Tom Holland

english actor
not to be confused with Tom Hollander For other people named Tom Holland, see Tom Holland ( disambiguation )

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Thomas Stanley Holland ( natural 1 June 1996 ) [ 1 ] is an english actor. A alumnus of the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in London, he began his acting career on London stage in the title role of Billy Elliot the Musical in the West End field from 2008 to 2010. He then starred in the catastrophe film The Impossible ( 2012 ), for which he received a London Film Critics Circle Award for Young British Performer of the year. Holland achieved international fame for portraying Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films, beginning with Captain America: Civil War ( 2016 ). In 2017, Holland won the BAFTA Rising Star Award, at 20-years-old, the second-youngest recipient at the time .

early life and education

Thomas Stanley Holland [ 2 ] was born on 1 June 1996 in the town of Kingston upon Thames, England [ 3 ] [ 4 ] to Nicola Holland ( née Frost ), a photographer, and Dominic Holland, a comedian and generator. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He has three younger brothers. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] His agnate grandma was from Tipperary, Ireland. [ 8 ] Holland was educated at Donhead, a Roman Catholic preparatory school in Wimbledon in South West London, [ 9 ] followed by Wimbledon College, a volunteer help Jesuit Roman Catholic comprehensive school ( besides in Wimbledon ), astir until December 2012. He was bullied in school for being a dancer. [ 10 ] After Wimbledon College, he attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon. [ 6 ] In his late teens, during a letup in his career, Holland briefly attended carpentry school in Cardiff, Wales. [ 11 ]

career

2006–2014 : early on work and breakthrough

Holland began dancing at a pelvis hop class at Nifty Feet Dance School in Wimbledon. He danced with his school group at the 2006 Richmond Dance Festival, where he was spotted by choreographer Lynne Page, an associate to Peter Darling, choreographer of Billy Elliot and Billy Elliot the Musical. [ 12 ]
After eight auditions and two subsequent years of train, [ 13 ] on 28 June 2008, Holland made his west end introduction in Billy Elliot the Musical as Michael Caffrey, Billy ‘s best friend. [ 14 ] He gave his first performance in the title character on 8 September 2008, receiving positive notices. [ 7 ] [ 15 ] Holland first learned gymnastics during his time performing in the musical. [ 16 ] In September 2008, Holland ( in concert with co-star Tanner Pflueger ) gave his first television receiver interview, on the news program on distribution channel FIVE. The following 31 January, he was on the premier of the ITV1 picture The Feel Good Factor, [ 17 ] during which he performed a version of “ angry dance ” from Billy Elliot the Musical, along with Pflueger and Layton Williams, two other actors who were playing the title function, and was interviewed by host Myleene Klass. For the final The Feel Good Factor on 28 March 2009, he trained five british schoolboys for a dance everyday. [ 18 ] On 8 March 2010, to mark the fifth anniversary of Billy Elliot the Musical, Holland and three other current Billy Elliots were invited to 10 Downing Street to meet Prime Minister Gordon Brown. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Holland was chosen to be a lead at the fifth-anniversary appearance on 31 March 2010. [ 21 ] He rotated with three early performers in the entitle character of Billy Elliot the Musical until 29 May 2010. [ 22 ] In 2011, Holland was cast in the british dub of the animize fantasy film Arrietty, produced by Japan ‘s Studio Ghibli. He provided a voice for the principal quality Sho. [ 23 ] Holland made his feature of speech film debut in The Impossible ( 2012 ), directed by J.A. Bayona, aboard Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2012 and was a critical and commercial success, earning $ 180.3 million cosmopolitan. Holland received universal praise from critics and won several awards, including the National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance and London Film Critics Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] He starred as Isaac in the drama film How I Live Now, which was released in the UK on 4 October 2013, co-star Saoirse Ronan. Holland besides lent his voice in a support role for the drama film Locke ( 2013 ), starring Tom Hardy and made a brief appearance in Billy Elliot the Musical Live ( 2014 ) to celebrate his function as a ‘former Billy ‘ .

