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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is widely regarded as an American cultural icon. Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in the comedies Splash (1984) and Big (1988). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and a young man with below-average IQ in Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks collaborated with film director Steven Spielberg on five films: Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017), as well as the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, which launched him as a director, producer, and screenwriter. Hanks' other notable films include the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), and Cloud Atlas (2012); and the biographical dramas Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Captain Phillips (2013), Sully (2016), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). He has also appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon film series, and has voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Hanks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Tom Hanks

Arthur O'Donnell
for Arthur O'Donnell in The Old Prairie Home
Suggested by user_19073

Ah yes, the Dakotas, two states located west of Minnesota and without a doubt the most Scandinavian region in the entire country. Life was tougher though than their eastern neighbors knowing that the residents of the two Dakotas both North and South live in more rural, rugged terrain. It was there in the early 1950s where one Daniel Bjorn Thorkelsen, a 14-year-old Norwegian-American boy lived with his family who valued their heritage over the norms of the new world. Their home was in the middle of nowhere, and Daniel wanted nothing more than to go beyond the confines of his rural community and discover beyond, much to the dismay of his conservative family, but in the end, every adventure he embarks on always lead him back to his old prairie home, whether it be for better or worse. (Afterword: This is an idea I created out of creativity as I spent awhile searching for unadapted novels for a new MyCast Story, but to no avail.)
