Hollywood stars, influencers and musicians are reacting to the tragic and untimely death of singer Oliver Tree.

On the morning of June 14, two helicopters reportedly crashed into one another mid-air while traveling in southwest Rio De Janeiro, according to a same-day report from CNN Brazil. According to the outlet, Tree was one of six people who died in the crash — all five traveling in one helicopter, and the solo-traveling and pilot in the second helicopter. He was 32.

Additional information surrounding the fatal crash was not made public at the time of publication. Us Weekly reached out to a representative for Tree for comment but did not hear back.

Tree, known for songs “Life Goes On” and “Miss You” and amassing more than 2 million social media followers, recently traveled to Brazil for his world tour. He performed in São Paulo on June 6 and was scheduled to play a set in Lisbon, Portugal, on July 13.

In the wake of his untimely death, Hollywood took to social media to pay its respects. Read how stars and influencers reacted and their touching tributes below:

Bebe Rexha

“I’m in shock,” she wrote via X. “I was in the middle of my cd signing in nyc when I found the news of Oliver tree. I can’t believe it. We recorded a record together to be on dirty blonde. He was so smart. Passionate. Talented. Kind. I’m so sad. May he rest in peace.”

Whitney Cummings

“Oliver is one of the most talented people on earth and usually that comes with an ego and all kinds of dickhead nonsense, but Oliver is pure love and the best version of what an artist can and should be,” the comedian shared via Instagram alongside photos of the pair smiling for the camera. “There’s no silver lining. We lost a giant.”

Bobbi Althoff

“What an honor it was to get to know you, Oliver,” the podcaster and influencer wrote via Instagram shortly after the singer’s death. “I’m so sad to hear this news. The world is so cruel. Rest in peace.”

Ethan Klein

“I’m in disbelief… still desperate to think this is part of an elaborate prank. That seems like something he’d do, right? The truth is, no matter how desperate I am to not believe it, my friend Oliver has passed away,” the YouTuber wrote in a lengthy and emotional post shared via X. “Oliver was such a unique soul, he had an ability that was e I know; to make friends in all corners of the world. Sincere friendship too, not just internet friendships of convenience.”

She continued, “He was one of the funniest people I’ve ever known. His style of self-deprecation was universal. Every media appearance he’s ever done was hilarious, refreshing and unique in a way that only he could bring. He was a true artist, in every sense of the world.”

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Klein concluded his online tribute by describing Tree as a “dear friend and collaborator.”

“But the real tragedy is that the word lost a true artist, a passionate and gifted storyteller, and a radiant light that shined upon so many of us,” he added. “His light is now extinguished and my life, and the world, is darker for it. I hope I can be more like Oliver Tree when I grow up. Bon voyage, my friend. See you on the other side. Life goes on and on and on without you.”

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Faze Banks

“‘Life is short and everything is temporary so put yourself first and focus on what will make you happy cause everything else is out of your hands!’” the influencer wrote via X, quoting his friend while sharing what appeared to be a recent text message exchange between the pair. “RIP Oliver Tree, beautiful soul.”

Andy Milonakis

“RIP Oliver Tree,” the actor wrote via X. “I don’t know how to process this, I’m glad I got to spend a lot of time with him last month but this s*** sucks. Life is fragile and unfair.”

Johnnie Guilbert

“I can’t believe what I just heard about Oliver trees [sic] passing,” the alt rock musician and YouTuber wrote via Instagram. “We just filmed a few videos with him recently and he was truly such a nice guy I felt really was going to be a long time friend. I’m f***ing heartbroken this doesn’t feel real.”

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The horror genre is having quite the moment, as evident with the massive success of Backrooms and Obsession. But if you don’t feel like venturing to the theater, Netflix has plenty of options to choose from. To finally come across Luis Javier Henaine’s Disappear Completely, one has to dig deep — almost as deep as the movie’s main character in his search for a cure to the curse that threatens to turn him into a kind of living corpse, a karmic punishment for his own misdeeds as a photojournalist specialized in crime scenes.

Disappear Completely premiered in 2022 at Austin’s Fantastic Fest, and landed on Netflix in April 2024. While it made its way to the streamer’s Top 10 in its native Mexico, it has struggled to find an audience in other countries where it is readily available. Henaine’s film has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and it is indeed a gem that deserves to be seen.

