Birthday: Jul 9, 1956

Birthplace: Concord, California

Biography: Thomas "Tom" Jeffrey Hanks is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor, voice-over artist and movie producer who starred in family-friendly and screwball comedies before achieving notable success as a dramatic actor. As of September 24, 2006, Hanks is the highest-grossing "lead" actor of all time, with a combined gross of over $3.3 billion and an worldwide gross of nearly $6 billion. He is also co-owner of Playtone, a film production company. He met his second wife, actress Rita Wilson on... ... (read more...) the set of the movie Volunteers (1985) - they have two children and Tom has another son (Colin Hanks) and daughter by his first wife. In 1996 he made his first step behind the camera, directing as well as starring and writing the film That Thing You Do! (1996).