Tom Hanks
Birthday: 1956-07-09 | Place of Birth: Concord, California, United StatesThomas 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 director, producer, and screenwriter. Hanks' other notable 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 Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Captain Phillips (2013), Sully (2016), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). He has also appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon film series, and has voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Hanks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Colonel Tom Parker
as Himself (archive footage)
as Woody (voice) (archive footage)
as Finch
as Self - Host
as Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd
as Commander Krause
as Self
as Fred Rogers
as Woody (voice)
as Self
as Ben Bradlee
as David S. Pumpkins
as Eamon Bailey
as Self
as Self
as Alan Clay
as Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger
as Robert Langdon
as James B. Donovan
as Mr. Macauley
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Woody (voice)
as Captain Richard Phillips
as Self - Narrator
as Walt Disney
as Woody (Voice)
