Actor of The Week: Tom Hanks

 

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (lahir 9 Juli 1956) adalah seorang aktor dan pembuat film Amerika. Dikenal karena peran komedi dan dramanya, ia adalah salah satu bintang film paling populer dan dikenal di seluruh dunia, dan dianggap sebagai ikon budaya Amerika. Film-film Hanks telah meraup lebih dari $4,9 miliar di Amerika Utara dan lebih dari $9,96 miliar di seluruh dunia, menjadikannya aktor berpenghasilan tertinggi keempat di Amerika Utara.

Hanks membuat terobosan dengan menjadi pemeran utama dalam serangkaian film komedi yang mendapat perhatian positif media, seperti Splash (1984), Bachelor Party (1984), Big (1988) dan A League of Their Own (1992). Dia memenangkan dua Academy Awards berturut-turut untuk Aktor Terbaik untuk membintangi sebagai pengacara gay yang menderita AIDS di Philadelphia (1993) dan karakter utama di Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks berkolaborasi dengan sutradara film Steven Spielberg dalam lima film: Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), dan The Post (2017), serta miniseri Band of Brothers 2001, yang meluncurkannya sebagai sutradara, produser, dan penulis skenario. Film Hanks lainnya termasuk komedi romantis Sleepless in Seattle (1993) dan You've Got Mail (1998); drama Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), dan Cloud Atlas (2012); dan drama biografi Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Sully (2016), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), dan News of the World (2020). Dia juga muncul sebagai karakter utama dalam serial film Robert Langdon, dan mengisi suara Sheriff Woody dalam serial film Toy Story (1995–sekarang).

Penghargaan Hanks termasuk dua Academy Awards dari enam nominasi. Hanks juga telah memenangkan tujuh Primetime Emmy Awards untuk karyanya sebagai produser dari berbagai serial terbatas dan film televisi, termasuk From the Earth to the Moon, Band of Brothers, John Adams, dan The Pacific. Pada 2013, ia menerima nominasi Tony Award untuk Aktor Terbaik dalam Drama untuk penampilannya di Lucky Guy karya Nora Ephron. Dia telah menerima Penghargaan Prestasi Kehidupan AFI pada tahun 2002. Dia menerima Penghargaan Stanley Kubrick Britannia untuk Keunggulan dalam Film dari Akademi Seni Film dan Televisi Inggris pada tahun 2004. Pada 2014, ia menerima Kennedy Center Honor, dan pada 2016, ia menerima Presidential Medal of Freedom dari Presiden Barack Obama, serta French Legion of Honor. Pada tahun 2020, ia menerima Penghargaan Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille.

Hanks menikah dengan aktris Amerika Samantha Lewes (1952–2002) pada tahun 1978. Mereka memiliki satu putra, aktor Colin (lahir 1977), dan satu putri, Elizabeth (lahir 1982). Hanks dan Lewes bercerai pada 1987. Lewes meninggal pada usia 49 tahun karena kanker tulang.

Pada tahun 1981, Hanks bertemu aktris Rita Wilson di set komedi TV Bosom Buddies (1980–1982). Mereka dipersatukan kembali pada tahun 1985 di lokasi syuting Volunteers. Wilson adalah keturunan Yunani dan Bulgaria, dan anggota Gereja Ortodoks Yunani. Sebelum menikahinya, Hanks memeluk agamanya. Hanks dan Wilson menikah pada tahun 1988 dan memiliki dua putra. Yang lebih tua, Chester Marlon "Chet", merilis sebuah lagu rap pada tahun 2011 dan memiliki peran berulang di Empire dan Shameless. Adik mereka, Truman Theodore, lahir pada 1995. Hanks tinggal bersama keluarganya di Los Angeles, California, dan Ketchum, Idaho.

Pada Oktober 2013, Hanks mengatakan dia menderita diabetes tipe 2.

