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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks arrived in the world on the 9th of July 1956 inside a hospital in Concord, California. His mother Janet Marylyn worked as a hospital worker while his father Amos Bud Hanks traveled constantly as an itinerant cook.
Hanks landed a starring role in the television movie Mazes and Monsters in 1982 before becoming a co-lead on the ABC sitcom Bosom Buddies which ran for two seasons from 1980 to 1982. That romantic comedy fantasy about a mermaid became a surprise box office hit grossing more than US$69 million.
He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing a gay lawyer with AIDS in Philadelphia revealing during his acceptance speech that two people close to him were gay. He followed this immediately with Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump earning him his second consecutive Academy Award for Best Actor.
Hanks voiced Sheriff Woody in Pixar's Toy Story released in 1995 receiving critical acclaim and major box office success. He reprised the role in Toy Story 2 in 1999 and again in Toy Story 3 in 2010 when invited to see a complete story reel at a movie theater.
The President of Greece Prokopis Pavlopoulos signed an honorary naturalization order for him and his family on the 27th of December 2019 citing exceptional services to Greece. This honor came after their role in bringing global attention to aid following a devastating wildfire in Mati near Athens killing more than 100 people.