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Hanks in 2015
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Born |
Colin Lewes Dillingham November 24, 1977 Sacramento, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor, documentary film-maker |
Years active | 1996–present |
Spouse(s) | Samantha Bryant (m. 2010) |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) |
Tom Hanks Samantha Lewes |
Colin Hanks (born Colin Lewes Dillingham; November 24, 1977) is an American actor and documentary film-maker. He is known for starring as characters in films such as Shaun Brumder in Orange County, Preston in King Kong, Oliver in The House Bunny, Troy Gable in The Great Buck Howard, and Greg Short in the 2015 CBS TV series Life in Pieces. His other television roles including Alex Whitman in Roswell, Henry Jones in Band of Brothers, Travis Marshall in Dexter, officer Gus Grimly in Fargo, and Jack Bailey in the 2010 Fox TV series The Good Guys. He is the eldest son of actor Tom Hanks. In the Talking Tom and Friends animated series, he voices Talking Tom.
Hanks was born and raised in Sacramento, California, the eldest son of actor Tom Hanks and his first wife, producer and actress (Susan Dillingham, known professionally as) Samantha Lewes, who died of bone cancer on March 12, 2002. His paternal grandmother was of Portuguese descent, while his maternal grandfather's mother is of Austrian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent. His other ancestry is English, Scottish, Irish, and German. His surname was changed to Hanks after his parents married in 1978. He has a younger sister, Elizabeth (born 1982), and two younger paternal 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 Sacramento Country Day School, and then Chapman University, before transferring to Loyola Marymount University. He left without earning a degree.