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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born on 9 July 1956, in Concord, California USA of British (father) and Portuguese (mother) descent, and is a well-recognized film and television actor, producer, director, screen writer, as well as a voice actor. Tom Hanks is a truly remarkable personality, who is known for such movies as “Forrest Gump” where he played the main role, “The Green Mile” where he starred alongside David Morse, Doug Hutchison and Bonnie Hunt, as well as “The Da Vinci Code” directed by Ron Howard, among many others. Even though he is mostly known as an actor, Tom Hanks has collaborated with the famous film director Steven Spielberg on such remarkable movies as “Saving Private Ryan” and “Catch Me If You Can”. Tom Hanks is one of the highest-grossing actors in the industry, with over $8.5 billion grossed at the box office worldwide from films in which he has starred.

How rich is Tom Hanks then? Sources state that Tom Hanks’ net worth is estimated to be $410 million; his earnings in 2012 alone amounted to $26 million. The main sources for Tom Hanks’ wealth are his film acting and producing career.

Tom Hanks studied at California State University where he took theatre classes. Around the same time, he met the actor and director Vincent Dowling, who helped him obtain a position as an intern at the Great Lakes Theatre Festival. Initially Tom took roles in several stage productions during the 70s, including a role in “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” in 1978, for which he won his first Cleveland Critics Circle Award. A year later Hanks moved to New York where he intended to pursue his acting career, and it was there that Hanks debuted in the slasher movie “He Knows You’re Alone”. After that, Hanks was cast in the sitcom called “Bosom Buddies”, in which he co-starred with Peter Scolari. However, Hanks’ early acting career was marked by both successes and failures, as he appeared in such hit movies as “Nothing in Common” with Jackie Gleason and “Big”, but also starred box-office flops like “The Bonfire of the Vanities” with Bruce Willis, and “Joe Versus the Volcano”.

Tom Hanks’ breakthrough came when he switched from portraying comedic characters to more mature ones. This transition led him to star in a movie that brought him a lot of media attention. An Academy Award and Golden Globes Award winner, “Forrest Gump” became an international success and received a lot of critical acclaim. It grossed over $677 million worldwide and made a significant contribution to Tom Hanks’ net worth. Following the success of “Forrest Gump”, Tom Hanks starred in some of the better known and critically acclaimed movies like “Apollo 13” that grossed more than $355 million and “Saving Private Ryan” that earned $481 million in the box office. More recently, Tom Hanks has lent a voice to a character in “Toy Story 3”, and made appearances in a film called “Captain Phillips” with Barkhad Abdi, a Broadway play “Lucky Guy”, as well as directed and starred opposite Julia Roberts in a romantic comedy film “Larry Crowne”.

Overall, Tom Hanks proficiency is indeed impressive: he has been cast in over 50 films, and has produced over 20. In addition, he has appeared in over 20 TV films, shows and series, and produced  several others too. There can be no doubt that his net worth has been well earned.

In his personal life, Tom Hanks was married to American actress Samantha Lewes from 1978 until they divorced in 1987; the couple has two children. In 1988, Hanks married actress Rita Wilson, and joined her in the Greek Othodox Church; they have two sons. Tom’s hobby is collecting typewriters.

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• [on turning 60, and what his advice would be to his younger self would be]: “Floss…Do something about your blood sugar now you idiot…and just learn how to relax.”
• [When asked why we glorify acting the way we do]I think it’s the basic need for all of human kind to be a part of something bigger than themselves because as actors we get to create that.
• You learn more from the things that don’t work out than the things that do. I worked harder on Turner & Hooch (1989) than I did on 80% of the films I’ve made.
• There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table.’
• May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.
• I have a great affection for the Irish. My professional experience was started by a great man named Vincent Dowling – as much a creature of the Irish theatre as has ever existed.
• Anytime you go off to do something new, you’re involved in a reinvention, and any actor who says otherwise is just trying to lower expectations.
• [on preparing for his role in Cast Away (2000)] The idea of looking at four months of constant vigilance as far as what I ate, as well as two hours a day in the gym doing nothing but a monotonous kind of workout – that was formidable. You have to power yourself through it almost by some sort of meditation trickery. It’s not glamorous.
• I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I’ve always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.
