Tom Hanks’ Kids: Everything To Know About His 4 Children, Including Son Truman, Who’s In New Movie With Him

• Tom Hanks has 4 children.
• He had 2 children with his archetypal wife, Samantha Lewes, and 2 with Rita Wilson.
• Tom’s youngest child, Truman Hanks, appeared successful the 2023 movie, A Man Called Otto, along with his father.

Few actors person had arsenic palmy oregon arsenic prolific a vocation as Tom Hanks, 66. The Cast Away actor has starred successful galore beloved movies and has won 2 Best Actor Oscars for his roles successful Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. While he’s incredibly hard-working, Tom’s besides made it known that he’s a household man! The histrion had 2 children with his archetypal wife, Samantha Lewes (who sadly died successful 2002) earlier they divorced successful 1987, and 2 much with his existent wife, Rita Wilson, to whom he’s been joined since 1988.

In 2023, Tom got a uncommon accidental to enactment alongside 1 of his children. His youngest son, Truman, plays a younger mentation of Tom’s quality successful A Man Called Otto. At the time, determination was a caller treatment of nepotism successful Hollywood. “I deliberation my kids are each similar Renaissance artists, you know? [They] are bully astatine immoderate they take to be,” Tom said, per PEOPLE. “You’ve got to person a passion, you’ve got to person a drive. And yeah, our household has existed successful the institution municipality that is Los Angeles.”

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson with their lad Truman Hanks (Henrik Montgomery/TT/Shutterstock)

Tom said that the manager suggested that Truman play the younger mentation of his quality “because we lucifer each different a lot. But the last investigation is the idiosyncratic has to amusement up connected the time and deed the marks, and archer the truth. Only helium tin marque that decision. It was wholly up to him.” Tom earlier suggested that Hollywood was a “family business” and that if the Hanks were progressive successful “a plumbing-supply concern oregon if we ran the florist store down the street, the full household would beryllium putting successful clip astatine immoderate point, adjacent if it was conscionable inventory astatine the extremity of the year,” per PEOPLE.

With that said, larn much astir each 4 of Tom Hanks’ kids — and what originative ventures they’re progressive with — here!

Tom posing with each his kids and woman Rita astatine the Golden Globes. (Shutterstock)

Colin Hanks

Tom’s oldest lad is histrion Colin Hanks. (Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock)

Tom and Samantha welcomed their son Colin, 45, into the satellite successful 1977 earlier getting joined successful 1978. Colin truly is the spitting representation of his father. Colin has followed successful his dad’s footsteps to go a palmy histrion successful his ain right. His debut relation was successful the 1996 philharmonic drama That Thing You Do, which his aged antheral wrote and directed. Two of Colin’s biggest films are King Kong and Orange County. Most recently, helium had a portion successful the comedy How It Ends alongside hilarious talents like Whitney Cummings and Nick Kroll. Other than movies, Colin has besides started a household of his ain and made Tom a grandfather. He’s been joined to publicist Samantha Bryant since 2010, and the brace person 2 daughters: Olivia and Charlotte.

Despite gathering a lengthy resume of his own, Colin has seldom worked with his dad. The 2 starred successful the 2006 comedy The Great Buck Howard arsenic begetter and son, but Colin has seemed to effort to absorption connected projects without his dad. While they whitethorn not stock the surface precise often, it’s precise wide that Tom has been a large relation exemplary for his son, arsenic Colin revealed the champion advice helium gave successful an August interrogation with HollywoodLife. “I think, if determination was anything, it’s portion it whitethorn spell accelerated successful the rearview reflector and it whitethorn consciousness similar it’s gone excessively quick, oregon sometimes possibly it feels similar it goes to painstakingly slow, beingness is long, and there’s a batch of clip to beryllium capable to bash the things that you privation to bash and the things that you request to do,” helium said.

Elizabeth Hanks

Elizabeth with her half-brother Truman astatine the Academy Awards. (DAVID SWANSON/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

Tom’s lone daughter, Elizabeth, was calved successful 1982. The 40-year-old did marque appearances successful immoderate of her dad’s astir fashionable movies erstwhile she was young: Forrest Gump and That Thing You Do, according to IMDb. but Elizabeth pursued a antithetic originative outlet than acting. She received an English grade from Vassar College and became a writer via Suggest. She publishes nether the sanction E.A. Hanks, and she is moving connected her debut children’s publication Piper Peregrine Vs. The Consortium For Better Thinking, according to her bio. She’s besides worked successful journalism for Vanity Fair and The Huffington Post. Her Twitter bio boasts bylines from Time, The Guardian, and The New York Times.

Chet Hanks

Chet is Tom’s older lad from his 2nd wife, Rita. (Shutterstock)

Tom’s oldest son, with his woman Rita, was calved successful 1990. Chet, 32, has embarked connected his ain amusement journey, launching a euphony vocation successful April 2021 with his debut azygous (under the sanction “Chet Hanx”), “White Boy Summer.” He released his 2nd song, “Damn,” successful June. When his parents were diagnosed with COVID-19 successful March 2020, Chet kept fans informed and told them that helium wasn’t disquieted and helium was assured his parents would beryllium okay.

While his ain ma and dada were immoderate of the archetypal large celebrities to trial affirmative for COVID-19, Chet has precocious ousted himself arsenic an anti-vaxxer. He posted an Instagram video successful August, wherever helium mocked the COVID vaccine. “I ne'er had COVID. They ain’t sticking maine with that mothaf**king needle. It’s the mothaf**king flu,” helium said. His aversion to the vaccine isn’t the lone questionable happening astir Chet. His ex-girlfriend Kiana Parker filed a civil lawsuit against him successful April 2021, alleging battle and artillery and infliction of affectional distress.

Truman Hanks

Tom Hanks, Truman Hanks, and Rita Wilson attended ‘A Man Called Otto’ Premiere astatine Capitol Cinema (Shutterstock)

Rita gave commencement to her younger lad successful December 1995. Like his older half-brother, Truman, 27, besides bares a striking resemblance to his dada erstwhile helium was younger. He studied astatine Stanford University, according to Page Six. He besides has a vocation successful movie — appearing connected surface successful 2023’s A Man Called Otto and 2020’s News Of The World — but Truman stays down the camera.

He’s had assorted jobs successful the camera and electrical departments connected galore large question pictures, according to his IMDb. Some of the biggest movies he’s worked connected see Wrath of Man, Black Widow, and the upcoming West Wide Story remake. He’s besides been a accumulation adjunct connected Charlie’s Angels and The Cloverfield Paradox and was the cinematographer for a abbreviated movie called The Ice Queen Society.

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