What Is ‘Disappear Completely’ About?

The film, which relies more on psychological horror than on traditional jumpscares, is a character study surrounding a man’s relationship with his profession and his family. The premise is creative and terrifying from the get-go: Santiago (Harold Torres), a photojournalist who sells pictures of crimes and accidents to tabloids, falls victim to a curse after shooting a particularly gruesome scene featuring a still living, but completely unresponsive politician partly devoured by rats. Unbeknownst to him, Santiago’s camera has captured the presence of a demonic entity that traps him in the same web as the senator (Juan Sahagun) he just photographed. Little by little, Santiago starts to lose all of his five senses.

As Santiago races against time to find a cure for his predicament, going from doctors to shamans to the very demon that has hexed him, his girlfriend, Marce (Tete Espinoza), faces troubles of her own. Pregnant with Santiago’s child, she wishes to have the baby and build a happy family. However, Santiago claims that they are not ready to have a child, and pressures her to have an abortion. This relationship with Marce and his unborn baby ends up being essential to how Santiago deals with his curse.

Mixing an urban vibe with folk horror, Disappear Completely is a movie that dabbles in witchcraft, superstition, and politics, with the cursed senator having been victimized by a political rival. However, the focus of the plot is Santiago himself. The movie asks us to place ourselves in his shoes, forcing us to wonder what it would feel like to be in such a terrifying predicament. The final scenes make this invitation to identify with the main character all the more obvious: as Santiago is losing his sense of hearing, we can barely understand the sounds around him. Eventually, in the blink of an eye, the whole movie goes quiet. As he loses his sight, the image becomes blurry, until it… disappears completely.

‘Disappear Completely’s Director Was Intentional About Creating a Personal Film

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Director Luis Javier Henaine was intentional in creating an immersive, realistic experience for the audience while filming Disappear Completely, as he shared during an interview with Eye For Film. Rather than relying on jump scares or musical cues, he aimed to “make a more personal film with more down to earth issues,” while still balancing the element of witchcraft and folk horror. He said:

“Here in Mexico, witchcraft is something that people take very seriously and something very, very real for the majority of our population. And I like to reflect that in a way. So, all the time, I was trying to say, ‘Okay, this has to look real, this has to feel real, this has to be very realistic.’ And that’s how I tried to go throughout the whole film, with the production design and with the cinematography and with everything. Our references were real things, how people behave in these environments. . . ”

Placing the audience in Santiago’s shoes is one of the reasons Disappear Completely is so unnerving — it feels personal. At the heart of the film is Santiago’s struggles with being a potential father and a supportive partner for Marce. When reading the script, Henaine envisioned “a very immersive filmmaking style,” one that would make the audience active participants rather than passive observers of Santiago’s slow descent into a tomb of his own flesh. “I thought it would be great to just when, when he starts losing his sense of hearing, just play slowly with the whole film as well, make it subjective, put the audience in the character’s mind,” Henaine explained.

‘Disappear Completely’ Presents Photography as the Ultimate Horror

Disappear Completely presents us with a kind of horror that would be disturbing no matter who it befell. Still, when we take into consideration Santiago’s profession, the film gains additional layers. At the same time that Henaine and his fellow screenwriter Ricardo Aguado-Fentanes ask us to identify with Santiago in his plight, they also make it pretty clear that he is someone we should despise. Santiago is not a tabloid photographer because that’s the only job he can find — he seems to enjoy taking pictures of mangled bodies and even attempts to make it into a form of high art. The movie shows us that he has fun creating tasteless titles for the stories that will accompany his pictures, and right in the beginning we learn that he is trying to sell some of his photos to art galleries. This is, in itself, terrifying: in a way, the biggest horror in Disappear Completely is becoming the subject of one of Santiago’s photographs.

When he is cursed, Santiago is doomed to become one of his own photographs. His fate is, in a way, an ironic punishment: he has condemned so many dead people to a living death that he will, himself, become a tomb in the cemetery that is the entire world. Disappear Completely is definitely a movie with something to say, and it turns its eyes specifically to the art of creating images. To an extent, it is even fitting to watch Santiago’s downfall happen in a movie instead of, say, reading about it in a book, for the image is essential for us to understand what is happening to him. As we gaze at Santiago, we wonder if what is happening to him might one day happen to us as well. After all, in the age of smartphones and social media platforms where privacy goes to die, haven’t we all produced our own fair share of images that trap people in a single, unchangeable moment?

