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'''Thomas Stanley Holland (born 1 June 1996) is an English actor. His accolades include a British Academy Film Award, a Guinness World Record and an appearance on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list. Some publications have called him one of the best actors under 30 years of age.

Holland's career began when he was nine and enrolled in a dancing class, where he was advised by a choreographer to audition for a role in Billy Elliot the Musical at London's Victoria Palace Theatre. After two years of training, he bagged 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 a London Film Critics Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year. Following this success, Holland decided to pursue acting as a full-time career, appearing in the films How I Live Now (2013) and In the Heart of the Sea (2015) and in 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 later became the youngest actor to play a title role in an MCU film in Spider-Man: Homecoming. The sequels Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) and Spider-Man: 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). Holland has additionally directed the short film Tweet (2015) and voiced roles in computer-animated features. Tom Holland is dating Jana

Contents 1	Life and career 1.1	Early life and background 1.2	2006–2014: Early stage work and film debut 1.3	2015–2017: Breakthrough as Spider-Man 1.4	2018–present: Continued commercial success 1.4.1	Upcoming projects 2	Image and personal life 3	Notes 4	References 5	External links Life and career See also: List of roles and awards of Tom Holland Early life and background

The BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in London, which Holland attended Thomas Stanley Holland was born on 1 June 1996 in the town of Kingston upon Thames, England to photographer Nicola (née Frost) and Dominic Holland, a comedian and author.[1] He has three younger brothers.[2] His paternal grandmother was from Tipperary, Ireland.[3] Holland resides in Kingston upon Thames in South West London, near the house of his parents and younger brothers.[4] As his parents have creative professions, he is often inspired by them.[5] He turns to his father, who has unofficially worked as his manager, for professional advice due to his experience in the industry.[6] Holland shares a close bond with him and considers him a role model.[7]

Holland was educated at Donhead, an all-male Catholic preparatory school in Wimbledon in South West London.[8] 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 negatively affecting his family's financial situation.[9][10] Holland attended Wimbledon College, a voluntary aided Jesuit comprehensive school, until 2012,[11] followed by the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon.[12]

Growing up, Holland considered several career choices. As a child, he was a fan of Janet Jackson's songs, and would often dance to them. His mother, impressed with his talent, signed him up for a dancing class, which was advertised in the private school that Holland was visiting at the time.[10][9] In his teens, Holland briefly attended carpentry school in Cardiff, Wales.[13] At one point, he considered becoming a primary school teacher, as he likes children.[7] In 2017, he told Interview Magazine that he hopes to direct films in 20 years because he likes working with actors.[5]

2006–2014: Early stage work and film debut

Holland (centre) performing at the fifth anniversary of Billy Elliot the Musical at the Victoria Palace Theatre in 2010 At age nine, Holland began dancing at a hip hop class at Nifty Feet Dance School in Wimbledon, where he performed with his school group at the 2006 Richmond Dance Festival. There, he was spotted by choreographer Lynne Page, an associate to Peter Darling, choreographer of Billy Elliot the Musical.[14] Peter advised Holland to audition for a part in the musical. After two years of training in ballet, tap dancing and acrobatic,[6] Holland bagged the role of Michael Caffrey, Billy's best friend, in June 2008.[15] During his time performing in the musical, Holland learned gymnastics.[16] Holland says when his peers at school found out about his dancing activities, they started bullying him.[10]

Later in 2008, Holland and costar Tanner Pflueger were promoted to the lead role in the musical.[17] On his first day playing Elliot, Holland became sick with tonsillitis, but performed on stage anyway. While his performance was praised, he visited the doctor the following day.[18] After his stage success, Holland hoped to be popular in school and that his schoolmates would stop bullying him. After being in a professional environment, however, he matured earlier than his peers and struggled to fit in. As a result, his General Certificate of Secondary Education grades suffered.[10] After his work on Billy Elliot the Musical finished in May 2010, Holland voiced a role in the British dub of the Japanese animated fantasy film Arrietty (2011),[19] and sent an audition tape to J.A. Bayona for a part in The Impossible (2012). Bayona subsequently arranged a meeting, and had Holland write a letter to his mother and recite it as an audition. Impressed with his emotional delivery, Bayona cast Holland in the film.[20]

