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Toby Froud (born June 27, 1984) [1] 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. He became a puppeteer, sculptor, and fabricator for film, television, and theatre.
Mini Bio. Toby Froud was born on June 27, 1984 in Westminster, London, England, UK. He is known for Labyrinth (1986), King Kong (2005) and Lessons Learned (2014). He is married to Sarah Froud.
6 Videos. 5 Photos. 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. More at IMDbPro.
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Jul 17, 2020 · Toby - his name in real life too - ended up following in the footsteps of his father Brian Froud, who was the conceptual designer and costume designer for Labyrinth. Toby is now in his late 30s, and works as a puppeteer and creator of goblins, trolls and other creatures himself.
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Toby Froud (b. 1984) made his film debut as a toddler playing Toby, the infant brother of Sarah, in the movie Labyrinth. He is the son of the film's conceptual designer Brian Froud and puppet builder Wendy Froud.
Brian Froud has said in interviews and the film's making-of documentary, Inside the Labyrinth, that he drew designs of the baby for Labyrinth before his son was even conceived. When Toby was born, he looked exactly like the picture. For this and other logistical reasons, they opted to cast him as the baby in the film.
As an adult, Toby Froud gained experience as a stilt-walker and dancing bear, with costumes built by his mother, and has apprenticed at the Muppet Workshop in New York City and with Peter Jackson on The Lord of the Rings films. He attended Wimbledon Art College and apprenticed with WETA on the films The Chronicles of Narnia and King Kong. He worked for the stop-motion studio Laika as a puppet fabricator on films including ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls. Froud returned to the worlds of the Creature Shop, this time behind the scenes, as design supervisor on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
He made the short film Lessons Learned in association with Heather Henson's company Handmade Puppet Dreams.
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•Toby, the Baby from Labyrinth, Grows Up to Be a Goblin King—in Portland, Portland Monthly, June 2014
Brian Froud (born 1947) [1] is an English fantasy illustrator and conceptual designer. He is most widely known for his 1978 book Faeries with Alan Lee, and as the conceptual designer of the Jim Henson films The Dark Crystal (1982) and Labyrinth (1986).
Biography. Toby Froud (born 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. He became a puppeteer, sculptor, and fabricator for film, television, and theatre.