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Laverne Cox is opening up about the “blessings” that come with being a trans woman — including the way it can protect a person from narcissistic men.

“Being trans has really helped me with the Hollywood thing and not getting too full of myself,” Cox, 54, exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting her new memoir Transcendent, out now. “It really, it really checks you. Because even I just think about all the women colleagues of mine, in my age range or whatever, like — all the, like, famous athletes, rappers [and] actors who kind of hit on me but, like, would never date me publicly because I’m trans.”

Cox went on to add, “My transness has protected me from a lot of things that a lot of other women experience in Hollywood that aren’t good things — like a lot of narcissistic men. Rejection is really God’s protection.”

Cox, who opens up about her traumatic childhood and how she has found healing and safety as a Black trans woman in Hollywood, says a vital part of her journey has been learning how to set healthy boundaries with and at times avoid or cut loose potentially toxic people — including men — in her life.

“Loving myself is about going to the doctor, eating, getting enough sleep, but also the people, places and things,” she explained to Us. “Who am I surrounding myself with? Do I have people in my life who suck me dry, who make me feel bad about myself, who trigger my patterns and, if these people aren’t serving me, I need to let go of those people.”

She continued, “A lot of it’s been about letting go of certain kinds of people that just are toxic and bring up old traumas, or they don’t have healthy boundaries.”

In her memoir and a Wednesday, June 10, interview with The New York Times “Modern Love” podcast, Cox opened up about the pain of letting go of someone she came to realize did not serve her — her boyfriend of almost four years who, she discovered, was a NYPD officer who voted for President Donald Trump three times.

“I was in sheer bliss with this man and you know, things would come up and we would agree to disagree about some political things,” Cox said on Wednesday. “Problematic but not, like, offensive. He had been, the way he grew up and algorithms he was given, information he was consuming that he had been propagandized to. So I tried to give him grace there.”

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While speaking exclusively to Us, Cox — who came out as a trans woman in 1999 while attending college in New York City — explained that there was a certain moment in her relationship with the officer that she realized there is a “soul connection” that transcends politics. At the same time, she realized that a person’s politics matter — particularly when the policies they support or defend harm the most marginalized of communities.

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“I do believe that there is, like, a spiritual realm connection that we have that’s beyond politics and in history, but those things are material reality, right?” she told Us. “Like, they inform who we are. I wasn’t able to build in a relationship and build a life with him because of his politics, but that doesn’t negate the soul connection, right?”

She continued, “Those two things are different — things that are social constructs, like me being a Black trans woman is only really relevant because of discrimination that Black trans people experience. Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could live in a colorblind, genderless world? But we can’t because of oppression.”

Police procedurals thrive on formula, but even the most reliable shows need to shake things up once in a while. The Rookie has done exactly that through its documentary-style episodes, a recurring gimmick that began in Season 3 with “True Crime” and has returned almost every season since. These mockumentary-style episodes parody true-crime docuseries, framing Mid-Wilshire officers as talking heads while weaving in body cam footage and 911 calls.

For many fans, though, these are the most hated installments of the show. Scroll through Reddit threads or TikTok comments, and you’ll find plenty of complaints about the episodes being boring, convoluted, or even immersion-breaking. And yet, despite the criticism, there’s a strong case to be made that The Rookie’s documentary episodes are far more effective than they get credit for — aside from one subpar episode in Season 7 that shows what happens when the format goes too far.

Why ‘The Rookie’ Documentary Episodes Work So Well

The central complaint against the docu-episodes is that they’re gimmicks, unnecessary departures from the regular balance of drama and comedy. But that’s exactly what makes them worthwhile. Police procedurals can easily fall into repetitive patterns, and a one-off format change breaks up the rhythm without derailing the overall story.

