Biography
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon. Hanks' films have grossed more than $4.9 billion in North America and more than $9.96 billion worldwide, making him the fourth-highest-grossing actor in North America. He has received numerous honors including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor both in 2016, as well as the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2020.Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in a series of comedy films which received positive media attention, such as Splash (1984), The Money Pit (1986), Big (1988), and A League of Their Own (1992). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and the title character in Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks collaborated with film director Steven Spielberg on five films: Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017), as well as the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) and The Pacific (2010), which launched him as a director, producer, and screenwriter. He also frequently collaborated with film directors Ron Howard, Nora Ephron, and Robert Zemeckis.
Hanks' other films include the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002) and Cloud Atlas (2012); and the biographical dramas Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Sully (2016), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), News of the World (2020) and Elvis (2022). He has also appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon film series, and voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series (1995–2019).
For his work on television, Hanks has also won seven Primetime Emmy Awards for his work as a producer of various limited series and television movies, including From the Earth to the Moon (1998), Band of Brothers (2001), John Adams (2008), The Pacific (2009), Game Change (2012), and Olive Kitteridge (2015). In 2013, he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy.
Filmography
All 255
Movies 183
Self 109
TV Shows 72
Producer 30
Voice 9
Narrator 5
Director 3

The Family (2024)

Bone (2024)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (2023)

Asteroid City (2023)

The 2010s (2023)

A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys (2023)

Hung Up on a Dream (2023)

Commitment to Life (2023)

Just a Boy From Tupelo: Bringing Elvis to the Big Screen (2023)

A Man Called Otto (2022)

Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen (2022)

'Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen (2022)

Brad Pitt: More Than a Pretty Face (2022)

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter (2022)

Pinocchio (2022)

Elvis (2022)

Exclusively Elvis: A Special Edition of 20/20 (2022)

Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear (2022)

Halftime (2022)

Antonio Banderas et Pedro Almodóvar : Du Désir au Double (2022)

Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy (2022)

1883 (2021)

Noi siamo cinema (2021)

Finch (2021)

A Night at the Academy Museum (2021)

Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy (2021)

When Ruby Wax Met... (2021)

Celebrating America (2021)

Carina Bergfeldt (2021)

Death to 2020 (2020)

News of the World (2020)

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)

Greyhound (2020)

Served: Harvey Weinstein (2020)

Disclosure (2020)

Reunited Apart (2020)

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)

The Movies (2019)

Toy Story 4 (2019)

The Last Mile (2018)

The Mayo Clinic (2018)

Quincy (2018)

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal (2018)

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

The 2000s (2018)

1968: The Year That Changed America (2018)

Die Clint Eastwood Story (2018)

The Post (2017)

The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special (2017)

Spielberg (2017)

California Typewriter (2017)

The Nineties (2017)

The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)

The Circle (2017)

Sully: Sully Sullenberger - The Man Behind the Miracle (2016)

Inferno (2016)

Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War (2016)

Sully (2016)

There's Something About Romcoms (2016)

Maya & Marty (2016)

A Hologram for the King (2016)

The Eighties (2016)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016)

Mike Nichols: An American Master (2016)

Electric City (2016)

Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond (2015)

Ithaca (2015)

Bridge of Spies (2015)

The Walk (2015)

Everything Is Copy (2015)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015)

The Seventies (2015)

The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)

Misery Loves Comedy (2015)

Toy Story That Time Forgot (2014)

The Concert for Valor (2014)

Olive Kitteridge (2014)

The Sixties (2014)

All In (2014)

The Dave Clark Five and Beyond: Glad All Over (2014)

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014)

And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)

The Real Mary Poppins (2014)

Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

The Assassination of President Kennedy (2013)

Toy Story of Terror! (2013)

Captain Phillips (2013)

Parkland (2013)

Killing Lincoln (2013)

Inventing David Geffen (2012)

Cloud Atlas (2012)

Close Up (2012)

Partysaurus Rex (2012)

Electric City (2012)

The Road We've Traveled (2012)

Game Change (2012)

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

The Extraordinary Voyage (2011)

Small Fry (2011)

Prohibition (2011)

Boatlift (2011)

Larry Crowne (2011)

Hawaiian Vacation (2011)

OK! TV (2011)

Close Up (2011)

Conan (2010)

I'm Still Here (2010)

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010)

The Pacific (2010)

The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts (2009)

Beyond All Boundaries (2009)

Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)

Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)

My Life in Ruins (2009)

Angels & Demons (2009)

We Are One With President-Elect Barack Obama (2009)

City of Ember (2008)

Mamma Mia! (2008)

David McCullough: Painting with Words (2008)

John Adams (2008)

The War (2008)

The Great Buck Howard (2008)

Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

The Pixar Story (2007)

