Read on. <img alt="Tom Hanks" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/jul/tom-hanks.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 498px;" /> &gt;&gt; Born on July 9, 1956, in Concord, California, actor Tom Hanks began performing with the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in 1977 before moving to New York City. &gt;&gt;u00a0Tom Hanks&rsquo; parents divorced when he was five years old, and he was raised along with his older brother and sister, by his father, a chef named Amos. &gt;&gt;u00a0He decided to pursue acting after reading and watching a performance of Eugene O&rsquo;Neill&rsquo;s The Iceman Cometh. &gt;&gt;u00a0In 1977, Hanks was recruited to take part in the summer session of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Lakewood, Ohio. &gt;&gt;u00a0u00a0In 1988, he was finally cast in a star-making role, in director Penny Marshall&rsquo;s Big, as a 13-year-old boy transplanted overnight into the body of a 35-year-old man. &gt;&gt;u00a0In 1993, Hanks emerged with two huge hits: Sleepless in Seattle, a romantic comedy and oscar winning Philadelphia where he played a lawyer fired from his job because he has AIDS. u00a0

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