Thomas Stanley Holland is an English actor. His accolades include a British Academy Film Award and three Saturn Awards. He featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list of 2019. Some publications have called him one of the most popular actors of his generation.
Holland at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con
The BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon in south London, which Holland attended
Holland (centre) performing at the fifth anniversary of Billy Elliot the Musical at the Victoria Palace Theatre in 2010
Holland at an event for Spider-Man: Far From Home in 2019
Billy Elliot: The Musical is a coming-of-age stage musical based on the 2000 film of the same name. The music is by Elton John, and the book and lyrics are by Lee Hall, who wrote the film's screenplay. The plot revolves around Billy, a motherless British boy who begins taking ballet lessons. The story of his personal struggle and fulfillment are balanced against a counter-story of family and community strife caused by the 1984–85 UK miners' strike in County Durham, in North East England. Hall's screenplay was inspired in part by A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel about a miners' strike, The Stars Look Down, to which the musical's opening song pays homage.
Five years of West End Billys performing in the 5th Birthday Show on 31 March 2010
Billy Elliot advertisement on a Routemaster bus in London, 2007
Cesar Corrales in a scene from the Chicago production.
Billy Elliot sign in West End