I like to look at scenarios and see how people interact with each other. That's why I'm an actor because I try to recreate that. Since our daughter joined us the spectrum has widened.

In 2006 Hanks had a cameo role in Black's Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny playing a drunken fraternity brother. Henry Jones. He is also featured alongside Jane Fonda in the Moisés Kaufman Broadway play 33 Variations.

He is the eldest son of actor Tom Hanks. He also portrayed the role of Alex Whitman in Roswell Henry Jones in Band of Brothers and appeared on the sixth season of the Showtime crime drama Dexter.