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"Billy Elliot The Musical" Actor Tom Holland Cast As Spider-Man

Sony has its new Spider-Man: The studio announced that newcomer English actor Tom Holland has been cast as the web-slinger in the next reboot of the Spidey live-action movies.

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Holland, 19, was born in Kingston upon Thames in England. He's best known for playing the lead in the London production of Billy Elliot the Musical. He also appeared in the film Impossible and in the BBC's Wolf Hall TV mini-series.

“Sony, Marvel, Kevin and I all knew that, for Peter Parker, we had to find a vibrant, talented young actor capable of embodying one of the most well-known characters in the world," Sony Executive Amy Pascal told Marvel.com  "With Tom, we’ve found the perfect actor to bring Spider-Man’s story into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.”

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It's a new cinematic universe Holland inherits, as Sony and Marvel announced earlier this year that they reached an agreement and would be able to have Spider-Man appear in 2016's Captain America: Civil War, before starring in a solo movie hitting theaters July 28, 2017.

Expect to see a lot of Tom Holland before then—a LOT.

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