Thomas Jeffrey Hanks born July 9, 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. DeMille Award in He appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon series and voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story franchise β Hanks directed and acted in the comedies That Thing You Do!
He has hosted Saturday Night Live ten times [ 9 ] and launched a production company, Playtone , which has produced various limited series and television movies, including From the Earth to the Moon , Band of Brothers , John Adams , The Pacific , Game Change , and Olive Kitteridge His mother was from a Portuguese family; their surname was originally "Fraga".
Their three oldest children, Sandra later Sandra Hanks Benoiton, a writer , [ 26 ] Larry who became an entomology professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , [ 27 ] and Tom, went with their father, while the youngest, Jim who also became an actor and filmmaker , remained with their mother in Red Bluff, California.
One journalist characterized Hanks' teenage self as being a "Bible-toting evangelical " for several years. I was horribly, painfully, terribly shy.
At the same time, I was the guy who'd yell out funny captions during filmstrips. But I didn't get into trouble. I was always a real good kid and pretty responsible. Having grown up in the Bay Area , Hanks says that some of his first movie memories were seeing movies in the Alameda Theatre.
