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