On July 9, Tom Hanks turned 65 years old, yet he shows no signs of slowing down.

The actor’s most recent projects include a role as Elvis Presley’s manager, Col. Tom Parker, in a biopic slated to be published in 2022, as well as a role as a survivor of a cataclysmic solar event in “Finch,” a film set to be released in 2021.

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When Tom Hanks does decide to retire, he should have a sizable savings account waiting for him. Hanks is worth $400 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth, thanks to his long career as an actor, writer, director, and executive producer.

Along with his back-to-back Academy Awards for his major roles in “Philadelphia” and “Forrest Gump,” he has received seven Emmy Awards.

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, and made his cinematic debut in the 1980 low-budget slasher thriller “He Knows You’re Alone.” He shot to national prominence later that year as the co-star of the ABC sitcom “Bosom Buddies.”

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In the show, Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari were young males starting out in the advertising industry who had to disguise themselves as women in order to stay in a cheap, all-female hotel. Despite the fact that the show only lasted two seasons and never received big ratings, Hanks turned his role into an A-list Hollywood career.

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Following a role in Ron Howard’s “Splash” (1984), the actor’s star grew rapidly during the 1980s, appearing in films such as “The Money Pit,” “Bachelor Party,” “Big,” “Turner & Hooch,” and a few more.

As Hanks picked up one blockbuster after another over the next decade, any doubt about his standing as a great Hollywood star was all but obliterated. His 1990s films include “Joe Versus the Volcano,” “A League of Their Own,” “Sleepless in Seattle,” “Philadelphia,” “Forrest Gump,” “Apollo 13,” “Toy Story,” “Saving Private Ryan,” and “You’ve Got Mail.”

Working in the motion film industry over the past five decades. Hanks has appeared (or provided voice work for) in more than 50 films and has directed, written, or produced dozens more. He was the youngest actor to receive the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.

Tom Hanks and his wife, actress Rita Wilson, have a long history of philanthropy in a variety of areas. Women’s cancer research, AIDS research, supporting neglected and abandoned children, and veterans issues are among the causes to which he has donated time and money.

For his charity work, he earned the Elie Wiesel Foundation’s first Arts for Humanity Award in 2012.

In giving the prize, the organization highlights his efforts with the Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund, ONE Campaign, National Space Society, Hole in the Wall Gang, Got Your 6 Campaign, and the New Orleans World War II Museum.

According to CBS, Hanks remarked at the time, “We work very hard in a business that deserves and earns every bit of ridicule that we heap upon it. But at the end of the day, you [have] got to wake up in the morning and try to make the world a better place.”

This piece was written by LifeZette Staff on July 12, 2021. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.

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