Tom Hanks

Biography

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is widely regarded as an American cultural icon.

Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in the comedies Splash (1984) and Big (1988). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and a young man with below-average IQ in Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks collaborated with film director Steven Spielberg on five films: 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 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, which launched him as a director, producer, and screenwriter.

Hanks' other notable films include 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), and Cloud Atlas (2012); and the biographical dramas Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Captain Phillips (2013), Sully (2016), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). He has also appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon film series, and has voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series.

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Known For

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Self

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self - Guest

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

The Graham Norton Show

Self

The Graham Norton Show

Self - Guest

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2026	Toy Story 5	Woody (voice)
2025	Freaky Tales	Hank, Video Store Owner
2025	The Phoenician Scheme	Leland
2025	SNL50: The Homecoming Concert	Self
2025	Clint Eastwood : la légende	Himself
2024	Here	Richard
2024	The Bloody Hundredth	Self - Narrator (voice)
2024	De "Matrix" à "Sense8", la révolution Wachowski	Self (archive footage)
2024	The Untold Story of Mary Poppins: A Special Edition of 20/20	Self
2023	A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys	Self
2023	Tom Hanks: The Nomad	Self (archive footage)
2023	Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20	Self
2023	The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks	Narrator
2023	Just a Boy From Tupelo: Bringing Elvis to the Big Screen	Self - ‘Colonel Tom Parker’
2023	Asteroid City	Stanley Zak
2023	How to Rig an Election: The Racist History of the 1876 Presidential Contest	Narrator (voice)
2022	Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy	Self (archive footage)
2022	A Man Called Otto	Otto Anderson
2022	Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear	Woody (voice) (archive footage)
2022	Halftime	Self
2022	Exclusively Elvis: A Special Edition of 20/20	Self
2022	Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter	Self
2022	'Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen	Self
2022	Elvis	Colonel Tom Parker
2022	Pinocchio	Geppetto
2021	A Night at the Academy Museum	Self
2021	Die Tom Hanks Story	Self (archive footage)
2021	We Are Cinema	Self (archive footage)
2021	Finch	Finch
2021	Celebrating America	Self - Host
2020	Greyhound	Commander Krause
2020	News of the World	Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd
2020	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm	Self
2019	Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound	Self (archive footage)
2019	Toy Story 4	Woody (voice)
2019	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	Fred Rogers
2018	Die Clint Eastwood Story	Self
2018	The Mayo Clinic	Will Mayo (voice)
2018	Quincy	Self
2018	The Last Mile	Self
2018	Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal	Self (archive footage)
2017	The Circle	Eamon Bailey
2017	California Typewriter	Self
2017	The Post	Ben Bradlee
2017	The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special	David S. Pumpkins (voice)
2017	Spielberg	Self
2016	There's Something About Romcoms	Self
2016	Electric City	Voice Actor (voice)
2016	A Hologram for the King	Alan Clay
2016	Inferno	Robert Langdon
2016	Sully	Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger
2016	Mike Nichols: An American Master	Self
2016	Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War	Waitstill Sharp (voice)
2016	Sully: Sully Sullenberger - The Man Behind the Miracle	Self
2015	The Walk	Security Guard (voice) (uncredited)
2015	Bridge of Spies	James B. Donovan
2015	Ithaca	Mr. Macauley
2015	Misery Loves Comedy	Self
2015	Everything Is Copy	Self
2015	Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond	Self
2014	The Real Mary Poppins	Self
2014	Toy Story That Time Forgot	Woody (voice)
2014	All In	Self
2014	The Concert for Valor	Self
2014	Walking the Mile	Self
2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self - Actor
2014	The Dave Clark Five and Beyond: Glad All Over	Self
2013	Saving Mr. Banks	Walt Disney
2013	Captain Phillips	Captain Richard Phillips
2013	Killing Lincoln	Self - Narrator
2013	Toy Story of Terror!	Woody (Voice)
2012	Close Up	Self (archive footage)
2012	Cloud Atlas	Dr. Henry Goose / Hotel Manager / Isaac Sachs / Dermot Hoggins / Cavendish Look-a-Like Actor / Zachry
2012	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen	(archive footage)
2012	Inventing David Geffen	Self
2012	Partysaurus Rex	Woody (voice)
2012	Radioman	Self
2012	The Road We've Traveled	Self - Narrator
2011	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	Thomas Schell
2011	Small Fry	Woody (voice)
2011	Larry Crowne	Larry Crowne
2011	Hawaiian Vacation	Woody (voice)
2011	The Extraordinary Voyage	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2011	Boatlift	Narrator
2010	Toy Story 3	Woody (voice)
2009	Angels & Demons	Robert Langdon
2009	Waking Sleeping Beauty	Allen Bauer (archive footage)
2009	Beyond All Boundaries	Narrator
2009	The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts	Host
2009	We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial	Self
2008	The Great Buck Howard	Mr. Gable
2008	A Timeless Call	Self / Narrator (voice)
2007	The Simpsons Movie	Tom Hanks (voice)
2007	Charlie Wilson's War	Charlie Wilson
2007	The Pixar Story	Himself/Woody (voice)/Scott Turner
2007	Making That Thing You Do	Self
2006	The Da Vinci Code	Robert Langdon
2006	Who Killed the Electric Car?	Self (archive footage)
2006	Who Needs Sleep?	Self
2006	Cars	Woody Car (voice)
2005	Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon	Narrator (voice)
2005	Earth to America	Self
2005	Nos Bastidores de Hollywood	Self
2005	Live 8	Self
2005	Pennis from Heaven	Self
2005	Passport to the Universe	Narrator
2004	The Terminal	Viktor Navorski
2004	The Polar Express	Hero Boy / Father / Conductor / Hobo / Scrooge / Santa Claus
2004	The Ladykillers	Professor G.H. Dorr
2004	Elvis Has Left the Building	Mailbox-Elvis
2004	People Like Us: Making 'Philadelphia'	Self
2004	Making a 'Splash'	Self / Allen Bauer
2003	Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip	Horatio Nelson Jackson (voice)
2003	The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch	Self - Interviewee
2003	Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera	Self
2003	Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s	Self
2003	Concert for George	Mountie
2002	Catch Me If You Can	Carl Hanratty
2002	Road to Perdition	Michael Sullivan
2001	Rescued from the Closet	Self
2001	The Making of 'Band of Brothers'	Self
2001	America \| A Tribute to Heroes	Self
2000	Shooting War	Narrator
2000	Cast Away	Chuck Noland
2000	Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile	Self / Paul Edgecomb
1999	The Green Mile	Paul Edgecomb
1999	Return with Honor	Narrator
1999	Stephen King: Shining in the Dark	Self
1999	Toy Story 2	Woody (voice)
1999	Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special	Self
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Captain Miller
1998	You've Got Mail	Joe Fox
1997	The Harryhausen Chronicles	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1996	That Thing You Do!	Mr. White
1996	Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13	Self
1996	The Celluloid Closet	Self
1996	The Story Behind 'Toy Story'	Self
1996	The Universal Story	Self (archive footage)
1995	Toy Story	Woody (voice)
1995	Apollo 13	Jim Lovell
1995	Making 'Toy Story'	Himself
1994	Forrest Gump	Forrest Gump
1994	Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump	Self
1994	Vault of Horror I	Baxter
1993	Sleepless in Seattle	Sam Baldwin
1993	Philadelphia	Andrew Beckett
1992	Radio Flyer	Older Mike (uncredited)
1992	A League of Their Own	Jimmy Dugan
1991	The Best of Disney: 50 Years of Magic	Self
1990	Joe Versus the Volcano	Joe Banks
1990	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Sherman McCoy
1989	Turner & Hooch	Scott Turner
1989	The 'Burbs	Ray Peterson
1989	Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary	Self
1988	Big	Josh Baskin
1988	Punchline	Steven Gold
1987	Dragnet	Pep Streebeck
1986	The Money Pit	Walter Fielding, Jr.
1986	Every Time We Say Goodbye	David
1986	Nothing in Common	David Basner
1985	The Man with One Red Shoe	Richard
1985	Volunteers	Lawrence Whatley Bourne III
1984	Splash	Allen Bauer
1984	Bachelor Party	Rick Gassko
1982	Mazes and Monsters	Robbie Wheeling
1980	He Knows You're Alone	Elliot
	Major Matt Mason	Major Matt Mason
	Untitled Greyhound Sequel	Captain Krause

