Puzzle #738: Tom Hanks → Tom Hardy
Sunday, August 23, 2026
Tom Hanks
Tom HardyOn Sunday, August 23, 2026, the daily puzzle asked players to link Tom Hanks and Tom Hardy. The two have never been credited in the same movie, so there's no one-move answer. But 21 actors have worked with both of them in their best-known films, so it can be done in just 2 moves.
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Play puzzle #738The shortest solution
Show the 2-move answer (spoiler)
- Tom Hanks as Carl Hanratty in Catch Me If You Can (2002), which also stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Abagnale Jr..
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Dom Cobb in Inception (2010), alongside Tom Hardy as Eames.
The full chain: Tom Hanks → Catch Me If You Can (2002) → Leonardo DiCaprio → Inception (2010) → Tom Hardy.
Other ways to solve it
Show 3 more 2-move routes (spoilers)
- Tom Hanks → Catch Me If You Can (2002) → Chris Ellis → The Dark Knight Rises (2012) → Tom Hardy
- Tom Hanks → Cloud Atlas (2012) → James D'Arcy → Dunkirk (2017) → Tom Hardy
- Tom Hanks → Apollo 13 (1995) → Brett Cullen → The Dark Knight Rises (2012) → Tom Hardy
About Tom Hanks
- Born
- July 9, 1956 in Concord, California, USA
- Film career
- 1980–2025
- Widely seen films
- 59 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)
Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain:
- Forrest Gump (1994) as Forrest Gump
- The Green Mile (1999) as Paul Edgecomb
- Saving Private Ryan (1998) as Captain Miller
- Catch Me If You Can (2002) as Carl Hanratty
- Cast Away (2000) as Chuck Noland
- The Da Vinci Code (2006) as Robert Langdon
About Tom Hardy
- Born
- September 15, 1977 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK
- Film career
- 2001–2025
- Widely seen films
- 35 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)
Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain:
- Inception (2010) as Eames
- The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Bane
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) as Max Rockatansky
- The Revenant (2015) as John Fitzgerald
- Dunkirk (2017) as Farrier
- Venom (2018) as Eddie Brock / Venom