Thomas Jeffrey Hanks Nickname is Thom Hanks
Birth and upbringing
He won the Oscar twice. He was born on July 9, 1956 in California, to an English father and a Portuguese mother.
He has three brothers, Sandra, Larry and Timm, and the younger brother Jim is from a Christian Catholic family.
He was not highly intelligent when he was young, but his school friends thought he was clumsy or crazy.
Tom Hanks Beginning with Art and Acting
He was unsuccessful at the beginning of his career with the movie He Knows You're Alone It was in 1980 and he did not achieve any success with this work.
Then he participated in the Bosom Buddies TV series in 1980 also, and this series got great success for Dora that it lasted for two years and because of this success, he was shown another series in 1984 Bachelor Party.
Thom Hanks continues to succeed
He shone a lot in the period from 1990 to 1993, when he won the two most important awards in his life, which any actor who aspires to stardom dreams of.
In just two years he was involved in blockbuster hits like The Bonfire of the Vanities and League of Their Own
Thom Hanks gets his first Oscar prize
He won the Best Actor award for Philadelphia, where this movie was very popular and achieved the highest percentage of sales, and immediately after it he participated in another huge work, Sleepless in Seattl
Thom Hanks Receives Second Academy Award for Best Actor
He won the Best Actor award for Forrest Gump in 1994, and his successes continued, and he participated in the title role in many works and won many offers from the biggest works of art in America.
Thom Hanks Director
After achieving success on the level of acting, Tom decided to direct many films, and the beginning was in 1996 in That Thing You Do.
But the beginning was not successful, so he decided to leave directing and devote himself to acting in which he excels
Cartoon by Thom Hanks
He wanted to experiment with cartoon films, so his first cartoon was The Polar Express in 2004, then after more than 10 years he returned to cartoon films in 2010 and made billions of dollars from cartoon films.