Concetti Chiave
- Tom Hanks began his career in the 1980s, gaining fame with roles in "Henry and Kip" and achieving critical and public success in numerous films.
- He won two Oscars for Best Actor for "Philadelphia" (1994) and "Forrest Gump" (1995), with several other nominations and awards, including Golden Globes and Emmy Awards.
- Known for his versatile acting, Hanks effectively portrayed diverse characters, from Forrest Gump to a lawyer in "Philadelphia" and an astronaut in "Apollo 13."
- In recent years, Hanks expanded his repertoire to include complex roles, such as a mafia gunman in "Road to Perdition," showcasing his dramatic range.
- Beyond acting, Hanks has ventured into directing and screenwriting, producing acclaimed miniseries like "Band of Brothers" and "From the Earth to the Moon" for HBO.
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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks
(Concord, 9 July 1956) Tom Hanks is an actor, producer, scriptwriter and film producer American. Its career had beginning in the years' 80 when, interpreting the serious Henry and Kip with Peter Students, began to well-known esser and loved; since then recited in numerous film obtaining a large success of critic and of public. It won two prizes like best Oscar actor: in 1994 for Philadelphia and in 1995 for Forrest Gump. Candidate to the statuette was also in 1989, when still it is not a well-known actor, for the film Big; was it then in 1999 (for the interpretation in the film Saved the soldier Ryan) and in 2001 (for Cast Away). It won also very other prizes between Golden globes and Emmy Awards.
The last film interpreted was The code from you Win, I discuss from the homonymous story of Dan Brown. Tom Hanks is known for the actual interpretive quality and its ability to impersonate more disparate characters: from the vulnerable but nice Forrest Gump, to the hiv-positive lawyer Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, until the commanding Jim Lovell of the unlucky Apollo 13. Not at random they were him often entrusted positive roles of characters in romantic comedies, characters that interpreted always with passion, like for example in Insomnia of love, there is mail for all you and two of Nora Ephron. Also it interpreted some roles in three film of the producer Steven Spielberg (alone in 2 from protagonist): You save the soldier Ryan, Experiences to take me and The terminal.
Career
In the last years its repertory it has stretched portandolo to impersonate more complex characters; in the film Was my father has for example shown to be able to carry on the extremely dramatic screen roles like that of a gunman of the mafia. In Cast Away put to hard test its body gaining weight of 20 kg and then to lose weight of 30. Also in other roles it increases of weight.
Tom Hanks is one of the actors more requests and paid of Hollywood. Its salary for the last film interpreted has gone around on average on 20 millions of dollars. For its interpretation in Forrest Gump had earned of it 70. It entered in the Guinness of the supremacies to have interpreted eight film of line that packed more of 100 millions of dollars.
Tom Hanks studied theatrical performance to the California Separate University of Sacrament. It is married from 1988 with the actress Rite Wilson, that knew during the making of the film A bridge of woe and from which had two sons: Chester and Truman (has other two sons, Colin and Elizabeth, had from the previous marriage, lasted from 1978 to 1987 with Samantha Lewes).
From the end of the years '90 Tom Hanks has attempted also in the direction and in the screenplaying managerial some film and miniseries TV and some writer scripts. From 2000 it continued to produce some miniseries of excellent level, among which Band of Brothers, on the American intervention in Europe during the second world war, and From the Earth to the Moon, on the story of the Program Apollo, both for the channel to American payment HBO.
Domande da interrogazione
- Quali sono stati i primi successi di Tom Hanks nella sua carriera cinematografica?
- In quali film Tom Hanks ha lavorato con il regista Steven Spielberg?
- Quali sono alcune delle caratteristiche distintive delle interpretazioni di Tom Hanks?
- Qual è stato l'impatto di Tom Hanks nel mondo del cinema in termini di incassi?
- Quali sono stati alcuni dei progetti di produzione e sceneggiatura di Tom Hanks?
Tom Hanks ha iniziato a farsi conoscere negli anni '80 con il ruolo di Henry e Kip in una serie televisiva. Ha ottenuto un grande successo di critica e pubblico con film come Philadelphia e Forrest Gump, vincendo due premi Oscar come miglior attore.
Tom Hanks ha interpretato ruoli in tre film prodotti da Steven Spielberg: Salvate il soldato Ryan, Prova a prendermi e The Terminal.
Tom Hanks è noto per la sua qualità interpretativa e la capacità di impersonare personaggi molto diversi, dai ruoli drammatici come l'avvocato Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia a quelli più leggeri nelle commedie romantiche.
Tom Hanks è entrato nel Guinness dei primati per aver interpretato otto film che hanno incassato più di 100 milioni di dollari ciascuno.
Dal 2000, Tom Hanks ha prodotto miniserie di alto livello come Band of Brothers e From the Earth to the Moon, entrambe trasmesse sul canale HBO.
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