Meskipun menjadi penggemar Oakland Athletics dan Raiders ketika mereka berbasis di Oakland, Hanks menyatakan pada April 2017 dia akan memboikot NFL selama dua tahun setelah Raiders mengajukan relokasi ke Las Vegas.

Sejak 1984, Hanks telah menjadi penggemar berat klub Liga Utama Inggris Aston Villa.

Pada November 2019, tak lama sebelum rilis A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, sebuah film drama di mana Hanks memerankan Fred Rogers, ia mengetahui melalui Ancestry.com bahwa ia dan Rogers adalah sepupu keenam, keduanya keturunan Johannes Meffert (1732-1795). , yang lahir di Schöneck, Hesse dan beremigrasi ke Amerika Serikat pada abad ke-18, menetap di Kentucky dan mengubah nama belakangnya menjadi Mefford.

Pada tanggal 27 Desember 2019, Presiden Yunani, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, menandatangani perintah naturalisasi kehormatan untuk Hanks dan keluarganya, dengan alasan "pelayanan luar biasa mereka kepada Yunani", sehingga membuatnya dan keluarga dekatnya menjadi warga negara Yunani. Hanks, bersama dengan Wilson dan anak-anak mereka, dianugerahkan kewarganegaraan kehormatan atas peran mereka dalam membawa perhatian global dan meminta bantuan, pada kebakaran hutan dahsyat yang melanda desa tepi laut Mati, dekat Athena, pada Juli 2018, yang menewaskan lebih dari 100 orang. orang.

