ELIZABETH ANN HANKS – TOM HANKS’ DAUGHTER
There is no denying that Elizabeth Ann Hanks has got the same smile as her father, Tom Hanks, who’s one of the most celebrated actors of our time. She also has Samantha Lewes, Tom Hanks’ first wife, as her mother, an industry veteran who’s appeared in a few films with Tom in the ‘80s. Unfortunately, her mother passed away from bone cancer in 2002.
While many celebrity children typically follow in their famous parents’ footsteps, this appears to have not been the case with Elizabeth, who decidedly eschewed the glitz and glamour of Hollywood to get a degree in English Language and Literature. Elizabeth did not have an acting career like her father and late mother, but she acted in a small number of movies and TV. In 1994, she played the role in “Forrest Gump”; in 1996, she was hailed as a “boring girl” in “That Thing”.