Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are still the epitome of couple goals after all these years.
Photos of the beloved duo surfaced on Just Jared on May 14 that show the two-time Oscar winner and his actress-singer wife of nearly 38 years strolling through New York City with their arms wrapped around each other on a date night. The couple looked less like Hollywood royalty and more like an average couple who genuinely enjoy each other’s company.
The outing came just over a week after Wilson, 69, sat down with People and offered up what she swears is the not-so-glamorous secret to their marriage: a shared bathroom. She says the room is a kind of debrief station of sorts where she and Hanks, also 69, swap notes on their days and sync up on their mornings. She also said, cliché as it may sound, the two never go to bed mad at each other.
New Photos of Tom Hanks & Wife Rita Wilson Capture Couple’s Genuine Affection
The couple’s backstory is basically Hollywood folklore. The pair first crossed paths in 1981 on the ABC sitcom “Bosom Buddies,” then reconnected when Wilson was cast as Hanks’ love interest in the 1985 comedy “Volunteers.” Hanks was in the process of separating from his first wife, Samantha Lewes. By 1986, the two were stepping out publicly, and they married in April of 1988.
Their blended family now stretches across four kids and three grandchildren. Sons Chet, 35, and Truman, 30, came from their marriage; Hanks’ older children Colin, 48, and E.A., 43, came from his first.
Wilson has also been candid about her breast cancer diagnosis a decade ago and the mastectomy and reconstructive surgery that followed. She and Hanks have served for over 20 years as honorary co-chairs of the Women’s Cancer Research Fund alongside Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, raising money for research into women’s cancers.
The Couple Has Been Supporting Each Other Personally & Professionally for Decades
Professionally, both have been busy as bees of late. Wilson just dropped her new album, “Sound of a Woman,” on May 1, the latest entry in the singer-songwriter career she’s quietly built alongside acting credits in “Sleepless in Seattle,” “It’s Complicated,” and “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” which she also produced.
Hanks, meanwhile, has a packed slate. He’s reprising the voice of Woody in Pixar’s “Toy Story 5,” due in theaters June 19. And, on May 25, the History Channel is rolling out “World War II with Tom Hanks,” a 20-episode series he’s hosting and narrating that pulls from rare archives and fresh scholarship.
Beyond that, Hanks shot the sequel to his 2020 Apple TV+ wartime drama “Greyhound” in Sydney earlier this year, again playing Captain Krause from a script he wrote himself. He’s also signed on to play Abraham Lincoln in “Lincoln in the Bardo,” Starburns Industries’ adaptation of George Saunders’ Booker Prize-winning novel, and to reunite with director Marielle Heller for a baseball dramedy called “The Comebacker.”
Nearly four decades in, Hanks and Wilson continue to support each other, and their clear reverence for one another is why they remain one of Hollywood’s most beloved couples.
