Actor Thomas Stanley Tom Holland was born in England on June 1, 1996. Among his achievements are three Saturn Awards and a British Academy Film Award. He was listed among the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe. He is regarded as one of the most well-liked actors of his generation by certain newspapers.
| Born | 1 June 1996 (age 27 years), Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom |
| Height | 1.69 m |
| Full name | Thomas Stanley Holland |
| Parents | Dominic Holland, Nikki Holland |
| Siblings | Harry Holland, Sam Holland, Paddy Holland |
When Tom Holland enrolled in a dancing lesson at the age of nine, a choreographer saw something in him and set him up for an audition for a part in the London Victoria Palace Theatre production of Billy Elliot the Musical. This was the beginning of Holland’s career. Following two years of training, he was cast in a supporting role in 2008 and was promoted to the lead that same year, a job he held until 2010. Holland drew accolades for his performance as a teenage tourist stranded in a tsunami in the catastrophe drama The Impossible (2012). Following this, Holland made the decision to focus solely on acting, making appearances in the 2013 film How I Live Now and portraying historical figures in the 2015 film In the Heart of the Sea and the miniseries Wolf Hall.
Playing Spider-Man in six Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) superhero movies, starting with Captain America: Civil War (2016), brought Holland international acclaim. The next year, in Spider-Man: Homecoming, Holland became the youngest actor to play the lead role in an MCU film and was awarded the BAFTA Rising Star Award. The 2019 and 2021 sequels, titled Far From Home and No Way Home, respectively, brought in over $1 billion in global revenue, with the latter becoming as the highest-grossing movie of the year. In addition to playing against-type parts in the criminal dramas Cherry (2021) and The Devil All the Time (2020), he also had another action picture role in Uncharted (2022). In addition, Holland provided the voices for several computer-animated films, such as Onward (2020), and directed the short film Tweet (2015).
Early Life and Education
Thomas Stanley Holland was born on June 1, 1996, in Kingston upon Thames, a suburb of southwest London. His parents are comedian and novelist Dominic Holland and photographer Nicola (née Frost). Three of his brothers are younger. His father’s grandpa was from the Isle of Man, while his father’s grandmother was from Tipperary, Ireland. He resides in Kingston upon Thames, close to the homes of his younger brothers and parents. Since both of his parents work in the creative industries, he finds inspiration in them frequently. He views his father as a role model who, because of his industry knowledge, has served as his unofficial manager.
Holland received his education at Wimbledon, South West London’s Donhead, an all-male Catholic preparatory school. Dyslexia was identified in him at the age of seven. In order to ensure that he received the required care, his parents enrolled him and his brothers in a private school to prevent making them feel abandoned. Holland liked the new school, but his family’s finances began to suffer as a result. Holland first attended the Croydon-based BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology before enrolling in Wimbledon College, a Jesuit comprehensive school supported by voluntary contributions.
Holland thought about a few different profession options as a child. He loved Janet Jackson’s songs as a kid and would frequently dance to them. When Holland was visiting a private school, his mother signed him up for a dancing class. Holland temporarily attended a carpentry school in Cardiff, Wales, when he was in his teens. Because he loves being around kids, he also thought of teaching elementary school.
Acting Career
Holland started dancing at the age of nine in a hip hop lesson at the Nifty Feet Dance School in Wimbledon. In 2006, he participated in the Richmond Dance Festival with his school group. There, he caught the eye of Billy Elliot the Musical choreographer Lynne Page, a colleague of Peter Darling. Holland’s audition was set up by Page, and the musical’s director, Stephen Daldry, saw that he “had great potential and was a very natural actor”. Following two years of training in tap, ballet, and acrobatics, Holland was cast as the protagonist’s best friend, Michael Caffrey. In June 2008, he made his stage debut at the Victoria Palace Theatre in the West End. Holland picked up gymnastics while he was in the musical. Holland states that when his When his schoolmates learned about his dance endeavors, they began to tease him.
