Tom Cruise

Introduction of Tom Cruise:

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, best known by his stage name Tom Cruise, was born in the United States on July 3, 1962. He is one of the highest-paid actors in the world and has received countless accolades, such as four Oscar nominations, three Golden Globe Awards, and an Honorary Palme d’Or. With nearly $4 billion in North America and over $11.5 billion globally in box office receipts for his films, Tom Cruise is one of the highest-paid movie performers of all time.

Beginning his acting career in the early 1980s, Cruise secured breakthrough parts in the comedies Risky Business (1983) and Top Gun (1986). Tom Cruise's performances in the dramas The Color of Money (1986), Rain Man (1988), and Born on the Fourth of July (1989) earned him praise from the critics. For his role as Ron Kovic in the latter, he received a Golden Globe nomination in addition to an Academy Award nomination.

Tom Cruise appeared in several financially lucrative films as a well-known Hollywood actor in the 1990s, including A Few Good Men (1992), The Firm (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1994), and Jerry Maguire (1996). For the latter, he was nominated for an Academy Award a second time and won the Best Actor Golden Globe. For his depiction of a motivational speaker in the drama Magnolia (1999), Tom Cruise was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won another Golden Globe.

Since then, Tom Cruise has largely acted in sci-fi and action films, forging a reputation as an action hero who frequently does risky feats on his own. Tom Cruise has played Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible film series since 1996. Tom Cruise also had notable roles in the following movies: Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Collateral (2004), War of the Worlds (2005), Knight and Day (2010), Jack Reacher (2012), Oblivion (2013), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022), with Maverick being his highest-grossing film.

Tom Cruise has married three actors: Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman, and Katie Holmes. During his marriage to Kidman, he adopted two of his three children; the third was a biological daughter he had with Holmes. In his public support of the Church of Scientology, which he credits with helping him overcome his dyslexia, Cruise is outspoken. With his criticisms of psychiatry and anti-depressants, his efforts to spread Scientology in Europe, and a leaked video interview in which he was seen promoting the church, he stirred up controversy in the 2000s. Tom Cruise and Church of Scientology founder David Miscavige have been close friends since the 1980s.

Early Age:

On July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, New York, Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer, and Mary Lee (née Pfeiffer; 1936–2017), a special education teacher, welcomed Tom Cruise into the world. His parents, who shared Irish, German, and English ancestry, were both Louisville, Kentucky residents. The three sisters of Tom Cruise go by the names of Marian, Lee Anne, and Cass. One of his relatives, William Mapother, is also an actor who has collaborated with Cruise five times.
Tom Cruise grew up in a nearly impoverished Catholic household. In a later statement, he called his father “a merchant of chaos,” “a bully,” and a “coward” who beat his kids. He continued, “[My father] was the kind of person who would kick you if something went wrong. The way he would put you to sleep, make you feel secure, and then suddenly bam, it was a tremendous lesson for me. I thought, “There must be something wrong with this guy.” Not worth your faith. Around him, exercise caution.
Tom Cruise spent 14 years and 15 different schools in total. In the latter part of 1971, his family relocated to Beacon Hill, Ottawa, where his father got a job as a defence consultant with the Canadian Armed Forces. Tom Cruise therefore spent some of his formative years there. Tom Cruise completed his fourth and fifth grades at the brand-new Robert Hopkins Public School. He first participated in a play in the fourth grade, working with theatrical teacher George Steinburg. He and six other students performed the improvised musical performance at the Carleton Elementary School theatrical festival.

Drama organizer Val Wright observed the play and said, “The movement and improvisation were excellent… a classic ensemble piece.” During his sixth grade year, Cruise attended Ottawa’s Henry Munro Middle School. The same year, Cruise’s mother and father divorced, and she and his sisters moved back to the United States. In 1978, she married Jack South. With the idea of becoming a Franciscan priest, Cruise temporarily attended the St. Francis Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, on a Catholic Church scholarship.

However, he left after a year. Priests at the seminary claim that Cruise left of his own volition when his family moved again, while a former classmate claims that both of them asked to leave after being caught drinking. He was a linebacker for the varsity football team during his senior year of high school, but he was kicked off the team after being discovered drinking beer before a game. Later, he appeared in the school’s production of Guys and Dolls as the lead. From Glen Ridge High School in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, he received his diploma in 1980. In 1984, Cruise’s biological father passed away from cancer.

Personal Life:

The south of England, where he has lived in areas including Biggin Hill, Central London, Dulwich, and East Grinstead, is where Tom Cruise spends a portion of his time, as well as Clearwater, Florida, Beverly Hills, California, and the United States.

In the early to mid-1980s, Tom Cruise dated Cher, Melissa Gilbert, Rebecca De Mornay, Patti Scialfa, and others. On May 9, 1987, Cruise wed the actress Mimi Rogers. On February 4th, 1990, they got divorced. They first connected when Tom Cruise started working with Rogers, who had grown up as one of Scientology’s ‘auditors’ and had grown up in the religion. Rogers talked about her breakup with Cruise in a 1993 Playboy interview and revealed that he had considered becoming a monk, which had an impact on their closeness. Later, Rogers apologized for her remarks and said they had been misunderstood.

