1. Tobias Alistair Patrick Kebbell was born on 9 July 1982 and is an English actor.
20 Facts About Toby Kebbell
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Toby Kebbell is known for his roles in films such as Dead Man's Shoes, Control, RocknRolla, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, War Horse, Wrath of the Titans, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Fantastic Four, Warcraft, A Monster Calls, Ben-Hur, and Gold.
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Toby Kebbell is known for his work in the Black Mirror episode "The Entire History of You" and starred in the second film of the MonsterVerse film series, Kong: Skull Island and the Apple TV+ series Servant, Bloodshot, and For All Mankind.
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Toby Kebbell, the fourth of five children, was born in Pontefract, Yorkshire, but grew up in Nottinghamshire where he attended The Grove School in Balderton.
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Toby Kebbell was brought up by his mother, Michelle, a cook and landscape gardener and his father, Robert Kebbell, an engineer from Zimbabwe.
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Toby Kebbell was raised Catholic and attended a Catholic primary school.
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Toby Kebbell trained in acting at the Central Junior Television Workshop in Nottingham along with Andrew Shim and Vicky McClure.
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Toby Kebbell was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2004 The same year, Kebbell appeared in Oliver Stone's Alexander and Woody Allen's Match Point.
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In 2007, Toby Kebbell played Rob Gretton, the manager of Joy Division in Anton Corbijn's award-winning biopic of Ian Curtis, Control, for which his performance won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the British Independent Film Awards 2007.
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Toby Kebbell was nominated for the London Film Critics Circle Awards 2007 Best Supporting British Actor Award.
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In December 2007, Toby Kebbell took the lead in an episode of season 2 of Jimmy McGovern's BBC series The Street, which subsequently won the BAFTA for Best Drama series.
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In September 2008, Toby Kebbell was featured in RocknRolla, written and directed by Guy Ritchie, alongside actors Tom Wilkinson, Gerard Butler and Thandiwe Newton.
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Toby Kebbell played a heroin-addicted musician, Johnny Quid, for which he was nominated for BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award of the 2009 BAFTA Awards, an award voted for by the public.
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Toby Kebbell was nominated for the Empire Award for Best Newcomer, but lost out to his friend Gemma Arterton.
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Toby Kebbell appeared in the 2009 film Cheri, directed by Stephen Frears, in which he took a small role alongside Michelle Pfeiffer.
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Toby Kebbell filmed in Morocco and London with Jake Gyllenhaal for Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.
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In 2011, Toby Kebbell played a leading role in "The Entire History of You", the finale of the first series of Charlie Brooker's anthology series Black Mirror, which was written by Jesse Armstrong.
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In 2014, Toby Kebbell took over the role of Koba in the sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
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Toby Kebbell played the Marvel antagonist, Doctor Doom, in the 2015 Fantastic Four film, and an orc, Durotan, in the 2016 Warcraft.
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Toby Kebbell played Jack Chapman in the monster film Kong: Skull Island, while providing guidance for Kong's motion capture sequences.