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).
In 2016, he made his debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) playing Spider-Man / Peter Parker in ' (2016). He would go on to play the role for six of the franchise's films, including ' (2018), ' (2019), and his own standalone films ' (2017), ' (2019), ' (2021), and ' (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.