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Colin Hanks (born Colin Lewes Dillingham; November 24, 1977) is an American actor. He is known for starring in the 2002 film Orange County and the 2010 Fox TV series The Good Guys, as well as television roles including Alex Whitman in Roswell, Henry Jones in Band of Brothers, Travis Marshall in Dexter, officer Gus Grimly in Fargo, and Greg Short in Life in Pieces. He is the eldest son of actor Tom Hanks.
Hanks was born and raised in Sacramento, California, the oldest son of actor Tom Hanks and his first wife, producer and actress Samantha Lewes (born Dillingham), who died of bone cancer on March 12, 2002. His name was changed to Hanks after his parents married in 1978. He has a sister, Elizabeth (born 1982), and two younger paternal half-brothers, Chester Marlon Hanks (born 1990) and Truman Theodore Hanks (born 1995), from his father's second marriage, to actress Rita Wilson. Hanks attended Sacramento Country Day School, and then Chapman University, before transferring to Loyola Marymount University. He left without taking a degree.