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Birth Name:Colin Hanks
Famous As: Actor
Date of Birth: November 24, 1977
Place of Birth: Sacramento, California, USA
Height: 6' 1
Nationality: American
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Father: Tom Hanks
Mother: Samantha Lewes
Brother(s): Chester (half-brother, b. Aug 4, 1990), Truman (half-brother, b. December 26, 1995)
Sister(s): Elizabeth (actress, b. 1982)
Education: Attended Chapman University, Orange County, CA
Attended Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Claim to Fame: As Shaun Brumder in Orange County (2002)

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Colin Hanks

Hanks at the premiere of King Kong in Wellington, New Zealand, December 2005
Born Colin Lewes Dillingham
November 24, 1977 (1977-11-24) (age 31)
Sacramento, California, U.S.

Colin Lewes Hanks (born November 24, 1977) is an American actor.

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Biography

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. He has a sister, Elizabeth (born 1982) and two half-brothers, Chester (born 1990) and Truman (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 & Busy Philipps between 1998 & 2005.

Career

Hanks's best known film role may be in the successful teen movie Orange County (2002), with Jack Black and John Lithgow . His best known television role was as a main character (Alex Whitman) and 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. He most recently starred in the romantic comedy The House Bunny with Anna Faris. He played the role of Oliver, a charming manager of a nursing home, and the love interest of Shelly Darlington (Anna Faris).


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. Hanks is currently playing Father Gill, a young Roman Catholic priest, in the popular AMC show Mad Men.

Filmography

Hanks at an event in October 2008
Year Title Role Notes
1996 That Thing You Do! male page
1999-2001 Roswell Alexander Charles "Alex" Whitman TV
2000 Whatever It Takes Cosmo
2001 Get Over It Felix Woods
Band of Brothers Lieutenant Henry Jones miniseries
2002 Orange County Shaun Brumder
2003 11:14 Mark
2005 King Kong Preston
Rx Jonny
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 Henry Durand
The Great Buck Howard Troy Gabel
The House Bunny Oliver
Barry Munday Heavy Metal Greg
Mad Men Father Gill

References

  1. ^ State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Gives name at birth as "Colin Lewes Dillingham".
  2. ^ Colin Hanks Biography (1977-)

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