The Simpsons Movie (2007)

Evan Almighty (2007)

The Graham Norton Show (2007)

30 Rock (2006)

Starter for 10 (2006)

Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)

The Ant Bully (2006)

Cars (2006)

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Big Love (2006)

Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006)

Earth to America (2005)

Live 8 (2005)

The Colbert Report (2005)

Pennis from Heaven (2005)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon (2005)

The Polar Express (2004)

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Tom Hanks (2004)

Elvis Has Left the Building (2004)

People Like Us: Making 'Philadelphia' (2004)

The Terminal (2004)

Making 'Saving Private Ryan' (2004)

Connie and Carla (2004)

Making a 'Splash' (2004)

The Ladykillers (2004)

Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s (2003)

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (2003)

Concert for George (2003)

Freedom: A History of Us (2003)

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)

The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch (2003)

Celebrities Uncensored (2003)

Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera (2003)

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Life with Bonnie (2002)

Road to Perdition (2002)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company (2001)

America: A Tribute to Heroes (2001)

Band of Brothers (2001)

The Making of 'Band of Brothers' (2001)

Primetime Glick (2001)

Rescued from the Closet (2001)

Cast Away (2000)

Shooting War (2000)

Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile (2000)

Koschwitz (2000)

The Green Mile (1999)

Toy Story 2 (1999)

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special (1999)

Stephen King: Shining in the Dark (1999)

Return with Honor (1999)

The Directors (1999)

You've Got Mail (1998)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

From the Earth to the Moon (1998)

The Wonderful World of Disney (1997)

The View (1997)

Leute heute (1997)

Scene by Scene (1997)

Taff (1997)

The Harryhausen Chronicles (1997)

The Story Behind 'Toy Story' (1996)

That Thing You Do! (1996)

The Daily Show (1996)

Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 (1996)

The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996)

The Universal Story (1996)

The Celluloid Closet (1996)

Ruby Wax Meets (1996)

The Harald Schmidt Show (1995)

Making 'Toy Story' (1995)

Toy Story (1995)

The Naked Truth (1995)

Apollo 13 (1995)

Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump (1994)

Vault of Horror I (1994)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Inside the Actors Studio (1994)

Philadelphia (1993)

Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)

Fallen Angels (1993)

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

A League of Their Own (1992)

HBO First Look (1992)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)

Radio Flyer (1992)

The Best of Disney: 50 Years of Magic (1991)

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)

Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary (1989)

Turner & Hooch (1989)

Tales from the Crypt (1989)

The 'Burbs (1989)

Punchline (1988)

American Experience (1988)

This Morning (1988)

Madeline (1988)

LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)

Big (1988)

Dragnet (1987)

Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)

Nothing in Common (1986)

The Money Pit (1986)

Volunteers (1985)

The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)

Bachelor Party (1984)

Splash (1984)

Mazes and Monsters (1982)

Family Ties (1982)

Wetten, dass..? (1981)

Bosom Buddies (1980)

He Knows You're Alone (1980)

The Love Boat (1977)

Saturday Night Live (1975)

Happy Days (1974)

The Oscars (1953)

Today (1952)

Bambi Awards (1948)

Masters of the Air

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Major Matt Mason

Here

Beautiful

Toy Story 5

In the Garden of Beasts
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Information
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday1956-07-09 (67 years old)
Birth nameThomas Jeffrey Hanks
Place of birthConcord, United States of America
ReligionEastern Orthodoxy
Height1.83-meter, 6-foot
Net worth$390 Million
RelationshipsSamantha Lewes (1978-01-24 - 1987-03-19)
SpouseRita Wilson
ChildrenTruman Hanks, Colin Hanks, Chet Hanks, Elizabeth Hanks
FatherAmos Mefford Hanks
MotherJanet Marylyn Frager
SiblingsJim Hanks, Larry Hanks
RelativesGage Hanks
CitizenshipsGreece, United States of America
ResidencesLos Angeles · Oakland, United States of America
Also known asThomas Jeffrey Hanks, Том Хэнкс, توم هانكس, トム・ハンクス, 톰 행크스, ทอม แฮงส์, 汤姆·汉克斯, Том Генкс, Том Хенкс, Томас Джеффрі Генкс, Τομ Χανκς, टॉम हैंक्स, ടോം ഹാങ്ക്സ്, 湯姆‧漢克斯, 湯姆·漢克, 托马斯·杰弗里·汉克斯
AwardsGolden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Academy Award for Best Actor, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Screen Actors Guild Award, AFI Life Achievement Award, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, Silver Bear, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Golden Globe Award, honorary doctor of Harvard University, Primetime Emmy Award, Theatre World Award, Kennedy Center Honors, Producers Guild of America Awards, Knight of the Legion of Honour
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