Forrest Gump Cast
Meet the Cast
Forrest (Tom Hanks)
He's a lover, a fighter, a football star, and a multimillionaire. In other words, he just might be the perfect all-American man.Well, except for one teeny-tiny problem: his teeny-tiny IQ. Befo...
Jenny (Robin Wright)
Jenny Curran is a textbook—almost too textbook, if you ask us—example of what happens to an abused child. When Forrest looks at her, he just sees a little girl whose father loves her just as mu...
Mrs. Gump (Sally Field)
You know what they say: behind every successful man is a wise, loving mother with an inexhaustible fount of clichéd sayings. (We might not be remembering that quite right.)Mrs. Gump's main charact...
Bubba (Mykelti Williamson)
If Jenny and Forrest are like peas and carrots, then Forrest and Benjamin Buford Blue, aka Bubba, are like … shrimp and shrimp. Er, peanut butter and peanut butter? Well, we can't quite make the...
Lieutenant Dan (Gary Sinise)
Lieutenant Dan Taylor, Forrest's superior officer in Vietnam, has a lot to live up to. As Forrest tells us, "Somebody in his family had fought and died in every single American war." (Question: wou...
Forrest Jr. (Haley Joel Osment)
When Forrest first hears that there's a Forrest Jr. running around, his first question is whether he's "like me." Now, usually a dad wants to hear that his son is like him—but not in this case. F...