Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks   ( actor)
Born	July 9, 1956  Concord,  California,  U.S.
Nationality	US
Spouse	•  Samantha Lewes •  Rita Wilson
Relatives	•  Jim Hanks •  Larry Hanks
American actor and filmmaker with a public image of playing Mr. Nice Guy

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker, specializing in playing "nice guy" roles.

Career

Hanks rose to fame with leading roles in comedies: Splash (1984), The Money Pit (1986), Big (1988), and A League of Their Own (1992). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor, playing a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993), then the title character in Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks has collaborated with Steven Spielberg on five films—Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017)—and three World War II-themed miniseries: Band of Brothers (2001), The Pacific (2010), and Masters of the Air (2024). He has also frequently collaborated with directors Ron Howard, Nora Ephron, and Robert Zemeckis.

Hanks cemented his film stardom with lead roles in the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), Cloud Atlas (2012), and News of the World (2020); and the biographical dramas Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Sully (2016), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and Elvis (2022). He played the title character in the Robert Langdon series (2006–2016) and voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story franchise (1995–present) and multiple roles in The Polar Express (2004). Hanks directed and acted in That Thing You Do! (1996) and Larry Crowne (2011).

Isaac Kappy

Mentioned by Isaac Kappy.

Propaganda

Tom Secker, in an analysis of what sort of movies he played in, concluded that "Perhaps more than any other actor and producer in Hollywood, Hanks has worked with government agencies on many of his biggest and most important films.. His disarming performances act as a cover for the authoritarian and often nationalistic subtexts in many of his films, putting a friendly face on state-sponsored entertainment. In total, Hanks' films have glorified war, covered up for the Pentagon's mistreatment of its own people, encouraged military recruitment, trivialised US immigration policies, protected the news media, and whitewashed the CIA's influence on America and the world."

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