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Thomas Stanley Holland-Ingles
Thomas Stanley Holland-Ingles
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 secured a supporting part in 2008 and
was upgraded to the title role that year, which he played until 2010. Holland made his film
debut in the disaster drama The Impossible (2012) as a teenage tourist trapped in a tsunami,
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) and playing historical figures in the film In the Heart of the Sea (2015) and the
miniseries Wolf Hall (2015).