Actor Tom Hanks Biography/Wiki, Age, Height 2023

DOB/Zodiac	Age	Height	Net Worth
1956-07-09 Cancer	68 years	6'0 ft	$400m

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks, famous as Tom Hanks, is an American actor, scriptwriter, film producer, comic artist, and director. Tom Hanks was born on July 9, 1956. Tom is well-known for his comedic as well as sensational jobs. He is one of the most famous and conspicuous film stars in Hollywood and worldwide and is an American social symbol. Hank earned everything as a Hollywood star one can dream for; Tom Hanks height is 1.83 meters. There are numerous Tom Hanks Movies on Netflix.

Tom hanks Biography:

Name	Tom Hanks Full Name: Thomas Jeffrey Hanks
Nickname	Tom, Tom Hankies, America's Dad
Gender	Male
Profession/Genre	Actor, Filmmaker
Famous For	Acting
Tom Hanks Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)	in centimeters- 183 cm in meters- 1.83 m in feet inches- 6’
Weight (approx.)	in Kilograms- 82 Kg, in Pounds- 180 lbs
Body Measurements	N/A
Body Size	N/A
Body Type	N/A
Eye Color	Moss Green
Hair Color	Grey
Dress Size	N/A
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Sexual Orientation:	Straight
Hanks Personal Life
Date of Birth	July 9, 1956
Age	65 Years
Birthplace	Concord, California, United States
Zodiac sign	Cancer
Signature	N/A
Nationality	American
Hometown	Concord, California, U.S.A.
School	Skyline High School, Oakland, California.
College/University	California State University, Sacramento
Education	Majors in Drama
Religion	Catholic and Mormon
Caste/Ethnicity	N/A
Food Habit	Non-Vegetarian
Hobbies	Collecting Vintage Typewriters, Reading
Likes & Dislikes	N/A
Awards, Honors, Achievements	Academy Awards: • 1994: Best Actor (Philadelphia) • 1995: Best Actor (Forrest Gump) Golden Globe Awards: • 1989: Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Big) • 1994: Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (Philadelphia) • 1995: Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (Forrest Gump) • 2001: Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (Cast Away) • 2020: Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award More Awards: • 2014: Kennedy Center Honors Medallion • 2016: Presidential Medal of Freedom
Tattoo	N/A
Debut	Film: He Knows You're Alone (1980) TV: Bosom Buddies (1980) More Awards: • 2014: Kennedy Center Honors Medallion • 2016: Presidential Medal of Freedom
Political Inclination	The Democratic Party of U.S.A
Tom Hanks Girlfriends, Affairs, and More
Marital Status	Married
Affairs/Girlfriend	Rita Wilson
Hanks Family
Tom Hanks Wife/Spouse's	Rita Wilson (m. 1988), Samantha Lewes (m. 1978–1987)
Children	Colin Hanks, Chet Hanks, Elizabeth Ann Hanks, Truman Hanks
Parents	Father: Amos Mefford Hanks, Mother: Janet Marylyn Frager
Siblings	Brothers: Jim Hanks, Larry Hanks Sister: Sandra Hanks
Uncles	N/A
Tom Hanks Favorite Things
Favorite Food	Japanese Cuisines, Gyro
Sports	Football, Baseball
Baseball Club	Cleaveland Indians
NFL Team	Oakland Raiders
Favorite Drink	N/A
Music	N/A
Favorite Actor	N/A
Favorite Actress	N/A
Favorite Color	Blue, Red
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Favorite Tv Show	N/A
Favorite Film	Elephant, Looper, Fargo. The Godfather
Lucky Number	N/A
Favorite Singers	N/A
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Favorite Book	In Cold Blood
Destination(s)	N/A
Number	N/A
Style Quotient
Car(s) Collection	Toyota Prius, Mercedes-Benz S-Class, Chevy Tahoe
Money Factor
Net Worth (approx.)	$400 Million U.S.

Tom Hanks Wiki:

Tom Hanks is an American filmmaker, producer, and actor from Concord, U.S. Hanks’ rise to fame began in the 1980s and 1990s after working in television and lower-budget cinema. The first major step toward stardom was the 1980 comedy film ‘He Knows You’re Alone,’ where he stole the scenes from stars like Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn. Tom received a New York Film Critics Award for his role as military intelligence sergeant Chuck Noland in the 1992 drama ‘Cast Away.’ Chuck’s performance garnered him praise – he later won Blockbuster Entertainment Awards for “Favorite Actor – Drama” and a Golden Satellite Award nomination. He was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar in the ’92 category too.

