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Tom Hanks

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon. In 2020, Hanks was ranked as the fourth-highest-grossing American film actor of all time. His numerous awards include two Academy Awards, seven Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards; he has also been nominated for five BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award. He received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2020.

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Tom Hanks is an American and Greek film actor, director, producer, and writer. Born Thomas Jeffrey Hanks in Concord in 1956, he is educated at California State University, Sacramento. He resides in Los Angeles and Oakland and is a member of the Democratic Party. His professional roles include work as a writer, with Open Library listing 43 works attributed to him.

Hanks has received the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He has also been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Academy Award Best Actor collection.

He is married to Rita Wilson and has children Colin Hanks and Chet Hanks. His siblings are Jim Hanks and Larry Hanks. Hanks speaks English and identifies with Eastern Orthodoxy and Greek Orthodoxy. He has type 2 diabetes and has had COVID-19. His ethnic background includes Portuguese Americans and British Americans.

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Concord, California, USA

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…

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The Comebacker2027
Toy Story 5 — Woody (voice)2026
Marty, Life Is Short — Self2026
Toy Story: 30 Years and Beyond - A Special Edition of 20/20 — Self2026
The Americas: A Wild 250th — Narrator2026
Tom Hanks, un héros ordinaire — Self (archive footage)2026
World War II with Tom Hanks — Self - Presenter2026
We're Back! With Brian Williams — Self - Guest2026
Freaky Tales — Hank, Video Store Owner2025
The Phoenician Scheme — Leland2025

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United States
Active from: 1956

Discography

Uncommon Type: Some Stories2017

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Instance of: human
Given name: Jeffrey
Gender: male
Citizenship: Greece
Place of birth: Concord
Spouse: Rita Wilson
Sibling: Larry Hanks
Educated at: California State University, Sacramento
Political party: Democratic Party (United States)
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Religion: Greek Orthodoxy
Award: Officer of the Legion of Honour
Genre: melodrama
Image: Tom Hanks at the Elvis Premiere 2022.jpg
Height: 183
Number of children: 4
Residence: Oakland

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Commons category: Tom Hanks
date of birth: 1956-07-09
nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
birth name: Thomas Jeffrey Hanks
medical condition: COVID-19
filmography: Tom Hanks filmography
ethnic group: British Americans
member of: Screen Actors Guild
related category: Category:Films with screenplays by Tom Hanks
name in native language: Tom Hanks
net worth: 390000000
start of work period: 1977-00-00
social media followers: 16005006
writing language: English language
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
notable role: Woody

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Encyclopedic overview

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon. In 2020, Hanks was ranked as the fourth-highest-grossing American film actor of all time. His numerous awards include two Academy Awards, seven Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards; he has also been nominated for five BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award. He received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2020.

Hanks rose to fame with leading roles in the comedies Splash (1984), The Money Pit (1986), Big (1988), and A League of Their Own (1992). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor, playing a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993), then the title character in Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks has collaborated with 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)—and three World War II-themed miniseries: Band of Brothers (2001), The Pacific (2010) and Masters of the Air (2024). He has also frequently collaborated with directors Ron Howard, Nora Ephron and Robert Zemeckis.

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