Career
Hanks's best known film role may be in the teen movie Orange County (2002), with Jack Black and John Lithgow. His best known television role was Alex Whitman, the love interest of Katherine Heigl in the science fiction series Roswell between 1999 and 2001. Hanks also made an appearance in an episode of The OC. He appeared in part eight of HBO mini-series Band of Brothers.
Hanks had a large supporting role in the 2005 remake of King Kong, playing the assistant to film director Carl Denham (played by his Orange County co-star Jack Black). In 2006, Hanks had a cameo role in Black's Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, playing a drunken fraternity brother. He starred in the romantic comedy The House Bunny, playing Oliver, a charming manager of a nursing home and the love interest of Anna Faris' character. He also played in The Great Buck Howard, which was produced by his father and also starred John Malkovich.
Hanks plays Father Gill, a young Roman Catholic priest, in the popular AMC show Mad Men. He is also featured alongside Jane Fonda in the Moisés Kaufman Broadway play 33 Variations.
In 2009 Hanks began work as director on a documentary about Tower Records.
Hanks was starring in Fox's canceled summer series The Good Guys, playing a young detective (Jack Bailey), alongside Bradley Whitford who plays an old school detective (Dan Stark). He will star in an indie film, Lucky, alongside Ari Graynor, Ann-Margret and Jeffrey Tambor. He has also joined the cast of Dexter for the show's sixth season opposite Edward James Olmos, where he portrays an art historian Travis Marshall who is involved in a murderous apocalyptic cult.
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