Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks (born 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker whose work spans comedy, drama, television and production. He rose to fame in the 1980s with comedies such as Splash and Big, then won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. His long collaboration with Steven Spielberg produced Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, Bridge of Spies and The Post, and extended to the war miniseries Band of Brothers, The Pacific and Masters of the Air. For the media atlas his significance as a filmmaker lies in directing and starring in That Thing You Do! (1996) and Larry Crowne (2011), and in founding the production company Playtone, which has produced limited series and television films including From the Earth to the Moon, John Adams and Olive Kitteridge. He also voices Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story franchise and has hosted Saturday Night Live ten times.