He is the father of actor Colin Hanks. His mother, Janet Marylyn (née Frager; born in Alameda County, California, on January 18, 1932), was a hospital worker. The family’s three oldest children, Sandra (now Sandra Hanks Benoiton, a writer), Larry (now Lawrence M. Hanks, PhD, an entomology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Tom, went with their father, while the youngest, Jim, now an actor and film maker, remained with his mother in Red Bluff, California. But there were always about 50 people at the house. I spent a lot of time like that, seeing Bertolt Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Henrik Ibsen, and all that, and now look at me, acting is my job. During the same time, Hanks won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his 1978 performance as Proteus in Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona, one of the few times he played a villain.
Tom Hanks Explains His Univision Dance Party to David Letterman [Video] Last week, Tom Hanks appeared on Univision’s Despierta America morning show and soon found himself in the middle of a weather report-turned-dance party with sexy co-host Chiquinquira Delgado. It was cute! And when Hanks reminisced about the incident with David Letterman on tonight’s Late Show, we couldn’t help but feel all warm and fuzzy inside all over again. More » [link]