American actor and producer Tobey Maguire was born 50 years ago as Tobias Vincent Maguire in Santa Monica, California, is divorced and has 2 children.
As a student, Tobey was thinking about taking culinary lessons to become a chef, however, he abandoned this idea after his mother gave him some money to take drama classes instead.
His acting career took off in 1989 with the movie ‘Wizard’ when he was still a teenager. During the 90s, he continued starring in several film and TV characters, as well as various commercials alongside other famous actors like Chuck Norris and Roseanne Barr.
He met another popular actor, Leonardo Di Caprio, during auditions and they became friends. They ‘agreed’ to assist each other to obtain movie roles and succeeded. Some of the films he starred in include ‘The Wonder Boys’, ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ and ‘Pleasantville’, amongst others.
Tobey rose to fame in the 2000s when he had the leading role in the 3 movies of ‘Spiderman’. Apart from the ‘Spiderman’ trilogy, Maguire starred in 15 other films, with the most notable ones being ‘Seabiscuit’, ‘Brothers’, ‘The Great Gatsby’, ‘Pawn Sacrifice’ and ‘Babylon’. Out of these he produced 13 films and executively produced 2.
To date, Tobey won 8 awards including 2 Saturn and 2 Teen Choice, amongst others.
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