Tom Hanks

Known for ActingBorn 1956-07-09 (age 69)Concord, California, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Last Mile

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

We Are Cinema

Close Up

The Concert for Valor

Billy Joel: And So It Goes

Band of Brothers

Marty, Life Is Short

The Green Mile

Into the Breach: Saving Private Ryan

Bambi

1883

Forrest Gump

The Americas

A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks

Exclusively Elvis: A Special Edition of 20/20

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

Saving Private Ryan

The Grammys

The War

Tom Hanks: A League of His Own

Boatlift

Concert for George

From the Earth to the Moon

John Candy: I Like Me

Finch

Prohibition

Catch Me If You Can

Masters of the Air

The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts

The National Parks: America's Best Idea

A Man Called Otto

Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera

The Universal Story

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Toy Story

Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy

Carina Bergfeldt

Toy Story 3

The Simpsons

The Pacific

Tales from the Crypt

The Extraordinary Voyage

John Adams

The Eighties

Olive Kitteridge