[Answer] What actor lost 26 pounds to play Andrew Beckett, an AIDS victim fighting wrongful termination?

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...Tom Hanks dropped 26 pounds to play Andrew Beckett, an AIDS victim fighting wrongful termination, in the film Philadelphia (1993). It was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to acknowledge HIV/AIDS, homosexuality, and homophobia. For his role as Andrew Beckett, Tom Hanks won his first Academy Award for Best Actor. Hanks would later gain 30 pounds for the role of Jimmy Dugan in 1992's "A League of Their Own" and subsequently lost 55 pounds when he played a man stranded on a desert island in the film Castaway (2000).

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Tom Hanks:

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