Tom Hanks Age, Height, and Physical measurements:

The famous actor Tom Hanks, born on July 9, 1956, in Concord, California, is 65-years-old as of 2022. The American with three Academy Award nominations started his acting career after graduating from Chabot College and the University of Cincinnati with a B.A. in theater arts in 1978 and has appeared in over 50 films since then. Hanks’ height is 6 feet 0 inches (183 cm), weight is 180 pounds (82 kg), and body measurements are 40 inches chest, 34 inches waist, and 16 inches biceps. 

Tom Hanks Young, Early life and career:

Hanks was born on July 9, 1956, in Concord of California. 

Tom Hanks grew up with his siblings by his father Amos, a culinary expert. His parents decided separation when he was of 5 years. They moved to different cities and at least settled in Oakland. Then Hanks joined a secondary school there.

In Hayward, Hanks joined the junior school after graduating in 1974. After watching a presentation prepared by Eugene O’Neill’s, he decided to start his career in acting. The Iceman Cometh in 1946 and then went to the venue, California State University in Sacramento.

Hanks was enrolled to partake in the mid-year meetup of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, which was held in Lakewood, Ohio, in 1977. In his next three summers, Hanks started acting in various manifestations of Shakespeare’s plays, and he spent his winters working behind the stage at a neighborhood association in Sacramento.

In 1978, Tom Hanks, for Best Actor, won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for his Proteus portrayal in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Tom Hanks Movies and Career:

The 1980s: Early work Big Break With ‘Splash.’

Hanks left his school and moved to New York City after the third season of the Great Lakes Celebration in 1980. After many years of effort and tryouts, in 1980, he appeared as an actor in a scene of slasher film He Knows You’re Alone.

In the same year, ABC headhunter recognized him, and he cast him in the T.V. sitcom Bosom Buddies, where he played one of two publicizing bosses who dress in drag to rent a space in an all-female design. Although the show flopped after two seasons, it recognized and promoted Tom Hanks. And then he appeared in different shows like:

• Happy Days from 1974 to 84 
• Taxi from 1978 to 83
• The Love Boat from 1977 to 87
• Family Ties from 1982 to 89

In 1982, costar of Happy Days, Ron Howard and presently filling in as chief, recollected Hanks and, he perused for a supporting part in a film for which he got nominated for the sixth Oscar Nomination. 

Then John Candy performed that supporting job, and Tom Hanks played the lead role as an adoration man with a mermaid, in 1984, in Howard’s Splash, which Daryl Hannah played. That new Tom Hanks movie earned him unexpected fame and made his face conspicuous. 

These panned films earned him the most followers: 

• 1984: Bachelor Party
• 1985: The Man With One Red Shoe 
• 1985: Volunteers 
• 1986: The Money Pit 
• 1987: Dragnet 

Hanks figured out how to generally sound from these basic disappointments, as analysts frequently highlighted his exhibition as the best thing about every film.

Major Hit: ‘Big’

Hanks was cast in Chief Penny’s show of star production as a 13-year boy to 35-years boy role in 1998. He played both roles and maintained his character in both positions. His presentation enchanted the two pundits and crowds and acquired his first Academy Award selection for the best entertainer. Hanks produced numerous major hits like this.

The 1990s: Star established

With Big Tom, Hanks set himself up to be a box-office hero just as a capable entertainer. 

All through the accompanying relatively few years, his efforts fail to facilitate with the essential or business accomplishment of that film, although they showed Hanks’ broad reach, from bright comedies in   

• 1989’s Turner and Hooch, 
• 1990’s Joe Versus the Volcano to more emotional passage 1988’s Punchline.
•  1990’s Bonfire of the Vanities

Oscar Wins for ‘Philadelphia’ and ‘Forrest Gump’

In a virtual exhibition in 1992 as the administrator of an all-ladies’ ball club in A League of Their Own, Hanks appreciated two massive hits in 1993: Sleepless in Seattle, Nora Ephron composed this rom-com, through this Joe Versus Volcano costarring Meg Ryan and Philadelphia, Denzel Washington.

Hanks played the role of a legal advisor who was terminated from the job due to AIDS, and he played so perfectly that this film earned him an Academy Award for the best entertainer.

With the appearance and play of Forrest Gump, 1994 appeared as a messy year for Tom Hanks. Robert Zemecki produced that. Tom Hanks played the role of a 20th-century legend; This movie won Oscar for best play and cast. It was another significant hit achievement of the film industry.

After this, Tom Hanks got the Oscar as a straight lead actor. He was the only person to gain this achievement. It matters a lot to him.

