Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American film actor, director, voice-over artist, writer and film producer. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies before achieving success as a dramatic actor portraying several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title role in Forrest Gump, Captain John H. Miller in Saving Private Ryan and Michael Sullivan in Road To Perdition.

Attended Skyline High School in Oakland, California. Hanks studied theater at Chabot College, and after two years, transferred to California State University, Sacramento. Hanks won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for best actor for his performance as Proteus in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona, one of the few times he played a villain. In 1979, Hanks moved to New York City, where he made his film debut in the low-budget slasher film, He Knows You're Alone, and got a part in a television movie entitled Mazes and Monsters. Early in 1979, Hanks was cast in the lead role of Callimaco in the Riverside Shakespeare Company's production of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Mandrake.

Hanks won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Philadelphia. Hanks followed Philadelphia with the 1994 summer hit Forrest Gump. Hanks won his second Best Actor Academy Award for his role in Forrest Gump. Hanks's next project reunited him with Ron Howard in the movie Apollo 13.

In 1999, Hanks starred in an adaptation of Stephen King's novel The Green Mile. In June 2006 Hanks was inducted as an honorary member of the United States Army Rangers Hall of Fame.



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