

Holland was educated at Donhead, an all-male Catholic preparatory school in Wimbledon in south west London. As his parents have creative professions, he is often inspired by them he considers his father a role model who has unofficially worked as his manager due to his experience in the industry. Holland lives in Kingston upon Thames, near the house of his parents and younger brothers. His paternal grandmother was from Tipperary, Ireland. Thomas Stanley Holland was born on 1 June 1996 in Kingston upon Thames in south west London, to photographer Nicola ( née Frost) and Dominic Holland, a comedian and author. The BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in London, which Holland attended Holland has additionally directed the short film Tweet (2015) and voiced roles in computer-animated features.

During this period, Holland gained recognition for playing darker roles in the crime dramas The Devil All the Time (2020) and Cherry (2021). The sequels 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. The following year, Holland received the BAFTA Rising Star Award and later became the youngest actor to play a title role in an MCU film in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Holland achieved international recognition playing Spider-Man in six Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) superhero films, beginning with Captain America: Civil War (2016). After this, Holland decided to pursue acting as a full-time career, appearing in How I Live Now (2013) and playing historical figures in the film In the Heart of the Sea (2015) and the miniseries Wolf Hall (2015). Holland made his film debut in the disaster drama The Impossible (2012) as a teenage tourist trapped in a tsunami, for which he received a London Film Critics Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year. 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'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. Some publications have called him one of the most popular actors of his generation. His accolades include a British Academy Film Award, three Saturn Awards, a Guinness World Record and an appearance on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list. Thomas Stanley Holland (born 1 June 1996) is an English actor.
