How old was Tom Holland in The Impossible?
Tom Holland was 15 in The Impossible when he played the character ‘Lucas Bennett’. That was over 9 years ago in 2012. Today he is 25, and has starred in 23 movies in total, 21 since The Impossible was released.
Tom Holland’s first acting role was as ‘Lucas Bennett’ in The Impossible, released in 2012 when he was 16.
What was the first movie that Tom Holland made?
Holland made his feature film debut in The Impossible (2012), directed by J.A. Bayona, alongside Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2012 and was a critical and commercial success, earning $180.3 million worldwide.
In 2017, the 20-year- old Holland won the BAFTA Rising Star Award at the 70th British Academy Film Awards, becoming the second-youngest winner of the award, after British actress Bukky Bakray, who won it at 19. He later co-starred alongside Richard Armitage and Jon Bernthal in the film Pilgrimage.
Holland received universal praise from critics and won several awards, including the National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance and London Film Critics Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year.
He has three younger brothers. Holland was educated at Donhead, a Roman Catholic preparatory school in Wimbledon in South West London, followed by Wimbledon College, a voluntary aided Jesuit Roman Catholic comprehensive school (also in Wimbledon), up until December 2012. He was bullied in school for being a dancer.
The film grossed over $800 million worldwide. His performance earned Holland a Guinness Book of World Records listing as the youngest actor to play a title role in the MCU.
In 2015, Holland appeared in four episodes of BBC Two ‘s historical miniseries Wolf Hall, as Gregory Cromwell, son of the protagonist Thomas Cromwell played by Mark Rylance. He also co-starred as Thomas Nickerson in the film In the Heart of the Sea (2015), directed by Ron Howard.
Dominic Holland (father) Nicola Frost (mother) Thomas Stanley Holland (born 1 June 1996) is an English actor. A graduate of the BRIT School in London, he began his acting career on stage in the title role of Billy Elliot the Musical in the West End theatre from 2008 to 2010.
How old is Tom Holland?
Sixteen-year-old Tom Holland talks to Kevin Fallon about his astonishing film debut in ‘The Impossible.’.
The Impossible, a disaster film at once horrifying and hopeful, tells the real- life story of the Alvarez Belons, a Spanish family on vacation in Thailand on Dec. 26, 2004, when 100-foot waves engulfed their hotel, separating mom Maria (Naomi Watts) and eldest son Lucas (Holland) from her husband (Ewan McGregor) and two younger sons.
The movie’s water sequences were shot in a water tank in Spain, but much of the rest was filmed on location in Thailand —the hotel in The Impossible is the one the real Lucas and Maria were staying at when the tsunami hit. “It was very eerie and weird,” Holland says, “the idea that where I was standing on set waiting for …
After two more years of extensive, producer-sponsored dance training in the U.S. and the U.K., Holland was finally onstage at the Victoria Palace Theatre, dancing the title role in Billy Elliot: The Musical.
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But it was Watts, who shared the majority of Holland’s most intense scenes, with whom he bonded the most and who became his own personal Oscar-nominated adviser on filmmaking. The actress helped him through what he recalls as his hardest day on the set.
To say Holland pulls off the tricky role would be an understatement. He’s already won the National Board of Review award for Best Breakthrough, the Hollywood Film Festival Spotlight Award, and is nominated for Best Young Actor at the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards. Oscar gurus even peg him as a dark horse for a Best Actor nod this year.
