Tom Holland (actor)
Thomas Stanley Holland is an English actor. He rose to stardom for playing Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films. He gained further recognition for his starring role in the disaster film The Impossible, receiving the London Film Critics Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year. Holland is a graduate of the BRIT School in London.
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Thomas Stanley Holland is an English actor. He rose to stardom for playing Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films. He gained further recognition for his starring role in the disaster film The Impossible, receiving the London Film Critics Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year. In 2017, twenty-year-old Holland became the youngest BAFTA Rising Star recipient. Holland is a graduate of the BRIT School in London. He began his acting career on stage in the title role of Billy Elliot the Musical in the West End from 2008 to 2010. He also appeared in four episodes of BBC Two’s historical minies Wolf Hall and In the Heart of the Sea. He has three younger brothers: twins Harry and Sam and Patrick \”Paddy\”. Holland was educated at Donhead, a Roman Catholic preparatory school in Wimbledon in South West London, followed by Wimbledon College, a voluntary aided Jesuit Roman Catholic comprehensive school up until December 2012. In 2011, Holland was cast in the British dub of the animated fantasy film Arrietty, produced by Japan’s Studio Ghibli.
He provided a voice for the principal character Sho in the film. In June 2015, it was announced that Holland was part of a six-picture deal with Marvel Studios, making it the highest-grossing film of all time. As part of the deal, he appeared as a teenage Peter Parker in Captain America: Civil War and Spider- man: Homecoming. Holland also appeared alongside Tom Hardy in a supporting role for the drama film Locke, and made a brief appearance in Billy Elliott the Musical Live to celebrate his ‘former’ role as a ‘former Billy Elliot’ In 2015, Holland played the son of the Wolf Hall protagonist Thomas Cromwell by Mark Rylance in the historical miniseries In The Heart Of The Sea, directed by Ron Howard. He was also co-starred as Thomas Nickerson in In the Sea directed by Howard Ronan. He appeared in The Impossible alongside Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor, which was a critical and commercial success, earning USD 180. 3 million worldwide and Holland received universal praise.
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