Tom Holland (actor)

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Tom Holland at Comic-Con 2016
Tom Holland (2010)

Thomas Stanley Holland (born June 1, 1996 in Kingston upon Thames , London ) is a British actor and dancer .

Life

Tom Holland was born in 1996 as the eldest of four sons of Dominic Holland , a comedian and writer , and his wife Nicola Elizabeth, a photographer. His brothers are Patrick (Paddy) Holland and (the twins ) Harry and Sam Holland, who also work as actors. Tom Holland visited the Catholic Donhead Preparatory School in Wimbledon and thereafter until 2012, also by Jesuits led Wimbledon College .

Tom Holland started dancing at the age of nine. In 2006 he was discovered by the choreographer Lynne Page . With her help, Holland managed to get the role of Michael , Billy's best friend, in Billy Elliot the Musical in 2008 . In September of the same year he played the leading role. On May 31, 2010, the fifth anniversary of the premiere, Holland was also seen as Billy Elliot .

His career in film and television began in 2010 when he was allowed to dub one of the leading roles for the cartoon Arrietty - The Wonderful World of Borger . The breakthrough came in 2012 when he played the third leading role in the disaster film The Impossible , alongside Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor . For his role as a boy who survived the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004 , Holland was nominated for eighteen international film and critic awards, including the Saturn Award , the Spanish Goya and the Young Artist Award . Holland was also able to accept eight of these prizes, including the aforementioned Young Artist Award.

In the 2015 British miniseries Wolves , Holland stars as Gregory Cromwell , son of the reformer Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex .

In June 2015 it was announced that Holland would play the character of Peter Parker (aka Spider-Man ) in the remake of Spider-Man, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) . He made his first appearance in this role in 2016 in The First Avenger: Civil War . Holland's acting performance was widely acclaimed after the film premiered and the actor was welcomed as the new Spider-Man . Especially because of his youthful age and his impressive movements, which his experiences as a gymnast and acrobat showed, Holland is moving closer to the Spider-Man comic books. This is particularly evident from his flip when the character appears, as well as many of the stunts the actor performed himself in The First Avenger: Civil War . Even Tobey Maguire , who himself, the figure had led to new fame since 2002, congratulated Holland after its introduction into the MCU and was impressed by the new Spider-Man . Spider-Man: Homecoming was released in German cinemas in July 2017. In the film Edison - A Life Full of Light by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon , which celebrated its world premiere in September 2017 at the Toronto International Film Festival , Holland plays the business tycoon Samuel Insull.

Since Edge of Winter 's Christian pointer of the German tribe spokesman for Holland.

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

British Academy Film Award

Web links

Commons : Tom Holland  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ | Evening Standard
  2. ↑ Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios Find Their 'Spider-Man' Star and Director . In: Marvel.com . June 23, 2015. Accessed June 24, 2015.
  3. ↑ Borys Kit & Tatiana Siegel: 'Spider-Man' Finds Tom Holland to Star as New Web-Slinger . In: HollywoodReporter.com . June 23, 2015. Accessed June 28, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b Jack Shepherd: Captain America: Civil War: How Tom Holland won over Marvel to become Spider-Man. 'That's Spider-Man to us. That's what we love ' In: independent.co.uk, May 10, 2016.
  5. ↑ Sutrishna Ghosh: Captain America Civil War: Tom Holland's youthful Spider-Man is a smash hit In: ibtimes.co.uk, May 7, 2016.
  6. ↑ Jonas Gössling: Civil War: The old Spider-Man congratulates the new one. Tobey likes Tom In: ign.com, May 14, 2016.
  7. ↑ Tom Holland in the German dubbing index
  8. ↑ Jack Shepherd: Baftas 2017: Tom Holland, Ruth Negga, and Anya Taylor-Joy amongst nominees for Rising Star award In: independent.co.uk, January 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Holland, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holland, Thomas Stanley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British dancer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH London