Tobey Maguire filmography and biography
Date of birth: 27 June 1975, Santa Monica, California, USA
Tobey Maguire biography
Tobey Maguire's parents were 18 and 20 - and unwed - when he was born. His father, Vincent Maguire, was a cook and sometime construction worker. His mother, Wendy Brown, was a secretary and aspiring screenwriter. They split two years after his birth. This resulted in moving constantly as a youth, spending time in California, Oregon, and Washington. He quit school in the ninth grade and pursued acting roles. He did several commercials and bit roles on various TV shows before landing a starring role on the Fox comedy Great Scott!. That role lasted nine weeks before the show was canceled. Although avoiding drugs and alcohol, he still is known for running with the party set, including Leonardo DiCaprio's group. Tobey is a vegetarian and studies yoga.
Tobey Maguire trivia
- Has been a vegan/vegetarian since 1992 and was voted the world's sexiest
vegetarian by PETA, 2002.
- Enjoys yoga and cooking.
- Originally wanted to be a chef, but he turned to acting after his mother
offered him $100 to take drama rather than home economics in high
school.
- He will get $26 million for the two sequels to Spider-Man.
- Packed on several pounds to fit his role in Spider-Man.
- May, 2002: Bought a $3.5 million Beverly Hills mansion with his
Spider-Man earnings.
- Lost 25 pounds to fit his role as Red Pollard in
Seabiscuit.
- Has four half brothers: 2 on his dad's side: Vincent Jr. (born 1973) and
Timothy (born 1984); and two on his mother's side: Jopaul Epp
(born 1991), and Weston Epp (born 1994).
- Often portrays heroes that are close to animals or creatures. In
Cats amp; Dogs, he provided the voice of Lou the Beagle in
which he saves the world from cats; in Spider-Man, he was
bitten by a radioactive (genetically modified in the movies) spider
that gave him superhuman abilities; in Seabiscuit, he
played Red Pollard, a jockey who rode a winning horse to
victory.
- During the Australian release period of Spider-Man, he
appeared on an Australian late-night variety show with his co-star
Willem Dafoe. During this interview, when asked if he was a fan
of the comic book, he claimed that he had never touched a Spider-Man
comic book before and that he never wanted to read them.
- Is good friends with his Spider-Man,
Spider-Man 2, and Spider-Man 3 co-star
Kirsten Dunst.
- He was originally set to play the role of Jake Hoyt in
Training Day, opposite Denzel Washington. He had
even gone through two months of training with narcotic officers,
weapons training, and put on a lot of muscle but the role was later
given to the producer's first choice, Ethan Hawke, and Tobey
went on to star in Spider-Man instead.
- He played in the World Series of Poker. On October 27, 2004, he won the
Phil Hellmuth Poker Invitational at the Hollywood Park Casino in Los
Angeles, taking a first prize of $95,480.
- Enjoys playing chess.
- Member of the AAs
- Was engaged to Rashida Jones (2002).
- He and his fiancée, Jennifer Meyer, announced their engagement in April.
Jennifer is a jewelry designer [June 12, 2006].
- Close friend of Leonardo DiCaprio
- Considered for the role of Will Turner in
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
- Tobey and his fiancée, Jennifer Meyer, are the parents of a girl, Ruby
Sweetheart Maguire, born at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles
on November 10, 2006.
- While promoting The Good German on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, he revealed the baby's
name, Ruby Sweetheart.
- Almost couldn't do Spider-Man 2 after having severe back
pains at the end of shooting Seabiscuit,
Jake Gyllenhaal was already in talks to replace him and had
already begun preparation.
- Was originally cast as Alex Chance Browning in
Final Destination.
- Married Jennifer Meyer in a secret ceremony on Hawaii. The wedding was
only attended by close friends.
- He and his best friend, Leonardo DiCaprio, were both in movie
directed by Sam Raimi. DiCaprio was in
The Quick and the Dead and Tobey was in
Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2 and
Spider-Man 3.
- He and his wife are very close friends of Sara Gilbert.
- Made his movie debut in This Boys Life.
- He and his wife Jennifer welcomed their second child, a boy named Otis
Tobias, on May 8, 2009.
- Son-in-law of Ron Meyer (I).
- Lives in Los Angeles, California.
Tobey Maguire quotes
- All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But
they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped
- and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.
- I think fame is a really complicated thing. It can be a great challenge
to handle the difficult parts of it and strengthen your character so
you don't get affected in a negative way by it. And I'm scared and
excited and hesitant and anxious. I'm conflicted about it, truly.
- [On ending the Spider-Man film series with the third installment] "To me
it seems like this is a natural point for the team to break up because
we have a lot of story conclusions that were going along for the main
characters for the first two movies and we kind of tie almost
everything up for the third movie. It feels like a trilogy to me and it
feels like the end."
- I was pretty ambitious. I felt like I had a good imagination and vision
for my life. And I had people telling me 'You are driving the vehicle
of your life here. You are the master of your own destiny in a sense.
Do whatever you want to do.'
- Every actor has to establish a presence that not only fits the overall
needs of the story but allows him to interact with other actors in a
credible and meaningful way. Every actor wants to work under conditions
and with material that enables them to create and use their craft.
- I'm close to being a vegan, but I'm not one, technically. I don't eat
eggs, or nearly any dairy - no cheese or milk. I do eat honey, and a
piece of milk chocolate here and there. It's never really been that
hard for me. I've never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was
a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all. It had
to be the perfect bite, with no fat or gristle or bone or anything like
that. I don't judge people who eat meat - that's not for me to say -
but the whole thing just sort of bums me out.