In their best versions — like Season 3’s “True Crime” and Season 4’s “Real Crime” — the episodes offer an outsider’s perspective on the Mid-Wilshire division. The officers are suddenly self-conscious, aware of how they appear on camera, which adds texture to characters we think we know well. Fans get glimpses of how Lucy Chen (Melissa O’Neil), Nyla Harper (Mekia Cox), or Tim Bradford (Eric Winter) see themselves versus how the world sees them. It’s both comedic and revealing, and the satire of true-crime obsession gives the show a chance to poke fun at itself.

On top of that, the documentary framing lets the writers lean into bizarre, idiosyncratic cases without breaking the tone of the main series. Instead of dragging out a standard case-of-the-week, the mockumentary structure gives permission for the show to play, whether that means absurd interviews, outlandish side characters, or offbeat narrative devices. In short, they’re filler episodes that don’t feel like filler.

A perfect example of the second installment of the documentary-style series, titled “Real Crime,” which delves deep into Aaron Thorsen’s (Tru Valentino) backstory. With the weight of his troubled past still a large part of his life and a reputation to build, Aaron ultimately agrees to participate in a reality series that promises to rebrand him. What appears to be an opportunity to rebuild his image devolves into chaos when the producer of the reality show is murdered on camera, with Aaron once again in the crosshairs of suspicion. The case examined in the show also implicates Aaron’s own complicated relationship with Rowan (Luke Cosgrove), his manipulative friend who had been running drugs on the side.

What is most interesting about “Real Crime,” however, is how the documentary gimmick engages in character development. We hear Aaron’s squadmates express their doubts and support through the interviews, all culminating in Rowan being exposed as the actual killer of Patrick (Timothy Taratchila) — Thorsen’s dead best friend — and Morris (Rome Flynn). At the end of Aaron’s story, he receives validation from his coworkers and Patrick’s grieving father, thereby giving the format meaning beyond the stylistic flair.

‘The Rookie’s Documentary Episodes Are Worth It — Even if Season 7 Stumbled

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To be fair, critics of the documentary episodes aren’t wrong about everything. The biggest issue is the glaring plot hole: If Lucy and Harper appear in a nationally released true-crime docuseries, how can they believably go undercover in later episodes of The Rookie? The series has never addressed this, and it strains credibility when characters who rely on anonymity are suddenly recognizable to anyone who binge-watches true crime on Hulu.

Even with that flaw, though, the docu-episodes have mostly been fun experiments — though Season 7’s “A Deadly Secret” was a miss. This episode tried to cram in every possible subplot, from a missing ex-fiancée to a haunted psychiatric ward to an AI named Zuzu. The result was chaotic and disjointed, losing the charm of earlier mockumentary episodes. While there was one highlight — a heartfelt Chenford moment triggered by a truth serum — the episode’s messy plotting showed how the gimmick can backfire when it’s overloaded.

Instead of giving us a sharp parody or a quirky detour, “A Deadly Secret” collapsed under the weight of its own tangled storylines. It’s the rare case where fan complaints about the format being “boring” or “too much” really rang true.

Documentary Episodes of ‘The Rookie’ Are a Fun Break From the Drama

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Despite their divisive reception, the documentary episodes remain some of the most memorable in the series. They’re conversation starters, even among viewers who don’t like them. They parody the cultural fascination with true crime, they give characters unexpected moments of vulnerability, and they prove that The Rookie is willing to take risks rather than stick to a procedural comfort zone.

The Season 7 stumble shouldn’t automatically mean that the format doesn’t work. Used sparingly and with focus, the mockumentary episodes still have value. If anything, the writers should refine them: Tighten the stories, acknowledge the undercover plot hole, and resist the temptation to overload the format with too many callbacks or side characters. Because when they work, The Rookie’s documentary episodes aren’t the show’s weakest link — they’re proof that even in a genre built on formula, experimentation can pay off.

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Tori Garrett, Chi-Yoon Chung, Michael Goi, Sylvain White, Lisa Demaine, Lanre Olabisi, Bill Johnson, David McWhirter, Liz Friedlander, Daniel Willis, Toa Fraser, Anne Renton, Jon Huertas, Cherie Nowlan, TK Shom, Rob Seidenglanz, Valerie Weiss, Barbara Brown, Charissa Sanjarernsuithikul, SJ Main Muñoz, Nelson McCormick, Marcus Stokes, Adam Davidson, Anna Mastro

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Corey Miller, Bill Rinier, Zoe Cheng, Mary Trahan, Ally Seibert, Liz Alper, Nick Hurwitz, Racheal Seymour, Madeleine Coghlan, David Radcliff

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The original winner of America’s Next Top Model is reacting to Tyra Banks’ defamation lawsuit against Netflix following the platform’s bombshell docuseries, Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model.

