Tom Holland is an English actor and dancer. His big break was his role in Marvel’s «Captain America Civil War», where he played Spider-Man/Peter Parker.
Let’s find out more about the actor!
- His full name is Thomas Stanley Holland.
- He was born on 1st of June 1996.
- As of 2022, he’s 26 years old.
- He is an English actor.
- His zodiac sign is Gemini.
- He has three younger brothers.
- His paternal grandmother was from Tipperary, Ireland.
- Holland lives in Kingston upon Thames, near the house of his parents and younger brothers.
- As his parents have creative professions, he is often inspired by them. He considers his father a role model who has unofficially worked as his manager due to his experience in the industry.
- Holland was educated at Donhead, an all-male Catholic preparatory school in Wimbledon in south west London.
- When he was seven, he was diagnosed with dyslexia.
- His parents sent him and his brothers (to avoid making them feel neglected) to a private school so he could get the necessary attention.
- Although Holland liked the new school, this started to drain his family’s finances.
- Tom Holland attended Wimbledon College, a voluntary aided Jesuit comprehensive school, followed by the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon.
- As a child, he was a fan of Janet Jackson’s songs, and would often dance to them.
- His mother, impressed with this, signed him up for a dancing class, which was advertised in the private school that Holland was visiting at the time.
- In his teens, Holland briefly attended carpentry school in Cardiff, Wales.
- At one point, he considered becoming a primary school teacher, as he enjoys being around children.
- His accolades include a British Academy Film Award, three Saturn Awards, a Guinness World Record and an appearance on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list.
- Some publications have called him one of the most popular actors of his generation.
- Tom Holland’s career began at age nine when he enrolled in a dancing class.
- 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.
- Tom Holland made his film debut in the disaster drama The Impossible (2012) as a teenage tourist trapped in a tsunami, for which he received a London Film Critics Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year.
- 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).
- Tom Holland achieved international recognition playing Spider-Man/Peter Parker 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.
- He later became the youngest actor to play a title role in an MCU film in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
- The sequels 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.
- During this period, Holland gained recognition for playing darker roles in the crime dramas The Devil All the Time (2020) and Cherry (2021).
- Tom Holland has additionally directed the short film Tweet (2015).
- He also had voiced roles in computer-animated features, including Onward (2020).
- Tom Holland is a trained gymnast and parkour runner.
- He he had his first kiss during the production of a movie.
- Tom Holland got a Spider-Man tattoo after landing the role.
- Tom Holland and Zendaya have been dating off and on for years. Currently their relationship is unclear.
- He is also an avid golf player. He’s incredibly enthusiastic about the sport, having told People that one big reason he plays is that spending time outside on the golf course gives him the opportunity to unwind and disconnect from the world around him.
- The Rock is one of Tom Holland’s idols
- Before being part of Marvel, Tom Holland also gained education in carpentry school.
- Joining carpentry school was a decision Tom Holland’s mother advised him to make.
- In 2017, Tom Holland received the BAFTA Rising Star Award.
- In an Instagram post, Drew Barrymore posted pictures with Tom Holland taken way back in 2012. They discussed about making a movie together.
- Growing up in England, Tom Holland is a football or soccer fan.
- It has been confirmed that Holland supports Tottenham Hotspurs, a football club playing in the English Premier League.
- In 2017, Holland went viral for his performance in «Lip Sync Battle.»
- Performing singing icon Rihanna’s ‘Umbrella,’ the video of his performance has over 115 million views on YouTube.
- Interestingly, in that episode of ‘Lip Sync Battle,’ Tom was battling against his then co-star and current girlfriend, Zendaya.
- Tom has said that he doesn’t want to portray Spider-Man in his late 30s.
- Despite being the Peter Parker version of Spider-Man, this young star has advocated for a live-action adaptation of the superhero in its Miles Morales incarnation.
- His mother is photographer Nicola (Frost) Holland, while Tom’s father is Dominic Holland, known for being an author and a comedian.
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