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