Tobey Maguire
By Kullaroj Peinwithayawach
Content
Preface
Introduction
Biography
Spiritual belief
Reference
Preface
Tobey Maguire is an actor. I have seen him in
spider-man (2002) movie.
Introduction
Tobias Vincent Maguire (born June 27, 1975) is an
American actor and film producer. He is best known for playing
the title character from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy
(2002–2007), a role he later reprised in Spider-Man: No Way
Home (2021). His other films include Pleasantville (1998), Ride
with the Devil (1999), The Cider House Rules (1999), Wonder
Boys (2000), Seabiscuit (2003), The Good German (2006),
Brothers (2009) and The Great Gatsby (2013).
He has received two Saturn Awards, including one for
Best Actor. Maguire established his own production company in
2012 called Material Pictures, and co-produced Good People
that same year. In 2014, he produced and starred as Bobby
Fischer in Pawn Sacrifice.
Biography
Tobias Vincent Maguire was born in Santa Monica,
California. His parents were 18 and 20, and not yet married,
when he was born. His mother, Wendy (Brown), did advertising,
publicity, and acting in Hollywood for years as she coached and
managed Tobey. His father, Vincent Maguire, was a cook and
sometimes a construction worker. Tobey did not finish high
school in order to pursue and focus on acting roles, but he did
end up getting his GED. He did several commercials (he was a
model dancer for Nordstrom by age six), and he had some roles
on various TV shows before landing a starring role on the Fox
comedy Great Scott! (1992). That role lasted nine weeks before
the show was canceled. Fox-made series were not doing well in
general at the time. He avoids drugs and alcohol, and his best
friend is Leonardo DiCaprio. Tobey is a vegan and studies yoga.
He now has two beautiful children with his wife Jennifer Meyer
Maguire. Their names are Ruby Sweetheart and Otis Tobias
Maguire. Another little known fact is that his two half-brothers,
Jopaul and Weston Epp, were the child actors who handed
Tobey (Peter Parker) his mask after the train scene in
Spider-Man 2.
Spiritual belief
Maguire doesn't talk about religion at all, so the only
conclusion I can come to is that he's totally non-religious. It
could have been because he had a relatively unstable early life:
his parents had him when they were quite young and divorced
early, he never spent too much time in one place, and then he
dropped out of high school during his freshman year.
The closest Maguire comes to spirituality, as far as I
could tell, is that he practices yoga, which can sometimes have
an element of meditation.
Reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobey_Maguire
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001497/bio
https://hollowverse.com/tobey-maguire