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Toby Froud is an English-American artist, puppeteer, and filmmaker. He is best known for his role as the baby in Labyrinth and his work on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
Toby Froud is the son of Brian Froud, the designer of the creatures in Labyrinth (1986). He has worked on various films and TV shows as an actor, sculptor, puppeteer and designer, such as King Kong (2005), The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019) and Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2024).
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Jul 17, 2020 · Toby Froud, the baby stolen by David Bowie's Goblin King in Labyrinth, is now a puppeteer and creature creator. He worked on Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and recreated the 'Magic Dance' sequence.
- Tom Eames
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.
- 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
Sep 22, 2016 · Froud is actually baby Toby from David Bowie’s 1986 cult classic, “Labyrinth.”. It’s been 30 years since the movie’s release, so The Huffington Post checked in with him to see what he’s up to now. Unfortunately, despite his movie sister Sarah’s (Jennifer Connelly) best efforts to save him from the maze, it looks like baby Toby ...
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Toby Froud is an artist, puppeteer, and filmmaker who starred as the baby in Labyrinth. He also worked on Kubo and the Two Strings, The Boxtrolls, and Lessons Learned.
