Tom Hanks stands 183 cm, or 6 feet, tall.
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American actor and director who was born on July 9, 1956. He is one of the most well-known and recognizably famous movie stars in the world and is regarded as an American cultural icon. He is known for both his comedic and dramatic roles. Hanks is the fourth-highest grossing actor in North America with over $4.9 billion in domestic box office revenues and over $9.96 billion worldwide.
AFI Life Achievement Award in 2002, Kennedy Center Honor in 2014, Presidential Medal of Freedom and French Legion of Honor both in 2016, as well as the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2020, are just a few of the honors he has received.
What are Tom Hanks' best-known films?
Hanks made his name by playing the lead in a string of comedies that attracted favorable press coverage, including Splash (1984), The Money Pit (1986), Big (1988), and A League of Their Own (1992). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for playing the lead roles in Forrest Gump (1994) and a gay lawyer with AIDS in Philadelphia (1993).
Hanks worked with Steven Spielberg on five movies: 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 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) and The Pacific (2010), which gave him his start as a director, producer, and screenwriter. Hanks has also starred in the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), and Cloud Atlas (2012), as well as the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998).
Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Sully (2016), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), News of the World (2020), and Elvis (2022) are among the biographical dramas. Hanks has also voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story movie series and played the title role in the Robert Langdon movie series (1995–2019).
What is Tom Hanks' net worth?
American actor, director, writer, and producer Tom Hanks has a $400 million fortune. Tom Hanks is unquestionably one of Hollywood's most well-known, respected, and well-paid actors. Hanks has earned more than $4.6 billion in domestic box office revenue in his entire career. Additionally, he consistently earns the most money at the box office worldwide, ranking first.
Tom's movie salaries alone totaled about $300 million between 1988 and 2010. That is equivalent to $450 million after inflation. In the following ten years, he made at least another $100 million. Without accounting for inflation, Tom has made at least $400 million in movie salaries over the course of his career. That does not include residuals or payments for directing and producing.
Tom's first significant salary came from the 1984 film "Splash," for which he was paid $70,000. That is equivalent to roughly $172,000 after inflation. In 1988, four years later, Tom made $1.75 million as the lead in "Big." That is equivalent to roughly $4 million today. He made $5 million for "Punchline" in 1998 as well. Today, that is equivalent to $11 million. Tom's pay remained extremely high starting in the late 1980s. After earning $20 million for each of "You've Got Mail," "Cast Away," and "The Green Mile," Tom made $40 million for "Saving Private Ryan."
Who are the parents of Tom Hanks?
On July 9, 1956, Tom Hanks was born in Concord, California, to traveling cook Amos "Bud" Hanks and hospital employee Janet Marylyn. His mother was Portuguese, and the family's last name was originally "Fraga." Hanks is a distant cousin of President Abraham Lincoln, and his father is of English ancestry. In 1960, his parents divorced. The youngest, Jim, stayed in Red Bluff, California, with their mother. Their three oldest children, Sandra, Larry, and Tom, went with their father. Hanks' family relocated frequently when he was a child; by the time he was 10, he had lived in ten different homes.
One journalist described Hanks' teenage self as being a "Bible-toting evangelical" for a number of years, despite the fact that his family had Catholic and Mormon religious traditions. He was not liked by either the teachers or the students when he was in school, as he later admitted to Rolling Stone: "I was a geek, a spaz.” “I was horribly, painfully, terribly shy.” “At the same time, I was the guy who'd yell out funny captions during film strips.” “But I didn't get into trouble.” “I was always a really good kid and pretty responsible."
His father married Frances Wong, a San Francisco native with Chinese ancestry, in 1965. Hanks lived with two of Frances' three children while he was in high school at Oakland, California's Skyline High School.
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