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Tom Hanks is a famous American actor and moviemaker. The two-time Academy Award-winning actor is best known for his roles in Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Philadelphia, and Big. His movies have grossed over $4.9 billion in both the United States and Canadian box office and over $9.96 billion worldwide. He is also famous for portraying the character of Robert Langdon in the Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and Inferno.
He has an estimated net worth of $400 million. Below the article deals with Tom’s financial sources, his salary, and earnings from movies.
As of 2023, the American actor has accumulated a massive wealth of $400 million. He has accumulated such a fortune from the salary that he received from different movies and TV shows that he has acted on.
He started his career in 1980 with the role of Elliot in the movie He Knows You’re Alone. After his career debut, he acted in a couple of series like The Love Boat, Bosom Buddies, and Taxi in the coming years.
He is best known for acting in films like Forrest Gump, The Green Mile, Captain Phillips, Saving Private Ryan, featuring Matt Damon and Vin Diesel, Catch Me If You Can, Saving Mr. Banks, and Bridge of Spies, The Circle, starring Emma Watson, to name a few.
He also voiced the character of Sheriff Woody in Disney’s animated film series Toy Story.
He is also well known for portraying the character Robert Langdon in the films Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and Inferno, based on Dan Brown‘s novels of the same name.
Tom Hanks has won a total of 16 awards during his career, including 2 Oscars, 8 Emmy Awards, 4 Golden Globe Awards, and 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
He is one of the most bankable actors of all time, and his movies have made impressive earnings at the box office. Some of his highest-grossing movies have been enlisted below.
MOVIES | YEAR | EARNINGS |
Splash | 1984 | $69.8 million |
Bachelor Party | 1984 | $38.4 million |
The Money Pit | 1986 | $54.9 million |
Nothing In Common | 1986 | $32.2 million |
Dragnet | 1987 | $66.6 million |
Big | 1988 | $151.7 million |
The ‘Burbs | 1989 | $49.1 million |
Turner & Hooch | 1989 | $71.1 million |
Joe Versus the Volcano | 1990 | $39.4 million |
A League of Their Own | 1992 | $132.4 million |
Sleepless in Seattle | 1993 | $227.9 million |
Philadelphia | 1993 | $206.7 million |
Forrest Gump | 1994 | $678.1million |
Apollo 13 | 1995 | $355.2 million |
Toy Story | 1995 | $373.6 million |
Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | $482.3 million |
You’ve Got Mail | 1998 | $250.8 million |
Toy Story 2 | 1999 | $497.4 million |
The Green Mile | 1999 | $290.7 million |
Cast Away | 2000 | $429.6 million |
My Big Fat Greek Wedding | 2002 | $368.7 million |
Road to Perdition | 2002 | $181 million |
Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | $352.1 million |
The Ladykillers | 2004 | $76.7 million |
The Terminal | 2004 | $219.4 million |
The Polar Express | 2004 | $311.3 million |
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D | 2005 | $40 million |
The Da Vinci Code | 2006 | $758.2 million |
Cars | 2006 | $462.2million |
The Ant Bully | 2006 | $55.2 million |
Evan Almighty | 2007 | $173.4 million |
Charlie Wilson’s War | 2007 | $119 million |
The Simpsons Movie | 2007 | $527.1 million |
Mamma Mia! | 2008 | $615.7 million |
Angels & Demons | 2009 | $485.9 million |
Where the Wild Things Are | 2009 | $100.1 million |
Toy Story 3 | 2010 | $1.067 billion |
Larry Crowne | 2011 | $72 million |
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | 2011 | $55.2 million |
Cloud Atlas | 2012 | $130.5 million |
Captain Phillips | 2013 | $218.8 million |
Saving Mr. Banks | 2014 | $117.9 million |
Bridge of Spies | 2015 | $165.5 million |
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 | 2016 | $88.9 million |
Sully | 2016 | $240.8 million |
Inferno | 2016 | $220 million |
The Circle | 2017 | $40.7 million |
The Post | 2017 | $179.8 million |
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | 2018 | $395 million |
Toy Story 4 | 2019 | $1.018 billion |
It is believed that Tom Hanks got paid well enough for his acting in these movies.
Yearly Earnings
Being an actor, the majority of his net worth consists of the salary from his different acting projects.
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He was paid $70 million for his contribution to the movie, which also included profit participation.
His salaries from different films have been enlisted below:
Tom Hanks Hanks endorses major brands like Sony, Intel, and Hanx Writer. The money he makes from these deals is still unknown.
The American filmmaker paid $26 million to buy a mansion in Pacific Palisades, California, in 2010. He later sold the property for a loss of $17.5 million.
He also owns a house in New York, which he bought at the price of $12.5 million.
He and wife Rita Wilson purchased a 6,289-square-foot home in Malibu in 1991 for $1.45 million. The house now has a market value of $5.7 million.
He wears a Rolex Explorer, which costs $7,600; a Rolex SEA-DWELLER, which is available at $14,700; and a Rolex GV Milgauss, which has a starting price of $24,600.
When it comes to locomotives, Tom Hanks’ has kept it really simple. He owns a Toyota Prius, which costs $28,820; a Mercedes-Benz S class of $180,100; and a Chevy Tahoe, which is available in the market at the price of $52,900. He also owns an AC Propulsion’s eBox worth $55,000.
Tom Hanks helped raise $44 million to support same-sex marriage in California. He also donated an espresso machine to the Press Corps department of the White House.
He donated $115,000 to renovate the Rawley T. Farnsworth theatre in Skyline High School, located in Oakland, California.
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Over the years, he has supported the causes of many NGOs, like the American Foundation for AIDS Research, the Celebrity Fight Night Foundation, the Children’s Health Fund, Lifeline Energy, the ONE campaign, the Red Cross, and Stand Up To Cancer, to name some.
Being an A-class celebrity, he must be heavily insured. Also, his assets, including houses and cars, might be insured.
Talking about his taxes, he must be paying huge chunks for his massive fortune.
He was born Thomas Jeffrey Hanks on July 9, 1956, in Concord, California, in the United States. Tom Hanks is the son of father Amos Mefford Hanks and mother Janet Marylyn. He has three siblings, namely, Sandra Hanks Benoiton, Larry Hanks, and Jim Hanks.
As a child, he attended Skyline High School and studied theater at Chabot College. He later transferred to California State University.
The 66-year-old actor has been married twice in his lifetime. He is currently married to actress Rita Wilson, whom he met in 1981. The couple married in 1988, and together they gave birth to two sons, Chester Marlon “Chet” Hanks and Truman Theodore.
Prior to that, he was married to Samantha Lewes. They married in 1978 and share two kids: son Colin Hanks and daughter Elizabeth Hanks. The pair divorced in 1987.
The Forrest Gump actor stands tall with a height of 6 feet (183 cm), and his body weighs about 80 kg (176 lbs).