Film

Year	Title	Credited as				Notes	Ref(s)
		Actor	Producer	Other	Role(s)
1980	He Knows You're Alone	Yes	No	No	Elliot	Cameo
1984	Splash	Yes	No	No	Allen Bauer
	Bachelor Party	Yes	No	No	Rick Gassko
1985	The Man with One Red Shoe	Yes	No	No	Richard Harlan Drew
	Volunteers	Yes	No	No	Lawrence Whatley Bourne III
1986	The Money Pit	Yes	No	No	Walter Fielding, Jr.
	Nothing in Common	Yes	No	No	David Basner
	Every Time We Say Goodbye	Yes	No	No	David Bradley
1987	Dragnet	Yes	No	No	Detective Pep Streebek
1988	Big	Yes	No	No	Josh Baskin
	Punchline	Yes	No	No	Steven Gold
1989	The 'Burbs	Yes	No	No	Ray Peterson
	Turner & Hooch	Yes	No	No	Detective Scott Turner
1990	Joe Versus the Volcano	Yes	No	No	Joe Banks
	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Yes	No	No	Sherman McCoy
1992	Radio Flyer	Yes	No	No	Older Mike/Narrator
	A League of Their Own	Yes	No	No	Jimmy Dugan
1993	Sleepless in Seattle	Yes	No	No	Sam Baldwin
	Philadelphia	Yes	No	No	Andrew Beckett
1994	Forrest Gump	Yes	No	No	Forrest Gump
1995	Apollo 13	Yes	No	No	Jim Lovell
	Toy Story	Yes	No	No	Sheriff Woody	Voice role
1996	That Thing You Do!	Yes	No	Director and screenwriter	Mr. White
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Yes	No	No	Captain John H. Miller
	You've Got Mail	Yes	No	No	Joe Fox
1999	Toy Story 2	Yes	No	No	Sheriff Woody	Voice role
	The Green Mile	Yes	No	No	Paul Edgecomb
2000	Cast Away	Yes	Yes	No	Chuck Noland
2002	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	No	Yes	No	N/A
	Road to Perdition	Yes	No	No	Michael Sullivan, Sr.
	Catch Me If You Can	Yes	No	No	FBI Agent Carl Hanratty
2004	The Ladykillers	Yes	No	No	Professor G.H. Dorr
	Connie and Carla	No	Yes	No	N/A
	The Terminal	Yes	No	No	Viktor Navorski
	Elvis Has Left the Building	Yes	No	No	Mailbox Elvis	Cameo
	The Polar Express	Yes	Yes	No	The Conductor/Hero Boy/Father/ Scrooge/Santa Claus/Hobo	Voice and motion capture Executive producer
2005	Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D	No	Yes	Screenwriter and narrator	N/A	IMAX only
2006	The Da Vinci Code	Yes	No	No	Professor Robert Langdon
	Cars	Yes	No	No	Woody Car	Cameo; Voice role
	The Ant Bully	No	Yes	No	N/A
	Starter for 10	No	Yes	No	N/A
2007	Evan Almighty	No	Yes	No	N/A	Executive producer
	Charlie Wilson's War	Yes	Yes	No	Charlie Wilson
	The Simpsons Movie	Yes	No	No	Himself	Cameo; Voice role
2008	Mamma Mia!	No	Yes	No	N/A	Executive producer
	City of Ember	No	Yes	No	N/A
2009	The Great Buck Howard	Yes	Yes	No	Mr. Gable
	My Life in Ruins	No	Yes	No	N/A	Executive producer
	Angels & Demons	Yes	No	No	Professor Robert Langdon
	Where the Wild Things Are	No	Yes	No	N/A
	Beyond All Boundaries	No	Yes	Narrator	N/A	Short film Executive producer
2010	Toy Story 3	Yes	No	No	Sheriff Woody	Voice role
2011	Hawaiian Vacation	Yes	No	No	Sheriff Woody	Short film; Voice role
	Larry Crowne	Yes	Yes	Director and screenwriter	Larry Crowne
	Small Fry	Yes	No	No	Sheriff Woody	Short film; Voice role
	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	Yes	No	No	Thomas Schell Jr.
2012	Cloud Atlas	Yes	No	No	Dr. Henry Goose/Hotel Manager/ Isaac Sachs/Dermot Hoggins/ Cavendish Look-A-Like Actor/Zachry
	Partysaurus Rex	Yes	No	No	Sheriff Woody	Short film; Voice role
2013	Parkland	No	Yes	No	N/A
	Captain Phillips	Yes	No	No	Captain Richard Phillips
	Saving Mr. Banks	Yes	No	No	Walt Disney
2015	Bridge of Spies	Yes	No	No	James B. Donovan
	Ithaca	Yes	Yes	No	Mr. Macauley	Cameo; Executive producer
2016	My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2	No	Yes	No	N/A	Producer
	A Hologram for the King	Yes	Yes	No	Alan Clay
	Sully	Yes	No	No	Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger
	California Typewriter	Yes	No	No	Himself	Documentary
	Inferno	Yes	No	No	Professor Robert Langdon
2017	The Circle	Yes	Yes	No	Eamon Bailey
	Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House	No	Yes	No	N/A	Producer
	The Post	Yes	No	No	Ben Bradlee
2018	Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again	No	Yes	No	N/A	Executive producer
2019	Toy Story 4	Yes	No	No	Sheriff Woody	Voice role
	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	Yes	No	No	Fred Rogers
2020	Greyhound	Yes	No	Screenwriter	Commander Ernest Krause
	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm	Yes	No	No	Himself	Cameo
	News of the World	Yes	No	No	Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd
2021	Finch	Yes	No	No	Finch Weinberg
2022	Elvis	Yes	No	No	Colonel Tom Parker	Post-production
TBA	Pinocchio	Yes	No	No	Geppetto	Post-production
	Asteroid City	Yes	No	No		Post-production

 

