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American actor Born: July 9, 1956 (age 65 years), Concord, California, United States Height: 1.83 m Spouse: Rita Wilson (m. 1988), Samantha Lewes (m. 1978–1987) Children: Chet Hanks, Colin Hanks, Elizabeth Ann Hanks, Truman Hanks Birthday: July 9, 1956 Age: 65 Years, 65 Year Old Males Sun Sign: Cancer Also Known As: Thomas Jeffrey Hanks Born Country: United States Born In: Concord, California, United States Famous As: Actor Quotes By Tom Hanks Humanitarian Height: 6’0″ (183 cm), 6’0″ Males Spouse/Ex-: Rita Wilson (M. 1988), Samantha Lewes 1978–1987), Samantha Lewes 1978–1987) Father: Amos Mefford Hanks Mother: Janet Marylyn Frager Siblings: Jim Hanks, Larry Hanks, Sandra Hanks Children: Chet Hanks, Colin Hanks, Elizabeth Ann Hanks, Truman Hanks, Truman Theodore Hanks Notable Alumni: California State University, Sacramento U.S. State: California
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Hanks was married to American actress Samantha Lewes in 1978. They had one son, actor Colin Hanks (born 1977), and one daughter, Elizabeth Hanks (born 1982). Hanks and Lewes divorced in 1987. Lewes died in 2002 from bone cancer. In 1981, Hanks met actress Rita Wilson on the set of TV comedy Bosom Buddies (1980–1982). They were reunited in 1985 on the set of Volunteers. Wilson is of Greek and Bulgarian descent, and a member of the Greek Orthodox Church. Before marrying her, Hanks converted to her faith. Hanks and Wilson married in 1988 and have two sons. The older, Chester Marlon “Chet” Hanks, released a rap song in 2011 and had recurring roles in Empire and Shameless. Their younger, Truman Theodore, was born in 1995. Hanks lives with his family in Los Angeles, California, and Ketchum, Idaho. Hanks has three granddaughters: Olivia (b. 2011) and Charlotte (b. 2013), the daughters of Colin, and Micaiah (b. 2016), the daughter of Chet. Hanks actively attends church. He said, “I must say that when I go to church—and I do go to church—I ponder the mystery. I meditate on the ‘why?’ of ‘why people are as they are’ and ‘why bad things happen to good people,’ and ‘why good things happen to bad people’ … The mystery is what I think is, almost, the grand unifying theory of all mankind.” On October 7, 2013, on the Late Show with David Letterman, Hanks announced that he has Type 2 diabetes. Despite being a fan of the Oakland Athletics and the Raiders when they were based in Oakland, Hanks stated in April 2017 he would boycott the NFL for two years after the Raiders filed for relocation to Las Vegas. Since 1984, Hanks has been an avid fan of the English Premier League club Aston Villa. In November 2019, shortly before the release of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a drama film in which Hanks portrays Fred Rogers, he learned through Ancestry.com that he and Rogers were sixth cousins, both descendants of Johannes Meffert (1732–1795), who was born in Schöneck, Hesse and emigrated to the United States in the 18th century, settling in Kentucky and changing his last name to Mefford. On December 27, 2019, the President of Greece, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, signed an honorary naturalisation order for Hanks and his family, citing their “exceptional services to Greece”, thus making him and his immediate family Greek citizens. Tom Hanks, along with his wife Rita Wilson and their children, were conferred honorary citizenship for their role in bringing global attention and appealing for aid, to a devastating wildfire that ripped through the seaside village of Mati, near Athens, in July 2018, which killed more than 100 people. Greece’s Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakos said Hanks “showed real interest in the people who suffered from the fire in Mati and promoted this issue in the global media”. On July 26, 2020, the Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, accompanied with his wife, handed over Greek passports to both Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. In 1978, he married Samantha Lewes, an actress and producer. They were divorced in 1987. The couple has two children, Colin and Elizabeth. He married Rita Wilson in 1988, an actress with whom he worked in the film ‘Volunteers’. The couple has two sons, Chester and Truman. An asteroid “12818 tomhanks” is named after him. This actor who has played the role of Robert Langdon in one of the films has been voted as the ‘most trusted person in US’ as per a poll published in Reader’s Digest. This Hollywood actor loves to collect typewriters and has 80 of them in his collection. This famous Hollywood actor is a distant relative of President Abraham Lincoln.
