Tom Hanks
Highest Rated: 100% Toy Story 2 (1999)
Lowest Rated: 10% My Life in Ruins (2009)
Birthday: Jul 9, 1956
Birthplace: Concord, California, USA
With an on-screen persona so likeable that he was often referred to as "America's Dad," Tom Hanks cemented a reputation as one of the most respected actors of his generation. Born in Concord, California in 1956, Hanks participated in school plays, discovering that acting was a good outlet for his energy and wit. He went on to study theater at California State University, Sacramento and as a three-year intern at Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio. He finally moved to New York in 1979 and made his film debut in the low budget horror movie "He Knows You're Alone" (1979). The following year, Hanks landed his first big break, co-starring in the sitcom "Bosom Buddies" (ABC, 1980-82) with Peter Scolari. He starred in the hit fantasy-comedy "Splash" (1984) with Daryl Hannah two years later, which he quickly followed with the zany comedy "Bachelor Party" (1984). Hanks' feature film career was off and running, and he continued his hot streak with the comedies "The Man with One Red Shoe" (1985) and "The Money Pit" (1985). Though he experienced some turbulence in his personal life when he and wife Samantha Lewes were divorced in 1987, his next professional triumph remained just around the corner, as he was soon starring as a 13 year old boy trapped in a 32 year old man's body in Penny Marshall's smash hit "Big" (1988). Hanks remarried actor Rita Wilson that same year, and embarked on a string of cult hits like "The 'Burbs'" (1989) and "Joe Versus the Volcano" (1990). By 1992, he was well established as star and ready for the next phase in his career, and he impressed both audiences and critics with an unexpected performance as a washed up baseball player turned coach in the acclaimed World War II era sports film "A League of Their Own" (1992). Hanks quickly followed this with a turn as a widowed father looking for love opposite Meg Ryan in the massively popular "Sleepless in Seattle" (1993). He followed this with two back-to-back award-winning performances, one as a gay man suffering from both AIDS and discrimination in "Philadelphia" (1993), and another as an intellectually limited man who plays a pivotal role in history in Ron Howard's "Forrest Gump" (1994). Hanks would reteam with Howard the following year to portray astronaut Jim Lovell in "Apollo 13" (1995), the same year he began voice acting the role of cowboy doll Woody in the cutting-edge CG family film "Toy Story" (1995). Ready to expand his horizons further, Hanks next opted to direct his first feature, the period movie "That Thing You Do!" (1996), in which he also played a supporting role. Hanks rounded out the '90s with a turn in the acclaimed war film "Saving Private Ryan" (1998) before reteaming with Meg Ryan for another romance, "You've Got Mail" (1998). Hanks reprised the role of Woody for "Toy Story 2" (1999) before wowing audiences with his performance as a man battling for survival against both loneliness and the elements in "Cast Away" (2000). The 2000s would bring still more nuanced and relatable roles for Hanks in films like "Catch Me If You Can" (2002) and "The Terminal" (2004). He took on the lead role of Robert Langdon in the hotly anticipated film adaptation of the bestseller "The Da Vinci Code" (2006) as well as the sequel "Angels & Demons" (2009), and was greeted with as much affection as ever with his third performance as Woody in "Toy Story 3" (2010). Hanks directed and starred in his second feature, "Larry Crowne" (2011) in 2011. As a whole, the 2010s would find Hanks utilizing the gravity and trust that came with his own screen persona, playing famous figures like Walt Disney in "Saving Mr Banks" (2013), pirate survivor Captain Richard Phillips in "Captain Phillips" (2013), and pilot Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger in "Sully" (2016). After reprising Robert Langdon for "Inferno" (2016) and Woody for "Toy Story 4" (2019), Hanks took on the role of children's television pioneer Fred Rogers in "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" (2019).
