Colin Lewes Hanks (November
24, 1977 ) is an American
actor.
Personal life
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 Country School, Sacramento Country Day School,
Loyola Marymount
University
and Chapman
University. Hanks dated
Rachael Leigh Cook and
Bijou Philipps between 1998 and 2002 .
He is currently engaged to New York publicist Samantha
Bryant.
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. He
is also featured player alongside
Jane
Fonda in the
Moises Kaufman's
Broadway play
33
Variations.
TVGuide.com has reported that Colin will star in a new indie
comedy,
Lucky, alongside
Ari
Graynor,
Ann-Margret and
Jeffrey Tambor.
Filmography
Hanks at an event in October
2008
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
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