to play the role of Jake Hoyt in Training Day (2001), opposite Denzel Washington. He had even gone through two months of training with narcotic officers, weapons training, and put on a lot of muscle but the role was later given to the producer’s first choice, Ethan Hawke, and Tobey went on to star in Spider-Man (2002) instead.
- He played in the World Series of Poker. On October 27, 2004, he won the Phil Hellmuth Poker Invitational at the Hollywood Park Casino in Los Angeles, taking a first prize of $95,480.
- He enjoys playing chess.
- He was engaged to Rashida Jones. Their relationship was very short, and soon they broke up and moved on with their lives.
- He and Jennifer Meyer announced their engagement after the birth of their daughter Ruby Sweetheart. They got married in 2007, and are still together.
- He’s close friend of Leonardo DiCaprio
- He was considered for the role of Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
- While promoting The Good German (2006) on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), he revealed the baby’s name, Ruby Sweetheart.
- Almost couldn’t do Spider-Man 2 (2004) after having severe back pains at the end of shooting Seabiscuit (2003), Jake Gyllenhaal was already in talks to replace him and had already begun preparation.
- He was originally cast as Alex Chance Browning in Final Destination (2000).
- He and his wife are very close friends of Sara Gilbert.
- He’s son-in-law of Ron Meyer.
- He lives in Los Angeles, California with his family.
- He was in attendance at the wedding of Reese Witherspoon to Jim Toth.
- His ancestry is English, Irish, German, Austrian, one eighth Puerto Rican, one eighth Polish, as well as more distant Danish, French, and Cornish. His maternal grandmother was born in Cape Town, South Africa, to an English family, and came to the U.S. in 1933.
- He became a father for the 1st time at age 31 when his then girlfriend and now wife, Jennifer Meyer, gave birth to their daughter, Ruby Sweetheart Maguire, on November 10, 2006.
- Became a father for the 2nd time at age 33 when his wife, Jennifer Meyer, gave birth to their son, Otis Tobias Maguire, on May 8, 2009.
- Two of his half brothers make a cameo appearance as the two boys who gives him his mask in the train scene in Spiderman 2.
- Has a morbid fear of heights (acrophobia).
- Played 2 characters with the last name “Parker”. Bud Parker in “Pleasantville” and Peter Parker in the “Spider Man” trilogy.
- He is an expert poker player.
- A lot of the naysayers in his life are what helped his ambition to become a great actor.
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