1. Tobias Vincent Maguire was born on 27 June 1975 and is an American actor and film producer.
37 Facts About Tobey Maguire
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Tobey Maguire is best known for starring as Spider-Man in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, a role he later reprised in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
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Tobey Maguire was born in Los Angeles and began his career in supporting roles.
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Tobey Maguire reprised the role in the sequels, Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3.
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Tobey Maguire would expand his career with dramatic roles in Seabiscuit, The Good German, and The Great Gatsby.
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Tobey Maguire would start producing films, including 25th Hour and Seabiscuit.
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Tobey Maguire received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for war drama Brothers.
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Tobey Maguire established his own production company in 2012 called Material Pictures, and co-produced Good People, Pawn Sacrifice, and Babylon.
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Tobias Vincent Tobey Maguire was born on 27 June 1975, in Santa Monica, California, to Wendy Brown and Vincent Tobey Maguire.
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Tobey Maguire's parents were 18 and 20 respectively when he was born, and divorced when he was 3 years old.
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Tobey Maguire described his childhood as tough and lonely, with his father Vincent being convicted of robbing a bank in 1993.
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Tobey Maguire's parents married shortly after his birth but separated when he was two years old, and Maguire spent much of his childhood living with various family members and moved around often.
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Tobey Maguire's mother offered him $100 to take a drama class instead, and he agreed.
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Tobey Maguire met fellow child actor Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1980s while auditioning for the same roles.
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DiCaprio was cast, and Tobey Maguire later got a guest role at least partly on DiCaprio's recommendation.
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Tobey Maguire then sought help for a drinking problem from Alcoholics Anonymous; he has been sober ever since.
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The move paid off when Tobey Maguire was given the role of Paul Hood, a teenage boarding school student whose narration anchors the action in Ang Lee's 1997 film The Ice Storm.
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In Ride with the Devil, opposite Jewel Kilcher, Tobey Maguire portrayed Jakob Roedel, the son of a unionist German immigrant who joins his Southern friends in the Missouri Riders, avenging the atrocities committed against Missourians by Kansas Jayhawkers and redleggers.
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In 2002, Tobey Maguire starred in Spider-Man, based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name.
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Tobey Maguire reprised the role in the sequels Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3, and voiced Spider-Man for the video game adaptations of the films.
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Tobey Maguire is a producer whose production credits include 25th Hour, Whatever We Do, and Seabiscuit, for which he served as executive producer.
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Tobey Maguire was a last-minute replacement in the role, and due to previously scheduled commitments was only available to be on set for two hours to film his scenes.
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In 2009, Tobey Maguire starred alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman in the Jim Sheridan-directed war drama Brothers as Sam Cahill, a prisoner of war who returns from Afghanistan and starts believing that his wife has become romantically involved with his brother.
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Tobey Maguire received critical acclaim and a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in the film.
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Tobey Maguire was set to star as The Writer in Life of Pi, directed by Ang Lee, but was cut from the film during production for being "too famous" compared to the rest of the cast.
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Tobey Maguire was replaced by Rafe Spall, with whom Lee reshot the scenes that had already been shot with Maguire.
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Tobey Maguire reprised his role as Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home alongside successors Tom Holland and Andrew Garfield.
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Tobey Maguire appeared in Damien Chazelle's ensemble film Babylon, serving as an executive producer.
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Tobey Maguire reprised his role as Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse through archive footage.
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Tobey Maguire has been a vegetarian since 1992; in 2009, he became a vegan.
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Tobey Maguire has made changes in his diet to either gain or lose weight for film roles: he dramatically decreased his calorie intake for Seabiscuit, followed by a rapid increase to regain weight for Spider-Man 2.
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Tobey Maguire has been sober since age 19, having experienced "some difficulty" with alcohol in his late teens.
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Tobey Maguire met jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer in 2003 while he was shooting Seabiscuit at Universal Studios, and they became engaged in April 2006.
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Meyer's father, Universal studios head Ronald Meyer, reportedly helped Tobey Maguire regain his job after being fired from Spider-Man 2 in 2003.
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Tobey Maguire has finished in the money in several events and has been tutored by poker professional Daniel Negreanu.
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Tobey Maguire was seen on ESPN's coverage of the 2005,2006, and 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event Championship.
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Tobey Maguire was one of many celebrities, along with Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Affleck, who participated in Molly Bloom's high-stake poker games at The Viper Room in the mid-2000s, and received negative press coverage for allegedly demanding Bloom "bark like a seal" for a $1,000 poker chip after a tournament he won.