Thomas Jeffrey Hanks

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks

Hanks was born in Concord, California. His father, Amos Mefford Hanks (born Glenn County, California, March 9, 1924 was in san francisco, California, January 31, 1992), a distant relative of President Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks. His mother, Portuguese-American Janet Marylyn (nee Questioner; born in Alameda County, California, on January 18, 1932), a hospital employee. Hanks divorced in 1960. Family of three older children, Sandra, Larry and Tom went with their father of a young, Jim, now an actor, film producer, and remained with his mother in Red Bluff, California.

Amos Hanks was a single parent, working long hours, and often, leaving the children to look for themselves, and exercise self-confidence in the service sister. In addition to having a family history of Catholicism and Mormonism, Hanks, “the Bible-toting a protestant young,” a few years. The school, Hanks was unpopular with students and instructors. Hanks studied theatre Chabot College in Hayward, California, two years after the transfer of California State University, Sacramento.

in 1979, tom Hanks filled with her bags for New York City, where his first film, a low-budget horror film, He Knows you're Alone, and got a part in the television movie, Mazes and Monsters. in 1981 Hanks landed the lead role in the ABC television pilot condoleezza, playing the role of Kip Wilson. Hanks, he moved to Los Angeles, he and Peter Scolari played a couple of young advertiser forced to dress in women so that they can live a cheap ladies hotel. Hanks, before the partnership Scolari in the 1970s, the game show make Me laugh. Hanks career reached a bit of a halt to some of the failed acting sessions.

After a few more on the flop and a moderate success with the Network, by throwing in Hanks with a successful movie Big (1988), both at the box office in the industry. The Film established Hanks, such as Hollywood talent. It was followed later in the same year, the Punchline is, he and Sally Field, co-star of the fight as the stand-up comedians. Only in the 1989 movie Turner and Hooch brought to the success of the hill, in this period of time.

Hanks climbed to the top again with his portrayal of a washed-up baseball star returned to the director of the A League of Their Own. Philadelphia, sweat'de a gay lawyer with AIDS who pub for his firm discrimination. Hanks lost thirty-five pounds, and thin hair to make it look sickly for the role. Starred opposite hanks with Philadelphia in the summer of 1994 hit Forrest Gump. Hanks won the second Best Actor Academy Award for his role in Forrest Gump, becoming only the second player to have made the feat of winning the top of a Best Actor Oscar.

Hanks’ next role-astronaut Jim Lovell, 1995, movie, Apollo 13-together of him, Ron Howard. Critics generally applauded the film and performances of all the cast, including actor Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, and Kathleen Quinlan. In the same year, Hanks starred in the animated film, Toy Story voice toy Sheriff Woody.
Hanks, the next project, there was no more expensive. For Saving Private Ryan and the it team with Steven Spielberg to make a film about the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach, adventure, war-torn France to bring back, a soldier, a ticket home.

Hanks order, an all-time high box-office star of over $3.639 billion dollars of the total box office gross average $ 107 million per film. Took place on seven films grossed over $100 million worldwide at the box office. The highest grossing film when he took the role of the 2010 Toy Story 3.

Hanks was married to an American actress Samantha Lewes, 1978 and 1987. The couple had two children, son, Colin Hanks (also an actor), and a daughter, Elizabeth Ann. in 1988, tom Hanks is married to actress Rita Wilson.