Which celebrity is related to Abraham Lincoln?
Tom Hanks
Jimmy Fallon
Tom Cruise
Clint Eastwood
Although Tom Hanks has portrayed many historical figures on screen, he has surprisingly never played a president—despite being directly related to one. The Oscar-winning actor is a distant relative of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. Honest Abe’s mother was named Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and through her lineage, the president and actor are third cousins four times removed. Although Hanks has yet to depict Lincoln on screen, he did lend his voice to narrate National Geographic’s 2013 docudrama Killing Lincoln, based on the best-selling book of the same name.
Correct Answer: Tom Hanks