Tom Hanks
Known for Acting · 260 credits
- Born
- 1956-07-09 (age 70)
- Place of birth
- Concord, California, USA
- Also known as
- Thomas Jeffrey Hanks
Biography
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is widely regarded as an American cultural icon.
Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in the comedies Splash (1984) and Big (1988). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and a young man with below-average IQ in Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks collaborated with film director 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), as well as the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, which launched him as a director, producer, and screenwriter.
Hanks' other notable films include 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), and Cloud Atlas (2012); and the biographical dramas Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Captain Phillips (2013), Sully (2016), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). He has also appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon film series, and has voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series.
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Known For
TV Shows (79)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
The Simpsons
1989
as Tom Hanks (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self
Conan
2010
as Self
The Colbert Report
2005
as Self / Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self - Cameo (uncredited) / Self (uncredited)
The View
1997
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self / Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
as Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee / Self - Audience Member / Self - Presenter / Self - Presenter / Nominee
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
as Self
The Love Boat
1977
as Rick Martin
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Self
Today
1952
as Self
Last Meals
2021
as Self
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
as Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Taff
1997
as self
American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
30 Rock
2006
as Tom Hanks
Taxi
1978
as Gordon
Happy Days
1974
Family Ties
1982
as Ned Donnelly
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Baxter (segment "None But the Lonely Heart")
1883
2021
as General George Meade
The Oscars
1953
as Self / Woody (voice)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Kulturplatz
2004
as Self
Bambi
1948
as Self
The Pacific
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Fallen Angels
1993
as Trouble Boy #1
Parkinson
1998
as Self
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
World War II with Tom Hanks
2026
as Self - Presenter
The Naked Truth
1995
as Tom Hanks
OK! TV
2011
From the Earth to the Moon
1998
as Jean-Luc Despont / Host
Entertainment Tonight
1981
as Self
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
1967
as Self
Carina Bergfeldt
2021
as Self - Guest
Primetime Glick
2001
Life with Bonnie
2002
as Tom Hanks
Reunited Apart
2020
as Self
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025
as Self
Maya & Marty
2016
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
The American Revolution
2025
as (voice)
The Entertainment Biz
1998
as Self
Bosom Buddies
1980
as Kip Wilson / Buffy
Koschwitz
2000
as Self
Movies (181)
Toy Story 5
2026
as Woody (voice)
Toy Story
1995
as Woody (voice)
Toy Story 4
2019
as Woody (voice)
Toy Story 2
1999
as Woody (voice)
Toy Story 3
2010
as Woody (voice)
The Green Mile
1999
as Paul Edgecomb
Forrest Gump
1994
as Forrest Gump
The Post
2017
as Ben Bradlee
Saving Private Ryan
1998
as Captain Miller
Catch Me If You Can
2002
as Carl Hanratty
Cars
2006
as Woody Car (voice)
Cast Away
2000
as Chuck Noland
A Man Called Otto
2022
as Otto Anderson
The Da Vinci Code
2006
as Robert Langdon
Cloud Atlas
2012
as Dr. Henry Goose / Hotel Manager / Isaac Sachs / Dermot Hoggins / Cavendish Look-a-Like Actor / Zachry
Toy Story That Time Forgot
2014
as Woody (voice)
The Simpsons Movie
2007
as Tom Hanks (voice)
Bridge of Spies
2015
as James B. Donovan
Captain Phillips
2013
as Captain Richard Phillips
Inferno
2016
as Robert Langdon
Greyhound
2020
as Commander Krause
Angels & Demons
2009
as Robert Langdon
Hawaiian Vacation
2011
as Woody (voice)
The Polar Express
2004
as Hero Boy (Adult)/ Father / Conductor / Hobo / Scrooge / Santa Claus
Apollo 13
1995
as Jim Lovell
The Bloody Hundredth
2024
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Asteroid City
2023
as Stanley Zak
Sully
2016
as Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger
The Terminal
2004
as Viktor Navorski
Sleepless in Seattle
1993
as Sam Baldwin
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2019
as Fred Rogers
Partysaurus Rex
2012
as Woody (voice)
Small Fry
2011
as Woody (voice)
Finch
2021
as Finch
You've Got Mail
1998
as Joe Fox
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
as Leland
Elvis
2022
as Colonel Tom Parker
Road to Perdition
2002
as Michael Sullivan
The Walk
2015
as Security Guard (voice) (uncredited)
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
2020
as Self
News of the World
2020
as Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd
Big
1988
as Josh Baskin
Larry Crowne
2011
as Larry Crowne
Pinocchio
2022
as Geppetto
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
as Self - Actor, Splash
Philadelphia
1993
as Andrew Beckett
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011
as Thomas Schell
A League of Their Own
1992
as Jimmy Dugan
Splash
1984
as Allen Bauer
A Hologram for the King
2016
as Alan Clay
Marty, Life Is Short
2026
as Self
Saving Mr. Banks
2013
as Walt Disney
Here
2024
as Richard
That Thing You Do!
