Friday, September 5, 2008
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks popularly known as Tom Hanks was born on July 9, 1956, to Amos Mefford Hanks a chef and a distant relation of President Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies before achieving success as a dramatic actor portraying several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title role in Forrest Gump, Commander James A. Lovell in Apollo 13, Captain John H. Miller in Saving Private Ryan, Michael Sullivan in Road to Perdition, and Sheriff Woody in Disney/Pixar's Toy Story. Hanks is the third most successful actor in terms of box office totals which exceed USD $3.3 billion.
In school, Hanks was unpopular with students and teachers and described himself as horribly, painfully, terribly shy. Tom acted in school plays, including South Pacific, while attending Skyline High School in Oakland, California. Tom spent a lot of time going to plays. He would just drive to a theater, buy a ticket, read the program, and then get into the play completely. After three consecutive flops, Hanks succeeded with the fantasy Big (1988), both at the box office and within the industry, establishing Hanks as a major Hollywood talent.
Hanks won his first Academy award for best actor in 1993 for playing a gay lawyer with AIDS in Philadelphia (he lost thirty-five pounds and thinned his hair in order to appear sickly for the role). In 1994 he won his second Best Actor Academy Award for his role in Forrest Gump, becoming only the second actor to have accomplished the feat of winning back-to-back Best Actor Oscars. He played Captain John H. Miller in Saving Private Ryan, one of the finest war movies ever made under the direction of Steven Spielberg and got his third best actor nomination. A fan of NASA's manned space program, Hanks said that he originally wanted to be an astronaut but "didn't have the math".
The following is Hank's dating tree -
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