Rita Wilson Says Tom Hanks Is ‘Better Than Ever’ on 65th Birthday By Johnni Macke of US Weekly | Everlasting love! Cast Away actor, it was love at first sight when it came to his eventual wife — even if he didn’t meet her until years after he first saw her. Wilson made her TV debut on the Brady Bunch in 1972, as Pat Conway, which is when the California native first fell for her. “Oh, every now and again I just pull it up in YouTube. All of the stuff that she was in,” Hanks told The Knot and other reporters in 2016. “I was actually at a friend of mine’s house when that aired and remember thinking, ‘That girl is cute.’”