Blockbusters: ‘Apollo 13,’ ‘Toy Story,’ ‘Saving Private Ryan’

Hanks featured Apollo 13 in 1995. His other blockbuster is based on Apollo 13 rocket’s landing mission in 1970. In 2002, IMAX design was used to deliver this film. This film also earned more than 500 million dollars, just like Forrest Gump in the cinema world. In addition, he played voiceover for a unique Toy Story film made by the Disney organization in 1995.

In 1996, he earned modest achievement by producing and screenwriting his debut in this film.

His behind the screen and camera performances were from the Earth to the moon. He acted, produced, composed, coordinated different roles in this Emmy-winning HBO miniseries.

He featured another Blockbuster in 1998 which was, a World War II drama coordinated by film director Steven Spielberg named Saving Private Ryan and shot with Mr. grim precision. It was a war film drama. 

Spielberg got Oscar for this movie, and this film was preferably selected for the chief and entertainer Academy Awards. You’ve Got Mail was his next hit romantic comedy; Hanks joined Ryan and Ephron once again.

‘Toy Story 2,’ ‘The Green Mile,’ ‘Cast Away’

In late 1999, Tom hanks earned the most significant numbers of the box office for his again performance as the voice of Woody and 1995’s Disney film Toy Story at the focal point of cowpoke.

The Voice of Tim Allen was also included in Toy Story 2. It eliminated all the fears and broke the records when played on Thanksgiving weekend by earning a record-breaking net average of $80.8 million. At the same time, he featured in The Green Mile; it was the top hit in cinema after Toy Story 2 just in his first week of release. Stephen King invented its story.

2000’s:

His next project was produced by Zemeckis, released in 2000; it was Cast Away. Tom Hanks costar Helen Hunt in this show. He played this movie by striking for many years in a specific remote location; He received a merited Oscar for being the best entertainer by performing this movie. This movie achieved the highest views in the film industry. And it also brought a huge fan following to Tom Hanks.

In 2001, we saw him starring in his next film, a Hollywood project, Catch Me If You Can, which was based on a true story.

Having scored a monumental record of film industry hits, his honest great looks and customary personal magnetism acquired him examinations with Jimmy Stewart, a great screen legend of Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, and Gary Cooper, etc. American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award, regarded to Tom Hanks in 2002 in honor of youngest actor of the industry.

‘The Da Vinci Code,’ ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’ and Broadway

• Tom Hanks, featuring Nia Vardalos, presented an unexpected major hit: My Big Fat Greek Wedding, in the year 2002.
• He came back along with Joel and Ethan Coen’s redo in 2004 for performing the big screen next film, including The Ladykillers, Spielberg’s parody dramatization The Terminal, along with the family film The Polar Express. 
• In 2005, he worked as a rundown entertainer with the IMAX space narrative Magnificent Desolation 2007 with Evan Almighty.
• Hank received the highest income for playing the character of Robert Langdon. He played the character of Robert Langdon in 2007 and 2016.
• Hanks was next found in the exceptionally expected The Da Vinci Code in 2006, which was a drama based on the bestselling novel by Dan Brown and costarred Audrey Tatou. This horror film netted more than $750 million around the world. 
• Tom Hanks helped Afghan agitators for their conflicts with members of the Soviets union. He played the lead role in the dramatization of Charlie Wilson’s War. I in 
• 2007. Tom Hanks was selected in Golden Globe for this presentation. Hanks featured in Angels and Demons in the year 2009, and it was the spin-off of Da Vinci. It was a film adaption based on a novel.

2010’s:

He appeared as a voiceover artist in Pacific and Toy Story 3 for acclaimed T.V. miniseries this year. It was then featured in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2011 and Cloud Atlas 2012. 

In a romantic comedy movie, he coordinated and starred opposite Julia Roberts in 2011. After a fantastic screen profession, in 2013, Hanks made his creation of Lucky Guy Broadway debut.

Hanks achieved Tony Award nomination for best entertainment and performing lead roles, but he was neglected on Tracy Letts of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. 

‘Saving Mr. Banks,’ ‘Bridge of Spies,’ ‘The Post’

Likewise, in 2013, Hanks kept starring in nautical spine-chiller Captain Phillips and depicted Walt Disney as the title character of Saving Mr. Banks; Emma Thompson played it and was authorized to make Mary Poppins a realistic work. This show depends on how the studio head persuaded P.L. Travers. Pundits took Tom Hanks depiction of a U.S. lawyer in the Cold War thrill ride Bridge of Spies after he showed up as a popstar in Carly Rae Jepsen’s music video “I Like You,” 

The pre-winter 2015 excursion saw the entertainer rejoined with Director Spielberg for his next film. In addition, President Barack Obama presented him, Medal of Freedom in November 2016 for his obligation to creative articulation.

