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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
The Concert for Valor
A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys
The Phoenician Scheme
Asteroid City
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Toy Story of Terror!
Quincy
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Pinocchio
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
The Post
You've Got Mail
Elvis
The Circle
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Catch Me If You Can
Dragnet
Madden
Saving Mr. Banks
Sleepless in Seattle
Partysaurus Rex
The War
The Da Vinci Code
The Bloody Hundredth
Apollo 13
Larry Crowne
Toy Story
Toy Story 5
Saving Private Ryan
Bridge of Spies
Toy Story 2
Finch
Hawaiian Vacation
Cast Away
From the Earth to the Moon
A Hologram for the King
Captain Phillips
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Road to Perdition
The Americas
Here
The Polar Express
Joe Versus the Volcano
Inferno
Toy Story 4
The 'Burbs
Toy Story 3
Philadelphia
The Green Mile
Angels & Demons
California Typewriter
Splash
Small Fry
Big
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
The Money Pit
Forrest Gump
Sully
Greyhound
News of the World
Charlie Wilson's War
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
Cloud Atlas
The Man with One Red Shoe
A Man Called Otto
A League of Their Own
Production Credits
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Greyhound
Olive Kitteridge
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
Cast Away
Where the Wild Things Are
Parkland
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
From the Earth to the Moon
The Pacific
Evan Almighty
Larry Crowne
John Adams
Mamma Mia!
Fallen Angels
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Tales from the Crypt
Band of Brothers
A Man Called Otto
Big Love
The Movies
The Polar Express
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Charlie Wilson's War
The Bloody Hundredth
Untitled Berlin Noir Series
City of Ember
Masters of the Air
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
News of the World
The Ant Bully
The Circle
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