Tom Hanks, descendant of Abraham Lincoln, a great friend of Bruce Springsteen and the other 8 secrets about him

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been – on the big screen – a child who grew up too fast (Big), a young AIDS lawyer (Philadelphia, airing tonight on Sky Cinema 2 at 11.05pm), an astronaut (Apollo 13) and even a shipwrecked man on an island deserted (Cast Away): Tom Hanks, the antidivo of American cinema born in Concord, California, in 1956, son of Amos Mefford Hanks and Janet Marylyn Frager. He has three siblings (Sandra, now a writer; Larry, professor of entomology at the University of Illinois; Jim, also an actor and director) but perhaps not everyone knows that his family is related to Abraham Lincoln (the actor a descendant of his mother by the 16th President of the United States, Nancy Hanks). And this is not the only curiosity about him.

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