This article was originally published in 2016 and has been updated with subsequent Tom Hanks films, including Here. You might say there’s a unified theory of Hanks. The actor contains multitudes but is always Tom Hanks.

Tom Hanks made his big-screen debut in an unremarkable 1980 slasher cheapie called He Knows You’re Alone. And based on that inauspicious start, it’s safe to say that no one could have predicted that he would go on to become a two-time Best Actor Oscar-winner and the most beloved movie star on the planet.