• [on Nora Ephron] Knowing and loving Nora meant her world – or her neighborhood – became yours. She gave you books to read and took you to cafes you’d never heard of that became legends. You discovered Krispy Kremes from boxes she held out, and you learned there is such a thing as a perfect tuna sandwich. She would give your kids small, goofy parts in movies with the caveat that they might not make the final cut but you’d get a tape of the scene. For a wrap gift she would send you a note saying something like, “A man is going to come to your house to plant an orange tree – or apple or pomegranate or whatever – and you will eat its fruit for the rest of your days.”
• We are competing in a marketplace in which the thing we might have going for us is the true battle against cynicism. That’s what Larry Crowne (2011) is about, more than anything else.
• [on Larry Crowne (2011)]: We wanted to examine the theme of reinvention – not reinvention by way of fate dictating it, but by your own proactive place in how you move on to whatever the next chapter is going to be. It really began [this way]: I lose my job, I go to college, my teacher is Julia Roberts. What would happen?
• [on Larry Crowne (2011)]: At the end, Larry Crowne is living in a crappy apartment. He still has a lousy job, he can’t even afford to pay for the gas in his big car, and he’s going to school with no real set future of what’s going to happen. But he has this amazing new forceful presence in his life, and he can honestly say that the best thing that ever happened to him was getting fired from his job.
• [on being a supporter of British soccer team Aston Villa]: I fell in love with Aston Villa because I thought the name sounded like a lovely island off Sardinia.
• [on Twitter]: Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.
• (1989, on if he’s gotten use to being rich and famous) It’s a kick in the head, but it doesn’t add to my ability. It doesn’t add to my self-worth. I’ve always felt I could buy whatever I wanted, to tell you the truth, even when I didn’t have any money. I honestly don’t need an awful lot to keep me happy. What the money can do is guarantee the security of an awful lot of other people. I’ve been able to help my family. It’s great to be able to do nice things for the people I care about. (As far as being famous), I remember that I’m not a rocket scientist. The only thing I have to protect from too much attention is my family, which I can do, for the most part. I talk to the press all the time. I’m accessible. It makes things easier. People leave you alone more. It is still a bit disconcerting to see a picture of myself and my wife in a tabloid or something like that, but big deal. I don’t really go out into real public situations. I don’t know what’s going to happen if I try to go to hockey games next year and I can’t get out of the place. But I still pursue the things that are important to me.
• (1989, on peers he admires) Sean Penn brings an integrity to his work that I think we all wish we had. Mickey Rourke is a guy I’ll pay five dollars to walk across the street and see. There’s something he does that he loads up his movies with, whether they’re good or bad. Also Kevin Costner, Tom Berenger and Michael Keaton. I rarely go to the movies when I don’t think, ‘Man, I wish I had that part’, you know?
• (1989, on filming the keyboard dancing sequence in Big (1988)) It was exhausting. We rehearsed until we dropped. Robert Loggia plays three sets of tennis every day, so he was in shape for it. It was like jumping rope for three and a half hours every time we did the scene. It was really hard work.
• (1989, on working with Penny Marshall on Big (1988)) Well, one thing she did that drove me crazy was to test over and over and over again with all sorts of actors. There were scenes that I must have done two hundred times on video tape and then two hundred more in the rehearsal process. Penny just wanted to see all sorts of things. I would say, “I can’t do this scene one more time. I don’t care who it is. I cannot read these same goddamn words one more time or by the time we get to making the movie, I’m going to hate it so much that I’m not going to do it at all”. Well, what happened instead was, I knew the material so well that by the time we shot it, it turned out to be the best rehearsed of all the movies that I’ve done. There are only certain people I would accept that from. Penny is one. To most others, I would say, “Look, you either tell me exactly what is wrong or what is right about this or I’m going to strangle you”.
• (1989, on landing Bosom Buddies (1980)) I had lived in New York for a couple of years and had developed, I guess, a defense mechanism when it came to auditions. And that was not to care about them too much. So I was able to go in and be so casual, so nonchalant about impressing those people that I’d screw it up-as opposed to trying to show them how great and unique a talent you are. People hate you when you do that. Eventually, a development deal was struck, which meant I would probably work in some ABC-TV series. It worked out to be “Bosom Buddies”. We all had a great time. I thought we did some really excellent television shows. We, as actors, got to be a very, very finely-honed team. It was a great marriage, as far as that goes…By the end of two seasons, we were pretty well flagged. We were just exhausted. Everybody probably would have said the show was canceled at the right time, because we would have begun to chew each other’s heads off.