1996
as Mr. White
The 'Burbs
1989
as Ray Peterson
Celebrating America
2021
as Self - Host
The Circle
2017
as Eamon Bailey
The Money Pit
1986
as Walter Fielding, Jr.
Charlie Wilson's War
2007
as Charlie Wilson
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990
as Sherman McCoy
Freaky Tales
2025
as Hank, Video Store Owner
The Extraordinary Voyage
2011
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Comebacker
2027
Joe Versus the Volcano
1990
as Joe Banks
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
as Self
Radioman
2012
as Self
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self - Actor
Inventing David Geffen
2012
as Self
Spielberg
2017
as Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
Bachelor Party
1984
as Rick Gassko
Greyhound 2
as Captain Krause
The Ladykillers
2004
as Professor G.H. Dorr
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
as Self (archive footage)
Vault of Horror I
1994
as Baxter (archive footage)
Dragnet
1987
as Pep Streebeck
Toy Story: 30 Years and Beyond - A Special Edition of 20/20
2026
as Self
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
as Self (archive footage)
He Knows You're Alone
1980
as Elliot
The Great Buck Howard
2008
as Mr. Gable
Beyond All Boundaries
2009
as Narrator
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as Allen Bauer (archive footage)
Walking the Mile
2014
as Self
California Typewriter
2017
as Self
Misery Loves Comedy
2015
as Self
The Universal Story
1996
as Self (archive footage)
The Man with One Red Shoe
1985
as Richard
Radio Flyer
1992
as Older Mike (uncredited)
Turner & Hooch
1989
as Scott Turner
Live 8
2005
as Self
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989
as Self
Mike Nichols: An American Master
2016
as Self
Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles
2003
as Self - Interviewee
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
2000
as Self / Paul Edgecomb
The Celluloid Closet
1996
as Self
Capturing Captain Phillips
2014
as Self
Everything Is Copy
2015
as Self
Making 'Toy Story'
1995
as Self
Killing Lincoln
2013
as Self - Narrator
The Pixar Story
2007
as Self - Woody / Scott Turner
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
2022
as Woody (voice) (archive footage)
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
2015
as Self
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
2025
as Self - Interviewee
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Pennis from Heaven
2005
as Self
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
as Self
Lincoln in the Bardo
as Abraham Lincoln
Nothing in Common
1986
as David Basner
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
2001
as Self
There's Something About Romcoms
2016
as Self
Quincy
2018
as Self
Making a 'Splash'
2004
as Self / Allen Bauer
Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20
2023
as Self
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
as Self (archive)
Spielberg on Spielberg
2007
as Self (archive footage)
The Real Mary Poppins
2014
as Self
The Mayo Clinic
2018
as Will Mayo (voice)
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
1999
as Self
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
1994
as Self
Commitment to Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)
About Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is widely regarded as an American cultural icon. Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in the comedies Splash (1984) and Big (1988). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and a young man with below-average IQ in Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks collaborated w… With 260 credits spanning from 1944 to 2027, Tom Hanks has appeared in 181 films and 79 TV shows.
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Most Popular Tom Hanks Movies
- Toy Story 5 (2026) — as Woody (voice)
- Toy Story (1995) — as Woody (voice)
- Toy Story 4 (2019) — as Woody (voice)
- Toy Story 2 (1999) — as Woody (voice)
- Toy Story 3 (2010) — as Woody (voice)
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