In The Impossible, Holland played a teenager trapped with his family in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. Shifting from live audience to camera made the transition from stage to screen challenging for Holland.[21] He and costar Naomi Watts filmed scenes in a 35,000-gallon water tank, which were physically and psychologically taxing for them.[22] Holland later described it as a "scary environment [...] You can imagine how tiring and brutal that was."[23] Working with Watts made Holland realise that he wanted to pursue an acting career permanently.[24] The Impossible premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September to critical success.[25] Made on a budget of 45 million, it earned $180.3 million worldwide.[26] Holland received critical praise.[21] A. O. Scott of The New York Times found Holland to be "a terrific young actor", praising his character's transition from a self-involved to a responsible adolescent.[27] He 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.[28][29] Holland featured in the drama film How I Live Now (2013),[30] lent his voice in a supporting role for the drama film Locke (2013),[31] and briefly appeared in Billy Elliot the Musical Live (2014).[32]

2015–2017: Breakthrough as Spider-Man Holland unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Finn in the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens.[33] Holland appeared in four episodes of BBC Two's historical miniseries Wolf Hall (2015), as Gregory Cromwell, son of the protagonist Thomas Cromwell played by Mark Rylance.[34] The same year, he directed a 3-minute short film called Tweet,[20] and co-starred as the teenage sailor Thomas Nickerson in Ron Howard's historical adventure-drama In the Heart of the Sea (2015). The film is based on the namesake 2000 non-fiction book about the sinking of the American whaling ship Essex in 1820. In preparation, he and costars, including Chris Hemsworth lost a significant amount of weight, consuming 500–1,000 calories a day. Holland performed most of his stunts in the film.[35] In the Heart of the Sea received mixed reviews from critics, and grossed $93 million against a $100 million budget.[36][37] Brian Truitt of the USA Today wrote Holland gave an adequate performance and Peter Travers of Rolling Stone found him "terrific".[38][39]

Holland at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con In June 2015, Holland signed a six-picture deal with Marvel Studios to play a teenage Peter Parker / Spider-Man.[40] Growing up, Holland was a fan of Spider-Man; he owned 30 costumes and bed sheet covers of the character.[6] He auditioned against 1,500 teenagers worldwide, including English actors Charlie Rowe and Asa Butterfield.[41] While producers Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal were impressed with his performances in The Impossible, Wolf Hall, and In the Heart of the Sea,[40] directors Russo brothers cited Holland's dancing and gymnastics background as the reasons to cast him.[42] Stan Lee, Spider-Man's creator, said Holland was the "exact age and height" when he envisioned the character.[10] As part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), he first appeared as Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War (2016).[43] The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing over $1.1 billion worldwide against a budget of $250 million to become the highest-grossing film of 2016.[44] In a review for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw praised Holland and costar Paul Rudd (who played Ant-Man) as "seductively high-spirited and hilarious",[45] and Richard Roeper of Chicago Sun-Times wrote that he made "a strong first impression" as Spider-Man.[46]

In 2016, Holland co-starred with Joel Kinnaman and Percy Hynes White in the psychological thriller Edge of Winter. It was the first film he did without his parents' knowledge.[47] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter found Holland and White "excellent", describing their terrified reaction as "more emotionally wrenching than the tired thriller genre conventions to which the film ultimately succumbs".[48] At the 70th British Academy Film Awards in 2017, Holland won the Rising Star Award.[49] That year, Holland starred alongside Charlie Hunnam in James Gray's drama The Lost City of Z, which was released to positive reviews.[50] On his last day of filming, he broke his nose after a failed backflip attempt.[51] In the film, Holland played the son of Percy Fawcett (Hunnam), an explorer who makes several attempts to find a supposed lost ancient city in the Amazon rainforest. Neil Soans of The Times of India praised Holland for making the film emotional towards the end and Rex Reed of The New York Observer found him "remarkably strong and self-assured".[52][53] Later in 2017, Holland played Samuel Insull in Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's The Current War, which received negative reviews and was a box-office failure.[54][55] That May, Holland appeared with Zendaya on Paramount Network's Lip Sync Battle, during which he performed a dance number to Rihanna's "Umbrella".[56]

Also in 2017, Holland's parents founded The Brothers Trust, a charitable organisation, which aims to use his popularity to raise funds for humanitarian causes.[57] The same year, Holland starred in his solo film as Spider-Man / Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Homecoming. As a result, Holland earned an entry in Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest actor to play a title role in the MCU.[58] Though Holland took some inspiration from previous Spider-Man actors Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, he wanted to add a sense of newness in his reinterpretation of the character.[59] Homecoming focused on Parker, as he tries to balance being a high-school student and a superhero.[60] To prepare, Holland attended The Bronx High School of Science in the Bronx for a few days,[61] although other students did not believe he was cast as Spider-Man. Holland felt this situation reflected the film's story, in which other characters are unaware that Parker is Spider-Man.[62] Homecoming and Holland's performance received positive reviews.[63] Peter Travers called it "a star performance given by a born actor".[64] Made on a budget of $175 million, the film grossed over $800 million worldwide.[65] Holland's final role in 2017 was in the Irish film Pilgrimage, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.[66]