Television

Year(s)	Title	Credited as				Notes	Ref(s)
		Actor	Producer	Other	Role(s)
1980	The Love Boat	Yes	No	No	Rick Martin	Episode: "Friends and Lovers/Sergeant Bull/Miss Mother"
1980–1982	Bosom Buddies	Yes	No	No	Kip/Buffy Wilson
1982	Mazes and Monsters	Yes	No	No	Robbie Wheeling	Television film
	Taxi	Yes	No	No	Gordon	Episode: "The Road Not Taken: Part 1"
	Happy Days	Yes	No	No	Dr. Dwayne Twitchell	Episode: "A Little Case of Revenge"
1983–1984	Family Ties	Yes	No	No	Ned Donnelly	Episodes: "The Fugitive" Parts 1 and 2 Episode: "Say Uncle"
1985–2021	Saturday Night Live	Yes	No	Host	Various characters	10 times as host (1985–2020) 10 times as guest/cameo (2001–2021)
1992	Tales from the Crypt	Yes	No	Director	Baxter	Episode: "None but the Lonely Heart"
1993	Fallen Angels	Yes	No	Director	Trouble Boy #1	Episode: "I'll Be Waiting"
	A League of Their Own	No	No	Director	N/A	Episode: "The Monkey's Curse"
1998	From the Earth to the Moon	Yes	Yes	Director and screenwriter	Jean-Luc Despont	"Le voyage dans la lune" (actor) "Can We Do This?" (director) 4 episodes (writer) Executive producer
2000	Shooting War	No	No	Narrator	N/A	Documentary
2001	Band of Brothers	Yes	Yes	Director and screenwriter	British Officer	Miniseries Executive producer "Crossroads" (director) "Currahee" (screenwriter) Cameo
	We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company	No	Yes	No	N/A	Documentary Executive producer
2002	Life with Bonnie	Yes	No	No	Himself	Episode: "What If"
2003	Freedom: A History of US	Yes	No	No	Abraham Lincoln/Charles E. Wood/Daniel Boone	7 episodes
2006–2011	Big Love	No	Yes	No	N/A	Executive producer
2008	John Adams	No	Yes	No	N/A	Executive producer
2010	The Pacific	No	Yes	Narrator	N/A	Miniseries; 6 episodes Executive producer
2011	30 Rock	Yes	No	No	Himself	Cameo
2013	Killing Lincoln	No	No	Narrator	N/A	Television film
	Toy Story of Terror!	Yes	No	No	Sheriff Woody	Halloween special Voice role
	The Assassination of President Kennedy	No	Yes	No	N/A	Documentary Executive producer
2014, 2017	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	Yes	No	No	Himself	Episode: "The Lottery" Episode: "Presidency of Donald Trump"
2014	The Sixties	No	Yes	No	N/A	Documentary series Executive producer
	Olive Kitteridge	No	Yes	No	N/A	Miniseries Executive producer
	The Greatest Event in Television History	Yes	No	No	Himself	Cameo
	Toy Story That Time Forgot	Yes	No	No	Sheriff Woody	Christmas special Voice role
2015	The Seventies	No	Yes	No	N/A	Documentary series Executive producer
2016	The Eighties	No	Yes	No	N/A	Documentary series Executive producer
	Maya & Marty	Yes	No	No	Gene the Astronaut	Episode: "Jimmy Fallon & Miley Cyrus"
2017	The Nineties	No	Yes	No	N/A	Documentary series Executive producer
	The David S. Pumpkins Animated Halloween Special	Yes	No	No	David S. Pumpkins	Television special Voice role
2018	1968: The Year That Changed America	No	Yes	No	N/A	Documentary series Executive producer
	The 2000s	No	Yes	No	N/A	Documentary series Executive producer
2019	The Movies	Yes	Yes	No	N/A	Documentary series Executive producer
2020	Big City Greens	Yes	No	No	Himself	Episode: "Cheap Show" Voice role
	My Gift: A Christmas Special From Carrie Underwood	No	Yes	No	N/A	Executive producer
2021	1883	Yes	No	No	General George Meade	Episode: "Behind Us, A Cliff"
TBA	Masters of the Air	No	Yes	No	N/A	Miniseries Executive producer