Holland and co-star Tanner Pflueger were elevated to the lead part in the musical later in 2008. Holland got tonsillitis on his first day of playing Elliot, but he still went on stage and received great praises; the following day, he visited the doctor. Holland wanted to be popular at school and for his classmates to stop picking on him after his stage triumph. But after being in a work setting, he became more mature ahead of his classmates and found it difficult to blend in. His marks on the General Certificate of Secondary Education fell as a result. Holland voiced a part in the British dub of the Japanese animated fantasy film Arrietty (2011) after his work on Billy Elliot the Musical concluded in 2010. He also sent Juan Antonio an audition tape.
In The Impossible (2012), Bayona had a cameo. After setting up a meeting, Bayona requested that Holland compose a letter to his mother and perform it as a test. Bayona cast Holland in the movie after being impressed by his emotive delivery.
2015–2017: Breakthrough as Spider-Man
The historical miniseries Wolf Hall (2015) on BBC Two featured Holland in four episodes as Gregory Cromwell, the son of Mark Rylance’s character, Thomas Cromwell. In 2015, he directed the 3-minute short film Tweet, which followed a young man as he worked with his grandfather to build a birdhouse; Later, when he was in his 40s, Holland indicated that he would like to direct feature films. In the historical adventure-drama In the Heart of the Sea, directed by Ron Howard, Holland also starred as the young sailor Thomas Nickerson in 2015. Based on the non-fiction book of the same name published in 2000, the movie tells the story of the American whaling ship Essex’s 1820 disaster. He and Chris Hemsworth, among his co-stars, shed a lot of weight in preparation by eating 500–1,000 calories a day. The majority of Holland’s stunts in the movie were his own. In Critics gave The Heart of the Sea varying reviews, and the film made $93 million on its $100 million budget. According to USA Today’s Brian Truitt, Holland “does a good job”.
Holland agreed to a six-picture deal with Marvel Studios in June 2015 in order to portray a young Spider-Man. Holland was an avid fan of Spider-Man as a child, collecting 30 outfits and bed linens featuring the superhero. He was up against 1,500 kids from across the globe for the role, including Asa Butterfield and Charlie Rowe, two English actors. The Russo brothers, the film’s directors, chose to cast Holland because of his history in ballet and gymnastics, even though producers Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal were pleased with his performances in The Impossible, Wolf Hall, and In the Heart of the Sea. Holland was the “exact age and height” that Spider-Man’s creator, Stan Lee, had in mind when he created the character. His first appearance as Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War was his first in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
War (2016). The movie was a commercial and critical hit, making over $1.1 billion in total revenue worldwide on a $250 million budget, making it the highest-grossing movie of 2016. Peter Bradshaw, reviewing for The Guardian, called Holland and Ant-Man co-star Paul Rudd “seductively high-spirited and hilarious”, and Chicago Sun-Times writer Richard Roeper said that Holland made “a strong first impression” as Spider-Man.
(2016) War. The movie was well received by critics and audiences alike, making over $1.1 billion in revenue globally on a $250 million budget, making it the highest-grossing movie of 2016. Holland made “a strong first impression” as Spider-Man, according to Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times, while Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called him and co-star Paul Rudd (who played Ant-Man) “seductively high-spirited and hilarious.
Tom Holland costarred in the psychological thriller Edge of Winter (2016) alongside Joel Kinnaman and Percy Hynes White. It was the first movie he made without telling his parents about. Holland and White’s panicked reaction was described as “more emotionally wrenching than the tired thriller genre conventions to which the film ultimately succumbs” by Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter, who thought Holland and White to be “excellent”. Holland took home the Rising Star Award at the 2017 70th British Academy Film Awards. Holland’s first role of that year was in James Gray’s drama The Lost City of Z, which received favorable reviews upon its release, costarring Charlie Hunnam. He attempted a backflip on the final day of filming and smashed his nose. Holland portrayed the explorer Percy Fawcett’s (Hunnam) son.
