Colin Hanks

Colin Hanks
Image:Colin Hanks.jpg Colin Hanks at the premiere of King Kong in Wellington, New Zealand, December 2005
Birth name	Colin Lewes Dillingham
Born	November 24 1977 (age 30) Sacramento, California, USA

Colin Lewes Hanks (born Colin Lewes Dillingham^[1] on November 24, 1977) is an American actor.

Biography

Early life

Hanks was born in Sacramento, California, the eldest son of Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks and his first wife, the late actress Samantha Lewes (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 County Day School, Loyola Marymount University and Chapman University.

Career

Hanks' best known film role may be in the successful teen movie Orange County (2002), with Jack Black. Hanks also made an appearance in an episode of a series with a similar name, The OC. He has also appeared in the Science Fiction television series Roswell and the HBO series Band of Brothers as Lt. Henry Jones.

Hanks had a large supporting role in the 2005 remake of King Kong, playing the assistant to Jack Black's character, a determined film director; Hanks and Black previously played siblings in Orange County. In 2006, Hanks further solidified his association with Black in Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny, in which he had a brief cameo as a drunken fraternity brother.

Selected filmography

Footnotes

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