Tobey Maguire Movies, Net Worth And Height

Tobias Vincent Maguire was born June 27, 1975 and he is an American actor and film producer. 

Birthday June 27, 1975

U.S. citizenship

Celebrities: Tobey Maguire Quotes Actors

Sun sign: Cancer

Also Known As: Tobias Vincent

Born: Santa Monica

Famous as an Actor

Family: spouse/ex-: Jennifer Meyer

Father: Vincent Maguire

Mother: Wendy Brown

Ciblings: Jopaul Epp, Timothy Maguire, Vincent Maguire Jr., Weston Epp

Children: Otis Tobias Maguire, Ruby Sweetheart Maguire

US State: California City: Santa Monica, California

Tobey Maguire Biography

He 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. 

Furthermore, 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 later 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 his financial situation was quite deplorable. Wendy worked as a secretary and her salary was simply not enough to cover even basic needs at times. Social security did not improve his situation in the slightest.

In search of a better life, they often changed their place of residence. However, they could not last more than two years in one place.

Mama Toby dreamed of becoming an actress all her life, but she couldn’t make her dream come true. It is worth noting that her father did not earn his own happiness in her life either. In 1993, she went to jail for two years for robbing a bank.

The love of the movies, apparently, was passed down to Maguire through the genes. Since childhood he was attracted to acting, which made his mother very happy. 

When Tobias was 12 years old, he was ready to give her son $100, if he would just drop his education as an economist and go study to be an actor.

But, despite his interest in the film industry, Toby himself very much 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. In fact, due to the fact that he often moved from one place to another, it was simply unrealistic to make a permanent friendship with someone.

Tobey Maguire Career

Toby never finished school. When he was 13, he dropped out of school and went looking for at least some kind of job. He soon began earning money acting in commercials. 

The McDonald’s commercial was his first television appearance. After several more commercials, Maguire works as an extra in low-budget movies and television series.

His debut leading role took place in 1992 in the television series “Great Scott!” This role was supposed to make the aspiring actor famous, but only 6 episodes aired.

After that, the actor wandered from one project to another, but played only secondary characters. Having given up hope of landing the lead role, Tobias fell into despair and stopped filming anything for several months.

He pulled himself together and returned to the movies. He got the lead role in a big movie in 1996, when he was invited to star in the movie 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 became known not only in the United States, but in all the world.

Tobias’s filmography includes more than 50 film and television works.

Tobey Maguire Spider Man

In 2002, Maguire starred in Spider-Man , based on the popular Marvel Comics superhero. The movie was a huge success and made him a star. He reprized the role in the sequels Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007), and has also provided the voice of Spider-Man for the video game adaptations of the films. All three films went on to be part of the highest grossing films each year. 

His performance as Spider-Man earned him some rave reviews. Mark Caro of the Chicago Tribune wrote that “with his big, round, soulful eyes, Maguire has always been able to convey a sense of wonder, and his instinct for understatement serves him well here as well.” 

Due to script and production complications, a proposed fourth Spider-Man film did not materialize. Sony Columbia Pictures decided to restart the franchise.  The film, titled The Amazing Spider-Man , was released on July 3, 2012, with a different actor, Andrew Garfield, as the lead.

Tobey Maguire Movies

He is best known for his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Sam Raimi ‘s Spider- Man trilogy (2002-2007). His other major 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 was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Golden Globe Awards , and received two Saturn Awards , including one for Best Actor . 

He was establishing his own production company in 2012 called Material Pictures, and he was co-producing Good People that same year. In 2014, he produced and starred as Bobby Fischer in Pawn Sacrifice .

Tobey Maguire No Way Home

Spider-Man No Way Home gives Tobey Maguire the treatment he deserves.

Turned into the great cinematographic phenomenon after the outbreak of the pandemic, it has exceeded 1,884 million dollars in collections worldwide, ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ looks at its streaming launch.

The Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios film is now available for digital rental and video on demand and to celebrate it, nothing better than releasing a new poster, this time with Tobey Maguire’s Spidey .The intervention of both Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker and Andrew Garfield’s is already more than well known.

Moreover, one of the strong points for the promotion of the film starring Tom Holland are the variants of Spider-Man , protagonists of several clips that recalled that the film arrived on VOD this March 22.    

The poster that restores the actor who was the first Spider-Man of the cinema to his status as a leading man shows Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker surrounded by the tentacles of Doctor Octopus and the giant hand of the Sandman. It can be seen that there  is a magic ring surrounding the villains and the superhero , which reminds them that they all came because of a spell from Doctor Strange.

Tobey Maguire Net Worth

He has a net worth of $75 million.

Tobey Maguire Height

He is 1,72 cm tall.

Tobey Maguire Personal Life

Maguire has been a vegetarian since 1992; in 2009, he became a vegan.  He made changes to her diet to gain or lose weight for film roles: he drastically decreased her calorie intake for Seabiscuit , followed by a rapid increase to regain weight for Spider-Man 2 .  Maguire has been sober since the age of 19, having experienced “some difficulty” with alcohol in his teens. 

In 2004, Maguire turned to tournament poker. He has won prizes at various events and has been mentored by poker pro Daniel Negreanu. Maguire can be seen in ESPN’s coverage of the 2005, 2006 and 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event Championship. 

He was one of many celebrities, along with Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Affleck, to participate in Molly Bloom’s high-stakes poker games at The Viper Room in the mid-2000s,  and received negative press cover for reportedly requiring Bloom to “bark like a seal” for a $1,000 poker chip after a tournament he won.

Shortly after this episode, Maguire allegedly stole the game from Bloom, prompting Bloom to move to New York.  Maguire’s actions in the game are portrayed by Michael Cera in the film Molly’s Game through the character “Player X”.

Maguire doesn’t 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.

Happy family life lasted 9 years. In 2016, they went through a divorce process. Since then, the man’s personal life has been full of rumors, there is no official news about who the actor is dating.