Who Is The Actor That Plays Miss Rhode Island In Miss Congeniality?
By Bessie Yuill/April 6, 2021 1:50 pm EDT
Miss Congeniality is one of the most iconic comedies of the early 00s. The talented cast includes Sandra Bullock as a tomboy FBI agent, Michael Caine as a veteran pageant coach, and Candice Bergen as a terrifying former beauty queen.
But some of the film s best lines went to Heather Burns, who won hearts as the naive Miss Rhode Island. Her character Cheryl made a lasting impression, and Burns went on to also appear in the sequel, I just went on a general call, Burns later told
Tom Hanks in You ve Got Mail.
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In You ve Got Mail, Hanks character, Joe, is a third-generation businessman who opens a commercial chain bookstore called Fox Books on Manhattan s Upper West Side.
In the 1990s, Hanks impressively earned two consecutive Oscars for his performances in the dramas Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994), which was based on Winston Groom s novel of the same name.
He also received best actor award nominations for Big (1988) and Saving Private Ryan (1998).
In addition to appearing in the baseball film A League of Their Own (1992) and the NASA biopic Apollo 13 (1995), Hanks was in Sleepless in Seattle (1993), another iconic Ephron rom-com in which he starred opposite Ryan.