English actor Tom Holland started his acting in theatre with a supporting role in 2008 for Billy Elliot the Musical and was promoted to the title role that year, which he played until 2010. He then made his film debut in the disaster drama The Impossible (2012) opposite Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor . He went on to appear in the films How I Live Now (2013) with Saoirse Ronan and In the Heart of the Sea (2015) with Chris Hemsworth . He also played Gregory Cromwell in the miniseries Wolf Hall (2015) and Danny Sullivan in the miniseries The Crowded Room (2023).
Holland at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con
In 2016, he made his debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) playing Spider-Man / Peter Parker in Captain America: Civil War (2016). He would go on to play the role for six of the franchise's films, including Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Endgame (2019), and his own standalone films Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Far From Home (2019), No Way Home (2021), and Brand New Day (2026). He has also starred in the films The Lost City of Z (2016), The Current War (2017), Spies in Disguise (2019), Onward (2020), The Devil All the Time (2020), Cherry (2021), Uncharted (2022) and The Odyssey (2026). He made his return to theatre since his debut in Billy Elliot the Musical , to star in the Jamie Lloyd 's production for West End revival of Romeo & Juliet alongside Francesca Amewudah-Rivers which had a limited run for 12 weeks from May to August 2024.[ 1]