2018–present: Blockbuster Films And Mature Roles
In the back-to-back films Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019), Holland played Spider-Man once more. Every picture brought in more than $2 billion, and Endgame momentarily surpassed all previous box office records in terms of earnings.Holland then directed Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), the fourth-highest grossing movie of the year despite earning largely good reviews and becoming the first Spider-Man movie to make $1 billion. Holland, as opposed to Maguire and Garfield, who had previously played the role, is “a note-perfect Spider-Man — still funnier and more believable teenage,” according to Ben Travis of Empire magazine. According to Travis, “Holland never loses the ebullient spark that makes him one of the MCU’s most endearing figures.
Tom Holland was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Performance for the third time in a row by a Younger Actor for Far From Home, after receiving awards for Homecoming and the Civil War. He provided voices for the live-action movie Dolittle (2020), the Pixar animated picture Onward (2020), and the Blue Sky Studios animation Spies in Disguise (2019). The final two he did with co-stars in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Chris Pratt and Robert Downey Jr. Despite having large budgets, none of the three movies did well at the box office.
Tom Holland starred in Antonio Campos’s The Devil All the Time (2020), a psychological thriller on Netflix that takes place after World War II, with co-star Sebastian Stan in the Avengers. On his first day on set, Holland admitted that he was afraid and anxious since he first thought he didn’t have the depth to play a young orphaned man who goes on a killing rampage. Despite the short-term negative impact on his mental state, he eventually enjoyed playing the role because to Campos’ encouragement. In Holland’s acting style was described by Campos as “methodical,” “thoughtful and sensitive,” and “kind,” and he was lauded for his endeavor to master Southern American English for the role. Though the movie’s narrative was a failure, critics from Roger Ebert’s website and IndieWire felt that Holland delivered a strong performance and showed his acting range. According to a Variety estimate, as of November 2020, the movie was the 22nd most watched straight-to-streaming title of the year.
In 2021, Holland acted in three motion pictures. His first film, the crime drama Cherry, reunited him with the Russo brothers, who are the directors of the Avengers, and is based on the namesake novel by American author Nico Walker. He portrayed a college student who, after joining the army, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and robs banks to support his drug addiction.
Tom Holland shaved his head and spoke with combat veterans receiving treatment for PTSD and drug misuse in order to get ready for the role. In addition, he shed thirty pounds (14 kg) of weight before gaining it back during filming. In addition to its February theatrical debut, the movie debuted digitally on Apple TV+ in March.[94] Critics generally agreed that the movie helped Holland expand his acting career, however it possessed a clichéd tale. Variety’s Owen Gleiberman agreed, pointing out that Holland showed off his acting prowess and a variety of opulent appearances and emotions.
Tom Holland then starred with Daisy Ridley in Chaos Walking, an adaptation of Patrick Ness’s critically acclaimed science fiction trilogy of the same name, as a young man living on a planet called New World. Due to multiple reshoots in early 2019, the film’s release was delayed and ultimately cost $100 million, an additional $15 million. Chaos Walking was critically panned and was unable to recover its costs. Christian Holub of Entertainment Weekly saw Holland and Ridley’s ineffective attempt to have chemistry, and David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter said it was dull.
Zendaya and Tom Holland’s Relationship Timeline
Zendaya and Tom Holland have the ultimate Hollywood love story. They started as costars in the massively successful Spider-Man movies, with Holland playing Peter Parker and his superhero alter ego, and Zendaya as his love interest MJ. That working relationship gradually bloomed into a supportive friendship, then something more. For years, the two lit up red carpets and press engagements with their charisma and chemistry — not to mention their witty banter — and were spotted together a lot, including visiting children’s hospitals and appearing at the MTV Movie Awards.
