12 Celebrity Secret Geeks
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5. Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks may have portrayed a very convincing astronaut in Apollo 13 because he really wanted to be one for real. He’s active on the National Space Society Board of Governors, does that make him a geek? You bet.
Tom had no acting experience in college, and couldn’t get cast in a college play. He studied theater at Chabot College in Hayward, California, but decided to transfer to California State University, Sacramento, two years later.
His determination to pursue acting brought him to community theater plays, and he got invited by a director to go to Cleveland, where his acting carrier started.
Born in 1956, in Concord, California, the great actor appeared on the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in 1977, later moving to New York City. One of the most respected Hollywood actors, decided to drop out of college in 1980, after the third season of the Ohio festival, and he landed his first small part in the 1980 slasher, He Knows You’re Alone.
His TV career started with Bosom Buddies, but he was more successful in Ron Howad’s Splash. He later got famous for roles in movies such as Big, A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, You’ve Got Mail, The Green Mile, Cast Away, The Da Vinci Code, Terminal, Catch Me If You Can, and the animated Toy Story.
He was nominated for the Academy Awards numerous times, but he received an Oscar and an Emmy for his role in Philadelphia. I bet you didn’t know that he was a descendant of one of the greatest American icons, a third cousin, in fact, four generations removed, of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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