Tom Hanks

@Academy Award Winning Actor, Family and Facts

Tom Hanks is a popular American actor and is one of the highest paid all-time box office stars

Jul 9, 1956

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: July 9, 1956
  • Nationality: American
  • Famous: Academy Award Winning Actor, College Dropouts, Humanitarian, Democrats, Film & Theater Personalities, Actors
  • Ideologies: Democrats
  • City/State: California
  • Spouses: Rita Wilson, Samantha Lewes
  • Siblings: Jim Hanks, Larry Hanks, Sandra Hanks

Tom Hanks born at

Concord, California, U.S.

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Birth Place

In 1978, he married Samantha Lewes, an actress and producer. They were divorced in 1987. The couple has two children, Colin and Elizabeth.

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Personal Life

He married Rita Wilson in 1988, an actress with whom he worked in the film ‘Volunteers’. The couple has two sons, Chester and Truman.

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Personal Life

An asteroid “12818 tomhanks” is named after him.

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Personal Life

Tom Hanks was born on July 9, 1956, to Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook and Janet Marylyn, a hospital worker, in Concord, California. His siblings are Sandra, Larry, and Jim.

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Childhood & Early Life

His parents divorced in 1960. Tom, Sandra, and Larry were raised by his father while Jim, his youngest brother was brought up by his mother.

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Childhood & Early Life

As a young boy, he had to cope with the continuous change in places, before his father finally settled in Oakland.

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Childhood & Early Life

He completed high school at Skyline High School, Oakland and graduated from the institute in 1974.

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Childhood & Early Life

He enrolled at Chabot College in Hayward, California, but he switched to California State University, Sacramento to pursue acting.

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Childhood & Early Life

In 1978, his performance as ‘Proteus’ in Shakespeare’s ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ won him the Best Actor award in the Cleveland Critics Circle.

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Career

From 1978 to 1980, he acted in various summer productions of Shakespeare’s plays and in winters, he worked for a theater company in Sacramento.

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In 1979, he moved to New York with the dream of performing in Broadway. In 1980, he made his onscreen debut in the low-budget horror movie, ‘He Knows You're Alone’.

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The same year, he got a chance to perform in the television sitcom ‘Bosom Buddies’ which earned him critical acclaim.

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In 1982, his guest appearance on the TV episode of ‘Happy Days’, impressed co-actor Ron Howard who invited him to star in the supporting role in ‘Splash’, a comic film in 1984 that became a great hit.

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The 1999 animated film, ‘Toy Story 2’, where Hanks lent his voice for the character, Woody, the leader of the cowboy dolls, became a box-office hit making a record-breaking box-office sale of $80.8 million.

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Major Works

‘Apollo 13’ a film that deals with the lunar mission, released in 2002 in the IMAX format became a huge success earning $500 million at the box office.

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Major Works

‘The Da Vinci Code’ filmed in 2006, based on the best-seller written by Dan Brown, earned over $750 million at the box-office.

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Major Works