Colin Hanks
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| Colin Hanks | |
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 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. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1996 – present |
Colin Lewes Hanks (November 24, 1977 ) is an American actor.
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[edit] Personal life
Hanks was born Colin Lewes Dillingham[1] in Sacramento, California, the eldest son of Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks and his first wife, the late producer and actress Samantha Lewes[2] (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 Bijou Philips between 1998 and 2002[clarification needed].
He is currently engaged to New York publicist Samantha Bryant.[3]
[edit] 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. He is also known for playing a character who is the fictional son of a character played by Hanks's real-life father, multiple Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks, in The Great Buck Howard.
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]
TVGuide.com has reported that Colin will star in a new indie comedy, Lucky, alongside Ari Graynor, Ann-Margret and Jeffrey Tambor.[6]
[edit] 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 (released in the UK as My Spy) | Henry Durand | ||
| The Great Buck Howard | Troy Gable | ||
| The House Bunny | Oliver | ||
| Mad Men | Father John Gill | TV series | |
| W. | Speechwriter | ||
| 2009 | Barry Munday | Heavy Metal Greg |
[edit] 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
- ^ Gina DiNunno (4 September 2009). "Colin Hanks and Jeffrey Tambor Get Lucky". TVGuide.com. http://movies.tvguide.com/Movie-News/Colin-Hanks-Jeffrey-1009466.aspx. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
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