Tom Hanks's Biography

Hanks was born in Concord, California 9 July 1956. His father, Amos Mefford Hanks (born in Glenn County, California on March 4, 1924 – died in Alameda, California on January 31, 1992), was a distant relative of President Abraham Lincoln, through Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks. His mother, Portuguese-American Janet Marylyn Frager (born in Alameda County, California on January 18, 1932), was a hospital worker; the two divorced in 1960. The family's three oldest children, Sandra, (now Sandra Hanks Benoiton, a writer), Larry (now Lawrence M. Hanks, Ph.D., an entomology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Tom went with their father, while the youngest, Jim, now an actor and film maker, remained with his mother in Red Bluff, California. Afterwards, both parents remarried. The first stepmother for Sandra, Larry, and Tom came to the marriage with five children of her own. Hanks once told Rolling Stone: "Everybody in my family likes each other. But there were always about 50 people at the house. I didn't exactly feel like an outsider, but I was sort of outside it." That marriage ended in divorce after just two years.

The Movies
• Angels & Demons (2009) as Robert Langdon
• The Great Buck Howard (2008) as Mr. Gable
• Charlie Wilson's War (2007) as Charlie Wilson
• The Da Vinci Code (2006) as Dr. Robert Langdon
• Cars (2006) (voice) as Woody Car
• Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (2005) (voice) as Narrator
• The Polar Express (2004)
• Elvis Has Left the Building (2004) as Mailbox Elvis
• The Terminal (2004) as Viktor Navorski
• The Ladykillers (2004) as Professor G.H. Dorr
• Catch Me If You Can (2002) as Carl Hanratty
• Road to Perdition (2002) as Michael Sullivan
• "Band of Brothers" (2001)
• Cast Away (2000) as Chuck Noland
• The Green Mile (1999) as Paul Edgecomb
• Toy Story 2 (1999) (voice) as Woody
• You've Got Mail (1998) as Joe Fox
• Saving Private Ryan (1998) as Capt. John H. Miller
• "From the Earth to the Moon" (1 episode, 1998) as Jean-Luc Despont
• That Thing You Do! (1996) as Mr. White
• Toy Story (1995) (voice) as Woody
• Apollo 13 (1995) as Jim Lovell
• Forrest Gump (1994) as Forrest Gump
• Vault of Horror I (1994) (TV)
• Philadelphia (1993) as Andrew Beckett
• "Fallen Angels" as Trouble Boy #1
• Sleepless in Seattle (1993) as Sam Baldwin
• A League of Their Own (1992) as Jimmy Dugan
• "Tales from the Crypt" as Baxter
• Radio Flyer (1992) as Older Mike
• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) as Sherman McCoy
• Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) as Joe Banks
• Turner & Hooch (1989) as Det. Scott Turner
• The 'burbs (1989) as Ray Peterson
• Punchline (1988) as Steven Gold
• Big (1988) as Josh Baskin
• Dragnet (1987) as Pep Streebeck
• Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986) as David Bradley
• Nothing in Common (1986) as David Basner
• The Money Pit (1986) as Walter Fielding, Jr.
• Volunteers (1985) as Lawrence Whatley Bourne III
• The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) as Richard Harlan Drew
• Bachelor Party (1984) as Rick Gassko
• Splash (1984) as Allen Bauer
• "Family Ties" (3 episodes, 1983-1984) as Ned Donnelly
• "Happy Days" (1 episode, 1982) as Dr. Dwayne Twitchell
• "Taxi" (1 episode, 1982) as Gordon
• "Bosom Buddies" (37 episodes, 1980-1982) as Buffy Wilson
• "The Love Boat" (1 episode, 1980) as Rick Martin
• He Knows You're Alone (1980) as Elliot