• (1989, Playboy Magazine) I think my world image would have been very different if I had lost my virginity in high school, but I didn’t. No Bachelor Party antics, I’m afraid. I just had a girlfriend for a long time. But something important did happen in high school. I took a drama class that determined my career. In the course of ten weeks, I saw five completely different types of theater. I felt that the theater was as magical a place as existed, and I wanted to be involved in it. So I majored in theater arts. After I saw a Berkeley Repertory Theater production of The Iceman Cometh, I knew I’d do anything to be a part of it. I went to Chabot College, where they had a great theater department. I started out operating the lights and building the sets. Later on, I began to perform and went off to the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Cleveland as slave labor. That was my big break. I went back to Sacramento as a professional actor and then went to New York with my wife and child. It was a war of survival, really. I was a kid who had never been in such a big city before. I was on unemployment and trying to act. My wife was an actress as well, and she was pursuing that as best she could. This went on for two years. Finally, I got a job in a low-budget movie, and after that, I got a development deal with ABC and we moved to California.
• (1989, on experimenting with drugs) As to drugs, there isn’t anybody who didn’t smoke pot. And I also had done some blow. But I never did LSD. I never even did Quãaludes or anything like that, though all of this stuff, especially for someone who worked in the theater, was abundant. Smoking pot just made me the stupidest human being in the world.
• (1989, on his on-screen heroes) Robert Duvall. All he has to do is walk across the street. And certainly Jack Nicholson. And Robert De Niro. I would see whatever Jason Robards did. Steve McQueen; he was really cool. Also, film directors. Stanley Kubrick was a huge thing for me; 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) was probably the most influential film, movie, story, artistic package, whatever, that I ever saw. It was just bigger. It affected me much, much more than anything I had ever seen. There was just awe. I’ve seen that movie twenty-two times. In theaters, not on video tape. Every time I saw it, I saw something new, something else that Kubrick had put in. He was able to suspend my disbelief. I just felt, We are in space. The only other things that affected me as profoundly were reading “Catcher in the Rye” and finding out, in the fifth or sixth grade, about the Holocaust…I remember feeling as alone as “Holden Caulfield” did, thinking, This isn’t talking about me, or my life, yet I know how he feels. Another thing about that book: I remember being very impressed at seeing the word crap in print. “All that David Copperfield kind of crap…”
• (1989, on why his parents divorced) Mostly because of money. They weren’t well off, and neither one of them could deal with four kids at one time. Also, my dad wanted us. Since then, I’ve had a divorce myself and I went back and talked to my parents. I asked them how they could do that, split us up. The answer was that you do what you have to do at the time. After that, my dad met another woman and married her and we moved to Reno. She had five kids of her own. Suddenly, it was, like-bang, zoom!-there were eight kids around. We were total strangers, all thrust together. I remember in school we had to draw a picture of our house and family and I ran out of places to put people. I put them on the roof. I drew Dad in bed, sleeping, since he worked so hard in the restaurant. When he and she split up, I never saw those people again.
• (1989, Playboy Magazine) As a child, I had an incredible amount of freedom to do whatever I wanted to do. By the time I was in junior high school, I was wandering around, freely, as much as I wanted to. A free spirit.
• (1989, on working with Jackie Gleason in Nothing in Common (1986)) I was intimidated up to a point, but we worked as peers. I was certainly deferential and respectful. He wasn’t feeling a hundred percent as far as his health, so he was kind of slow. But it was amazing: He came in exactly at nine, worked straight through to five. He had it down, knew what he wanted to do, got up and did it. He was just very, very professional.
• (1989, on Punchline (1988)) That’s the hardest one to make any sort of judgment on. The movie didn’t do that well, which was really disappointing. If I were going to figure out why, I would end up taking a bunch of cheap shots at an awful lot of people who tried real hard, and that’s not fair. What can you say? But it’s the best work I’ve ever done. We were talking some real naked truths about the characters and, in a lot of ways, about myself. I was too close. The guy in Punchline probably has the worst aspects of my worst aspects. He is extremely competitive, for one thing. Competitive to a fault. He is unable to balance his daily existence so that real life and what he does for a living have an equal weight. I’ve certainly had those problems; I think any actor has: The only time you really feel alive is when you’re working. I’ve gotten a little more mature since I was like that, but….I think that’s what really drives actors absolutely stark-raving mad and why they develop ulcers and drug problems. Part of it is the insecurity factor-every time, you feel like you’re never going to get another chance again. They’re going to catch on, and that’ll be it. Even when you’re working a lot, you think, ‘How many of these do I get?’, It’s like they give you only so many dollars in your wallet and once those dollars are spent, you’re broke.
