Tom Holland's Dad Shares Throwback Private Home Movie for Actor's 30th Birthday: 'In Training from Day Dot'
Tom Holland's Dad Shares Throwback Private Home Movie for Actor's 30th Birthday: 'In Training from Day Dot'
Tommy McArdleMon, June 1, 2026 at 9:07 PM UTC
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Tom Holland with his father Dominic Holland; Tom Holland as a baby, via Dominic Holland's Instagram, June 1, 2026
Credit: Dominic Holland/Instagram (2)
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Tom Holland's father Dominic shared throwback home video footage of the Spider-Man actor to celebrate Tom's 30th birthday on Monday, June 1
The actor is reprising his role as Spider-Man/Peter Parker for the first time since 2021's No Way Home in the upcoming sequel Spider-Man:Brand New Day
Holland's summer also includes a leading role opposite Matt Damon in The Odyssey
It looks like Tom Holland has been acrobatic since he was a baby.
Holland turned 30 on Monday, June 1, and to celebrate, his father Dominic shared some of the family's private home video footage from the Spider-Man star's infancy on Instagram. In the video, a baby Tom is holding on to a small clothesline-type rope with his hands while his mother Nikki carries him.
"Let go, then," Dominic, presumably holding the camera, can be heard saying in the video. "Let him go?" Nikki responds, with a giggle.
"Apparently they can hang on, you know. Yeah, apparently he can," Dominic continued. Both he and Nikki laugh when baby Tom loses his grip on the rope with one of his two hands. "Happy 30th Tom! In training from day dot," Dominic wrote in the caption.
Holland's father is a well-known stand-up comedian and author in the United Kingdom, while Nikki is a professional photographer. The home video offers a rare glimpse into the family's home life — Dominic and Nikki also share three other sons, including Sam, Harry and Paddy — as the actor turns 30.
Given that Tom rose to fame as the most recent actor to portray Peter Parker and Spider-Man in Sony's Spider-Man film franchise, the home video moment could be seen as foreshadowing for the superhero actor's career.
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Holland is celebrating his 30th birthday in a big way this summer. He returns to the big screen for the first time since 2022's Uncharted this July with two major blockbusters in The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The former is the new movie from Oppenheimer writer-director Christopher Nolan, an adaptation of the ancient Greek epic poem that costars Holland with Matt Damon and an A-list ensemble cast.
The latter, of course, brings Peter Parker back to movie theaters for the first live-action Spider-Man entry since 2021's No Way Home. Both movies also feature Holland's fiancéeZendaya in impactful roles, too.
Tom Holland on May 24, 2026
Credit: CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP via Getty
Holland recently opened up to Empire about his desire to set up the Spider-Man franchise for a new actor to take over from him at some point in the future.
“For whoever's next, whether that is a Miles Morales or a Spider-Gwen or a Spider-Woman or something like that, I would love to be a part of setting up the next chapter,” he told the outlet. “Whatever that looks like, I don't know. But if I could do what [Robert Downey Jr.] did for me, then I would be so content swinging off into the sunset.”
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The Odyssey is in theaters July 17. Spider-Man: Brand New Day arrives in theaters just two weeks later on July 31.
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