
Tom Hanks
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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 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.
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Known For

Saturday Night Live

The Simpsons

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Graham Norton Show

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Love Boat

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Oscars

Golden Globe Awards

Entertainment Tonight

30 Rock

Taxi

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

The Colbert Report

Tales from the Crypt

Happy Days

Today

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The Daily Show

Celebrities Uncensored

Family Ties

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Honest Trailers

The Wonderful World of Disney

The Greatest Event in Television History

Fallen Angels

SNL Digital Shorts

1883

Primetime Glick

The Naked Truth

Maya & Marty

The Late Late Show with James Corden

Waking Sleeping Beauty

The Walk

Cars

The Bloody Hundredth

The Simpsons Movie

The Pacific

Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear

The War

The Celluloid Closet

Prohibition

Halftime

We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial

A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys

The Concert for Valor

Freaky Tales

Asteroid City

Toy Story That Time Forgot

Quincy

Toy Story of Terror!

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump

The Post

Toy Story 5

Saving Mr. Banks

Partysaurus Rex

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Dragnet

Elvis

Sleepless in Seattle

Catch Me If You Can

Madden

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

The Circle

The Story Behind 'Toy Story'

Pinocchio

You've Got Mail

Bridge of Spies

The 'Burbs

Saving Private Ryan

A Man Called Otto

Big

Toy Story 2

News of the World

Apollo 13

Larry Crowne

Inferno

Cloud Atlas

Here

Splash

The Polar Express

Forrest Gump

Philadelphia

Finch

Captain Phillips

Charlie Wilson's War

The Making of 'Band of Brothers'

Hawaiian Vacation

Small Fry

The Man with One Red Shoe

Road to Perdition

The Da Vinci Code

Angels & Demons

Toy Story

Cast Away

Toy Story 3

A League of Their Own

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

The Green Mile

The Americas

A Hologram for the King

Greyhound

The Money Pit

Toy Story 4

From the Earth to the Moon

Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy

Sully

Joe Versus the Volcano

California Typewriter
Production Credits

From the Earth to the Moon

The Circle

The Bloody Hundredth

A Man Called Otto

Charlie Wilson's War

Where the Wild Things Are

John Adams

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Band of Brothers

City of Ember

Evan Almighty

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

Masters of the Air

Cast Away

Big Love

The Ant Bully

Neil Young: Heart of Gold

News of the World

Mamma Mia!

We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company

Larry Crowne

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

The Movies

The Polar Express

Fallen Angels

Parkland

Billy Joel: And So It Goes

Greyhound

The Pacific

Olive Kitteridge

Tales from the Crypt
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