• (1989, on Dragnet (1987)) Made a lot of money but probably not nearly as much as anticipated. It’s convoluted. There are problems with it. It should be funnier.
• (1989, on Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)) Disappeared without a trace, even though it’s probably the most visually beautiful movie I’ve made.
• (1989, on Nothing in Common (1986)) Has a bit of a split personality, because we’re trying to be very funny in the same movie in which we’re trying to be very touching. It’s the best work that I had done up to then. It didn’t go through the roof, but it did very well.
• (1989, on The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)) Not a very good movie. It doesn’t have any real, clear focus to it. It isn’t about anything particularly that you can honestly understand. It made no money at all.
• (1989, Playboy Magazine) When you have a hit, you get so much attention paid to you. Splash (1984) made eighty million dollars and Bachelor Party (1984) made forty million. You think, Oh, I know how to do this. But you can’t even begin to know anything after two movies, though you can get arrogant and lazy. I didn’t become an actor to develop a personality cult or to get power over people. I went into this because it’s fun, because it’s a great way to make a living. That really governs my reaction to it all. But you get all this attention. Your head can play all sorts of bizarre tricks. By now, I think I have a pretty good grasp of how this stuff works. I fought my battles a long time ago…I guess you have a period when you think you deserve all the attention you’re getting. You have people surrounding you, telling you that you’re the greatest thing in the world. I honestly don’t think I have an inflated view of myself now. But it happens.
• (1989, on Bachelor Party (1984)) I’m the only one at the bachelor party not to get laid. The movie is just a sloppy rock-and-roll comedy that has tits in it. It was made when the studios were making lots of “Porky’s” and “Animal House” kinds of things.
• [In a New York Times article on Julia Roberts]: What am I, just another in your long line of I Love Julia calls?
• [on The Pacific (2010)] Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what’s going on today?
• [on The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)] When we were making it, that movie was huge. We couldn’t make a move anywhere in New York City. Everybody was talking about it. Everybody was miscast, me particularly. Brian De Palma deals with iconography more than filmmaking. He is the most uncompromising filmmaker – both in a good way and a bad way – that you’ll ever come across. This is the guy who made Scarface (1983). So his take on it one just one of those things. You can’t take a book like that, that has changed the way people talk and think and change it into a palatable movie, or alter the thrust of what the source material is talking about. It may not translate in a way that is going to work.
• [on Charlie Wilson] Wilson may have lived his life in a certain way, but to give him his due, he severed the Achilles’ heel of the Soviet Union. It was just nine months after they pulled out of Afghanistan that the Berlin wall came down. And one of the reasons it fell was that the Soviet government knew that the cream of its armed forces had been decimated by a bunch of people in a place called Afghanistan. That meant they couldn’t defend their borders in East Germany and Poland. That has Charlie Wilson all over it.
• My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it’s still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire. I guess it’s like being a sportsman. When people ask great football stars or cricketers what they will miss most when the time comes to stop, they’ll tell you that it’s that moment when the ball comes to them. In that moment, there’s that wonderful anxiety, that feeling of “Please don’t let me screw this up”. If I didn’t have the chance to do what I do, it’s that I would miss more than anything. That terror is what makes me feel alive. It’s a wonderful feeling, unlike anything else in the world.
• If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn’t quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!
• In this business, careers are based upon longevity.
• As you know, the election between [Thomas] Jefferson and John Adams was filled with innuendo, lies, a bitter, partisan press and disinformation. How great we’ve come so far since then.
• Regarding the WGA Strike and how it could affect the Academy Awards: The show must go on, that is one of the tenets of everything. I am a member of the board of governors of the Academy, and we definitely want to put on a great show and honor the films that have come out in the course of the year. I just hope that the big guys who make big decisions, up high in their corporate boardrooms and what not, get down to honest bargaining and everyone can get back to work.
• The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
• My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). It’s just not December without that movie in my house.
• I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?
• I love what I do for a living, it’s the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don’t truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I’m always trying to balance that with what is really important.
• Some people go to bed at night thinking, “That was a good day.” I am one of those who worries and asks, “How did I screw up today?”
