

He gave his first performance in the title role of Billy on 8 September 2008 getting rave reviews praising his versatile acting and dancing skills.

After eight auditions and subsequent two years of training, on 28 June 2008 Tom made his West End debut in Billy Elliot the Musical as Michael, Billy's best friend. His potential was spotted by choreographer Lynne Page (who was an Associate to Peter Darling, choreographer of Billy Elliot and Billy Elliot the Musical) when he performed with his dance school as part of the Richmond Dance Festival 2006. Holland began dancing at a hip hop class at Nifty Feet Dance School in Wimbledon, London. Having successfully completed his GCSEs, in September 2012 Tom started a two-year course in the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology notable for its numerous famous alumni. Then, after a successful eleven plus exam, he became a pupil at Wimbledon College. He lives with his parents and three younger brothers - Paddy and twins Sam and Harry. His paternal grandparents were from the Isle of Man and Ireland, respectively. Dafoe has since said he wasn’t pleased with No Way Home’s de-aging effects, but overall, both men appear to have had a positive experience on the latest live-action Spidey movie.Thomas Stanley Holland was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, to Nicola Elizabeth (Frost), a photographer, and Dominic Holland (Dominic Anthony Holland), who is a comedian and author. Dafoe’s Norman Osborn was pulled into that universe moments before his death during the events of Spider-Man alongside villains like Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus and Jamie Foxx’s Electro, while both Maguire’s Peter and Andrew Garfield’s version of the character were pulled from their realities in the present day. There had been plans for Sam Raimi to make Spider-Man 4, but the project was ultimately shelved, and the film series was rebooted in 2012 with The Amazing Spider-Man.įortunately, Spider-Man 3 wasn’t Maguire and Dafoe’s last web-slinging outing, as they both returned for 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, which starred Tom Holland as the MCU’s Peter Parker. The movie spawned two sequels, respectively released in 20, and while Norman Osborn died in that first movie, Dafoe cameoed in the sequels as the Norman hallucination James Franco’s Harry Osborn kept seeing after learning Peter Parker was Spider-Man, whom he believed had murdered his father. 21 years is a long time on paper, but I imagine for many of us, it doesn’t feel like that more than two decades have passed has passed since Spider-Man swung into theaters and was met with critical and commercial success.
