<P> Hanks was born and raised in Sacramento, California, the eldest son of actor Tom Hanks and his first wife, producer and actress Susan Dillingham (known professionally as Samantha Lewes), who died of bone cancer on March 12, 2002 . His surname was changed to Hanks after his parents married in 1978 . He has a younger sister, Elizabeth (born 1982), and two younger paternal half - brothers, Chester Marlon Hanks (born 1989 / 1990) and Truman Theodore Hanks (born 1995), from his father's second marriage to actress Rita Wilson . His paternal grandmother was of Portuguese descent, while his maternal grandfather's mother was of Austrian - Jewish and Polish - Jewish ancestry . </P> <P> Hanks attended Sacramento Country Day School, and then Chapman University, before transferring to Loyola Marymount University . He left without earning a degree . </P> <P> 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 teen comedies Whatever It Takes with Shane West and Get Over It with Ben Foster . 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. Hank 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 . </P> <P> 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 Moisés Kaufman play 33 Variations . In 2009, Hanks began work as director on All Things Must Pass, a documentary about Tower Records, that premiered March 17, 2015 at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas . </P>

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