2015–present : Marvel Cinematic Universe and global realization

In 2015, Holland appeared in four episodes of BBC Two ‘s diachronic miniseries Wolf Hall, as Gregory Cromwell, son of the protagonist Thomas Cromwell played by Mark Rylance. [ 26 ] He besides co-starred as Thomas Nickerson in the film In the Heart of the Sea ( 2015 ), directed by Ron Howard. [ 27 ] On 23 June 2015, it was announced that Holland was cast as a adolescent Peter Parker / Spider-Man, [ 28 ] and his “ life was flipped top down ”, as he by and by tweeted, [ 29 ] as separate of a six-picture cope with Marvel Studios. [ 30 ] As partially of the Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU ), he first appeared as Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War ( 2016 ). [ 31 ] The movie was a massive critical and commercial success, grossing over $ 1.1 billion cosmopolitan, making it the highest-grossing film of 2016, [ 32 ] with Holland receiving critical praise. [ 33 ] [ 34 ]
In 2016, he played Bradley Baker in the film Edge of Winter, where he co-starred with Joel Kinnaman and Percy Hynes White. In 2017, Holland co-star aboard Charlie Hunnam in the play film The Lost City of Z, directed by James Gray, and released in April, to positive critical reception. [ 35 ] Holland besides performed as the on-set stand-in for the character of The Monster as he would reunite with film director J.A. Bayona in the film A Monster Calls ( 2016 ). Actor Liam Neeson provided the voice for the quality, while Holland was credited with a particular thanks. [ 36 ] In 2017, the 20-year-old Holland won the BAFTA Rising Star Award at the seventieth british Academy Film Awards, becoming the second-youngest winner of the award, after british actress Bukky Bakray, who won it at 19. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] He late co-starred aboard Richard Armitage and Jon Bernthal in the film Pilgrimage. The film premiered on 23 April 2017 at the Tribeca Film Festival, in its “ Viewpoint ” sections. besides that year, Holland played Samuel Insull alongside Avengers co-star Benedict Cumberbatch in Alfonso Gomez-Rejon ‘s The Current War, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. [ 39 ] early reviews of The Current War were desegregate, but Holland ‘s performance received praise. In May 2017, Holland appeared with Zendaya on Paramount Network ‘s Lip Sync Battle, during which he performed a dance count to Rihanna ‘s “ Umbrella “. [ 40 ]

Upcoming projects & unfulfilled projects

In October 2020, Holland worked on Spider-Man: No Way Home, which wrapped filming at the end of March 2021. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] Additionally, in May 2017, it was announced that he had been cast as a young Nathan Drake in the 2022 film adaptation of Naughty Dog ‘s Uncharted video game series. [ 53 ] Principal photography began on 16 March 2020, shooting in Berlin, [ 54 ] which wrapped in October 2020. [ 55 ] He is besides cast as the lead function in the adaptation of Beneath a Scarlet Sky with Amy Pascal ‘s production company Pascal Pictures producing. [ 56 ] In 2016, Holland was cast in The Modern Ocean, an experimental epic from writer-director Shane Carruth. Holland called it “ the best script I ’ ve always read ”. [ 57 ] The project has encountered development problems, with Holland set for a back function alongside an ensemble cast with Keanu Reeves, Daniel Radcliffe, Anne Hathaway, Jeff Goldblum, Chloë Grace Moretz, Asa Butterfield, Abraham Attah, and Irrfan Khan. Since Carruth announced his retirement [ 58 ] and released the full moon handwriting and the unfinished score, the visualize is improbable to begin production anytime soon. [ 59 ] Holland was besides pushing for a lead function in Sam Mendes ‘s 1917 in September 2018, but ultimately was not involved as he was contractually obligated to do reshoots for Chaos Walking in April 2019 with the lead function ultimately going to George MacKay. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] In 2020, Holland claimed in a BBC Radio 1 interview that he was approached by an nameless producer about a possible boot of the Back to the Future franchise with him starring the run function as Marty McFly ( or a exchangeable new character ), but said he was loath to take up this put up as he described the existing films as ‘perfect films ‘, though he would be concerned in re-create scenes from the films in a deep bogus court video or short film. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] Holland has said that he would like to “ do some more franchises ” and play “ some meaty indie roles and finally … transition to the other side of the television camera and ramify into directing. ” [ 64 ] In an interview published in November 2021 with GQ, Holland cast doubt on whether he would reprise his character as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in future Spider-Man film projects after No Way Home suggesting the time may come for him to move on and that it suggesting he will have “ done something wrong ” if he continued to play the fictional character into his 30s and that he would like to see a live-action Spider-Man film narrative with Miles Morales in the mantel as opposed to Parker. however, manufacturer Amy Pascal stated her hope to keep Holland in the function. [ 65 ] Holland ‘s Spider-Man colorado star Jacob Batalon has besides suggested to MovieWeb that Holland would be matter to in succeeding Daniel Craig in the function of James Bond with Holland himself remaining coy on the submit. [ 66 ]

personal life

Holland resides in Kingston upon Thames in Greater London, near the house of his parents and younger brothers. [ 67 ] He has a blue Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Tessa. [ 68 ] He was diagnosed with dyslexia at historic period seven. [ 69 ] He is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur. [ 70 ] In November 2021, Holland confirmed his relationship with Spider-Man co-star Zendaya. [ 71 ]

Acting credits

film

Holland in 2010

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References

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Holland, Dominic (2017). Eclipsed: How Tom Holland Eclipsed His ‘Celebrity’ Dad. [1]