10 Hollywood Stars You Didn't Know Were Real Life Heroes

10. Tom Hanks Saved A Man From Sea Currents

Tom Hanks isn't your standard movie star hero €“ his roles usually demand a quieter, more introspective performance, where brains rather than brawn come into play to overcome the obstacles his characters are faced with. Nevertheless, two roles in particular may have given him a primer for the real world incident which saw him labelled by the media a hero, with Castaway and Captain Phillips both seeing the star surrounded by the ocean depths. Tom Hanks was out jogging along the seafront near his home in Malibu, California when he heard the panicked screaming of a man off the shore, caught up in a rip current. Keeping his calm, Hanks instructed the man to calm down and float until he felt the current weaken, then guided him back to the shore, dashing in and dragging the drowning man to safety.