• My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.
• I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don’t want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there’s a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly. So appearances can be deceptive, particularly in Hollywood.
• [interview in “Women’s World”, 10/11/05] If you’re funny, if there’s something that makes you laugh, then every day’s going to be okay.
• [on the CGI used in The Polar Express (2004)] It’s the same stuff they used in that fourth “Lord of the Rings” movie. Or was it the 19th “Lord of the Rings” movie? You know, the one where Boldo and Jingy travel across the bridge? I don’t know, I don’t know their names. When I watch “Lord of the Rings”, I just think, “Someone got their finger stuck on the word processor for too long”.
• I’ve made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.
• It’s just as hard . . . staying happily married as it is doing movies.

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• Ranked 3rd highest grossing actor of all time with all of his films grossing 4.3 billion dollars in the U.S. [2016].
• Besides being related to Abraham Lincoln, he also portrayed Abraham Lincoln.
• Tom Hanks’ company Playtone Entertainment is named after the fictional Playtone in the 1996 film “That Thing You Do”.
• He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, by President Barack Obama, in a live televised ceremony held in the East Room of the White House, on November 22, 2016, along with twenty other recipients, the the largest, and final Medal of Freedom ceremony of Obama’s presidency. At this ceremony, the twenty-one recipients, in alphabetical order, included: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Elouise Cobell (posthumous award given to her son), Ellen DeGeneres, Robert De Niro, Richard Garwin, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Frank Gehry, Margaret Hamilton (as Margaret H. Hamilton), Tom Hanks, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (posthumous award given to her niece), Michael Jordan, Maya Lin, Lorne Michaels, Newton Minow, Eduardo Padron (as Eduardo Padrón), Robert Redford, Diana Ross, Vin Scully, Bruce Springsteen, and Cicely Tyson.
• That Thing You Do! (1996) is the only film to feature Tom, wife Rita Wilson, son Colin Hanks and daughter Elizabeth Hanks.
• Has portrayed six real-life people in his films: Jim Lovell in Apollo 13 (1995), Charlie Wilson in Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Captain Richard Phillips in Captain Phillips (2013), Walt Disney in Saving Mr. Banks (2013), James B. Donovan in Bridge of Spies (2015), and Captain ‘Chesley Sullenberger’ in Sully (2016).
• After his parents Amos and Janet divorced in 1960, siblings Tom, Larry and Sarah went to live with their father, staying in 10 different homes in 5 years, while younger brother Jim remained with their mother.
• He has worked with 9 directors who have won a Best Director Oscar: Ron Howard, Jonathan Demme, Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Mike Nichols, and Clint Eastwood.
• In 2015, Tom Hanks started using his official Twitter feed in part to post photos and locations of lost items (such as gloves, shoes, socks, etc.) that he saw on the streets of New York. In at least one case, this resulted in the lost property being returned to its owner–in October 2015, he found the Fordham College ID for a woman named Lauren, and she retrieved it from his office.
• His daughter Elizabeth Hanks appears in the movie, Forrest Gump (1994), as the girl on the school bus who refuses to let young Forrest Gump (Michael Conner Humphreys) sit next to her.
• Hanks designated 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) as his favorite film for an AFI poll.
• Tom Hanks was, respectively, 38 and 39 when he won his back-to-back Best Actor Oscars in 1994 and 1995, exactly like Spencer Tracy when he won in 1938 and 1939.
• He’s a huge fan of Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969). That’s the reason he agreed upon playing one of the Canadian Mounties in the Lumberjack song during Concert for George (2003).
• 9 actors received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for their work in a movie starring Hanks: Gary Sinise in Forrest Gump (1994), Ed Harris in Apollo 13 (1995), Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile (1999), Paul Newman in Road to Perdition (2002), Christopher Walken in Catch Me If You Can (2002), Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Max von Sydow in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), Barkhad Abdi in Captain Phillips (2013) and Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies (2015). Out of all these movies, Hanks was only nominated (and won) for ‘Forrest Gump’.
• A recipient of the 2014 Kennedy Center Honors. Other recipients this year were Al Green, Patricia McBride, Sting, and Lily Tomlin.
• Has played a captain in five different movies: Forrest Gump (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Captain Phillips (2013) and Sully (2016).
