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Few actors have had as profitable or as prolific a profession as Tom Hanks. The Solid Away actor has starred in quite a few beloved films and has received two Greatest Actor Oscars for his roles in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. Whereas he’s extremely hard-working, Tom’s additionally made it recognized that he’s a household man! The actor had two kids along with his first spouse, Samantha Lewes (who died in 2002) earlier than they divorced in 1987, and two extra along with his present spouse, Rita Wilson, to whom he’s been married since 1988.
In 2023, Tom acquired a uncommon probability to work alongside one among his kids. His youngest son, Truman, performs a youthful model of Tom’s character in A Man Known as Otto. On the time, there was a latest dialogue of nepotism in Hollywood. “I believe my youngsters are all like Renaissance artists, you understand? [They] are good at no matter they select to be,” Tom mentioned, per PEOPLE. “You’ve acquired to have a ardour, you’ve acquired to have a drive. And yeah, our family has existed within the firm city that’s Los Angeles.”
Tom mentioned that the director instructed that Truman play the youthful model of his character “as a result of we resemble one another so much. However the closing evaluation is the individual has to point out up on the day and hit the marks, and inform the reality. Solely he could make that call. It was completely as much as him.” Tom earlier instructed that Hollywood was a “household enterprise” and that if the Hanks have been concerned in “a plumbing-supply enterprise or if we ran the florist store down the road, the entire household can be placing in time sooner or later, even when it was simply stock on the finish of the yr,” per PEOPLE.
With that mentioned, study extra about all 4 of Tom Hanks’ youngsters — and what artistic ventures they’re concerned with — right here!
Colin Hanks
Tom and Samantha welcomed their son Colin into the world in 1977 earlier than getting married in 1978. Colin actually is the spitting picture of his father. Colin has adopted in his dad’s footsteps to develop into a profitable actor in his personal proper. His debut function was within the 1996 musical comedy That Factor You Do, which his previous man wrote and directed. Two of Colin’s largest movies are King Kong and Orange County. Most lately, he had a component within the comedy How It Ends alongside hilarious abilities like Whitney Cummings and Nick Kroll. Aside from films, Colin has additionally began a household of his personal and made Tom a grandfather. He’s been married to publicist Samantha Bryant since 2010, and the pair have two daughters: Olivia and Charlotte.
Regardless of constructing a prolonged resume of his personal, Colin has hardly ever labored along with his dad. The 2 starred within the 2006 comedy The Nice Buck Howard as father and son, however Colin has appeared to attempt to concentrate on initiatives with out his dad. Whereas they could not share the display fairly often, it’s very clear that Tom has been an incredible function mannequin for his son, as Colin revealed the very best recommendation he gave in an August interview with HollywoodLife. “I believe, if there was something, it’s whereas it might go quick within the rearview mirror and it might really feel prefer it’s gone too fast, or generally perhaps it feels prefer it goes to painstakingly sluggish, life is lengthy, and there’s a variety of time to have the ability to do the issues that you just wish to do and the issues that it is advisable do,” he mentioned.
Elizabeth Hanks
Tom’s solely daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1982. She did make appearances in a few of her dad’s hottest films when she was younger: Forrest Gump and That Factor You Do, in response to IMDb. however Elizabeth pursued a special artistic outlet than performing. She acquired an English diploma from Vassar Faculty and have become a author by way of Recommend. She publishes below the title E.A. Hanks, and printed her 2025 ebook, The ten: A Memoir of Household and the Open Highway. She’s additionally labored in journalism for Self-importance Honest and The Huffington Put up. Her Twitter bio boasts bylines from Time, The Guardian, and The New York Occasions.
Chet Hanks
Tom’s oldest son, along with his spouse Rita, was born in 1990. Chet has launched into his personal leisure journey, launching a music profession in April 2021 along with his debut single (below the title “Chet Hanx”), “White Boy Summer time.” He launched his second music, “Rattling,” in June. When his mother and father have been identified with COVID-19 in March 2020, Chet stored followers knowledgeable and informed them that he wasn’t frightened and he was assured his mother and father can be okay.
Whereas his personal mother and pa have been a number of the first main celebrities to check constructive for COVID-19, Chet has lately ousted himself as an anti-vaxxer. He posted an Instagram video in August, the place he mocked the COVID vaccine. “I by no means had COVID. They ain’t sticking me with that mothaf**king needle. It’s the mothaf**king flu,” he mentioned. His aversion to the vaccine isn’t the one questionable factor about Chet. His ex-girlfriend Kiana Parker filed a civil lawsuit towards him in April 2021, alleging assault and battery and infliction of emotional misery.
Truman Hanks
Rita gave beginning to her youthful son in December 1995. Like his older half-brother, Truman additionally bares a placing resemblance to his dad when he was youthful. He studied at Stanford College, in response to Web page Six. He additionally has a profession in movie — showing on display in 2023’s A Man Known as Otto and 2020’s Information Of The World — however Truman stays behind the digicam.
He’s had varied jobs within the digicam and electrical departments on many main movement photos, in response to his IMDb. A number of the largest films he’s labored on embody Wrath of Man, Black Widow, and the upcoming West Large Story remake. He’s additionally been a manufacturing assistant on Charlie’s Angels and The Cloverfield Paradox and was the cinematographer for a brief movie known as The Ice Queen Society.