2018–present: Continued commercial success Holland reprised his role as Spider-Man in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and its follow-up Avengers: Endgame (2019), which were filmed back-to-back.[67] The pictures each earned more than $2 billion,[68] with Endgame briefly becoming the highest-grossing film of all time.[a] Holland followed with the sequel Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), which widely received positive reviews and became the first Spider-Man film to earn $1 billion, finishing as the fourth-highest grosser of 2019.[70][71] Ben Travis of Empire magazine found Holland "a note-perfect Spider-Man — still funnier and more believably teenage" than Maguire and Garfield who previously played Spider-Man. Travis wrote, "Holland never loses the ebullient spark that makes him one of the MCU's most endearing figures."[72] Holland followed with voice roles in the Blue Sky Studios animation Spies in Disguise (2019),[73] the live-action film Dolittle (2020), and the Pixar animation Onward (2020).[74]

Holland at a 2019 event for Spider-Man: Far From Home in Bali, Indonesia Alongside Avengers co-star Sebastian Stan, Holland starred in Antonio Campos's The Devil All the Time (2020), a Netflix psychological thriller set after World War II. Holland said he initially worried that he lacked the depth to play a young orphaned man who goes on a killing spree, and was scared and nervous on his first day on set. Encouraged by Campos, he ultimately enjoyed playing the part, although it took a temporary toll on his mental health.[75] Campos praised Holland's effort to learn Southern American English for the role, described his acting process as "methodical and thoughtful and sensitive",[76] and called him a kind person.[76] Critics from IndieWire and Roger Ebert's website opined that despite the film's failed script, Holland gave a convincing performance and showed his range as an actor.[77][78] A Variety report called the film the 22nd-most watched straight-to-streaming title of 2020 through November.[79]

Holland starred in three films that were released in 2021. His first, the crime drama Cherry, is based on the namesake novel by American author Nico Walker, and reunited him with Avengers directors Russo brothers.[80] He played a college student who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after enlisting in the army, and robs banks to finance his drug addiction. In preparation for the role, Holland shaved his head and interviewed several military veterans who were undergoing treatments for substance abuse and PTSD.[24] He also lost 30 pounds (14 kg) of weight, then regained it after filming.[81] The film was released in cinemas in February and digitally on Apple TV+ in March.[82] Consensus among critics was that the film enabled Holland to broaden his horizons as an actor, but it had a formulaic story.[83] This was echoed by Owen Gleiberman of Variety who further noted that Holland proved his skills as an actor and demonstrated a range of indulgent looks and moods.[84] Holland next played alongside Daisy Ridley as a young man living on a planet called New World in Chaos Walking, an adaptation of Patrick Ness's best-selling science fiction series of the same name. The film was delayed due to several reshoots in early 2019, which added $15 million to its budget, bringing its cost to $100 million.[85] Chaos Walking failed to recoup its budget and received poor reviews.[86][87]

In November 2021, Holland voiced Percy Pig in a series of advertisements for Marks & Spencer's Christmas food specials.[88] The following month, Holland reprised his role as Peter Parker in the sequel Spider-Man: No Way Home.[89] After taking on mature roles in films like Cherry, Holland noted that he found it strange adjusting back to playing Parker, chiefly due to raising his voice pitch and returning to the mindset of a "naïve, charming teenager".[90] He described No Way Home as the "most ambitious standalone superhero movie ever made".[24] Despite its release during the COVID-19 pandemic, No Way Home quickly emerged as the highest-grossing film of 2021 and the sixth highest-grossing film of all time. It also became the first film since 2019's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to earn more than $1 billion at the box-office.[91] No Way Home became the highest-rated Spider-Man film on the online database IMDb and the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.[92] Wendy Ide of The Guardian wrote that the film "delivers an overflowing, funnel-web cornucopia of treats for Spider-fans" and attributed Parker's continuing appeal to "his endearing, puppyish enthusiasm".[93] The Times' Kevin Maher opined that Holland "own[s] every inch of the role" and "casts his web and captures your heart".[94]