On the production of their 1990 movie Days of Thunder, Cruise got to know Nicole Kidman, who would later become his second wife. The union took place on December 24, 1990. Connor Antony was born in 1995, while Isabella Jane was adopted in 1992. While Kidman was unknowingly pregnant, Cruise filed for divorce with her in February 2001. Although it appeared that the pregnancy ended in a miscarriage, Kidman dispelled the allegations in 2007 by saying that she had actually experienced an ectopic pregnancy.

The next person to be romantically associated with Cruise was Penélope Cruz, his Vanilla Sky co-star (2001). In 2004, their three-year union came to an end. According to a Vanity Fair report from October 2012, numerous individuals claim that after the split from Cruz, Scientologist authorities started a covert project to find Cruise a new girlfriend.

Those sources claim that a string of Scientologist actress “auditions” led to a brief romance with Iranian-British actress Nazanin Boniadi, who later left Scientology. Vanity Fair was accused of “shoddy journalism” and “religious bigotry” by the lawyers for Scientology and Tom Cruise in stern denials and lawsuit threats. Later, according to journalist Roger Friedman, filmmaker and ex-scientist Paul Haggis sent him an email verifying the information.

Actress Katie Holmes and Cruise started dating in April 2005. Cruise and Holmes, called TomKat by the media, made their first public appearance as a couple on April 27 of that year in Rome. On The Oprah Winfrey Show a month later, Cruise made a public declaration of love for Holmes while standing on Winfrey’s yellow couch. According to media reports from the time, Oprah appeared to be a little surprised by Cruise’s outburst, which detracted from the intended promotion of Cruise’s most recent movie, War of the Worlds.

On October 6, 2005, Cruise and Holmes announced they were expecting a child. In April 2006, their daughter Suri was born. The Scientologist wedding of Holmes and Cruise took place on November 18 in the Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano, which goes back to the fifteenth century and was attended by a large number of Hollywood A-listers. According to their publicists, the pair “officialized” their union the day before the Italian wedding in Los Angeles.

There is a widespread belief that the Church of Scientology orchestrated their union. Cruise’s best man was Scientology leader David Miscavige. Holmes filed for divorce from Cruise on June 29, 2012. The couple agreed to a divorce settlement on July 9 after consulting with their attorneys. The specifics of the divorce settlement are not disclosed to the public because New York law requires that all divorce paperwork remain sealed. Suri Holmes, the couple’s daughter, was shielded from Scientology by his ex-wife Katie Holmes, according to Cruise, who claimed that Suri is no longer a practising member of the group.

Career:

In 1981’s Endless Love, Cruise, who started acting in high school, made his film debut. Before starring as a high school senior who converted his parent’s house into a brothel in Risky Business (1983), he appeared in minor roles in films like Taps (1981) and The Outsiders (1983). As a result of the film’s enormous popularity, Cruise gained a lot of notoriety. He played a military jet pilot in Top Gun (1986), the highest-grossing movie of the year, solidifying his stardom. Martin Scorsese’s The Colour of Money, in which Cruise performed alongside Paul Newman, was released in 1986. Two years later, in Rain Guy, Cruise played the conceited brother of an autistic guy.

Cruise garnered his first Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of a Vietnam War veteran turned activist in Born on the Fourth of July (1989). After playing roles as diverse as a navy lawyer in A Few Good Men (1992), a vampire in Interview with the Vampire (1994), and a secret agent in Mission: Impossible (1996), Cruise went on to show a wide range of depth and characters in his movies throughout the 1990s. The enormous popularity of the latter movie led to sequels in 2000, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2018, and 2023.

Cruise received a second Oscar nomination for Jerry Maguire (1996) for his role as a sports agent. In the eagerly awaited Stanley Kubrick swan song, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), a picture about marital fidelity that received mixed reviews, he co-starred with his then-wife, Nicole Kidman. In the same year, Cruise gained praise for his role as a sexist self-help guru in the film Magnolia, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

In the 2000s, Cruise starred in many action movies, such as the gritty Los Angeles-set Collateral (2004) and the science-fiction thriller Minority Report (2002), both of which were directed by Steven Spielberg. In The Last Samurai (2003), Cruise plays a disgruntled American soldier who joins a samurai community. He collaborated once more with Spielberg on the aesthetically stunning 2005 film adaptation of the same-titled H.G. Wells book. In Tropic Thunder (2008), Cruise garnered laughs as an arrogant movie producer, and in Valkyrie (2010), Cruise played Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, a German army officer who orchestrated an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Following that, Cruise starred in Jack Reacher (2012) and the action thrillers Knight and Day (2010). He resumed his role as a former army investigator in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016). In the latter, he played an investigator. He was cast as a post-apocalyptic survivor in the science fiction adventure Oblivion (2013) after playing an 80s rock idol in the musical Rock of Ages (2012).

In the comedic alien invasion romp Edge of Tomorrow (2014), he later played a snobby military public relations officer who is constantly killed and revived. In 2017 Cruise starred in the dramatic comedy American Made as well as the action-horror movie The Mummy. He returned to play the same character from the 1986 smash in Top Gun: Maverick (2022). As much attention was paid to Cruise’s personal life as to his performance. The Hollywood media intensively covered both his marriage to Kidman and their 2001 divorce.

His strong support for Scientology became contentious during the following few years, particularly his 2005 public criticism of psychiatry as an invalid science (a viewpoint shared by Scientologists). Through his open relationship with actress Katie Holmes, to whom he was married from 2006 until 2012, Cruise continued to draw attention in tabloids and entertainment media.