'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.

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.