In November 2021, Holland told GQ that he is doubtful about reprising the role of Spider-Man after No Way Home, especially after he turns 30 in 2026. He expressed a desire to see a live-action Spider-Man film with Miles Morales as the protagonist, whereas Amy Pascal spoke of wanting to keep Holland in the role.[18] In February 2022, it was reported that Holland had invested an undisclosed amount in Dogpound gyms.[95] That month, he starred as a young Nathan Drake in the film adaptation of Naughty Dog's Uncharted video game series.[96] To prepare for the character's role as a bartender, Holland practiced bartending by working shifts at the Chiltern Firehouse, a pub in London. Though the filming was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Holland continued to eat and train for the role.[18] Uncharted polarised critics but Rebecca Rubin of Variety attributed its box-office success to Holland's star-power.[97][98] In a mixed review for his performance, Brian Tallerico of Roger Ebert's website labelled him miscast, writing that "Holland has the agility but quite simply lacks the weight and world-weariness needed" for the role.[99]

Upcoming projects Holland is attached to star in the Apple TV+ anthology series The Crowded Room.[100] Since 2017, he has also been attached to play the role of Pino Lella in Beneath a Scarlet Sky, a spy thriller series set during WWII based on the 2017 fact-based novel of the same name by Mark Sullivan.[101] In December 2021, Holland confirmed that he is set to portray actor and dancer Fred Astaire in a biopic currently in development at Sony.[102]

Image and personal life Nadia Khomani of The Guardian says that Holland's "cheeky British charm, vulnerability and wit" has made him the object of infatuation on the internet.[6] Jonathan Dean of The Sunday Times considers him to be "poised and professional, but also so confident and personable" and takes note of his maturity "despite boyish wiriness".[10] German actor Sönke Möhring, his costar from The Impossible, similarly remarks on his professionalism, adding, "he is blessed with a deep soul [...] down to earth, very polite and a friendly kid."[6] Kevin Macdonald, who directed Holland in How I Live Now, praises him as confident, "articulate and enthusiastic", and attributes Holland's success to his positive energy.[6] When asked about the secret to his success, Holland said he believes in avoiding trouble and working hard.[58]

Holland in 2010 Holland has described himself as a private person and is reluctant to discuss his personal life in public.[18] He is currently in a relationship with his long-term rumoured girlfiend and Spider-Man co-star, Zendaya. In a GQ interview, Holland credited her as being "intrumental" to his sanity.[103] He said she taught him how to properly interact with his fans and thought the media attention to their relationship breached their privacy.[18] He discussed having sleep paralysis nightmares of paparazzi in his bedroom.[103]

Holland considers himself to be "an impossible people pleaser",[18] which according to Olivia Singh of Yahoo! News has resulted in his facing burnout and an incident where he vomited after a press conference.[104] A self-admittedly indiscreet person, Holland has gained a reputation for inadvertently spoiling important plot elements of his films during interviews and press conferences.[105] His MCU costars labelled him the "least trustworthy" cast member.[106] To avoid an incident, he only read parts of Captain America: Civil War's script.[105] Joe Russo similarly avoided giving Holland the script to Avengers: Endgame, and Holland knew only his lines.[107] Holland is active on the social networking service Instagram, and he often uses his number of followers to impress auditioners.[10]

Holland appeared on Screen International's "UK Stars of Tomorrow – 2012",[108] and The Hollywood Reporter's "Next Gen 2015", a list of promising newcomers in film.[109] In 2019, he appeared on Forbes' "30 Under 30 Europe", a list of influential people under 30 years.[110] He was named one of the best actors under the age of 30 by Insider Inc. in 2019,[111] MSN in 2021,[112] and Complex Networks in 2021.[113] In MSN's listing, Ryan Mutuku described him as "a darling to the English media" because of his openness and willingness to also give interviews not related to film promotions.[112] He was additionally named among "Hot, Young & British Actors 2020" by Glamour and "Superhero of the Year" by GQ in 2021.[114][18] The latter's author Oliver Franklin-Wallis wrote, "Holland has ascended to a tier of stardom few actors ever reach, and rarely so young".[18] Variety editors Brent Lang and Rebecca Rubin reported in December 2021 that after the success of the Spider-Man films, Holland could become a top-paid actor in the future. They noted the lack of young leading men in Hollywood and saw Holland's potential to herald a new generation of successful actors.[115]'Bold text'