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Tom Hanks

American actor and filmmaker celebrated for versatile roles and significant contributions to cinema. Tom Hanks's nationality is American and Greek. Tom Hanks was born on 9 July 1956.

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Who is Tom Hanks?

Tom Hanks is best known for Renowned for iconic roles in films like Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan, and acclaimed for both comedic and dramatic performances. Tom Hanks is an American and Greek public figure. Tom Hanks was born on 9 July 1956, which places Tom Hanks among the people in the Dead or Alive catalog born in the 1950s. On Dead or Alive, Tom Hanks is listed in the Screen Icons and Oscar Best Actors categories, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Tom Hanks is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Renowned for iconic roles in films like Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan, and acclaimed for both comedic and dramatic performances.
Nationality: American and Greek
Born: 9 July 1956
Listed under: Screen Icons and Oscar Best Actors

About Tom Hanks

In 2020, Hanks was ranked as the fourth-highest-grossing American film actor of all time. He received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. Hanks rose to fame with leading roles in the comedies Splash (1984), The Money Pit (1986), Big (1988), and A League of Their Own (1992). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor, playing a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993), then the title character in Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks cemented his film stardom with lead roles in 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), Cloud Atlas (2012) and News of the World (2020); and the biographical dramas Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Sully (2016), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) and Elvis (2022). Hanks directed and acted in That Thing You Do! (1996) and Larry Crowne (2011). He made his Broadway debut in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy (2013), earning a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Tom Hanks known for?

Tom Hanks is known for Renowned for iconic roles in films like Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan, and acclaimed for both comedic and dramatic performances.

When was Tom Hanks born?

Tom Hanks was born on 9 July 1956.

What nationality is Tom Hanks?

Tom Hanks's nationality is American and Greek.

Which Dead or Alive categories include Tom Hanks?

Tom Hanks appears in Screen Icons, Oscar Best Actors.

Is Tom Hanks still alive?

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