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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Hanks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Hanks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Golden Globe Awards
The Oscars
Entertainment Tonight
30 Rock
Taxi
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Colbert Report
Tales from the Crypt
Happy Days
Today
SNL Digital Shorts
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
1883
Primetime Glick
The Naked Truth
Maya & Marty
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Waking Sleeping Beauty
The Walk
Cars
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
The Simpsons Movie
The Pacific
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
Freaky Tales
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
The Phoenician Scheme
Toy Story of Terror!
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Asteroid City
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Quincy
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Sleepless in Seattle
Saving Mr. Banks
Pinocchio
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
The Circle
You've Got Mail
Catch Me If You Can
The War
Elvis
Madden
The Post
Partysaurus Rex
Dragnet
A Man Called Otto
Joe Versus the Volcano
A Hologram for the King
Toy Story 2
Forrest Gump
Charlie Wilson's War
Saving Private Ryan
California Typewriter
The Bloody Hundredth
Philadelphia
Road to Perdition
Finch
Larry Crowne
Hawaiian Vacation
A League of Their Own
Greyhound
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Toy Story 4
The Money Pit
Big
Toy Story
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
Cast Away
The Americas
Bridge of Spies
Splash
Angels & Demons
The Da Vinci Code
The Green Mile
Inferno
News of the World
Toy Story 3
Captain Phillips
Sully
The 'Burbs
Small Fry
Cloud Atlas
The Polar Express
Apollo 13
Here
The Man with One Red Shoe
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Toy Story 5
From the Earth to the Moon
Production Credits
The Bloody Hundredth
The Polar Express
Fallen Angels
John Adams
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Where the Wild Things Are
News of the World
Cast Away
Tales from the Crypt
Olive Kitteridge
From the Earth to the Moon
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Masters of the Air
A Man Called Otto
City of Ember
Evan Almighty
The Circle
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
The Pacific
Larry Crowne
Greyhound
Big Love
The Ant Bully
Band of Brothers
Mamma Mia!
Parkland
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
The Movies
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Untitled Berlin Noir Series
Charlie Wilson's War
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
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