Early life

Hanks was born and raised in Sacramento, California, the oldest son of actor Tom Hanks and his first wife, producer and actress Samantha Lewes (née Dillingham), who died of bone cancer on March 12, 2002. His name was changed to Hanks after his parents married in 1978. He has a sister, Elizabeth (born 1982), and two younger paternal 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, and then Chapman University, before transferring to Loyola Marymount University. He left without earning a degree.

Career

In 1999, Hanks won the role of Alex Whitman in the science-fiction series Roswell, where he appeared for the first two seasons (making a brief appearance in the third). During that time, he acted in the teen comedies Whatever It Takes with Shane West and Get Over It with Ben Foster. Hanks also made an appearance in an episode of The OC. He appeared in part eight of HBO mini-series Band of Brothers as Lt. Henry Jones. In 2002, he starred in his first film as Shaun Brumder in Orange County, alongside Jack Black and Schuyler Fisk. The comedy features Hanks trying to get into Stanford University after his guidance counselor mistakenly sends out the wrong transcript. In 2005, he appeared in the remake of King Kong, playing the assistant to Jack Black's character. 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.

In 2008, he appeared in The Great Buck Howard, which was produced by his father and also starred John Malkovich. He also played Father Gill, a young Roman Catholic priest, in season 2 of the TV show Mad Men. In 2009, he made his Broadway debut, acting alongside Jane Fonda in the Moisés Kaufman play 33 Variations. In 2009, Hanks began work as director on All Things Must Pass, a documentary about Tower Records, that premiered March 17, 2015 at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.

Hanks starred in the 2010 Fox TV series The Good Guys as young detective Jack Bailey, alongside Bradley Whitford who played an old school detective (Dan Stark). In 2011, he starred in the indie film Lucky, alongside Ari Graynor, Ann-Margret and Jeffrey Tambor. He also joined the cast of Dexter for season six opposite Edward James Olmos, where he portrays an art historian Travis Marshall who is involved in a murderous apocalyptic cult.

In 2013, he starred as Allison in the second season of the web series Burning Love. That same year he also portrayed Dr. Malcolm Perry in the historical film Parkland. In 2014, he played Officer Gus Grimly in the FX television series Fargo, for which he received a Critics' Choice and Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

Hanks directed the documentary All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records, released in 2015. The film received funding of nearly $100,000 through a Kickstarter campaign. One of his known voices more is that Hanks worked also for PAW Patrol for the former voice of Luke.

Personal life

In June 2009, Hanks became engaged to former New York publicist Samantha Bryant. The couple married on May 8, 2010, in Los Angeles. They have two daughters: Olivia Jane Hanks (born in 2011) and Charlotte Bryant Hanks (born in 2013).

Hanks is an avid fan of the San Francisco Giants baseball team, and attended their World Series-clinching victory in Texas in November 2010. He is also a fan of the San Francisco 49ers, Sacramento Kings, and Los Angeles Kings. He was the official Kevin and Bean LA Kings playoff correspondent for the 2012 and 2013 seasons.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	That Thing You Do!	Male Page
2000	Whatever It Takes	Paul Newby
2001	Get Over It	Felix Woods
2002	Orange County	Shaun Brumder
2003	11:14	Mark
2004	Standing Still	Quentin
2005	King Kong	Preston
2005	Rx	Jonny	Also co-producer
2006	Alone with Her	Doug
2006	Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny	Drunken fraternity brother
2007	Careless	Wiley Roth
2008	Untraceable	Griffin Dowd
2008	My Mom's New Boyfriend	Henry Durand	a.k.a. My Spy
2008	The Great Buck Howard	Troy Gable
2008	The House Bunny	Oliver
2008	W.	Speechwriter #1
2009	Barry Munday	Heavy Metal Greg
2010	High School	Brandon Ellis
2011	Lucky	Ben Keller
2012	The Guilt Trip	Rob
2013	Parkland	Dr. Malcolm Perry
2013	Super Buddies	Megasis/Captain Canine
2014	The Anti-Mascot		Director; short documentary
2015	No Stranger Than Love	Clint Coburn
2015	Vacation	Jake
2015	All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records		Director; documentary
2016	Elvis & Nixon	Egil Krogh

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999-2001	Roswell	Alexander Charles "Alex" Whitman	Main role (seasons 1 & 2, 33 episodes)
2001	Band of Brothers	Lieutenant Henry Jones	2 episodes
2004	The O.C.	Grady	Episode: "The L.A."
2005, 2008	Numb3rs	Marshall Penfield	2 episodes
2008	Mad Men	Father John Gill	3 episodes
2010	The Good Guys	Jack Bailey	Lead role (20 episodes)
2011	Dexter	Travis Marshall	Recurring role; 12 episodes
2011	Robot Chicken	Sam Witwicky / Vanity Smurf (voices)	Episode: "Terms of Endaredevil"
2012	Happy Endings	Himself	Episode: "Cocktails & Dreams"
2012	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Movie Cop	Episode: "Paul Rudd Wears a Red Lumberjack Flannel Shirt"
2013, 2015	PAW Patrol	Luke (voice)	39 episodes
2013	Burning Love	Allison	Recurring role; 8 episodes
2013	NCIS	Richard Parsons	3 episodes
2013	Key and Peele	Director	Episode: "The Power of Wings"
2014	Bad Teacher	Coach Donnie	3 episodes
2014, 2015	Fargo	Officer Gus Grimly	Main role (season 1), 10 episodes Guest role (season 2), episode: "Palindrome"
2014-2016	Talking Tom and Friends	Talking Tom	32 episodes
2015	Mom	Andy	Episode: "Godzilla and a Sprig of Mint"
2015	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Himself	Episode: "Colin Hanks Wears a Denim Button Down and Black Sneakers"
2015	What Lives Inside	Taylor Delaney	4 episodes
2015	Drunk History	Gordon Cooper / Ernest Thompson Seton	2 episodes
2015-present	Life in Pieces	Greg Short	Main role

Accolades

Year	Association	Category	Work	Result
2002	MTV Movie Awards	Best Male Breakthrough Performance	Orange County	Nominated
2011	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Dexter	Nominated
2014	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries	Fargo	Nominated
2014	Golden Globe Awards	Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Fargo	Nominated
2014	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie	Fargo	Nominated
2016	Satellite Awards	Best Actor - Television Series Musical or Comedy	Life in Pieces	Nominated

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