Year	TV Show	Role
2025	The Americas	Self - Narrator (voice)
2025	SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night	Self
2023	The 2010s	Self - Actor
2022	Last Meals
2021	When Ruby Wax Met...	Self (archive footage)
2021	1883	General George Meade
2021	Carina Bergfeldt	Self - Guest
2021	Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy	Self
2020	Reunited Apart	Self
2017	The Nineties	Self
2016	Maya & Marty
2015	The Late Late Show with James Corden	Self
2015	The Seventies	Self
2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self - Guest
2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self
2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self
2014	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	Self
2014	The Sixties	Self
2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self
2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self
2012	Electric City	Cleveland Carr (voice)
2012	Honest Trailers	Colonel Tom Parker (archive footage)
2012	The Greatest Event in Television History	Self
2011	OK! TV
2011	Prohibition	Reader / Roy Olmstead (voice)
2010	The Pacific	Narrator (voice)
2010	Conan	Self
2009	The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2008	The War	Narrator (voice)
2008	The War	Al McIntosh (Voice)
2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self
2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self - Guest
2006	30 Rock	Tom Hanks
2005	The Colbert Report
2005	The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	Self
2004	Kulturplatz	Self
2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self
2003	Celebrities Uncensored	Self
2002	Life with Bonnie	Tom Hanks
2001	Primetime Glick
2000	Koschwitz	Self
1998	From the Earth to the Moon	Jean-Luc Despont
1998	From the Earth to the Moon	Host
1998	Parkinson	Self
1997	The View	Self
1997	The Wonderful World of Disney
1997	Scene by Scene	Self
1997	Taff	self
1996	The Daily Show	Self
1996	The Rosie O'Donnell Show	Self - Guest
1996	Ruby Wax Meets
1995	Die Harald Schmidt Show	Self
1995	The Naked Truth	Tom Hanks
1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self
1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest
1993	Fallen Angels	Trouble Boy #1
1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1989	Tales from the Crypt	Baxter (segment "None But the Lonely Heart")
1989	The Simpsons	Tom Hanks (voice)
1988	This Morning	Self
1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988	American Experience	Narrator (voice)
1982	Family Ties	Ned Donnelly
1981	Wetten, dass..?	Self
1981	Entertainment Tonight	Self
1980	Bosom Buddies	Kip Wilson / Buffy
1978	Taxi	Gordon
1977	The Love Boat	Rick Martin
1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host
1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975	Saturday Night Live	Self
1974	Happy Days
1967	Titel, Thesen, Temperamente	Self
1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self
1953	The Oscars	Self
1952	Today	Self
1948	Bambi-Verleihung	Self
1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner
1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee
1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Audience Member
1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter
1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self
1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter/Winner