{"id":234507,"date":"2022-06-01T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=234507"},"modified":"2024-09-20T07:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T06:22:47","slug":"tom-holland-facts","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/tom-holland-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"45 Terrific Facts About Tom Holland That You Didn’t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tom Holland quickly grew from a struggling young actor to a household name.\n
He doesn’t seem to be going anywhere soon with a blossoming career!\n
For more info about the thriving British actor, we have the best 45 facts below.\n
Tom’s full name is Thomas Stanley Holland. He is 28 years old and was born on June 1, 1996, in Kingston-upon-Thames, England, UK.\n Tom Holland has three younger brothers: Harry, Sam, and Paddy.\n His father, Dominic Holland, is a stand-up comedian, and his mother, Nicola, is a photographer.\n Tom Holland was initially a dancer. He took hip-hop dance classes at Nifty Feet Dance School.\n Tom Holland was bullied at Wimbledon College throughout his school years for being a dancer.\n Tom Holland was diagnosed with dyslexia when he was a kid.\n After Wimbledon, Tom attended BRIT School for Performing Arts.\n While performing with his dance group at the Richmond Dance Festival, Holland was discovered by choreographer Lynne Page.\n After eight auditions and two years of training, Holland was cast in Billy Elliot the Musical as Michael Caffrey, Billy’s best friend.\n His role in Billy Elliot marked his first performance on the West End.\n Tom Holland made his first feature film debut in The Impossible in 2012, alongside Naomi Watts and Ewan Mcgregor.\n Holland co-starred with Chris Hemsworth in In the Heart of the Sea in 2015.\n To prepare for In the Heart of the Sea, Holland had to cut down a lot of weight, eating only 500-1000 calories per day.\n After In the Heart of the Sea, Holland’s career had a lull, and his mom had him attend carpentry school.\n While in carpentry school, Holland was called back to audition for the role of Spider-Man.\n Tom Holland’s first appearance in Marvel Movies was in Captain America: Civil War despite playing Spider-Man.\n His ballet and gymnast training background helped him land his role in the Spider-Man movies.\n While doing a screen test audition with Robert Downey Jr., Robert started improvising, which Tom was told not to do.\n Tom Holland has the Spider-Man symbol tattooed on the bottom of his foot.\n In order to prepare for his role as Spider-Man in Homecoming, he attended a high school in the Bronx for a few days, where students did not believe he was cast in the role.\n Tom Holland is obsessed with golf – he plays it whenever possible.\n After being cast as Peter Parker, Tom Holland only read part of the script for Captain America. He was worried he would accidentally leak spoilers.\n When Tom Holland found out he was cast as Peter Parker, he accidentally broke his computer after reading the news.\n After Spider-Man: No Way Home was released, Holland revealed that he regretted not calling Andrew Garfield after taking over the role.\n Starring in Spider-Man Homecoming awarded Tom Holland with the Guinness World Record as the “Youngest Actor to play a title role in MCU.”\n Tom Holland set up a group text with Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire.\n Despite his role as Spider-Man, Tom Holland is terrified of spiders.\n As a fan of Marvel, Tom Holland’s favorite movies in the series are Iron Man, Thor: Ragnarok, and Avenger’s Endgame.\n Tom Holland highly praised Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man and didn’t think anyone else should try to play Tony Stark again.\n