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