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American actor and film producer, the winner of an Oscar for Best Actor in 1994 for Philadelphia and a second Oscar in 1995 for Forest Gump. Hanks and Spencer Tracy are the only two actors to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in consecutive years. Hanks films have grossed more than US$9.96 billion worldwide, making him the fifth-highest-grossing actor in North America. His regular guy image with hazel eyes, naturally curly brown hair and quick wit keep Hanks on Hollywoods most popular list. His penchant for playing likable character roles has drawn comparisons to the late actor Jimmy Stewart. Hanks was the third of four kids of Amos Hanks, a chef-restaurateur and Janet (nee Frager) Hanks, a hospital worker. His sister Sandra (a writer) was born on 31 July 1951, his brother Larry (an entomology professor) on 26 January 1953 and his younger brother Jim (also an actor and filmmaker) on 15 June 1961. At five, his father returned home from work one night and scooped up Tom and his sister and brother and drove off to Reno, Nevada for a new life. His baby brother, Jim, was left with his mother. Within a year, his father married a woman with eight children of her own. In 1963, Amos Hanks divorced his second wife and moved his children with him to Oakland. He married a third wife, Frances Wong in 1966. By this time, Hanks had become accustom to a migratory childhood and settled into the part of the "new kid" in school. Though his family was close, Hanks longed for security to combat his loneliness. At Skyline High School in Oakland, he played soccer and ran track. He became a born-again Christian, joining a fundamentalist movement affiliated with the First Covenant Church of Oakland, gaining a sense of security from his religion during high school. He liked acting and "hammed it up" in his high schools performance of South Pacific. After a year at Chabot Community College in Hayward, California, Hanks entered California State University-Sacramento in 1976 as a theater major. He interned at the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Cleveland the summer of 1976, when he was seriously bitten by the acting bug. He quit school in order to stay on two more years at the Festival garnering critical acclaim. In 1978, he sold his Volkswagen Beetle and went to New York in 1979 with $850 in his pocket, ready to tackle the Broadway stage. He made his film debut in the low-budget slasher film He Knows Youre Alone (1980). Hanks landed the TV show, Bosom Buddies, in 1980, appearing on screen in womens clothing. In 1984, he played the romantic lead opposite Daryl Hannah in Ron Howards Splash. He scored a major hit in Penny Marshalls Big in 1988. The film took in $100 million but the following pictures that Hanks did were forgettable. In great need of another career boast, he begged Penny Marshall to give him the role of the drunken, rough baseball coach in the 1991 hit, A League of Their Own. Since that picture, Hanks career catapulted into the Hollywood stratosphere with critically acclaimed roles in Philadelphia (1993), Forrest Gump (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), Cloud Atlas (2012), Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Sully (2016), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). He has also starred in the Robert Langdon films, and he voices Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series. In Philadelphia, he played a gay lawyer with AIDS who sues his Read less