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This article is about the American actor. For the seismologist, see Thomas C. Hanks.

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Tom Hanks
Hanks at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (1956-07-09) July 9, 1956 (age 68) Concord, California, U.S.
Citizenship	\n United States \n Greece^[1] \n
Alma mater	Chabot College
Occupations	\n Actor \n filmmaker \n
Years active	1977\u2013present
Works	Full list
Spouses	\n Samantha Lewes \n (m. 1978; div. 1987) \n Rita Wilson (m. 1988)
Children	4, including Colin, Chet, and Truman
Relatives	Jim Hanks (brother) Larry Hanks (brother) Lincoln family (through Nancy Hanks)
Awards	Full list

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.^[2] Hanks is ranked as the fourth-highest-grossing American film actor.^[3]^[4] His numerous awards include two Academy Awards, seven Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards; he has also been nominated for five BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award. He received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2020.^[5]^[6]^[7]\n

Hanks rose to fame with leading roles in comedies: Splash (1984), The Money Pit (1986), Big (1988), and A League of Their Own (1992). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor, playing a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993), then the title character in Forrest Gump (1994).^[8] Hanks has collaborated with Steven Spielberg on five films\u2014Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017)\u2014and three World War II-themed miniseries: Band of Brothers (2001), The Pacific (2010), and Masters of the Air (2024). He has also frequently collaborated with directors Ron Howard, Nora Ephron, and Robert Zemeckis.\n

Hanks cemented his film stardom with lead roles in 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 appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon series and voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story franchise (1995\u20132019). Hanks directed and acted in the comedies That Thing You Do! (1996) and Larry Crowne (2011), and he voiced and performed motion capture for multiple characters in the animated Christmas film The Polar Express (2004).\n

His breakthrough television role was a co-lead in the ABC sitcom Bosom Buddies (1980\u20131982). He has hosted Saturday Night Live ten times^[9] and launched a production company, Playtone, which has produced various limited series and television movies, including From the Earth to the Moon (1998), Band of Brothers, John Adams (2008), The Pacific, Game Change (2012), and Olive Kitteridge (2015). He made his Broadway debut in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy (2013), earning a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.^[10]\n

