Thomas Jeffrey Hanks, better known as Tom Hanks, is an actor and a producer of American origin, who also has Greek nationality.
Tom Hanks Biography
The son of Amos, a cook by profession, and Janet, a hospital worker, Thomas J. Hanks was born in Concorde, California, on July 9, 1956. At the age of five, his parents separated, and he went to live with his father, who continually changed his place of residence.
He remembers it as an unhappy childhood, and that he did not suffer mistreatment or abuse. In high school he tried to join the theater group, but failed in the casting.
Instead of being discouraged, he joined an amateur theater group, whose director encouraged him to drop out of school and go with him to Cleveland, where he began his career.
The handsome actor is 1.83 meters tall and weighs 80 kg with endomorph body type. His shoe size is 11, however his exact body measurements are not available. Hank’s hair color is brown and his eyes are blue.
Similarly, he likes to interact with his fans through social media platforms. The actor is available on Instagram under the username, ‘Tom Hanks’ with 6.3 million followers. Similarly, he is also available on Twitter under the name ‘Tom Hanks’ with 16 million followers.
Tom Hanks Career
He did not do badly, because in 1980 he made his film debut with Sabe que tú tú sola , a B-series thriller with a psychopath. Shortly after, he was given one of the leading roles in the sitcom Bosom Buddies ., which swept and gave him some popularity.
After the telefilm The Threshold of the Game , which warned of the supposed dangers of role-playing games, she triumphed in the cinema for falling in love with a mermaid in 1, 2, 3 Splash . He shared the screen with a stunning Daryl Hannah , and with John Candy , who would accompany him again in Volunteers .
At the end of the 80s, he did not stop working, but they only offered him comedies that, although they sinned lightly, met a minimum of quality and laughter.
This is what happened with Bachelor Party and This House is a Ruin , where his face while everything was collapsing around him was a show. The first turn to more complex roles was Big , where he clearly had the look of a child who, after wishing on a machine to grow older, rose up in a thirtysomething body.
In Joe vs. the Volcano , he repeated with John Candy, and collaborated for the first time with Meg Ryan , with whom he would work again shortly after in the romantic comedy Something to Remember , and years later inYou have an e-mail , on the same wavelength.
His first drama was Bonfire of the Vanities , but it flopped, so the turning point in Hanks’ career was Philadelphia , in which he played a lawyer fired from his job when his bosses found out he was HIV-positive. And his work offered the Academy an excuse on a silver platter to give him the Oscar for best actor.
He also won it the following year with Forrest Gump , a sharp criticism of the brief history of the United States in which, thanks to the magic of special effects, he taught Elvis to dance or met Kennedy and Nixon. 
Although he had already debuted as a director with television episodes of series such as Tales from the Crypt , in 1996 he directed The Wonders, a nostalgic feature film about a musical group from the 60s. “As a director I learned what is expected of me as an actor, to be more productive, because now I make better use of my time,” he said.
Steven Spielberg ‘s Saving Private Ryan is perhaps his best work, though he hasn’t been bad at his performances in The Green Mile , Road to Perdition, and his recent collaborations with Spielberg, Catch Me If You Can and The Terminal . For Cast Away , where he was alone for most of the footage, he was again nominated for an Oscar.
Now, he is in a great moment, after playing several characters in Polar Express, shot with a system that transforms the real image into digital animation. He himself admits feeling good. “If I were 20 years old, I would be jumping for joy; If I were 30, I’d be eating my brain thinking about my next job decision.
Fortunately, I am in my mid-40s. I feel accomplished and confident. For me, now, work is a pleasure”, commented the actor, who will soon star in The Da Vinci Code .
Tom Hanks Awards And Honors
Throughout his illustrious career as an actor and producer, he has received many award nominations. He has received six Academy Award nominations, including two consecutive Best Actor wins for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump in 1993 and 1994, respectively. 
He also received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Nora Ephron’s play Lucky Guy in 2013.
He has also received 12 Emmy Award nominations for his work on television, including 7 wins for his work as producer of several limited series and TV movies, including From the Earth to the Moon (1998), Band of Brothers (2002), John Adams (2008), The Pacific (2010), Game Change (2012) y Olive Kitteridge (2015).
- 2002: AFI Life Achievement Award
- 2006: Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award
- 2014: Kennedy Center Medallion of Honor
- 2016: Presidential Medal of Freedom
- 2016: French Legion of Honor, for his presentation of World War II and his support of World War II veterans, along with Tom Brokaw, retired NBC anchor, and Gordon H. Mueller, president and co-founder of the National Museum of World War II, New Orleans.
- 2019: Honorary citizen of Greece.
- 2020: Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
Tom Hanks Other Activities
A supporter of NASA’s manned space program, he said that he originally wanted to be an astronaut.
He is a member of the National Space Society and is on the Board of Governors of the non-profit educational space advocacy organization founded by Wernher von Braun.
He also produced the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon about the Apollo program to send astronauts to the moon. Additionally, Hanks co-wrote and co-produced Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D , an IMAX film about the moon landings.
He provided the voiceover for the premiere of Passport to the Universe at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
In 2006, the Space Foundation presented Hanks with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, given annually to a person or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs.
In June 2006, he was inducted as an honorary member of the United States Army Rangers Hall of Fame for his accurate portrayal of a captain in the film Saving Private Ryan ; He, who was unable to attend the induction ceremony, was the first actor to receive such an honor.
In addition to his role in Saving Private Ryan , he was cited for serving as a national spokesperson for the World War II Memorial Campaign, for being the honorary chairman of the D-Day Museum Capital Campaign, and for his role in writing and help produce the Emmy Award-winning miniseries Band of Brothers .
On March 10, 2008, he was in attendance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to induct The Dave Clark Five.
He is a collector of manual typewriters and uses them almost daily. In August 2014, he released Hanx Writer, an iOS app intended to emulate the experience of using a typewriter; Within days, the free app hit number one on the App Store. 
After contracting and recovering from a COVID-19 infection early in the pandemic, him and his wife donated their blood antibodies for virus research.
Tom Hanks Net Worth
His films grossed more than $4.9 billion at the United States and Canadian box offices, and more than $9.96 billion worldwide, making him the fifth-highest-grossing star in North America.
Like a producer and an actor, he definitely has a good sum of net worth raised for himself. The actor’s net worth as of 2019 is approximately $350 million.
His main source of income is movies, however there are definitely other areas that he has been investing in.
Tom Hanks Private Life
In 1978, he married American actress Samantha Lewes. They had a son, actor Colin Hanks, and Elizabeth Hanks, a daughter.
Divorced in 1987, him and Samantha Lewes. He met actress Rita Wilson on the television comedy series Bosom Buddies (1980-1982) in 1981.
She is a member of the Greek Orthodox Church, of Greek and Bulgarian descent. Hanks had converted to her faith before marrying her. In 1988, him and Wilson married and had two daughters. 
The eldest son played a minor role in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as a student and released a rap song in 2011.
Their son, Theodore Truman, was born in 1995. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his girlfriend and in Ketchum, Idaho.