Hanks collaborated with Meryl Streep for performing Spielberg’s The Post; it was a drama during the Vietnam War in 2017 about Washington Post’s distribution of the Pentagon Papers By and by. The veteran entertainer’s presentation prompted another Golden Globe nomination, and pundits also praised it.

‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’

Hanks was declared to play the role of Mister Rogers in 2018 January, which was A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. He was supported to play in an upcoming biopic over the long haul. This show relied upon a 1998 Esquire profile by Tom Junod, which related the creator’s knowledge of the meeting and becoming companions with the esteemed children’s T.V. star. Hanks got his 6th Oscar Nomination by the dramatic delivery of his film merciful Rogers. He slipped immaculately into this movie; Tom Hanks greyhound was presented in cinema in 2020.

Marriages, children, and personal life:

Hanks met maker Samantha Lewes in school. She was his first spouse, entertainer, and her real name was Susan Dillingham. She gave birth to two kids named Colin and Elizabeth. They tied the marriage knot in 1978 and divorced in 1987.

In 1988, again, he wedded actress Rita Wilson. Hanks co-featured with her in Volunteers projects. Tom Hanks kids were also two from Wilson. Tom Hanks sons were Chester and Truman.

When Tom Hanks appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman in 2013, he said he was facing a health issue.

He said, “I went to the specialists, and they said, ‘You realize those high glucose numbers you’ve been living with since you were 36? Indeed, you’ve graduated. You have Type 2 diabetes.” While in Australia during March 2020, Tom Hanks declared by using the social media platform Instagram that he and his second wife tested positive for Covid-19.

Tom Hanks son:

1. Colin Hanks, 
2. Chet Hanks, 
3. Truman Hanks

Tom Hanks Children:

1. Colin Hanks, 
2. Chet Hanks, 
3. Elizabeth Ann Hanks, 
4. Truman Hanks

Politics and activism:

Hanks has given to numerous Democratic government officials, and during the 2008 United States, official political race transferred a video to his MySpace account supporting Barack Obama. He additionally portrayed a 2012 narrative, The Road We’ve Traveled, made by Obama for America. In 2016, during the official political race, Hanks embraced previous Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In addition, Tom Hanks appeared in the film series Robert Langdon. 

As an advocate of environmentalism, Hanks has a Toyota RAV4 EV and possesses the central creation of A.C. Propulsion eBox. In addition, he is a financial backer in electric vehicles. Tom Hanks leased EV1 to review it, as described in the record Who Killed the Electric Car? Hanks was looking forward to an Aptera 2 Series. 

He supported Vice president Joe Biden in elections 2020. Hanks fills in as the mission seat of the Hidden Heroes Campaign introduced by the Elizabeth Dole Foundation. The mission’s expressed mission is to move a public development to all the more successfully support the military and veteran parental figures.

Other Activities:

Hanks declared he initially needed to be a space traveler as an ally of the operated space program by NASA. Hanks is an individual from the National Space Society, serving on the Board of legislative heads of the not-for-profit instructive space promotion association established by Wernher von Braun. He also created the HBO miniseries, “From the Earth to the Moon,” which was based on the Apollo program to send space explorers toward the moon. 

Walking on the Moon 3D, an IMAX film about moon landings were co-written and co-produced by Magnificent Desolation by Tom Hanks.

Hanks did the voiceover in a debut show by Rose Center, Passport to the Universe. It was held in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and it was about Earth and Space in the Hayden Planetarium.

Hanks is an authority of manual typewriters and utilizations them nearly daily. In August 2014, Hanks delivered Hanx Writer, an iOS application intended to copy the experience of utilizing a typewriter; inside the space of days, the free application arrived at number one on the App Store.

Writings:

“Hanks composed an assortment of brief tales enlivened by his typewriter assortment, Uncommon Type, distributed in 2017. His writings earned him moderate success.”

Awards and honors:

Hanks’ vocation as an entertainer and maker has gotten many honor selections. Hanks has called two back-to-back successes for Best Actor for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump in 1993 and 1994 individually, including six Academy Awards. For Best Actor in a Play for his presentation in Nora Ephron’s play Lucky Guy Hanks was nominated and won Tony Award selection in 2013. 