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Year\n	Title\n	Role(s)\n	Notes\n	Ref(s).\n
1980\n	He Knows You're Alone\n	Elliot\n	\n	^[42]\n
1984\n	Splash\n	Allen Bauer\n	\n	^[42]\n
Bachelor Party\n	Rick Gassko\n	\n	^[154]\n
1985\n	The Man with One Red Shoe\n	Richard Harlan Drew\n	\n	^[155]\n
Volunteers\n	Lawrence Whatley Bourne III\n	\n	^[156]\n
1986\n	The Money Pit\n	Walter Fielding, Jr.\n	\n	^[157]\n
Nothing in Common\n	David Basner\n	\n	^[158]\n
Every Time We Say Goodbye\n	David Bradley\n	\n	^[159]\n
1987\n	Dragnet\n	Detective Pep Streebek\n	\n	^[160]\n
1988\n	Big\n	Josh Baskin\n	\n	^[161]\n
Punchline\n	Steven Gold\n	\n	^[162]\n
1989\n	The 'Burbs\n	Ray Peterson\n	\n	^[163]\n
Turner & Hooch\n	Detective Scott Turner\n	\n	^[164]\n
1990\n	Joe Versus the Volcano\n	Joe Banks\n	\n	^[165]\n
The Bonfire of the Vanities\n	Sherman McCoy\n	\n	^[166]\n
1992\n	Radio Flyer\n	Older Mike / Narrator\n	\n	^[167]\n
A League of Their Own\n	Jimmy Dugan\n	\n	^[168]\n
1993\n	Sleepless in Seattle\n	Sam Baldwin\n	\n	^[169]\n
Philadelphia\n	Andrew Beckett\n	\n	^[170]\n
1994\n	Forrest Gump\n	Forrest Gump\n	\n	^[171]\n
1995\n	Apollo 13\n	Jim Lovell\n	\n	^[172]\n
Toy Story\n	Sheriff Woody\n	Voice role\n	^[173]\n
1996\n	That Thing You Do!\n	Mr. White\n	Also director and screenwriter\n	^[174]\n
1998\n	Saving Private Ryan\n	Captain John H. Miller\n	\n	^[175]\n
You've Got Mail\n	Joe Fox\n	\n	^[176]\n
1999\n	Toy Story 2\n	Sheriff Woody\n	Voice role\n	^[177]\n
The Green Mile\n	Paul Edgecomb\n	\n	^[178]\n
2000\n	Cast Away\n	Chuck Noland\n	\n	^[179]\n
2002\n	Road to Perdition\n	Michael Sullivan, Sr.\n	\n	^[180]\n
Catch Me If You Can\n	FBI Agent Carl Hanratty\n	\n	^[181]\n
2004\n	The Ladykillers\n	Professor G.H. Dorr\n	\n	^[182]\n
The Terminal\n	Viktor Navorski\n	\n	^[183]\n
The Polar Express\n	The Conductor/Hero Boy/Father/ Scrooge/Santa Claus/Hobo\n	Voice and motion capture\n	^[184]\n
2006\n	The Da Vinci Code\n	Professor Robert Langdon\n	\n	^[185]\n
2007\n	Charlie Wilson's War\n	Charlie Wilson\n	\n	^[186]\n
2009\n	The Great Buck Howard\n	Mr. Gable\n	\n	^[187]\n
Angels & Demons\n	Professor Robert Langdon\n	\n	^[188]\n
2010\n	Toy Story 3\n	Sheriff Woody\n	Voice role\n	^[189]\n
2011\n	Larry Crowne\n	Larry Crowne\n	Also director and screenwriter\n	^[190]\n
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close\n	Thomas Schell Jr.\n	\n	^[191]\n
2012\n	Cloud Atlas\n	Dr. Henry Goose/Hotel Manager/ Isaac Sachs/Dermot Hoggins/ Cavendish Look-A-Like Actor/Zachry\n	\n	^[192]\n
2013\n	Captain Phillips\n	Captain Richard Phillips\n	\n	^[193]\n
Saving Mr. Banks\n	Walt Disney\n	\n	^[194]\n
2015\n	Bridge of Spies\n	James B. Donovan\n	\n	^[195]\n
2016\n	A Hologram for the King\n	Alan Clay\n	\n	^[196]\n
Sully\n	Captain Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger\n	\n	^[197]\n
Inferno\n	Professor Robert Langdon\n	\n	^[198]\n
2017\n	The Circle\n	Eamon Bailey\n	\n	^[199]^[200]\n
The Post\n	Ben Bradlee\n	\n	^[201]\n
2019\n	Toy Story 4\n	Sheriff Woody\n	Voice role\n	^[202]\n
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood\n	Fred Rogers\n	\n	^[203]\n
2020\n	Greyhound\n	Commander Ernest Krause\n	Also screenwriter\n	^[204]^[205]\n
News of the World\n	Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd\n	\n	^[206]\n
2021\n	Finch\n	Finch Weinberg\n	\n	^[207]\n
2022\n	Elvis\n	Colonel Tom Parker\n	\n	^[208]\n
Pinocchio\n	Geppetto\n	\n	^[209]\n
A Man Called Otto\n	Otto Anderson\n	\n	^[210]\n
2023\n	Asteroid City\n	Stanley Zak\n	\n	^[211]\n
2024\n	Freaky Tales\n	Video Store Employee\n	Cameo\n	\n
Here\n	Richard Young\n	\n	^[153]\n
2026\n	Toy Story 5 \u2020\n	Sheriff Woody\n	Voice role\n
TBA\n	The Phoenician Scheme \u2020\n	Leland\n	Post-production\n	\n

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\n Filmography \n Awards and nominations \n
Films directed	\n That Thing You Do! (1996) \n Larry Crowne (2011) \n
Films written	\n That Thing You Do! (1996) \n Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (2005) \n Larry Crowne (2011) \n Greyhound (2020) \n
Films produced	\n Cast Away (2000) \n My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) \n Connie and Carla (2004) \n Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (2005) \n The Ant Bully (2006) \n Starter for 10 (2006) \n Charlie Wilson's War (2007) \n City of Ember (2008) \n The Great Buck Howard (2008) \n Where the Wild Things Are (2009) \n Larry Crowne (2011) \n Parkland (2013) \n My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016) \n A Hologram for the King (2016) \n The Circle (2017) \n News of the World (2020) \n A Man Called Otto (2022) \n My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (2023) \n
TV series created	\n Band of Brothers (2001) \n
Family	\n Rita Wilson (wife) \n Chet Hanks (son) \n Colin Hanks (son) \n Jim Hanks (brother) \n Larry Hanks (brother) \n
Related	\n Playtone \n David S. Pumpkins \n Forrest Gump \n Woody Pride \n Robert Langdon \n

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Early life and family

Career

1980\u20131989: Early work, sitcom and comedy films

1990\u20131999: Leading man and acclaim

2000\u20132009: Established star and expansion

2010\u20132019: Broadway debut and other roles

2020\u2013present

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