Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies, gaining wide notice in 1988′s Big, before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title role in Forrest Gump, Commander James A. Lovell in Apollo 13, Captain John H. Miller in Saving Private Ryan, Joe Fox in You’ve Got Mail, Chuck Noland in Cast Away, and voicing the character Woody in the Toy Story series. Hanks won consecutive Best Actor Academy Awards, in 1993 for Philadelphia and in 1994 for Forrest Gump. Hanks was born in Concord, California. His father, Amos Mefford Hanks (born in Glenn County, California, on March 9, 1924 - died in Alameda, California, on January 31, 1992), was a distant relative of President Abraham Lincoln, through Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks. I didn’t exactly feel like an outsider, but I was sort of outside it.” That marriage ended in divorce after two years. Amos Hanks became a single parent, working long hours and often leaving the children to fend for themselves, an exercise in self-reliance that served the siblings well.