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Tom Hanks - Wikipedia. This article is about the American actor. For the seismologist, see Thomas C. Hanks. Thomas Jeffrey Hanks[2] (born July 9, 1. American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his various comedic and dramatic film roles, including Splash (1. Big (1. 98. 8), Turner & Hooch (1.

A League of Their Own (1. Sleepless in Seattle (1. Philadelphia (1. 99.

Forrest Gump (1. 99. Apollo 1. 3 (1. 99. You've Got Mail (1. Watch In The Company Of Men Tube Free on this page. The Green Mile (1.

Cast Away (2. 00. Road to Perdition (2. The Polar Express (2. Larry Crowne (2. 01.

Cloud Atlas (2. 01. Captain Phillips (2. Saving Mr. Banks (2. Sully (2. 01. 6).

Hanks is also known for starring in the Robert Langdon film series, as well as for his voice work as Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series. Hanks' films have grossed more than $4. U. S. and Canadian box offices and more than $9.

North America.[6] Hanks has been nominated for numerous awards during his career. He won a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Philadelphia, as well as a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a People's Choice Award for Best Actor for his role in Forrest Gump. In 1. 99. 5, Hanks became one of only two actors who won the Academy Award for Best Actor in consecutive years, with Spencer Tracy being the other.[7] This feat has not been accomplished since. In 2. 00. 4, he received the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).[8] In 2. Kennedy Center Honor and, in 2. Presidential Medal of Freedom from President.

Barack Obama,[9] as well as the French Legion of Honor.[1. Hanks is also known for his collaborations with film director Steven Spielberg on the films Saving Private Ryan (1. Catch Me If You Can (2. The Terminal (2. 00. Bridge of Spies (2. The Post (2. 01. 7), as well as the 2. Band of Brothers, which launched Hanks as a successful director, producer, and screenwriter.

In 2. 01. 0, Spielberg and Hanks were executive producers on the HBO miniseries The Pacific. Early life. Hanks was born in Concord, California, the son of Janet Marylyn (née Frager; died 2. Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook.[4][1. His mother was of Portuguese descent (her family's surname was originally "Fraga"),[1. English ancestry.[1. Hanks' parents divorced in 1. The family's three oldest children, Sandra (later Sandra Hanks Benoiton, a writer),[1.

Larry (an entomology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)[1. Tom, went with their father, while the youngest, Jim, who also became an actor and filmmaker, remained with their mother in Red Bluff, California.[citation needed] In his childhood, his family moved often. By the age of ten, Hanks had lived in ten different houses.[1. While Hanks' family religious history was Catholic and Mormon, he has characterized himself as being a "Bible- toting evangelical" for several years as a teenager.[2. In school, Hanks was unpopular with students and teachers alike, later telling Rolling Stone magazine, "I was a geek, a spaz. I was horribly, painfully, terribly shy.

At the same time, I was the guy who'd yell out funny captions during filmstrips. But I didn't get into trouble.

I was always a real good kid and pretty responsible."[2. In 1. 96. 5, his father married Frances Wong, a San Francisco native of Chinese descent. Frances had three children, two of whom lived with Hanks during his high school years. Hanks acted in school plays, including South Pacific, while attending Skyline High School in Oakland, California.[2. Hanks studied theater at Chabot College in Hayward, California, and transferred to California State University, Sacramento, two years later.[2.

During a 2. 00. 1 interview with Bob Costas, Hank was asked whether he would have an Oscar or a Heisman Trophy. Hank replied he would rather win a Heisman by playing halfback for the California Golden Bears.[2. Hanks told New York magazine in 1. Acting classes looked like the best place for a guy who liked to make a lot of noise and be rather flamboyant. I spent a lot of time going to plays. I wouldn't take dates with me.

I'd just drive to a theater, buy myself a ticket, sit in the seat and read the program, and then get into the play completely. I spent a lot of time like that, seeing Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Ibsen, and all that."[2. During his years studying theater, Hanks met Vincent Dowling, head of the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio.[1.

At Dowling's suggestion, Hanks became an intern at the festival. His internship stretched into a three- year experience that covered most aspects of theater production, including lighting, set design, and stage management, prompting Hanks to drop out of college.

During the same time, Hanks won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his 1. Proteus in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona, one of the few times he played a villain.[2. Time Magazine named Hanks one of the "Top 1. College Dropouts." [2. Career. Early acting career (1. In 1. 97. 9, Hanks moved to New York City, where he made his film debut in the low- budget slasher film. He Knows You're Alone (1.

Mazes and Monsters.[2. Early that year, he was cast in the lead, Callimaco, in the Riverside Shakespeare Company's production of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Mandrake, directed by Daniel Southern. The following year, Hanks landed one of the lead roles, that of character Kip Wilson, on the ABC television pilot of Bosom Buddies. He and Peter Scolari played a pair of young advertising men forced to dress as women so they could live in an inexpensive all- female hotel.[1. Hanks had previously partnered with Scolari on the 1. Make Me Laugh. After landing the role, Hanks moved to Los Angeles. Bosom Buddies ran for two seasons, and, although the ratings were never strong, television critics gave the program high marks.

The first day I saw him on the set," co- producer Ian Praiser told Rolling Stone, "I thought, 'Too bad he won't be in television for long.' I knew he'd be a movie star in two years." However, although Praiser knew it, he was not able to convince Hanks. The television show had come out of nowhere," Hanks' best friend Tom Lizzio told Rolling Stone. Bosom Buddies and a guest appearance on a 1.

Happy Days ("A Case of Revenge," in which he played a disgruntled former classmate of Fonzie) prompted director Ron Howard to contact Hanks. Howard was working on the film Splash (1. At first, Howard considered Hanks for the role of the main character's wisecracking brother, a role that eventually went to John Candy.

Instead, Hanks landed the lead role in Splash, which went on to become a surprise box office hit, grossing more than US$6. He also had a sizable hit with the sex comedy Bachelor Party, also in 1. In 1. 98. 3–8. 4, Hanks made three guest appearances on Family Ties as Elyse Keaton's alcoholic brother, Ned Donnelly.[3.

Period of successes and failures (1. Blue Blood Season 5. With Nothing in Common (1. Jackie Gleason) – Hanks began to extend himself from comedic roles to dramatic roles.

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Hanks commented on his experience: "It changed my desires about working in movies. Part of it was the nature of the material, what we were trying to say. But besides that, it focused on people's relationships. The story was about a guy and his father, unlike, say, The Money Pit, where the story is really about a guy and his house."[3. After a few more flops and a moderate success with the comedy Dragnet, Hanks' stature in the film industry rose.