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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
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Simpsons
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Love Boat
Bambi
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Oscars
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Entertainment Tonight
30 Rock
Golden Globe Awards
Taxi
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Colbert Report
Tales from the Crypt
Parkinson
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
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Greatest Event in Television History
Fallen Angels
1883
Primetime Glick
Ruby Wax Meets
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 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
The Phoenician Scheme
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Asteroid City
Toy Story of Terror!
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Quincy
Catch Me If You Can
The Post
Into the Breach: Saving Private Ryan
The Circle
Pinocchio
You've Got Mail
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Madden
Dragnet
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
Elvis
Sleepless in Seattle
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Saving Mr. Banks
Partysaurus Rex
The Bonfire of the Vanities
A Man Called Otto
Apollo 13
Angels & Demons
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Forrest Gump
Toy Story
The Bloody Hundredth
The Green Mile
Toy Story 5
California Typewriter
Toy Story 4
The 'Burbs
Joe Versus the Volcano
Road to Perdition
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Cast Away
Charlie Wilson's War
Bridge of Spies
Small Fry
Sully
Greyhound
Inferno
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
Cloud Atlas
The Polar Express
A Hologram for the King
Finch
The Terminal
A League of Their Own
The Man with One Red Shoe
Toy Story 2
Philadelphia
Larry Crowne
Big
The Da Vinci Code
The Americas
Saving Private Ryan
Hawaiian Vacation
The Money Pit
Captain Phillips
Splash
News of the World
Toy Story 3
Here
Production Credits
The Polar Express
The Pacific
The Ant Bully
Where the Wild Things Are
From the Earth to the Moon
Mamma Mia!
A Man Called Otto
John Adams
Band of Brothers
City of Ember
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
The Bloody Hundredth
Evan Almighty
Greyhound
Olive Kitteridge
Big Love
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
The Circle
Larry Crowne
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Fallen Angels
Parkland
Masters of the Air
News of the World
The Movies
Charlie Wilson's War
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Untitled Berlin Noir Series
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Tales from the Crypt
Cast Away
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