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Toby Froud (born June 27, 1984) is an English-American artist, special effects designer, puppeteer, filmmaker, and performer. He rose to prominence for his role as the baby who was wished away to the goblins in the 1986 Jim Henson film Labyrinth.
Toby Froud. Actor: Labyrinth. Toby Froud was born on 27 June 1984 in Westminster, London, England, UK. He is known for Labyrinth (1986), Lessons Learned (2014) and King Kong (2005). He is married to Sarah Froud. They have one child.
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- Westminster, London, England, UK
- Early Days
- The Henson Workshop
- The Mother of Yoda
- Froud’s Retreat
- Froud on Grogu
Born in 1954 to a pair of artists living in Detroit, Michigan, Wendy’s mother read her fairy tales, J.R.R. Tolkein, and C. S. Lewis as a child. “We made fairy houses in the garden,” Froud says. By age five, she was making her own dolls using household items: Fauns, satyrs, centaurs, and fairies. Years later, she’d channel that love of the mythic in...
Cheryl Henson has a glorious mane of long, thick hair and a voice that belongs on a podcast. When it comes to puppetry, Henson history, and filmmaking, she’s an encyclopedia and natural storyteller. Henson, who’d taken a year off between high school and college to build puppets for The Dark Crystal and the last season of The Muppet Show, sees Froud...
The same year that Froud was hired to sculpt The Dark Crystal’s puppet leads, Kira and Jen, she was loaned out to Frank Oz’s puppeteer team to meld muppet know-how into the fabrication of a two-foot-two-inches tall Jedi Master. British artist Stuart Freeborn had already done a few sculpts at that stage, but they weren’t quite right. In Laurent Bouz...
Wendy filled the intervening years creating illustrated books, dolls, and faeries. She also produced meditation apps, workshops, and DVDs on the art of sculpting and dollmaking. During the ‘90s and ‘00s, shifts in technology enabled Froud to expand her art, but technological advancements also played a role in her departure from moviemaking. “CGI wa...
The same nature that makes industry insiders adore Wendy also makes her too unconventional to fit the Hollywood mold. “She’s an artist, a creator, and a dollmaker, and that is who she is,” Cheryl Henson explains. “Loves working on films, but she doesn’t change who she is to work on a film.” Froud never attempted to climb the Hollywood hierarchy. “I...
- Falene Nurse
Toby Froud era il piccolo Toby nel cult Labyrinth del 1986, con David Bowie e Jennifer Connelly. Seguendo le orme di suo padre Brian, conceptual designer e costumista del film di Jim Henson,...
17 lug 2020 · By Tom Eames. It's been over 30 years since Labyrinth was released, and it's still a beloved favourite to this day. But what happened to poor Toby, the baby that David Bowie 's Jareth the Goblin King stole from his sister Sarah in the classic Jim Henson movie? Well, this is Toby Froud today: Picture: Toby Froud.
- Tom Eames
Our Rachel Leishman spoke with Toby Groud, "Toby" from 'Labyrinth', about the legacy of the film and how it helped him in his own creativity as an adult all ...
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- The Mary Sue
9 ago 2022 · In Labyirinth, il giovanissimo Toby Froud recitava, oggi è un marionettista ed uno scultore che torna nel fantasy grazie a The Dark Crystal per Netflix. Quando acquisti tramite i link sul...