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Toy Story 5 | Woody (Voice) | - | 2026 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
100% |
|
The Bloody Hundredth |
Narrator, Executive Producer |
- | 2024 |
31% |
|
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 | Producer | $28.1M | 2023 |
76% |
|
Asteroid City | Stanley Zak (Character) | $28.1M | 2023 |
No Score Yet |
|
A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys | Self | - | 2023 |
70% |
|
A Man Called Otto |
Otto Anderson (Character), Producer |
$64.1M | 2022 |
28% |
|
Pinocchio | Geppetto (Character) | - | 2022 |
77% |
|
Elvis | Colonel Tom Parker (Character) | $151.0M | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 'Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen |
Self, Executive Producer |
- | 2022 |
74% |
|
Finch | Finch (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy | Self | - | 2021 |
88% |
|
News of the World | Captain Kidd (Character) | $12.7M | 2020 |
No Score Yet |
|
My Gift: A Christmas Special from Carrie Underwood | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
78% |
|
Greyhound |
Captain Krause (Character), Screenwriter |
- | 2020 |
95% |
|
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Fred Rogers (Character) | $61.7M | 2019 |
97% |
|
Toy Story 4 | Woody (Voice) | $434.0M | 2019 |
79% |
|
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | Executive Producer | $120.6M | 2018 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Mayo Clinic: Faith - Hope - Science | Unknown (Character) | - | 2018 |
88% |
|
The Post | Ben Bradlee (Character) | $81.4M | 2017 |
91% |
|
Spielberg | Self | - | 2017 |
16% |
|
The Circle | Eamon Bailey (Character) | $20.5M | 2017 |
100% |
|
California Typewriter | Self | $218.6K | 2016 |
23% |
|
Inferno | Robert Langdon (Character) | $34.3M | 2016 |
100% |
|
Two Who Dared: The Sharp's War | Waitstill Sharp (Voice) | - | 2016 |
85% |
|
Sully | Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (Character) | $125.0M | 2016 |
70% |
|
A Hologram for the King | Alan Clay (Character) | $4.2M | 2016 |
28% |
|
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 | Producer | $59.6M | 2016 |
100% |
|
Everything Is Copy | Unknown (Character) | - | 2015 |
22% |
|
Ithaca |
Matthew Macauley (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2015 |
91% |
|
Bridge of Spies | James Donovan (Character) | $72.3M | 2015 |
91% |
|
Toy Story That Time Forgot | Unknown (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Glad All Over: The Dave Clark Five and Beyond | Unknown (Character) | - | 2014 |
94% |
|
Toy Story of Terror! | Unknown (Character) | - | 2013 |
79% |
|
Saving Mr. Banks | Walt Disney (Character) | $83.3M | 2013 |
52% |
|
Parkland | Producer | $652.4K | 2013 |
93% |
|
Captain Phillips | Capt. Richard Phillips (Character) | $107.1M | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
|
Killing Lincoln | Narrator | - | 2013 |
71% |
|
Radioman | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
67% |
|
Game Change | Executive Producer | - | 2012 |
66% |
|
Cloud Atlas | Zachry (Character) | $27.1M | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
|
Partysaurus Rex | Woody (Voice) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Electric City | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
|
Hawaiian Vacation | Woody (Voice) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
|
Small Fry | Woody (Voice) | - | 2011 |
45% |
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Thomas Schell (Character) | $31.8M | 2011 |
37% |
|
Larry Crowne |
Larry Crowne (Character), Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$35.6M | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | He Has Seen War | Executive Producer | - | 2011 |
98% |
|
Toy Story 3 | Woody (Voice) | $415.0M | 2010 |
73% |
|
Where the Wild Things Are | Producer | $77.2M | 2009 |
10% |
|
My Life in Ruins | Executive Producer | $8.7M | 2009 |
36% |
|
Angels & Demons | Robert Langdon (Character) | $133.4M | 2009 |
71% |
|
The Great Buck Howard |
Mr. Gable (Character), Producer |
$748.4K | 2008 |
53% |
|
City of Ember | Producer | $7.9M | 2008 |
55% |
|
Mamma Mia! | Executive Producer | $143.7M | 2008 |
82% |
|
Charlie Wilson's War |
Charlie Wilson (Character), Producer |
$66.6M | 2007 |
87% |
|
The Simpsons Movie | Self (Voice) | $183.1M | 2007 |
24% |
|
Evan Almighty | Executive Producer | $100.3M | 2007 |
90% |
|
Neil Young: Heart of Gold | Producer | $1.8M | 2006 |
90% |
|
Starter for 10 | Producer | $210.1K | 2006 |
62% |
|
The Ant Bully | Producer | $28.1M | 2006 |
25% |
|
The Da Vinci Code | Robert Langdon (Character) | $217.5M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Merv Griffin Show - 40 of the Most Interesting People of Our Time | Self | - | 2006 |
88% |
|
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon | Producer | $34.1M | 2005 |
56% |
|
The Polar Express |
Hero Boy/ Executive Producer, Producer |
$125.9M | 2004 |
61% |
|
The Terminal | Viktor Navorski (Character) | $77.0M | 2004 |
54% |
|
The Ladykillers | Goldthwait Higginson Dorr III, Ph.D. (Character) | $39.7M | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
|
Late Night With Conan O'Brien - 10th Anniversary Special | Unknown (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
|
Concert for George | Mountie (Character) | $131.0K | 2003 |
76% |
|
My Big Fat Greek Wedding | Producer | $241.4M | 2002 |
96% |
|
Catch Me if You Can | FBI Agent Carl Hanratty (Character) | $164.4M | 2002 |
81% |
|