“I read that Tyra Banks is suing Netflix because she didn’t like being edited,” Adrianne Curry, who won the inaugural season of the hit reality competition show, said in a video shared via Instagram on Sunday, June 14. “Biiiiiiiiiiiitch, for real girl? Like?”

Curry, 43, ended the video with a boisterous laugh.

“Trya doesn’t like being ‘edited,’” Curry captioned the post. “Lol. Welcome to the party, pal.”

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America’s Next Top Model winner Whitney Thompson is sharing her honest review after watching Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model. “So I just finished watching Reality Check, which I don’t think is a great name, on Netflix, and I have to say I’m a little disappointed,” Thompson, 38, shared via Instagram on Tuesday, February […]

One day earlier, the model named the streaming giant in a defamation lawsuit filed on Saturday, June 13, and obtained by People. Banks reportedly accused Netflix of defamation and heavily editing her on-camera interviews.

“Tyra Banks participated in the Netflix documentary series America’s Next Top Model (‘ANTM’) because she believed viewers deserved a candid conversation about the show’s legacy — its successes and its shortcomings,” the filing reportedly reads in part. “There are aspects of the show for which Ms. Banks takes accountability and she wanted ANTM viewers to hear that from her directly. Going into her interview, Ms. Banks did not limit the ANTM topics the interviewers could ask. During a three-and-a-half hour interview, Ms. Banks answered questions about the show’s groundbreaking history, including criticism of decisions she would approach differently today.”

Netflix has not publicly responded to the reported lawsuit. Us Weekly reached out to the streaming platform for comment but did not hear back at the time of publication.

Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, which premiered on February 16, featured rare interviews with executive producers Banks and Ken Mok and former judges Jay Manuel, Miss J. Alexander and Nigel Barker as they broke down the reality competition’s best — and worst — moments. Former contestants — including Whitney Thompson, Giselle Samson, Shannon Stewart, Shandi Sullivan, Danielle “Dani” Evans and Keenyah Hill — also opened up about their behind-the-scenes experiences, which they claimed included discrimination and sexual assault.

Curry reacted to the docuseries shortly after its release, accusing Banks of simply feigning her remorse over some of the show’s more controversial and downright detrimental moments.

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“I have made respect for Tyra Banks,” Curry said in a sarcastic video shared online. “She is not sorry. She is not apologizing to you. That bitch is not effing sorry. She will not bend the knee. And I respect that.”

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She continued at the time, “We want her to lie, lie and say how bad she feels? Everyone’s coming to me and they’re like, ‘None of the judges are sorry.’ Why should they be? They’re all loaded. Why should they give a flying f***, you know? If they didn’t give a f*** at the time, they certainly ain’t gonna give a f*** now.”

Curry concluded the video by addressing Banks.

“Keep on being yourself, which is someone who doesn’t give a flying s***,” she said, before breaking into laughter.

Vice President JD Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, have offered a candid window into their 11-year marriage, their growing family and the unconventional path that has shaped their relationship before and throughout his political career.

JD and Usha met in 2010 while they were students at Yale University’s School of Law, ultimately getting married four years later. The duo welcomed their eldest three children before JD became President Donald Trump’s running mate in the 2024 general election. Later, in 2026, the couple announced that Usha was pregnant and they were expecting their fourth baby.

Keep scrolling for JD and Usha’s candid comments about their life together:

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JD and Usha Vance Address Marriage Speculation

After Usha was photographed without her wedding ring in November 2025, online rumors swirled about the state of the couple’s marriage. A representative for Usha previously told People in a November 22 statement that the second lady “is a mother of three young children, who does a lot of dishes, gives lots of baths, and forgets her ring sometimes.”

JD, for his part, shut down the speculation the following month in an interview with NBC News.

