Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born the July 9th 1956 with Concord, California) is a producing Acteur, and American Réalisateur .

After beginnings in the Comedy, Tom Hanks asserts like one of the most popular Acteur S of the American Cinéma, thanks to her dramatic roles in films such as Philadelphia , Forrest Gump or It is necessary to save the soldier Ryan .

At January 1st 2007, the films in which it took part generated more than three billion dollars to the American Box-office, making of Tom Hanks the most prolific actor of the history of the Cinéma as regards business successes. In 2006, the magazine Forbes classifies it 31ème the most paid celebrities world with incomes of 29 million dollars.

Youth

Tom Hanks is born in Concord, California, of Janet Marilyn Frager (1932 -), administrator of hospital, and Amos Mefford Hanks (1924 - 1991), an itinerant cook. When his/her parents separate, the Hanks young person then 5 years old lives with his Larry brother and his Sandra sister, while his/her other Jim brother remains with their mother. The trade of the father imposes a great number of removals and changes of schools on his/her children, which did not leave in Hanks time to be made friends and developed at his place a great timidity. Moreover, its family entourage very often changed, because of the multiple marriages of his/her father. His/her first beautiful mother settled with her 5 children; the couple divorced two years later.

In 1965, his/her Amos father remarie and Tom Hanks counts three half-brothers and sisters moreover, before the family does not settle with Oakland, California. In the school, Tom Hanks is interested in the sport and falls under courses of dramatic art in which its professor, impressed by his talents, encourages it to persevere. As its schooling continues, Hanks plays in various plays which will be worth finally a price to him of interpretation of its school in 1974.

After the college, it is registered at a local university and is a small work of groom in a hotel Hilton. It develops its play of actor through his participation in courses of comedy, and moves with Sacramento, California, to follow studies in the university of the city. At this point in time it made two important meetings: initially with that which will become later his first wife, Samantha Lewes, then with Vincent Dowling, a director. At the time, it tried to appear in the theatrical productions of its university, in vain. Frustrated its failures, he auditions for a local play of Tchekov, the Cherry orchard (The Cherry Orchard), at the conclusion which he takes down a role. Dowling, the director of the part, if was impressed that it invited it to a festival of theater with Cleveland. It gives up then the university to be devoted to its career incipient from actor. It is implied in the organization of the festival in Cleveland, an experiment which occupies it during three years. Its first child is born in 1977, then he marries Samantha Lewes in January 1978; the same year, it gains a new price of interpretation for its role of Proteus in the Two Gentlemen of Vérone (The Two Gentlemen off Verona), of representation in Cleveland. Its experiment in the theater, its interpretations of the work of Shakespeare and local success inspire Hanks which feels courage to settle with New York, thus approaching Broadway, the center of the theatrical activity to the the United States.

The couple finds work with difficulty, and Hanks is constrained to return to Cleveland during the summer 1979 to play a new part. Its Dowling director enormously appreciates it for his interpretations, at the same time very realistic and comic, which will constitute later its signature as a movie actor. On its return to New York with the end of the year 1979, Hanks finds finally work in a play, and an agent takes care from now on of its career. This one finds to him a first role with the cinema in film of horror bloody Noces (He Knows You' Re Alone), realized by Armand Mastroianni.

Career

An actor of comedies

The year 1980 brings its first important work to him. The television channel ABC lance a development program of talents, in the hope to find young actors likely of booster rocket audiences. He plays in a series of sitcoms for the chain and settles with his wife in San Fernando Valley, California, where in 1982 is born its second Elizabeth child. The roles on television follow one another (including one short appearance in cruising has fun), and Hanks meets Ron Howard then realizer beginning on turning from Happy days . Whereas Howard selects its actors to play in his new film Splash , he auditions Hanks for a supporting role: its service likes Howard so much that he proposes the first role to him.

This film makes of Hanks a high-speed motorboat, which enables him to find roles in several removed from rim comedies of the the Eighties. He plays in films such as the de luxe hotel in madness (Bachelor party) (1984), a Hut with all to break (The money pit) (1986) and Nothing jointly (Nothing in common) (1986), all business successes which consolidate its statute of rising actor with Hollywood.

In spite of its growing success, its marriage beats wing. Hanks does not want to then subject to his/her children what even had endured to him during its youth: it thus makes a pause in its career of movie actor to produce a play, his wife holding the main role. Their efforts are vain, and the couple separates. In 1987, it turns in Dragnet , police film a parody, a film style in vogue in the American cinema of the Années 1980.

Its role in Big in 1988 constitutes its first great success. It plays the part of an awaking child there one day in the body of an adult, and its interpretation is worth its first nomination with the to him Oscars of 1989. Extremely of this success, Hanks continues in a series of comedies: the Word of the end (1989), the Commuters (1989), Turner and Hooch (1989) and Joe against the volcano (1990), confirming its statute of comic actor.

First dramatic roles

In the the Nineties, Tom Hanks undertakes to play in dramatic roles, with first of all To rough-hew It vanities (The Bonfire Of The Vanities), in which he plays a broker of Wall Street. In spite of its distribution (Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith or Morgan Freeman), a prestigious realizer (Brian de Palma) and a raised budget, the film proves to be a resounding commercial failure.

