Biography

Thomas Stanley Holland (born 1 June 1996) is an English actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award and three Saturn Awards. Holland's films as a lead actor have grossed over $9.9 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing film actors of all time. He was featured on the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list. Holland's career began at the age of nine when he enrolled in a dancing class. A choreographer noticed him and arranged an audition for a role in Billy Elliot the Musical at London's Victoria Palace Theatre. After two years of training, he secured a supporting part in 2008. Later that year, he was upgraded to the title role, 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; he received critical acclaim and a Goya Award nomination for Best New Actor. Holland then decided to pursue acting as a full-time career, appearing in How I Live Now (2013) and playing historical figures in the film In the Heart of the Sea (2015) and the TV miniseries Wolf Hall (2015). Holland achieved international recognition playing Peter Parker/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 became the youngest actor to play a title role in an MCU film in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Its sequels, Far From Home (2019) and No Way Home (2021), each grossed more than $1 billion worldwide; the latter became the highest-grossing film of the year. Holland played another action-film role in Uncharted (2022) and also expanded into playing against-type roles in the crime dramas The Devil All the Time (2020) and Cherry (2021). Holland has directed the short film Tweet (2015) and voiced roles in animated features, including Spies in Disguise (2019) and Onward (2020). Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Holland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.