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Tom Hanks has won two Academy Awards for Best Actor, for Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994). He became only the second actor in history to win consecutive Best Actor Oscars, the first being Spencer Tracy in 1937 and 1938.
Splash (1984), directed by Ron Howard, was Tom Hanks's breakthrough film role. The romantic comedy fantasy grossed more than US$69 million at the box office, making it a surprise hit. His first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor came for Big (1988).
Tom Hanks was born on the 9th of July, 1956, in Concord, California, a suburb of San Francisco. His parents divorced in 1960, and by age ten he had lived in ten different houses. He studied theater at Chabot College and later interned at the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio, where he won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in 1978.
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg collaborated on five films: Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017). They also produced three World War II miniseries together: Band of Brothers (2001), The Pacific (2010), and Masters of the Air (2024).
Tom Hanks's films have grossed over $9.96 billion worldwide. In North America alone, his total gross stands above $4.9 billion, with an average of $100.8 million per film, placing him fifth among all-time box office stars in North America.
Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson were granted honorary Greek citizenship on the 27th of December, 2019. The honor recognized their efforts to bring global attention and appeal for aid after a wildfire struck the village of Mati, near Athens, in July 2018, killing more than 100 people. Greece's Interior Minister cited Hanks's "real interest in the people who suffered from the fire."