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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Tom_HanksTom Hanks - Wikipedia

    Retrieved February 1, 2018. ... Tom Hanks was born in Contra Costa county, California, in 1956, of Portuguese, British, and Irish descent. His maternal ancestors were Portuguese pioneers in California with roots in the Azores. His mother Janet Marylyn Frager (Fraga) was a hospital worker ...

  2. Tom Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker who has had an extensive career in film, television and stage. Hanks made his professional acting debut on stage, playing Grumio in a 1977 Great Lakes Theater production of The Taming of the Shrew . [1]

  3. www.imdb.com › name › nm0000158Tom Hanks - IMDb

    After several flops and a moderate success with the comedy Dragnet (1987), Hanks' stature in the film industry rose. The broad success with the fantasy-comedy Big (1988) established him as a major Hollywood talent, both as a box office draw and within the film industry as an actor.

  4. Hanks played Fred Rogers in Marielle Heller's biographical movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), a role which earned him a Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. [2] In 2022, Hanks played Colonel Tom Parker in the Elvis Presley biopic Elvis .

  5. Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Tom Hanks has been honored with numerous awards and nominations, including two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994).

  6. Tom Hanks. Producer: Cast Away. Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook.

  7. Greyhound is a 2020 American war film directed by Aaron Schneider and starring Tom Hanks, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester , and follows a US Navy commander on his first assignment commanding a multi-national escort destroyer group of four, defending an Allied convoy from U ...

  8. Jun 24, 2024 · Tom Hanks (born July 9, 1956, Concord, California, U.S.) is an American actor whose cheerful everyman persona made him a natural for starring roles in many popular films. In the 1990s he expanded his comedic repertoire and began portraying lead characters in dramas.

  9. Jun 13, 2022 · There are some artists, and Tom Hanks is one, who go beyond mere popularity and instead come to embody some part of our shared American story.

  10. www.wikiwand.com › en › Tom_HanksTom Hanks - Wikiwand

    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.