Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon.[2] Hanks’s films have grossed more than $4.9 billion in North America and more than $9.96 billion worldwide,[3]
making him the fourth-highest-grossing actor in North America.[4] Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in a series of comedies: Splash (1984), The Money Pit (1986), Big (1988) and A League of Their Own (1992). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor, playing a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and the title character in Forrest Gump (1994).[5] Hanks collaborated with Steven Spielberg on five films: Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015) and The Post (2017), as well as the World War II miniseries Band of Brothers (2001), The Pacific (2010) and Masters of the Air (2024). He has also frequently collaborated with directors Ron Howard, Nora Ephron and Robert Zemeckis.
Hanks’s other films include the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You’ve Got Mail (1998); the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002) and Cloud Atlas (2012); and the biographical dramas Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Sully (2016), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), News of the World (2020) and Elvis (2022). He appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon series and voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story films (1995–2019). Hanks directed the comedies That Thing You Do! (1996) and Larry Crowne (2011), and acted in both.
Why Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley never had children.
Jackson asked Presley to marry him over the phone one evening in 1993 after Presley had stood by him during the investigation.
Michael Presley and Lisa Marie Presley tied the knot in a brief 15-minute ceremony in the Dominican Republic. Later, she announced her union to the media in a statement.
Together, Michael and Lisa appeared in public on multiple occasions. The most well-known instance occurred in September 1994 when the singer ofThriller k*ssed Presley live at the MTV Video Music Awards, declaring,
Rumors that their high-profile marriage was failing and that they weren’t spending enough time together began to circulate.
The couple also disclosed that they intended to begin a family shortly.
However, there were rumors that Jackson’s drug addiction was the reason their marriage was failing. The Bad singer and Lisa Marie Presley parted ways a month after Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce in December 1995. August 1996 marked the official end of their marriage.
Lisa and Michael didn’t have any kids, but Presley did have four from her previous marriages. Riley and Ben, who came from her marriage to Danny Keough, Finley Aaron Love Lockwood, and Harper Vivienne Ann, who came from her marriage to Michael Lockwood, were all her children.
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