Tobias Matthew Froud was born on 27 June 1984 and is an English-American artist, special effects designer, puppeteer, filmmaker, and performer.
19 Facts About Toby Froud
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Toby Froud rose to prominence for his role as the baby who was wished away to the goblins in the 1986 Jim Henson film Labyrinth.
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Toby Froud became a puppeteer, sculptor, and fabricator for film, television, and theatre.
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Toby Froud wrote and directed the 2014 fantasy short film Lessons Learned.
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Toby Froud was the design supervisor of the 2019 streaming television series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
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Toby Froud was born in 1984 in London, to English painter Brian Froud and American puppet-maker Wendy Froud.
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Toby Froud's parents met in 1978 while working on preproduction for the 1982 Jim Henson film The Dark Crystal, for which Brian was the conceptual designer and Wendy a puppet fabricator.
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Toby Froud was born during preproduction of his parents' second film with Henson, Labyrinth, and at the age of one he was featured in the film as the baby who is wished away to the Goblin King by his older sister Sarah.
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Toby Froud was raised in Chagford, Devon, on the edge of Dartmoor.
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Toby Froud developed an interest in puppetry from a young age due to exposure to his parents' artwork.
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Toby Froud apprenticed at the Muppet Workshop in New York in 1999, and in 2004 worked at Weta Workshop in New Zealand as a sculptor, fabricator, and miniature effects artist for the 2005 films The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and King Kong.
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Toby Froud graduated from Wimbledon School of Art in 2006 with a BA in technical arts and special effects.
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Since 2010, Toby Froud has worked for the stop-motion animation studio Laika in Portland, sculpting and fabricating puppets for the studio's films ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings and Missing Link.
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Toby Froud established the production company Stripey Pajama Productions, named for the outfit he wore as the baby in Labyrinth.
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Toby Froud wrote and directed the 2014 fantasy short film Lessons Learned, produced by Heather Henson's company IBEX Puppetry for its Handmade Puppet Dreams series.
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Toby Froud served as a creature designer on the 2016 film I Am Not a Serial Killer, and alongside Heather Henson was executive producer of the 2017 film Yamasong: March of the Hollows.
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Toby Froud spent two years serving as design supervisor on the 2019 streaming television series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, a prequel to The Dark Crystal, and in 2019 he began work as a puppet sculptor on the Guillermo del Toro film Pinocchio.
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Toby Froud performed in various productions with William Todd-Jones and music group Daughters of Elvin.
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Toby Froud puppeteered as the opening act for Scissor Sisters at the 2005 Brit Awards, and has performed at Faerieworlds.