• As of 2016, has appeared in eight films that were Oscar nominated as Best Picture: Forrest Gump (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Green Mile (1999), Toy Story 3 (2010), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), Captain Phillips (2013) and Bridge of Spies (2015). Of those, Forrest Gump (1994) is a winner in the category.
• Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Marion Cotillard, Emma Thompson, Daniel Brühl, Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams are the only actors to receive a Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA and Critics’ Choice Award nomination for the same performance and then fail to be Oscar-nominated for it: for their performances in Captain Phillips (2013), The Departed (2006), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Rust and Bone (2012), Saving Mr. Banks (2013),Rush (2013),Nightcrawler (2014) and Arrival (2016), respectively.
• Some of his movies use comedic scenes of his character urinating: The Money Pit (1986), A League of Their Own (1992), Forrest Gump (1994), Apollo 13 (1995) and The Green Mile (1999).
• New York, NY, USA: Opens on Broadway in “Lucky Man”, the last play written by his friend and frequent director, the late Nora Ephron. This will also be Hanks’s first-ever appearance in a stage production since he was in junior college, and he’ll be co-starring with another old friend, his old Bosom Buddies (1980) co-star, Peter Scolari. [February 2013]
• Became a grandfather for the 2nd time at age 56 when his granddaughter Charlotte Bryant Hanks, via son Colin Hanks, was born on July 1, 2013.
• Became a grandfather for the 1st time at age 54 when his granddaughter Olivia Jane Hanks, via son Colin Hanks, was born on February 1, 2011.
• Became a father for the 4th time at age 39 when his 2nd wife Rita Wilson gave birth to their son Truman Theodore Hanks on December 26, 1995.
• Became a father for the 3rd time at age 34 when his 2nd wife Rita Wilson gave birth to their son Chet Hanks on August 4, 1990.
• Became a father for the 2nd time at age 25 when his 1st [now ex] wife Samantha Lewes gave birth to their daughter Elizabeth Hanks on May 17, 1982.
• Became a father for the 1st time at age 21 when his girlfriend [now ex-wife] Samantha Lewes gave birth to their son Colin Hanks on November 24, 1977.
• Has been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes [October 7, 2013].
• Has often done films which (comically) use urinating/using the bathroom as a plot device (e.g. The Green Mile (1999), Forrest Gump (1994), Apollo 13 (1995) and Dragnet (1987)).
• Both Tom Hanks and his son, Colin Hanks, have been “Not My Job” quiz contestants on the National Public Radio show, “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”. Both won the quiz.
• Lives in Pacific Palisades, Malibu, California and Ketchum, Idaho.
• When he appeared on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (2009), Conan’s last NBC show in L.A. (Jan. 22, 2010), the Tonight Show Band played The Beatles’ “Lovely Rita” as Hanks made his entry, undoubtedly a nod to the lovely Rita Wilson, Tom’s beloved wife.
• Was originally cast in the dual role of “Charlie Kaufman/Donald Kaufman” in Adaptation. (2002), but later dropped out. Nicolas Cage, who went on to receive a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his performance, was cast instead.
• Is a fan of Doctor Who (1963).
• Is a fan of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), and has expressed desire to one day guest star on the show.
• Is a die hard Oakland Raiders fan. Featured in the documentary Rebels of Oakland: The A’s, the Raiders, the ’70s (2003).
• Publicly endorsed Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.
• Enjoys collecting typewriters, purchasing over 80 of them around the globe. His interest in them generated an idea for an iPad application that he developed called Hanx Writer, that simulates antique typewriters sound and feel. It was very successful and made it to to top list on Appstore in August 2014.
• The asteroid “12818 tomhanks” was named after him.
• In 2007, Forbes Magazine reported that his earnings were estimated to be $74 million the previous year.
• Favorite baseball team is the Cleveland Indians. He purchased a stone in the front of Jacobs Field when it was built.
• Has also credited Joe Spano, former co-star of the TV series Hill Street Blues (1981), as being another of his most important early inspirations.
• Auditioned for the role of Joel in Risky Business (1983), which eventually went to Tom Cruise.
• Was in attendance at Princess Diana’s funeral along with Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, among others.
• Married Rita Wilson at Saint Sophia’s Church, converting from Roman Catholicism to Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
• Was a member of Monty Python for one night only, filling in for John Cleese, at A Concert For George.
• Cited as America’s Favorite Movie Star in Harris Polls conducted in 2002, 2004, 2005, a record number of times as the #1 favorite. Harrison Ford and Clint Eastwood are the only other actors to have achieved that feat.