Hanks has additionally gotten 12 Primetime Emmy Award designations for his work on T.V. as a producer of 7 successful projects, which were challenging series and T.V. films, including:  

• From the Earth to the moon in 1998 
• Band of Brothers in 2002 
• John Adams in 2008
• The Pacific in 2010 
• Game Change and Electricity Cleveland Carr in 2012  
• Hanks starred in Olive Kitteridge 2015

Honors:

• 2002: AFI Life Achievement Award
• 2006: Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award
• 2014: Kennedy Center Honors Medallion
• 2016: Presidential Medal of Freedom
• 2016: French Legion of Honor (for world war II campaign)
• 2019: Honorary citizen of Greece
• 2020: Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award

Tom hanks new movie: (Elvis Film 2022)

Elvis is a biographical musical drama film that’s based on the life of Elvis Presley, directed and produced by Baz Luhrmann. It was written by Luhrmann, Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce, Jeremy Doner, and will star Kodi Smit-McPhee as Elvis. Content: With much practice and a willingness to fail, you can succeed. Drafting off others’ success will only lead you to failure.

Release date: June 24, 2022 (USA)

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Production company: Bazmark Films

Cinematography: Mandy Walker

Producers: Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, Andrew Mittman, Schuyler Weiss

Screenplay: Kelly Marcel, Craig Pearce, Sam Bromell, and Baz Luhrmann

Cast: 

1. Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker
2. Austin Butler as Elvis Presley
3. Olivia DeJonge as Priscilla Presley
4. Chaydon Jay as pre-teen Elvis
5. Yola Quartey as Sister Rosetta Tharpe
6. David Wenham as Hank Snow
7. Luke Bracey as Jerry Schilling
8. Kelvin Harrison Jr. as B.B. King
9. Dacre Montgomery as Steve Binder
10. Helen Thomson as Gladys Presley, Elvis’s mother
11. Richard Roxburgh as Vernon Presley, Elvis’s father
12. Alton Mason as Little Richard
13. Natasha Bassett as Dixie Locke
14. Xavier Samuel
15. Kate Mulvany as Marion Keisker
16. David Gannon as Charlie Hodge
17. Alex Radu as George Klein
18. Gareth Davies
19. Charles Grounds
20. Adam Dunn as Bill Black
21. Leon Ford as Tom Diskin, a spokesman for Col. Tom Parker
22. Kodi Smit-McPhee as Jimmie Rodgers
23. Josh McConville

Tom Hanks Net Worth:

According to the 2018 Forbes Ranking, Tom Hanks has accumulated a net worth of roughly $400 million. Thomas “Tom” Hanks is an American actor, producer, and filmmaker who was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn Frager and Amos Mefford Hanks. He started his acting career in the 1980s. He is well known for producing memorable dramatic works like Big (1988), Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), and Catch Me If You Can (2002).

Interesting Facts about Tom Hanks:

• Tom Hanks earned the title of America’s Father. No doubt, he is the best actor and director in Hollywood.
• Hanks received 2 Oscar awards in the same year by performing lead actor roles.
• His father was Amos Mefford Hanks. Tom Hanks brother named Jim Hanks is also a well-known Hollywood actor.
• During his college days, he worked in a hotel as a bellman and served peanuts and popcorns.
• Tom Hanks films have earned $9.96 billion worldwide. He has played many drama film-based and comedy-based roles in Hollywood films.
• Tom Hanks wife Rita Wilson worked as a waitress in one of his films.
• He is the second Hollywood actor who achieved the accomplishment of winning back-to-back Best Actor Oscars.
• In 2018, actor Isaac Kappy Tom Hanks issue appeared in which Hanks was blamed for terrible demonstrations.
• He is often compared to James Stewart.
• In one of his movies, Tom won the Best Actor Academy Award for starring in the lead role of Gay Lawyer.
• Tom Hanks played ten real-life characters in his films.
• He performed voiceover in 7 animated movies. He never played ads roles.
• He is honored with the highest fan following on Broadway.
• From American Navy, Tom Hanks received the highest civil award.
• Bruce Springsteen and Tom Hanks are childhood friends.
• Tom Hanks has achieved the fifth-highest ranking as an all-time box-office star.
• Tom Hanks was included for Forbes’ rundown of the main ten most impressive superstars on the planet.
• As of January 2019, Hanks is cast a ballot as a number one ranked in “The Best Actors in Film History.”
• Hanks appeared on BBC radio as a guest. He discussed his personal life and career for 45 minutes.
• Hanks announced that he and his second wife suffered coronavirus in early 2020.
• Since 2004, International Tom Hanks Day has been celebrated on April 4.
• In 1988, he was included in the Academy Award Nomination.
• As of 2022, Tom Hanks’ net worth is come to about $400 million. Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American filmmaker and actor from Concord.

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