Who is Thomas Stanley Holland?

Thomas Stanley Holland (born 1 June 1996) is an English actor. A graduate of the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in London, he began his acting career on the West End stage in the title role of "Billy Elliot the Musical" at the Victoria Palace Theatre from 2008 to 2010. He then starred in the disaster film "The Impossible" (2012), for which he received a London Film Critics Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year.

Holland achieved international fame when he portrayed Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films, beginning with "Captain America: Civil War" (2016), "Spider-Man: Homecoming" (2017), "Avengers: Infinity War" (2018), "Avengers: Endgame "(2019), "Spider-Man: Far From Home" (2019) and "Spider-Man: No Way Home" (2021).

In 2017, at age 20, he won the BAFTA Rising Star Award. At the time he was the award's second-youngest recipient.

Holland was educated at Donhead, a Catholic preparatory school in Wimbledon in South West London, followed by Wimbledon College, a pvoluntary aided Jesuit comprehensive school, up until December 2012. After Wimbledon College, he attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon. In his late teens, during a lull in his career, Holland briefly attended carpentry school in Cardiff, Wales.