After many years of squashing dating rumors left and right, things seemed to change between the costars and close friends, and sure enough, love was in the air. Today, the two are very tight-lipped regarding their relationship and share pieces of their life together only on occasion. While you can regularly catch them in paparazzi photos spending quality time together across the globe and supporting each other while filming, they do not make grand declarations of love or pose together on the red carpet anymore. Instead, they do their relationship their way, making those little snippets and tidbits they do decided to share with us all the more special.
November 2021: Holland says he’s “in love.”
Things were apparently getting serious between the two in late 2021, as Tom Holland told Total Film that he was “very happy and in love” and thinking about his future both in the film industry and personally. “I might go and be a carpenter for two years, and take a big break, and come back,” he said. “Or I might not come back. I might go away, and get married, and have kids, and just disappear for the rest of my life.”
Zendaya and Tom Holland are the internet’s favorite couple. Here’s a ‘Tomdaya’ timeline!’
A few things are canon in the live-action “Spider-Man” universe: Peter Parker has been bitten by a radioactive spider, the actor playing Peter will ugly-cry at some point onscreen — and the romantic leads will inevitably fall in love behind the scenes.
Case in point: Two generations of “Spider-Man” co-stars (Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone) have been in highly publicized relationships that have already come and gone. But one Spidey couple remains: Tom Holland and Zendaya, known affectionately by fans as “Tomdaya.”
Much to the internet’s delight, Holland, 27, and Zendaya, 26, have evolved over the years from cast mates to friends to partners. And although the pair didn’t confirm their relationship until relatively late in their “Spider-Man” careers, fans’ Spidey senses have been tingling since the actors began working together in the mid-2010s.
In fact, a recently resurfaced, early gem of a social-media interaction between Holland and Zendaya has further convinced the stans that the co-stars were crushing on each other from the start. (Why else would Zendaya jokingly comment, “I hate you,” along with three laughing emojis and three crying emojis, under a 2017 Instagram post from Holland that really isn’t that funny?)
For more evidence, please see our definitive Tomdaya timeline — from “Spider-Man: Homecoming” to “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and beyond.
Other Work And Public Image
Nadia Khomani of The Guardian said that Holland’s “cheeky British charm, vulnerability and wit” has made him the object of infatuation on the internet. Jonathan Dean of The Sunday Times considered him to be “poised and professional, but also so confident and personable” and took note of his maturity “despite boyish wiriness”. German actor Sönke Möhring, his co-star from The Impossible, similarly remarked on his professionalism, adding, “he is blessed with a deep soul […] down to earth, very polite and a friendly kid.” Kevin Macdonald, who directed Holland in How I Live Now, praised him as confident, “articulate and enthusiastic”, and attributed Holland’s success to his positive energy. When asked about the secret to his success, Holland said he believes in avoiding trouble and working hard.
Holland was featured on two lists of promising rookies to the film industry: The Hollywood Reporter’s “Next Gen 2015” and Screen International’s “UK Stars of Tomorrow – 2012” .In 2019, he was listed among the notable individuals under 30 years old on Forbes’ “30 Under 30 Europe” list and Insider Inc.’s “45 young stars who will one day rule Hollywood” list. He made an appearance on Glamour’s “Hot, Young & British Actors 2020”, and in 2021 Complex Networks and Tuko both listed him as one of the top actors under 30. Ryan Mutuku called him “a darling to the English media” in the previous listing due to his willingness to do interviews unrelated to promoting films and his openness. Oliver Franklin-Wallis of GQ described him as “his generation’s biggest leading guy” in 2021, writing, “Holland has ascended reaching a level of fame that is uncommon for performers to attain at such a young age. After the popularity of the Spider-Man movies, Holland has the potential to become one of the highest-paid actors in the future, according to a December 2021 report by Variety editors Brent Lang and Rebecca Rubin. They observed the dearth of youthful leading males in Hollywood at the moment and believed Holland had the ability to usher in a new era of prosperous performers.
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