Tom Hanks - IMDb Hanks won his second Best Actor Academy Award for his role in Forrest Gump, becoming only the second actor to have accomplished the feat of winning consecutive Best Actor Oscars
Tom Hanks | Biography, Movies, Facts | Britannica Tom Hanks (born July 9, 1956, Concord, California, U S ) is an American actor whose cheerful everyman persona made him a natural for starring roles in many popular films In the 1990s he expanded his comedic repertoire and began portraying lead characters in dramas