Tobias Vincent Maguire is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for his role as Peter Parker in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy. His other major films include Pleasantville, Ride with the Devil, The Cider House Rules, Wonder Boys, Seabiscuit, The Good German, Brothers, and The Great Gatsby. He established his own production company in 2012 called Material Pictures.
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Tobias Vincent Maguire is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for his role as Peter Parker in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy. His other major films include Pleasantville, Ride with the Devil, The Cider House Rules, Wonder Boys, Seabiscuit, The Good German, Brothers, and The Great Gatsby. He established his own production company in 2012 called Material Pictures, and co-produced Good People that same year. In 2014, he produced and starred as Bobby Fischer in Pawn Sacrifice. He has also provided the voice of the voice for the video game Spider- man: The Animated Series. He was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Awards, and received two Saturn Awards, including one for Best Actor. His parents separated when he was 2 years old, and he spent much of his childhood living with various family members. His mother offered him USD 100 to take a drama class instead of going to high school. He dropped out of high school and did not return.
He worked as a child actor in the early 1990s, often playing roles much younger than his chronological age. As late as 2002 he was still playing teenagers while in his mid-20s. He appeared in a variety of commercials and TV and movie roles, working opposite such actors as Chuck Norris, Roseanne Barr, and Tracey Ullman. In the 1998 film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas he portrayed a hitchhiker who meets Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo during their drive to Las Vegas. In 2001, he played the son of a unionist who joins his southern friends in avenging the atrocities committed against Missourians by Kansas Jayhawkers and Kansas Jayleggers. He reprised the role in the sequels Spider- Man 2 and Spider-man 3, and has also appeared in the family movie Cats & Dogs & Cats Dogs & Dogs, in which he voices a beagle puppy named Lou in the movie Cats and Dogs. His first appearance in a feature film was in 1989’s The Wizard, where he had no lines.
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