Road to Perdition | Michael Sullivan (Character) | $104.1M | 2002 |
89% |
|
Cast Away |
Chuck Noland (Character), Producer |
$233.6M | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shooting War | Unknown (Character) | - | 2000 |
79% |
|
The Green Mile | Paul Edgecomb (Character) | $136.8M | 1999 |
100% |
|
Toy Story 2 | Woody (Voice) | $245.9M | 1999 |
70% |
|
You've Got Mail | Joe Fox (Character) | $115.7M | 1998 |
100% |
|
Return With Honor | Narrator | $114.3K | 1998 |
94% |
|
Saving Private Ryan | Captain John H. Miller (Character) | - | 1998 |
93% |
|
That Thing You Do! |
Mr. White (Character), Director, Writer |
$25.9M | 1996 |
100% |
|
Toy Story | Woody (Voice) | $31.3M | 1995 |
97% |
|
The Celluloid Closet | Self | $1.4M | 1995 |
96% |
|
Apollo 13 | Jim Lovell (Character) | $173.8M | 1995 |
76% |
|
Forrest Gump | Forrest Gump (Character) | $330.3M | 1994 |
81% |
|
Philadelphia | Andrew Beckett (Character) | $76.0M | 1993 |
75% |
|
Sleepless in Seattle | Sam Baldwin (Character) | $125.6M | 1993 |
35% |
|
Radio Flyer | Older Mike (Character) | $4.0M | 1992 |
82% |
|
A League of Their Own | Jimmy Dugan (Character) | $105.1M | 1992 |
15% |
|
The Bonfire of the Vanities | Sherman McCoy (Character) | - | 1990 |
67% |
|
Joe Versus the Volcano | Joe (Character) | $39.1M | 1990 |
52% |
|
Turner & Hooch | Det. Scott Turner (Character) | $70.5M | 1989 |
56% |
|
The 'Burbs | Ray Peterson (Character) | $34.1M | 1989 |
60% |
|
Punchline | Steven Gold (Character) | $20.3M | 1988 |
98% |
|
Big | Josh (Character) | $113.5M | 1988 |
50% |
|
Dragnet | Det. Pep Streebek (Character) | $56.0M | 1987 |
50% |
|
The Money Pit | Walter Fielding, Jr. (Character) | $30.9M | 1986 |
56% |
|
Nothing in Common | David Basner (Character) | $32.0M | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
|
Every Time We Say Goodbye | David Bradley (Character) | - | 1986 |
58% |
|
Volunteers | Lawrence Whatley Bourne III (Character) | $19.4M | 1985 |
47% |
|
The Man With One Red Shoe | Richard Harlan Drew (Character) | - | 1985 |
54% |
|
Bachelor Party | Rick Gassko (Character) | - | 1984 |
91% |
|
Splash | Allen Bauer (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
|
Mazes and Monsters | Robbie Wheeling (Character) | - | 1982 |
30% |
|
He Knows You're Alone | Elliot (Character) | - | 1980 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Americas | Narrator | 2025 |
85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Himself (Guest Voice) | 2024 |
85% | 72% | Masters of the Air | Executive Producer | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2011 2015-2023 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2022-2023 |
No Score Yet | 49% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2015-2017 2020-2023 |
No Score Yet | 41% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2011-2014 2016 2019 2021 |
No Score Yet | 62% | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Guest | 2019-2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter | Guest | 2018 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Guest | 2017 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Guest | 2013 2016 2018-2019 |
No Score Yet | 19% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2015 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ellen's Game of Games | Guest | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2010-2011 2013 2019 |
No Score Yet | 67% | The 2000s | Executive Producer | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Last Week Tonight With John Oliver |
Himself (Guest Star), Guest |
2014 2017 |
No Score Yet | 58% | Saturday Night Live |
David S. Pumpkins (Voice), Unknown (Guest Star), Host |
1985 1988 1990 1992 1996 2006 2009 2011-2013 2016-2017 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Nineties | Executive Producer | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dateline NBC | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Eighties |
Unknown (Character), Executive Producer, Self |
2016 |
38% | 76% | Maya & Marty | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Celebrated | Self | 2015 |
100% | 90% | Late Show With David Letterman | Guest | 2013 2015 |
94% | 96% | Olive Kitteridge | Executive Producer | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colbert Report | Guest | 2010 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show | Guest | 2009 2011 |
78% | 92% | 30 Rock | Tom Hanks (Guest Star) | 2011 |
80% | 82% | Big Love | Executive Producer | 2006-2007 2009-2011 |
89% | 90% | The Pacific | Executive Producer | 2010 |
82% | 85% | John Adams | Executive Producer | 2008 |
71% | No Score Yet | Life With Bonnie | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
94% | 97% | Band of Brothers |
Executive Producer, Director, Writer |
2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside the Actors Studio | Guest | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 80% | From the Earth to the Moon |
Jean-Luc Despont (Character), Executive Producer, Director, Host, Writer |
1998 |
64% | No Score Yet | The Naked Truth | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fallen Angels | Director | 1993 |
82% | 90% | Tales From the Crypt | Director | 1992 |
No Score Yet | 88% | Family Ties | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983-1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Happy Days | Dr. Dwayne Twitchell (Guest Star) | 1982 |
80% | 60% | Bosom Buddies |
Kip Wilson/ |
1980-1982 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Taxi | Gordon (Guest Star) | 1982 |