Colin Lewes Hanks (born November 24, 1977) is an
American actor.
Personal life
Hanks was born
Colin Lewes Dillingham[State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Gives name at birth as "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[Colin Hanks Biography (1977-)] (
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
Busy Philipps between 1998 and 2002 .
He is currently engaged to New York publicist Samantha Bryant.
[Tom Hanks' son gets engaged]
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.
[ 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] He is also featured player alongside
Jane Fonda in the
Moises Kaufman's Broadway play
33 Variations.
[Celebroadway! NY Times, April 5, 2009]
TVGuide.com has reported that Colin will star in a new indie comedy,
Lucky, alongside
Ari Graynor,
Ann-Margret and
Jeffrey Tambor.
Filmography
