Tom Hanks' son Colin Hanks gets engaged
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AZCentral.com - Found Jun. 10, 2009 Tom Hanks' son is engaged. Actor Colin Hanks - who starred alongside Anna Faris in 'The House Bunny' - recently popped the question to New York... |
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Broadway World - Found Jun. 29, 2009 Colin Hanks received a Theatre World Award for his Broadway debut. |
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Indiewire - Found Jun. 29, 2009 ... after-party at Capitol Hill?s D.A.R. Hall was packed to the brim with revelers, and star Colin Hanks, who brought the script to his dad?s... |
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Gold Derby - Found Jun. 20, 2009 Our forum posters made much mention of performances by 'Mad Men' guest stars Colin Hanks and Robert Morse as well as Sterling Beaumon as the... |
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EOnline.com - Found Jun. 15, 2009 Danes','Claudia Schiffer','Clay Aiken','Clint Eastwood','Clive Owen','Cole Sprouse','Colin Farrell','Colin Firth','Colin Hanks','Conan O'Brien... |
Surprise! Jack Black's good films outnumber his bad ones
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Seattle Post Intelligencer - Found Jun. 18, 2009 And he and Colin Hanks, as his put-upon assistant, have a peculiarly pleasing kind of chemistry together. |
Which guest performers have the edge at Emmy Awards?
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Los Angeles Times - Found Jun. 18, 2009 Our forum posters made much mention of performances by 'Mad Men' guest stars Colin Hanks and Robert Morse as well as Sterling Beaumon as the... |
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Found Jun. 14, 2009 (NR) (1:45) TCM: Tue. 6 A.M. ? Careless '07. Colin Hanks. |
Band of Brothers: Revisiting "The Last Patrol"
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New Jersey Online - Found Jun. 25, 2009 Colin Hanks' presence as Lt. Jones much less distracting this time than I did in 2001 -- though in this case, it's because I've seen Hanks do... |
Tom Hanks' Son Colin Hanks Engaged To Samantha Bryant: $10 Grand ...
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Post Chronicle - Found Jun. 12, 2009 Actor Colin Hanks is to wed his publicist girlfriend Samantha Bryant. The 31-year-old son of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson recently popped the question... Tom Hanks' Son Colin Hanks Pops The Question To Samantha Bryant: ... - Post Chronicle Tom Hanks' actor son engaged - Now Running Explore All |
Colin Hanks Biography
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Colin Hanks
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| Colin Hanks | |
Hanks at the premiere of King Kong in Wellington, New Zealand, December 2005 |
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| Born | Colin Lewes Dillingham November 24, 1977 Sacramento, California, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1996 – present |
Colin Lewes Hanks (born November 24, 1977) is an American actor.
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Personal life
Hanks was born Colin Lewes Dillingham1 in Sacramento, California, the eldest son of Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks and his first wife, the late producer and actress Samantha Lewes2 (née Susan Jane Dillingham), who died of bone cancer on March 13, 2002. His name was changed to Hanks after his parents married in 1978. He has a sister, Elizabeth (born 1982) and two half-brothers, Chester Marlon Hanks (born 1990) and Truman Theodore Hanks (born 1995) from his father's second marriage to actress Rita Wilson. Hanks attended Country School, Sacramento Country Day School, Loyola Marymount University and Chapman University. Hanks dated Rachael Leigh Cook and Busy Philipps between 1998 and 2002clarification needed.
He is currently engaged to New York publicist, Samantha Bryant. 3
Career
Hanks's best known film role may be in the teen movie Orange County (2002), with Jack Black and John Lithgow. His best known television role was Alex Whitman, the love interest of Katherine Heigl in the science fiction television series Roswell between 1999 and 2001. Hanks also made an appearance in an episode of The OC. He has appeared in the HBO series Band of Brothers.
Hanks had a large supporting role in the 2005 remake of King Kong, playing the assistant to film director Carl Denham (played by his Orange County co-star Jack Black). In 2006, Hanks further solidified his association with Black in Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny, in which he had a cameo as a drunken fraternity brother. He starred in the romantic comedy The House Bunny, playing Oliver, a charming manager of a nursing home and the love interest of Anna Faris' character.
Hanks is currently playing Father Gill, a young Roman Catholic priest, in the popular AMC show Mad Men.4 He is also featured player alongside Jane Fonda in the Moises Kaufman's Broadway play 33 Variations.5
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1996 | That Thing You Do! | male page | |
| 1999-2001 | Roswell | Alexander Charles "Alex" Whitman | TV series |
| 2000 | Whatever It Takes | Cosmo | |
| 2001 | Get Over It | Felix Woods | |
| Band of Brothers | Lieutenant Henry Jones | TV miniseries | |
| 2002 | Orange County | Shaun Brumder | |
| 2003 | 11:14 | Mark | |
| 2004 | The O.C. | Grady (from fictional series The Valley | TV series |
| 2005 | King Kong | Preston | |
| Rx | Jonny | ||
| NUMB3RS | Marshall Penfield | 2 episodes - Convergence & Frienemies | |
| 2006 | Alone With Her | Doug | |
| Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny | drunken fraternity brother | ||
| 2007 | Careless | Wiley Roth | |
| 2008 | Untraceable | Griffin Dowd | |
| My Mom's New Boyfriend (also known as MY SPY) | Henry Durand | ||
| The Great Buck Howard | Troy Gabel | ||
| The House Bunny | Oliver | ||
| Mad Men | Father John Gill | TV series | |
| W. | Speechwriter | ||
| 2009 | Barry Munday | Heavy Metal Greg |
References
- ^ State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Gives name at birth as "Colin Lewes Dillingham"
- ^ Colin Hanks Biography (1977-)
- ^ Tom Hanks' son gets engaged
- ^ Vilkomerson, Sara (2009-03-03). Sic 'n' Span Son of Tom Hanks Shines Up the Great White Way: (HTML). The New York Observer, LLC. Retrieved on 2009-03-08
- ^ Celebroadway! NY Times, April 5, 2009
External links
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