Tobias Alistair Patrick Kebbell was born in 1982 in Pontefract, Yorkshire, to Michelle (Mathers), a landscape gardener and cook, and Robert Kebbell, an engineer. He moved to Nottinghamshire, where he grew up. His ancestry includes Irish, English, and Scottish. At 17, he joined the Central Television Workshop in Nottingham. Toby's breakthrough came ...
When I first moved to London, I felt very homesick and yearned after the countryside a lot. Because London's hard. It's a big place, and it's lonely. It takes a while to get into it. But once I got into the flow of it and started to grow up, I realized that my home is wherever I am.
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I often find that people want to paint themselves one color - like, 'I'm the baddie' - and they've always got this snarl on their face.
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When you're lucky enough to pay your bills through acting, staying healthy and fit is part of the job.
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I'm not a leading man; I don't think I've got the face of a leading man, and I don't think, ever in my life, someone will cast me in the role of a leading man.
It was a tiny little part but I tried to make everything I could of it because that's the way I always do things. I'm not a leading man, I don't think I've got the face of a leading man and I don't think ever in my life, someone will cast me in the role of a leading man. - On Dead Man's Shoes
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Is the fourth of five children.
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To play the role in the film RocknRolla (2008), written and directed by Guy Ritchie, Toby learned to play the piano and operate a semiautomatic. To get into the skin of a crack-addicted rocker, he abstained from food for three days and ate just a single meal a day for the next three weeks.
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Parents divorced when he was 18 months old.
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Son of Robert Kebbell, an engineer, and Michelle (née Mathers), a cook and landscape gardener.
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