Thomas Jeffrey Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born on July 9, 1956 in Concord, California, U.S. His parents divorced in 1960. He acted in school plays; including South Pacific, while studing in Skyline High School in Oakland, California. He studied theater at Chabot College in Hayward and after two year transferred to California State University, Sacramento. During studying theater, he met Vincent Dowling, head of the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio and became an intern at the festival on Dowling's suggestion. He covered most aspects of theater production including lighting, set design and stage management during his internship. He won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his 1978 performance as Proteus in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona. He moved to New York City in 1979, where he made his film debut in the film He Knows You're Alone released in 1980 and played a starring role in the television movie Mazes and Monsters. He was cast in the Riverside Shakespeare Company's production of Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Mandrake" in the lead role of Callimaco. He alongwith Peter Scolari played a pair of young advertising men. After that he moved to Los Angeles. The director Ron Howard cast him in a romantic comedy film Splash, which was released in 1984. Film become a box office hit, grossing more than US $69 million. In that year he also appeared in a hit sex comedy Bachelor Party. In 1992, he worked as baseball legend turned manager in A League of Their Own. He played a gay lawyer with AIDS in film Philadelphia. He won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Philadelphia. In 1994, he worked in hit Forrest Gump which grossed a worldwide total of over $600 million at the box office. He won his second Best Actor Academy Award for his role in Forrest Gump. He made his directing debut 1996 film That Thing You Do. In 1999, he appeared in an adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Green Mile. He won a Golden Globe for Best Actor and an Academy Award nomination for his character of a marooned FedEx systems analyst in Robert Zemeckis's Cast Away. In 2001, he appeared opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit crime comedy Catch Me If You Can. The same year he with her wife produced the hit movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding. In 2004, he appeared in three films: The Coen brothers' The Ladykillers, Spielberg film The Terminal and The Polar Express. In 2006, he appeared in the film The Da Vinci Code, based on the novel by Dan Brown. Film grossed over US$750 million worldwide. In 2013, he appeared in two films Captain Phillips and Saving Mr. Banks and won nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Drama for the former role. In March 2015, he appeared in the Carly Rae Jepsen music video for "I Really Like You".