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