“Our marriage is as strong as it’s ever been,” JD said, noting that he and Usha “get a kick out of” the speculation. “With anything in life, you take the good with the bad. You accept that there are some sacrifices and there are some very good things that come along with it, too.”

Usha Vance Opens Up About Baby No. 4

The Vances — who share sons Ewan and Vivek, as well as daughter Mirabel — announced in January 2026 that they are expecting their fourth child, another son.

“People have asked me if we’re going to have a fourth baby, and I’ve never closed the door on that,” Usha told NBC News in a rare interview in March 2026. “We did feel very complete with a third child, in many ways. … But as time passed, I realized that I was feeling more and more excited about that possibility.”

She added, “I knew that I’d be happy if we only had three kids, and I knew that I’d be happy if we had four. And so here we are.”

Usha will be the first second lady to give birth in office since Ellen Colfax in 1870.

JD Vance Credits Charlie Kirk’s Death as a Turning Point to Expand Their Family

In his 2026 memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, JD reveals that the pair’s decision to have another baby came after the death of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed in September 2025 at age 31.

“As my wife held Charlie Kirk’s widow on the first day of her terrible sorrow, Erika told Usha between sobs that she regretted having only two kids with Charlie,” JD wrote in the book, which was excerpted by The Wall Street Journal in June 2026.

He continued in the passage, “For years, I’d asked Usha to have another baby, and for years, she told me she was done, especially now that public service had elevated us into the national spotlight. Something changed for Usha, and not long after we buried my friend, she became pregnant with our fourth child, a boy.”

Months earlier, at the 2026 March for Life rally in January 2026, JD framed Usha’s pregnancy as a personal endorsement of his pro-family politics.

“Let the record show, you have a vice president who practices what he preaches,” he said at the time.

Usha Vance Reflects on Faith, Therapy and Her Husband

Usha also offered a rare look at JD’s spiritual journey during a June 2026 episode of CBS’ Sunday Morning, telling correspondent Robert Costa that she once told JD, “Therapy didn’t work for you, church does.”

“It’s not that therapy doesn’t work for other people,” Usha clarified. “JD just didn’t have the right kind of trust in that process. He just didn’t feel at home in it, really exploring some of the feelings that he had in trying to figure out how he wanted to be the person that he wanted to be for the rest of his life.”

JD, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, said his “tumultuous upbringing” in Middletown, Ohio, drove his search for something “rooted” and “grounded.” Despite their interfaith household — Usha follows the Hindu faith — JD has said his wife is “my best friend” and that they have agreed to raise their kids Christian, with respect for free will at the center of their arrangement.

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Usha, for her part, is the daughter of immigrant parents from India who was raised in the Hindu faith. They have an interfaith union.

“It’s not like he’s prophesying to me every day,” she said on CBS Sunday Morning.

This story was compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. 

Actor Tom Hanks is best known for his acting roles, but fans might not be aware that he’s also a director, writer, and producer. He is one of the most famous actors in Hollywood, which means he is also one of the best-paid A-listers. The Blast recently reported that “Star Wars” alum and Oscar nominee Adam Driver is worth $23M. How much is Tom Hanks worth? The answer might surprise you!

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Hanks is worth a cool $400 million. That number isn’t all that surprising when you take into account that his current box office gross is approximately $11 billion, as reported by the website. Following the release of “Toy Story 5,” however, that number is likely to rise even further.

In 2020, Hanks was ranked the fourth-highest-grossing American film actor of all time, having earned two Academy Awards, seven Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globes. He’s also been nominated for a Tony Award and five BAFTA Awards. In addition to those honors, he has received several other accolades.

He received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2020.

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Tom Hanks was born Thomas Jeffrey Hanks in July 1956, but he actually has some pretty famous lineage. Hanks is a distant cousin of Nancy Hanks and her son, President Abraham Lincoln. He’s also related to children’s host Fred Rogers, whom Hanks portrayed in 2019’s “A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood.”

After growing up in the Bay Area, Hanks studied theater at Chabot College in Hayward, California, and later transferred to California State University, Sacramento. He later dropped out of college after meeting Vincent Dowling, head of the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio, and began working at the festival. His theater work won him the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his 1978 performance as Proteus in Shakespeare’s “The Two Gentlemen of Verona.”

