Mix Up Star: TOM HOLLAND

Feb 6, 2022

3 min read

Updated: Sep 27

Age: 30

Born: 1st June 1996

Tom Holland is a British actor. His accolades include a BAFTA Award as well as two Critics' Choice Awards nominations. He is the highest-grossing actor of all time.

Holland's career began at age nine when he enrolled in a dancing class, where a choreographer noticed him and arranged for him to 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 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 critical acclaim and a nomination for the Goya Award for Best New Actor. After this, Holland decided to pursue acting as a full-time career, he played a historical figure in the film In the Heart of the Sea (2015).

Holland's career began at age nine when he enrolled in a dancing class, where a choreographer noticed him and arranged for him to audition for a role in Billy Elliot the Musical at London's Victoria Palace Theatre. After two years of training, he was promoted to the lead role of Billy Elliot, which he played from 2008 to 2010. Holland made his film debut as a voice actor on the British dub of the Japanese animated film Arrietty (2011). He made his on-screen debut playing a tourist in the disaster drama The Impossible (2012), for which he received a London Film Critics Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year. After this, Holland decided to pursue acting as a full-time career and appeared in In the Heart of the Sea (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 became the youngest actor to play a title role in an MCU film in Spider-Man: Homecoming. The sequels, subtitled Far From Home (2019) and No Way Home (2021), each grossed more than $1 billion worldwide, and the latter became the highest-grossing film of the year. He had another action film role in Uncharted (2022). Holland has additionally voiced roles in computer-animated features, including Spies in Disguise (2019) and Onward (2020).

Holland achieved international recognition playing Peter Parker / Spider-Man in seven 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 when he starred in Spider-Man: Homecoming. He reprised the role in the film's sequels Far From Home (2019), No Way Home (2021) and Brand New Day (2026). Holland also starred in the big-budget films Uncharted (2022) and The Odyssey (2026).

Holland had voice roles in the animated features Spies in Disguise (2019) and Onward (2020). . He returned to the stage as Romeo in the West End revival of Romeo and Juliet (2024). Holland is married to Zendaya, his co-star in the Spider-Man films.