Colin Hanks
Colin Hanks
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Hanks was born Colin Lewes Dillingham in Sacramento, California, the eldest son of Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks and his first wife, the late producer and actress Samantha Lewes (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 Sacramento Country Day School, Loyola Marymount University and Chapman University.
Hanks dated Rachael Leigh Cook and Busy Phillips between 1998 and 2002.[clarification needed] On May 8, 2010 he married former New York publicist Samantha Bryant.
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 series Roswell between 1999 and 2001. Hanks also made an appearance in an episode of The OC. He appeared in part eight of HBO mini-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 had a cameo role in Black's Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, playing 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 also played the fictional son of a character played by his real-life father in The Great Buck Howard.
Hanks plays Father Gill, a young Roman Catholic priest, in the popular AMC show Mad Men. He is also featured alongside Jane Fonda in the Moises Kaufman's Broadway play 33 Variations.
In 2009 Hanks began work as director on a documentary about Tower Records.
Hanks is starring in Fox's new summer series The Good Guys, playing a young detective (Jack Bailey), alongside Bradley Whitford who plays an old school detective (Dan Stark). He will star in an indie film, Lucky, alongside Ari Graynor, Ann-Margret and Jeffrey Tambor.
Hanks dated Rachael Leigh Cook and Busy Phillips between 1998 and 2002.[clarification needed] On May 8, 2010 he married former New York publicist Samantha Bryant.
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 series Roswell between 1999 and 2001. Hanks also made an appearance in an episode of The OC. He appeared in part eight of HBO mini-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 had a cameo role in Black's Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, playing 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 also played the fictional son of a character played by his real-life father in The Great Buck Howard.
Hanks plays Father Gill, a young Roman Catholic priest, in the popular AMC show Mad Men. He is also featured alongside Jane Fonda in the Moises Kaufman's Broadway play 33 Variations.
In 2009 Hanks began work as director on a documentary about Tower Records.
Hanks is starring in Fox's new summer series The Good Guys, playing a young detective (Jack Bailey), alongside Bradley Whitford who plays an old school detective (Dan Stark). He will star in an indie film, Lucky, alongside Ari Graynor, Ann-Margret and Jeffrey Tambor.
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