Tom Hanks
Known for Acting · 257 credits
- Born
- 1956-07-09 (age 69)
- 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
The Simpsons
1989
as Tom Hanks (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest / Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest
TV Shows (77)
The Simpsons
1989
as Tom Hanks (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest / Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self / Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self - Cameo (uncredited) / Self (uncredited)
Conan
2010
as Self
The Colbert Report
2005
as Self / Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
as Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
The View
1997
as Self
The Love Boat
1977
as Rick Martin
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee / Self - Audience Member / Self - Presenter / Self - Presenter / Nominee
30 Rock
2006
as Tom Hanks
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
as Self
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
as Self
American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Self
Happy Days
1974
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Family Ties
1982
as Ned Donnelly
Taxi
1978
as Gordon
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Baxter (segment "None But the Lonely Heart")
Bambi
1948
as Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self
Taff
1997
as self
1883
2021
as General George Meade
The Oscars
1953
as Self / Woody (voice)
The Pacific
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Parkinson
1998
as Self
The Naked Truth
1995
as Tom Hanks
World War II with Tom Hanks
2026
as Self - Presenter
From the Earth to the Moon
1998
as Jean-Luc Despont / Host
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
Fallen Angels
1993
as Trouble Boy #1
Kulturplatz
2004
as Self
Today
1952
as Self
Entertainment Tonight
1981
as Self
Reunited Apart
2020
as Self
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
1967
as Self
Bosom Buddies
1980
as Kip Wilson / Buffy
The Nineties
2017
as Self
The American Revolution
2025
as (voice)
Life with Bonnie
2002
as Tom Hanks
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025
as Self
OK! TV
2011
Primetime Glick
2001
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
The Seventies
2015
as Self
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
2021
as Self
Koschwitz
2000
as Self
Scene by Scene
1997
as Self
Movies (180)
Toy Story 5
2026
as Woody (voice)
Toy Story
1995
as Woody (voice)
Forrest Gump
1994
as Forrest Gump
The Green Mile
1999
as Paul Edgecomb
Toy Story 2
1999
as Woody (voice)
Toy Story 4
2019
as Woody (voice)
Saving Private Ryan
1998
as Captain Miller
Toy Story 3
2010
as Woody (voice)
Catch Me If You Can
2002
as Carl Hanratty
Cars
2006
as Woody Car (voice)
Cast Away
2000
as Chuck Noland
The Da Vinci Code
2006
as Robert Langdon
Apollo 13
1995
as Jim Lovell
The Simpsons Movie
2007
as Tom Hanks (voice)
Elvis
2022
as Colonel Tom Parker
Sully
2016
as Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger
A Man Called Otto
2022
as Otto Anderson
Greyhound
2020
as Commander Krause
The Terminal
2004
as Viktor Navorski
Angels & Demons
2009
as Robert Langdon
Marty, Life Is Short
2026
as Self
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
as Leland
Cloud Atlas
2012
as Dr. Henry Goose / Hotel Manager / Isaac Sachs / Dermot Hoggins / Cavendish Look-a-Like Actor / Zachry
The Post
2017
as Ben Bradlee
You've Got Mail
1998
as Joe Fox
Finch
2021
as Finch
The Polar Express
2004
as Hero Boy (Adult)/ Father / Conductor / Hobo / Scrooge / Santa Claus
Asteroid City
2023
as Stanley Zak
Captain Phillips
2013
as Captain Richard Phillips
Inferno
2016
as Robert Langdon
Bridge of Spies
2015
as James B. Donovan
Splash
1984
as Allen Bauer
A League of Their Own
1992
as Jimmy Dugan
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
2020
as Self
Big
1988
as Josh Baskin
Bachelor Party
1984
as Rick Gassko
Sleepless in Seattle
1993
as Sam Baldwin
Toy Story That Time Forgot
2014
as Woody (voice)
Philadelphia
1993
as Andrew Beckett
Pinocchio
2022
as Geppetto
The 'Burbs
1989
as Ray Peterson
Road to Perdition
2002
as Michael Sullivan
That Thing You Do!
1996
as Mr. White
The Ladykillers
2004
as Professor G.H. Dorr
The Circle
2017
as Eamon Bailey
Here
2024
as Richard
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
The Bloody Hundredth
2024
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Hawaiian Vacation
2011
as Woody (voice)
Larry Crowne
2011
as Larry Crowne
The Walk
2015
as Security Guard (voice) (uncredited)
Radioman
2012
as Self
Freaky Tales
2025
as Hank, Video Store Owner
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2019
as Fred Rogers
Dragnet
1987
as Pep Streebeck
Turner & Hooch
1989
as Scott Turner
Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20
2023
as Self
Charlie Wilson's War
2007
as Charlie Wilson
Partysaurus Rex
2012
as Woody (voice)
News of the World
2020
as Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd
The Money Pit
1986
as Walter Fielding, Jr.
The Man with One Red Shoe
1985
as Richard
America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001
as Self
Spielberg
2017
as Self
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990
as Sherman McCoy
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
as Self (archive footage)
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
as Self
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011
as Thomas Schell
Small Fry
2011
as Woody (voice)
Saving Mr. Banks
2013
as Walt Disney
Radio Flyer
1992
as Older Mike (uncredited)
There's Something About Romcoms
2016
as Self
Halftime
2022
as Self
Joe Versus the Volcano
1990
as Joe Banks
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
as Self - Actor, Splash
Shooting War
2000
as Narrator
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989
as Self
Elvis Has Left the Building
2004
as Mailbox-Elvis
The Extraordinary Voyage
2011
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
as Self
Quincy
2018
as Self
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Punchline
1988
as Steven Gold
The Pixar Story
2007
as Self - Woody / Scott Turner
Celebrating America
2021
as Self - Host
The Great Buck Howard
2008
as Mr. Gable
Ithaca
2015
as Mr. Macauley
A Hologram for the King
2016
as Alan Clay
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
2022
as Woody (voice) (archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self - Actor
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as Allen Bauer (archive footage)
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
2022
as Self
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
2000
as Self / Paul Edgecomb
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
2009
as Self
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Earth to America
2005
as Self
Killing Lincoln
2013
as Self - Narrator
The Celluloid Closet
1996
as Self
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
2015
as Self
Inventing David Geffen
2012
as Self
Volunteers
1985
as Lawrence Whatley Bourne III
Live 8
2005
as Self
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
as Self (archive)
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Concert for George
2003
as Mountie
Beyond All Boundaries
2009
as Narrator
Close Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
2009
as Host
Mazes and Monsters
1982
as Robbie Wheeling
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2023
as Self (archive footage)
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
2025
as Self - Interviewee
Nothing in Common
1986
as David Basner
Misery Loves Comedy
2015
as Self
He Knows You're Alone
1980
as Elliot
Clint Eastwood : la légende
2025
as Self
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003
as Horatio Nelson Jackson (voice)
The Universal Story
1996
as Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
2001
as Self
We Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Every Time We Say Goodbye
1986
as David
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 257 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Tom Hanks has appeared in 180 films and 77 TV shows.
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Most Popular Tom Hanks Movies
- Toy Story 5 (2026) — as Woody (voice)
- Toy Story (1995) — as Woody (voice)
- Forrest Gump (1994) — as Forrest Gump
- The Green Mile (1999) — as Paul Edgecomb
- Toy Story 2 (1999) — as Woody (voice)
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