Colin Hanks Biography

Colin Hanks (born Colin Lewes Dillingham; November 24, 1977) is an American actor. Hanks is best known for starring in the 2002 film Orange County, as well as television roles including Alex Whitman in Roswell, Henry Jones in Band of Brothers and Travis Marshall in Dexter. He is the eldest son of actor Tom Hanks.

Early life

Hanks was born and raised in Sacramento, California, the oldest son of actor Tom Hanks and his first wife, the late producer and actress Samantha Lewes (ne Dillingham), who died of bone cancer on March 12, 2002. His name was changed to Hanks after his parents married in 1978. He has a sister, Elizabeth (born 1982), and two younger paternal 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 Sacramento Country Day School, and then Chapman University, before transferring to and graduating from Loyola Marymount University.

Career

In 1999, Hanks won the role of Alex Whitman in the science fiction series Roswell, where he appeared for the first two seasons (making a brief appearance in the third). During that time, he acted in the 2000 teen comedy Whatever It Takes with Shane West and Aaron Paul. Hanks also made an appearance in an episode of The OC. He appeared in part eight of HBO mini-series Band of Brothers as Lt. Henry Jones.

In 2002, he starred in his first film as Shaun Brumder in Orange County, alongside Jack Black and Schuyler Fisk. The comedy features Hanks trying to get into Stanford University after his guidance counselor mistakenly sends out the wrong transcript.

In 2005, he appeared in the remake of King Kong, playing the assistant to Jack Black's character. In 2006, Hanks had a cameo role in Black's Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, playing 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.

In 2008, he appeared in The Great Buck Howard, which was produced by his father and also starred John Malkovich. He also played Father Gill, a young Roman Catholic priest, in season 2 of the TV show Mad Men.

In 2009, he made his Broadway debut, acting alongside Jane Fonda in the Moiss Kaufman play 33 Variations.

In 2009 Hanks began work as director on a documentary about Tower Records.

Hanks starred in the 2010 Fox TV series The Good Guys, playing young detective Jack Bailey, alongside Bradley Whitford who plays an old school detective (Dan Stark).

In 2011 he starred in the indie film Lucky, alongside Ari Graynor, Ann-Margret and Jeffrey Tambor. He has also joined the cast of Dexter for the show's sixth season opposite Edward James Olmos, where he portrays an art historian Travis Marshall who is involved in a murderous apocalyptic cult.

He starred as Allison in the second season web series Burning Love. In 2013, he portrays Dr. Malcolm Perry in the historical film Parkland.

Personal life

In June 2009, Hanks became engaged to former New York publicist Samantha Bryant. The couple married on May 8, 2010 in Los Angeles. They have two daughters: Olivia Jane Hanks (born in 2011) and Charlotte Bryant Hanks (born in 2013).

Hanks is an avid fan of the San Francisco Giants baseball team, and attended their World Series-clinching victory in Texas in November 2010. He is also a fan of the San Francisco 49ers, Sacramento Kings, and Los Angeles Kings. He is the official Kevin and Bean LA Kings playoff correspondent for 2012 and 2013.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	That Thing You Do!	Male Page
1999-2001	Roswell	Alexander Charles "Alex" Whitman	TV series (44 episodes)
2000	Whatever It Takes	Cosmo
2001	Get Over It	Felix Woods
2001	Band of Brothers	Lieutenant Henry Jones	TV miniseries
2002	Orange County	Shaun Brumder
2003	'	Mark
2004	The O.C.	Grady	TV series (1 episode "The L.A.")
2004	Standing Still	Quentin
2005	King Kong	Preston
2005	Rx	Jonny
2005, 2008	Numb3rs	Marshall Penfield	TV series (2 episodes)
2006	Alone with Her	Doug
2006	Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny	Drunken fraternity brother
2007	Careless	Wiley Roth
2008	Untraceable	Griffin Dowd
2008	My Mom's New Boyfriend	Henry Durand	aka My Spy
2008	The Great Buck Howard	Troy Gable
2008	The House Bunny	Oliver
2008	Mad Men	Father John Gill	TV series (3 episodes)
2008	W.	Speechwriter #1
2009	Barry Munday	Heavy Metal Greg
2010	The Good Guys	Jack Bailey	TV series (20 episodes)
2010	High School	Brandon Ellis
2011	Lucky	Ben Keller
2011	Dexter	Travis Marshall	TV series (12 episodes)
2011	Robot Chicken	Various voices	TV series (1 episode "Terms of Endaredevil")
2012	Happy Endings	Himself	TV series (1 episode "Cocktails & Dreams")
2012	The Guilt Trip	Rob
2013	Burning Love	Allison	Web series (Season 2, Julie's season)
2013	NCIS	Richard Parsons	TV Series (3 episodes)
2013	Parkland	Dr. Malcolm Perry