• Forbes magazine estimated his 1999 earnings at $71.5 million.
• Frequently works with director Steven Spielberg, and is related to Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln. He was not involved in Spielberg’s film about Lincoln, despite his frequent involvement in historical projects.
• He once shared a record (with Tom Cruise and Will Smith) as the actor to star in the most consecutive $100 million-grossing movies (7). As of 2008, Smith holds the record alone with 8 movies.
• Biography/bibliography in: “Contemporary Authors”. Volume 244, pages 199-202. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2006.
• Ranked #16 on Premiere’s 2006 “Power 50” list. Had ranked #16 in 2005 as well.
• Is the third most-represented actor (behind Sidney Poitier and Gary Cooper) on the American Film Institute’s 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time, with four of his films making the list. They are: Forrest Gump (1994) at #37, Philadelphia (1993) at #20, Apollo 13 (1995) at #12, and Saving Private Ryan (1998) at #10.
• His performance as Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump (1994) is ranked #43 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
• His top five all-time favorite films are 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Godfather (1972), Fargo (1996), Elephant (2003) and Boogie Nights (1997), with Stanley Kubrick’s film holding the top ranking.
• He and President George Bush are both related to 19th-century Presidents. Bush, a Republican, is descended, by way of his mother’s family, from Franklin Pierce, one of the last Democratic presidents before Abraham Lincoln. Hanks, a Democrat, is descended from the family of Lincoln’s mother.
• His performance as Chuck Noland in Cast Away (2000) is ranked #46 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
• His performance as Josh Baskin in Big (1988) is ranked #15 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
• Sold popcorn and peanuts as a teenager at the Oakland Coliseum.
• Stepson of the former Frances Wong, who his father married in 1965.
• Related to Bill Cosby’s wife Camille O. Cosby (née Camille Olivia Hanks), as both share a biological lineage to Abraham Lincoln through his mother, Nancy Hanks.
• Has been Member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Actors Branch) since 2001.
• Born to Amos Mefford Hanks, a chef, and his wife Janet Marylyn Frager, a hospital worker, his parents divorced in 1960.
• On his father’s side, Tom is of English, and some German, ancestry. Two of his paternal great-grandparents were English immigrants. Tom’s maternal grandparents were both of Portuguese descent (from the Azores Islands). Tom’s maternal great-grandfather had changed his surname from “Fraga” to “Frager”.
• Shares his birthday with Jack White, David O’Hara, Courtney Love, Chris Cooper, O.J. Simpson and Donald Rumsfeld.
• He and his good friend Meg Ryan have been co-stars in three movies as love interests: Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) and You’ve Got Mail (1998).
• Has worked with two actors who played Howard Hughes. In Philadelphia (1993), he worked with Jason Robards, who played Hughes in Melvin and Howard (1980) for director Jonathan Demme. His cast mate in Catch Me If You Can (2002) was Leonardo DiCaprio, who played Hughes in The Aviator (2004) for Martin Scorsese.
• In three of his movies, he has had a scene where he is stranded at sea: Splash (1984), Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), and Cast Away (2000).
• He is an environmental conservationist and often advocates and supports natural causes.
• Premiere Magazine ranked him as #28 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005).
• He once worked as a hotel bellman. Some of the celebrity guests whose bags he carried were Cher, Sidney Poitier, Slappy White and Bill Withers.
• Has been good friends with Bruce Springsteen since his youth.
• Was listed as a potential nominee on both the 2005 and 2007 Razzie Award nominating ballots. He was suggested in the Worst Actor category on the 2005 ballot for his roles in the films The Polar Express (2004) (referred to as “Bi-Polar Express” on the ballot), The Ladykillers (2004) and The Terminal (2004). He was suggested again in the Worst Actor category two years later, for his performance in The Da Vinci Code (2006). He failed to receive either nomination.
• Was considered for the role of Peter Banning (Peter Pan) in Hook (1991).
• Between 1994 and 2004, he was the performer nominated for the most Academy Awards (four times, along with Sean Penn, Meryl Streep, Judi Dench and Ed Harris) and won the most (twice).
• Shortly before the release of Columbia Pictures’ Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001), he was one of several actors speaking out against the use of “synthespians” (computer-generated actors) in the place of flesh-and-blood humans. Nevertheless, he took the lead role in the computer-animated film The Polar Express (2004), a film highly-publicized for its use of new (and expensive) technique of digital actors.
