Tom Hanks

Acting · Born 1956-07-09 in Concord, California, USA

Biography

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is widely regarded as an American cultural icon. Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in the comedies Splash (1984) and Big (1988). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and a young man with below-average IQ 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 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, which launched him as a…

Filmography

• Forrest Gump as Forrest Gump
• The Simpsons Movie as Tom Hanks (voice)
• Sleepless in Seattle as Sam Baldwin
• Saving Private Ryan as Captain Miller
• Toy Story as Woody (voice)
• The Green Mile as Paul Edgecomb
• Apollo 13 as Jim Lovell
• The Da Vinci Code as Robert Langdon
• The Terminal as Viktor Navorski
• Catch Me If You Can as Carl Hanratty