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)
• Saving Private Ryan as Captain Miller
• Toy Story as Woody (voice)
• The Green Mile as Paul Edgecomb
• Apollo 13 as Jim Lovell
• The Terminal as Viktor Navorski
• Catch Me If You Can as Carl Hanratty
• Toy Story 3 as Woody (voice)
• Big as Josh Baskin

TV

• Tales from the Crypt as Baxter (segment "None But the Lonely Heart")
• Happy Days
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self
• From the Earth to the Moon as Jean-Luc Despont
• 1883 as General George Meade
• From the Earth to the Moon as Host
• The Pacific as Narrator (voice)
• The Simpsons as Tom Hanks (voice)
• Family Ties as Ned Donnelly
• This Morning as Self