During this time, its personal life takes again colors after its divorce in 1987: it meets Rita Wilson, which it marries in 1988. After to rough-hew it vanities, Hanks decides to be devoted to its family, learning the lessons from its first marriage. A fore-mentioned child Chester is born from his union with Rita Wilson in 1990, followed later by Truman (1995).

He will await only little time to see itself proposing interesting dramatic roles as a team out of the commun run (League Their Own has off) in 1992, the first of an enormous series of business successes. He finds Meg Ryan in 1993 in Sleepless nights in Seattle , a successful film which receives two nominations with the Oscars.

Dedication

But it is with Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994) that Hanks will know the dedication. He interprets a homosexual lawyer there reaches AIDS, at the sides of Denzel Washington and Antonio Banderas. In 1994, it holds the role of Forrest Gump in the film éponyme, under the features of a simple man, actor and spectator of the big events of the history of the end of the 20th century to the the United States. It gains a new trophy of better actor for the second consecutive year, exploit that only Spencer Tracy (in 1937 and 1938) had realized before him.

It will connect thereafter a good number of successful films, whose Apollo 13 in 1995, and lends its voice to Woody in Toy Story the same year. It passes then to the realization in 1996 with That Thing You Do! , a family comedy on the rise to power of a group of Rock' roll in the the Seventies.

Hanks is also expressed through the writing and the realization with mini the series Of the ground to the moon (From the earth to the moon) (1998), which reports the history of the American space conquest and its Programme Apollo, and Brothers in arms (Band off brothers), which it created with Steven Spielberg in 2001, reporting the life of American soldiers on the European faces of the second world war.

It finds then Robert Zemeckis in 2000 for Seul in the world (Cast Away), project whose original idea came from Tom Hanks himself. He plays the part of a shipwrecked man, isolated on an island during several years following a crash landing from plane. The film is made in two parts, which made it possible Hanks to undertake a spectacular physical transformation: it loses a score of kilos, for then taking again the turning of film, stopped during one year. In 2002, it divides the poster with Jude Law and Paul Newman in the Paths of perdition (Road To Perdition), film in which it incarnates Michael Sullivan, a killer with the service of the Maffia Irish. It finds then Steven Spielberg for its first collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio in Arrête me if you can (Wrestling Me Yew You Can). It plays there Carl Hanratty, an agent of the FBI which tries at all costs to stop largest swindlers of the history of the the United States, Frank Abagnale (DiCaprio).

To add to this year 2002 very charged, it takes share with the film Mariage with Greek the on recommendation of his wife, a film which proved to be one of the most advantageous independent films of the history of the American cinema, with a world Box-office of more than 350 million dollars, for an initial budget of 5 million dollars.

In 2004, it plays the part of an eccentric burglar in Ladykillers, then it collaborates once more with Steven Spielberg for the Terminal (final The), film in which it plays coasts of Catherine Zeta-Jones, the role of Viktor Navorski, which is found trapped in the airport JFK during several months. At the end of the year he plays in an adaptation of an account of Christmas, the Pole express train , (" Boreal Express" in Quebec).

In 2006, it interprets Robert Langdon in Da Vinci Code of Ron Howard, and should take again this role in Anges and Démons, the second adaptation of a novel of Dan Brown, always under the direction of Ron Howard.

Projects

In 2007, one awaits it in The Great Buck Howard , under the direction of Sean McGinly, with John Malkovich, and Charlie Wilson' S War of Mike Nichols, in which it will divide the poster with Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman. For 2008, it should take again its role of Robert Langdon in Angels & Demons . It will be also with the poster of the films has Cold puts , whodunnit carried out by Mark Romanek and should appear in The Risk Pool , realized by Lawrence Kasdan. With the team which carried out " Brothers in arms " (Band off Brothers), they will produce " The Pacific War" , telesery reporting the face of peaceful during the second world war.

Catalog of films (realizer)

  • 1992 the Tales of the crypt Episode bleeding Cœur blinks of it (realizer and actor)
  • 1996 That Thing You Do!
  • 2001 Brothers in arms ( Band off Brothers ) Episode 5

Catalog of films (actor)

Rewards

Anecdotes

  • It has two children of his first wife, Colin Hanks (1977 -) and Elizabeth Hanks (1982 -) and two others of his second wife: Chester Marlon (1990 -) and Truman Theodore (1995 -).
  • At the time of its speech following the handing-over of the Oscar of the best actor than it gains in 1993, Hanks thanks its professor for dramatic arts of college which is homosexual, which inspired the history of the film In & Out (1998).
  • In Philadelphia (1993), 53 HIV positive people appear in film; 43 of them died in the course of the following year.
  • It receives a price of the American Film Institute for the whole of its career. He is the youngest artist to have received this price.
  • It refused to play the part titrates in Jerry Maguire , role which returned finally to Tom Cruise.
  • It is downward distant from Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States.
  • He is a fan of the team of Baseball of the Cleveland Indians.
  • It had to undergo physical transformations for some of these films: it loses about fifteen kilos for Philadephia , and a score for Seul in the world .
  • It is very often compared with James Stewart.
  • His first wife, Samantha Lewes, died of a Cancer in 2002.
  • It was considered for the role of Peter Banning in Hook , role finally interpreted by Robin Williams.
  • His/her brother Jim Hanks was his lining for the scenes of race in Forrest Gump .

External bond

  • Tom Hanks At the Movie Wiki

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