Tom Holland was born to a photographer mother and comedian and author father. He took hip-hop classes at Nifty Feet Dance School in London, England, which kickstarted his background in dance. He landed a supporting role in Billy Elliot the Musical, taking two years of ballet lessons before appearing in the 2008 London West End production. He took the lead role over and played it until 2010.

The young Holland made his film debut in The Impossible (2012), appearing as Lucas, son of Naomi Watts’ Maria and Ewan McGregor’s Henry, parents who vacation in Thailand when the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 ravaged the country. Holland’s character was the eldest son. His next part came about in How I Live (2013). He appeared in the British miniseries Wolf Hall in 2015 as well as The Heart of the Sea. 2015 also marked his entrance into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Peter Parker, or Spider-Man. He debuted as the wbslinging character in Captain America: Civil War (2016). His first standalone film as the character was Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), and he reprised the role in iAvengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Spider-Man: Far From Home also came out in 2019, and it also starred Jake Gyllenhaal as villain Quentin Beck.

Holland teamed up with his Spider-Man predecessors, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), which allowed all three versions of Spider-Man to exist thanks to the multiverse. Following this commitment to Marvel, Holland appeared in Sony’s Uncharted (2022) alongside Mark Wahlberg and Rudy Pankow, who played Holland’s character’s brother.

Holland has lent his voice to animated parts like Jip in Dolittle (2020) which starred his MCU mentor Robert Downey Jr. and Ian Lightfoot in Pixar’s Onward (2020). Holland most recently starred as Telemachus, son of Matt Damon’s Odysseus, in The Odyssey directed by Christopher Nolan, and up next for him is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, in which he returns to the role of Peter Parker, alongside Zendaya, Jacob Batalon and Marvel newcomer Sadie Sink.

He and Zendaya grew close over the production of the Spider-Man films, and now the pair are married after they were introduced via the first standalone film in 2017. The actor has recently ventured into business by creating a nonalcoholic beer brand called Bero. He has detailed his struggles with alcohol and sobriety in the past.