Thomas Stanley Holland (born 1 June 1996) is a British actor. His accolades include a BAFTA Award as well as two Critics' Choice Awards nominations. He is the highest-grossing lead actor of all time. 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. After two years of training, he was promoted to the lead role of Billy Elliot, which he played from 2008 to 2010. Holland made his film debut as a voice actor on the British dub of the Japanese animated film Arrietty (2011). He made his on-screen debut playing a tourist in the disaster drama The Impossible (2012), for which he received a London Film Critics Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year. After this, Holland decided to pursue acting as a full-time career, appearing in How I Live Now (2013), In the Heart of the Sea (2015) and The Lost City of Z (2016). Holland achieved international recognition playing Spider-Man in seven Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) superhero films, beginning with Captain America: Civil War (2016). The following year, Holland received the BAFTA Rising Star Award and became the youngest actor to play a title role in an MCU film when he starred in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). He reprised the role in the film's sequels Far From Home (2019), No Way Home (2021) and Brand New Day (2026). Holland played against-type roles in the crime dramas The Devil All the Time (2020) and Cherry (2021), and starred in the big-budget films Uncharted (2022) and The Odyssey (2026). Holland had voice roles in the animated features Spies in Disguise (2019) and Onward (2020). On television, he had roles in the BBC historical miniseries Wolf Hall (2015) and the Apple TV+ psychological thriller limited series The Crowded Room (2023). He returned to the stage as Romeo in the West End revival of Romeo and Juliet (2024). Holland is married to Zendaya, his co-star in the Spider-Man films.