Tobey Maguire is a man who proved to the whole world that in order to be a successful actor, it is not necessary to have a full-fledged acting education. For this, talent and a constant desire to surprise the audience are enough.
Childhood and youth
Tobias Vincent Maguire was born on June 27, 1975. The boy was born in the small town of Santa Monica, which is located in the state of California, and was the only child in the family. Moreover, he was the illegitimate son of an 18-year-old girl named Wendy and a 20-year-old boy named Vincent.
Despite this, the parents loved little Toby and subsequently got married. However, this did not help save their relationship. When the baby was only 2 years old, the father left the family.
Since then, Tobias has stayed with his mother. I must say that their financial situation was quite deplorable. Wendy worked as a secretary, and her salary was simply not enough to meet sometimes even basic needs. Social security did not improve their situation in the least.
In search of a better life, they often changed their place of residence. However, they could not hold out for more than two years in one place.
Mom Toby dreamed of becoming an actress all her life, but she did not succeed in making her dream come true. It is worth noting that the father did not win his own happiness in life either. In 1993, he went to jail for two years for robbing a bank.
The love of cinema, apparently, was passed on to Maguire through genes. Since childhood, he was drawn to acting, which made his mother very happy. When Tobias was 12 years old, she was ready to give her son $ 100, if only he gave up the education of an economist and went to study to be an actor.
But, despite his interest in the film industry, Toby himself really wanted to become a chef, like his father. Maguiar even dreamed of his own restaurant. All this, however, paled against the background of the fact that the young man wanted to have many friends. Indeed, due to the fact that he often moved from place to place, it was simply unrealistic to make a permanent friendship with someone.
Career in film and television
Toby never finished school. When he was 13 years old, he dropped out of school and went to look for at least some kind of work. Soon he began to earn money by acting in commercials. The McDonald's commercial was his first appearance on television. After several more commercials, Maguire works as an extra on low-budget motion pictures and television series.
His debut major role took place in 1992 in the TV series "Great Scott!" This role was supposed to make the aspiring actor famous, but only 6 episodes aired.
After that, the actor wandered from project to project, but played only minor characters. Having lost hope of getting the lead role, Tobias fell into despair and left filming in something for several months.
Pulling himself together, he returned to the cinema. He got the main role in a big movie in 1996, when he was invited to star in the film American Hijacking. But fame came to him only after the release of the superhero movie "Spider-Man" in 2002. Since then, the actor has steadily climbed the career ladder, and his biography was known not only in the United States, but all over the world.
Filmography of Tobias includes over 50 television and film works.
Personal life
Maguire does not really like to share the details of his personal life. However, something is still known. In 2003, he met a girl named Jennifer Meyer who works in the jewelry business. After 4 years, the couple legalized their relationship. And a year before that, in 2006, his future wife Toby gave birth to his daughter. In 2009, the couple had a son.
The happy family life lasted 9 years. In 2016, they went through a divorce proceedings. Since then, the man's personal life has been overgrown only with rumors, there is no official news about who the actor is dating.
