COLIN HANKS

'Colin Lewes Hanks' (born November 24, 1977) is an American actor.

Contents

Biography

Personal life

Career

Filmography

References

External links

Biography

Personal life

Hanks was born 'Colin Lewes Dillingham'^[1] in Sacramento, California, the eldest son of Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks and his first wife, the late producer actress Samantha Lewes^[2] (born Susan Jane Dillingham), who died of bone cancer on March 13, 2002. He has a sister, Elizabeth (born 1982) and two half-brothers, Chester (born 1990) and Truman (born 1995) from his father's second marriage to actress Rita Wilson. Hanks attended Sacramento Country Day School, Loyola Marymount University and Chapman University. Hanks has dated Busy Phillips and Rachael Leigh Cook.

Career

Hanks' best known film role may be in the successful teen movie ''Orange County'' (2002), with Jack Black and John Lithgow. Hanks also made an appearance in an episode of ''The OC''. He has also appeared in the Science fiction television series ''Roswell'' and 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'' costar Jack Black). In 2006, Hanks further solidified his association with Black in '', in which he had a brief cameo as a drunken fraternity brother.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	''That Thing You Do!''	Male Page
1999-2001	''Roswell ''	Alexander Charles "Alex" Whitman
2000	''Whatever It Takes''	Cosmo
2001	''Get Over It ''	Felix Woods
	''Band of Brothers ''	Lieutenant Henry Jones
2002	''Orange County''	Shaun Brumder
2003	''	Mark
2005	''King Kong''	Preston
	''Rx''	Johnny
2006	''Careless''	Wiley Roth	Post-Production
2007	''Barry Munday	Heavy Metal Greg	Pre-Production
	''The Great Buck Howard''		Post-Production
2008	''Untraceable''		Post-production
	''House Bunny''		Post-production
	''My Mom's New Boyfriend''	Henry Durand	Post-Production

References

1. State of California. ''California Birth Index, 1905-1995.'' Gives name at birth as "Colin Lewes Dillingham".
2. http://www.filmreference.com/film/32/Colin-Hanks.html

External links

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★ "Son of Hanks" interview, 12/23/05, Yahoo! Movies

★ interview, 1/11/02, IGN