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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 .
- 1984 (age 38–39), London, England
- Wimbledon School of Art
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Toby Froud is the son of Brian Froud, the creator of the Goblin King in Labyrinth. He has worked on various films and TV shows as an actor, sculptor, puppeteer and designer, such as King Kong, The Dark Crystal and Kubo and the Two Strings.
- June 27, 1984
- 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...
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 ...
12. Juli 2015 · Als hilfloses, von Kobolden entführtes Baby wurde Toby Froud aus "Die Reise ins Labyrinth" berühmt - heute lässt er als Regisseur und Figurendesigner selbst die Puppen tanzen, wie damals...
2. Feb. 2024 · T ...more. LRM Online's Gig Patta spoke with Toby Froud for the re-release of Labyrinth. LABYRINTH, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly, was originally released ...
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Toby Froud is a British actor, puppeteer and designer who has appeared in Labyrinth, King Kong and Lessons Learned. He is married to Sarah Froud and has one child. He is also known for his work with the Muppets and the Sissor Sisters.
