Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.

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.