• Had made four films with director Steven Spielberg, all of which are tied to Europe. Saving Private Ryan (1998) revolved around his character and his infantry unit seeking out a missing private in Europe during WW II. Catch Me If You Can (2002) involved his character tracking down Frank Abagnale Jr. in France; in The Terminal (2004), his character was from the fictional eastern European country of Krakohzia, and Bridge of Spies (2015) was a Cold War thriller where his character had to go to Berlin, Germany.
• His first wife Samantha Lewes died of cancer 14 years after their divorce.
• His three favourite bands/artists are Elvis Presley, Patrick Rondat and Alabama Thunderpussy.
• He was voted the 26th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
• His heroic Oscar-winning gay character Andrew Beckett in the 1993 film Philadelphia (1993) was ranked #49 on the Amerian Film Institute’s heroes list of the 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villians.
• Biography in: “Who’s Who in Comedy” by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 205-206. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
• Has been referred to by many as “the modern James Stewart”.
• Is a fan of English Premier League soccer team Aston Villa and was presented with a shirt on a TV show with the print ‘Hanks 1’ on the back.
• He gained weight for and later lost 55 pounds playing Chuck Noland in Cast Away (2000).
• Lost 30 lbs. for his role in Philadelphia (1993).
• Ranked #1 on Star TV’s Top Ten Box Office stars of the 1990s (2003)
• Is a diehard Cleveland Indians baseball team fan.
• Ranked #13 in Premiere’s 2003 annual Power 100 List. Had ranked #15 in 2002.
• He is a third cousin, four times removed, of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Their common ancestors were John Hanks (1680 – 1740) and his wife, Catherine, who were the great-great-grandparents of Lincoln, and the six times great-grandparents of Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks is also a seventh cousin, once removed, of actor George Clooney (Catherine and John Hanks were the seven times great-grandparents of Clooney).
• Jim Lovell, who Hanks played in Apollo 13 (1995), is actually left-handed, but Hanks refused to write with his left hand for the movie.
• Is a member of the International Thespian Society (a group supporting theatre for high school students internationally).
• Returned to his old high school, Skyline High School in Oakland, California, to dedicate a renovated theater named for Rawley T. Farnsworth, the retired drama teacher he thanked in his Philadelphia (1993) Oscar speech. Oakland Tribune reports Hanks donated about 1/4 of the $465,000 cost of the project. Then he led the audience of some 1000 people in a chorus of “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (6 March 2002).
• Received American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award, presented by fellow Oscar winner Steven Spielberg, the youngest ever to receive that award (12 June 2002).
• Has another brother who is a professor at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, IL.
• His Oscar acceptance speech for 1993’s Philadelphia (1993) led to the plot of the movie In & Out (1997). Hanks thanked a gay teacher in his speech.
• Born at 11:17 AM
• Was asked to play the title role in Jerry Maguire (1996).
• Received emergency treatment for serious staph infection in leg after returning from overseas location shoot (1999).
• Hanks cited the help of a nearby ice cream shop which helped him gain 30 pounds for his role in A League of Their Own (1992).
• Married his first wife Samantha Lewes (real name: Susan Dillingham) two months after their son Colin’s birth.
• After a one-shot guest appearance on Happy Days (1974), producer Ron Howard asked him to read for a secondary part in Splash (1984), and he got the lead instead.
• Younger brother of Sandra Hanks and Larry Hanks and older brother of Jim Hanks.
• Voted best actor by the readers of “Us” magazine (1995).
• Attended California State University, Sacramento.
• Attended Chabot College in Hayward, California.
• Attended Skyline High School in Oakland, California.
• Ranked #17 in Empire (UK) magazine’s “The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time” list (October 1997).
• Second actor to win back-to-back Best Actor Oscars, for his work in Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994). The first was Spencer Tracy, for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938).
• Dislocated his shoulder when he fell through a rotting floor in a building in Germany while scouting locations with Steven Spielberg for the HBO series Band of Brothers (2001) (1999).
• Entertainment Weekly chose him as the only actor worthy of $20 million.
• Received the Distinguished Public Service Award, the U. S. Navy’s highest civilian honor, on Veterans Day 1999 for his work in the movie Saving Private Ryan (1998).
• Is a frequent guest host on Saturday Night Live (1975).

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