From Theater To Movies & TV

The following year, Hanks moved to New York City. His first film appearance was in 1980’s “He Knows You’re Not Alone.” Two years later, he landed a starring role in the TV movie “Mazes and Monsters.” He continued to balance his career in theater and TV, landing one of the lead roles in ABC’s “Bosom Buddies.”

After several small guest roles, Hanks found success in 1988’s “Big.” The performance earned him his first Oscar nomination. After a few flops at the box office, Hanks once again found success with 1992’s “A League of Their Own” and “Sleepless in Seattle.” He later won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in “Philadelphia,” in which he played a homosexual lawyer with AIDS who sued his firm for discrimination.

Tom Hanks Is Best Known For Roles Like ‘Forrest Gump’ And ‘Toy Story’

From there, Hanks became a household name. He won his second Oscar for Best Actor for 1994’s “Forrest Gump,” which remains one of his best-known and most-quoted roles. He also starred in the Oscar-winning film “Apollo 13” before going on to voice Sheriff Woody in Pixar’s “Toy Story.” The franchise has proven so successful that “Toy Story 5” was released in June 2026.

Other well-known works include “Saving Private Ryan,” “You’ve Got Mail,” “The Green Mile,” “Cast Away,” “The Terminal,” “The Polar Express,” and many, many more.

Inside Tom Hanks’ Personal Life

Hanks married actress Samantha Lewes in 1978. The couple welcomed a son, Colin, who is also an actor, and a daughter, Elizabeth. They divorced in 1987, and Lewes passed away in 2002 at the age of 49 due to bone cancer.

In 1981, Hanks met actress Rita Wilson on the set of “Bosom Buddies.” They worked together in 1985 on the set of “Volunteers.” The two married in 1988 and have two sons together: Chet and Truman.

Hanks is also a big fan of manual typewriters and has quite an impressive collection. In 2014, Hanks released an iOS app called Hanx Writer, designed to emulate the experience of using a typewriter. In 2017, he released a collection of short stories titled “Uncommon Type,” based on his typewriter collection.

Second Lady Usha Vance and Vice President JD Vance are detailing how they’ve managed to make their interfaith marriage work.

“I think people really caught on to the idea, at one point, that JD was interested in my conversion,” Usha, 40, told CBS’ Sunday Morning national correspondent Robert Costa on the Sunday, June 14, episode of the news program. “And I think that was misunderstood for the fundamental reason that he is Catholic, part of his faith is wanting to spread his faith, but it’s not like he’s prophesying to me every day.”

JD, 41, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, sparked near-instant controversy when he admitted that he hopes Usha, the daughter of immigrant parents from India who was raised in the Hindu faith, one day chooses to follow his brand of Christianity.

“For us, it works out now most Sundays — Usha will come with me to church, as I’ve told her, and I’ve said publicly, and I’ll say now in front of 10,000 of my closest friends, do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved in by the church? Yeah, I honestly, I do wish that, because I believe in the Christian Gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way,” the vice president said at a 2025 Turning Point USA event.

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“But if she doesn’t, then God says everybody has free will, and so that doesn’t cause a problem for me,” he added.

After receiving criticism for his seemingly lack of support for his wife and her religious beliefs, Vance doubled down on his desire to one day see his wife convert to Catholicism.

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“My Christian faith tells me the Gospel is true and is good for human beings,” JD wrote via X at the time. “My wife — as I said at the TPUSA — is the most amazing blessing I have in my life. She herself encouraged me to reengage with my faith many years ago. She is not a Christian and has no plans to convert, but like many people in an interfaith marriage — or any interfaith relationship — I hope she may one day see things as I do. Regardless, I’ll continue to love and support her and talk to her about faith and life and everything else, because she’s my wife.”

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While speaking to CBS on Sunday, JD admitted that his religious journey has been one rooted in his search for something stabilizing and grounding following his tumultuous upbringing and chaotic childhood.

“I grew up in some ways in a very non-traditional household,” the vice president explained. “Revolving door of people coming in, people coming out. Raised by my grandparents at some points and my parents at some points — my mom, my dad. So there was a certain movement and chaos to my youth. And I do think that I was searching for something that, again, was a little more rooted and a little more stable.”