Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, born on July 3, 1962, better known by his screen name of Tom Cruise, is an American film actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won three Golden Globe Awards. His first leading role was the 1983 film Risky Business, which has been described as "A Generation X classic, and a career-maker" for the actor. After playing the role of a heroic naval pilot in the popular and financially successful 1986 film Top Gun, Cruise continued in this vein, playing a secret agent in a series of Mission: Impossible action films in the 1990s and 2000s. In addition to these heroic roles, he has starred in a variety of other successful films such as Days of Thunder (1990), Jerry Maguire (1996), Magnolia (1999), Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Collateral (2004) and War of the Worlds (2005). In 2005, the Hollywood journalist, Edward Jay Epstein argued that Cruise is one of the few producers (the others being George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Jerry Bruckheimer) who are able to guarantee the success of a billion-dollar movie franchise. Since 2005, Cruise and Paula Wagner have been in charge of the United Artists film studio, with Cruise as producer and star and Wagner as the chief executive. Cruise is also known for his controversial support of and adherence to the Church of Scientology. Cruise married Mimi Rogers on May 9, 1987; they divorced on February 4, 1990. Rogers is generally believed to have introduced Cruise to Scientology. Cruise met Nicole Kidman on the set of their film Days of Thunder. The couple married on December 24, 1990. He and Kidman adopted two children, Isabella Jane and Connor Antony. They separated in February 2001. Cruise was next romantically linked with Penélope Cruz, the lead actress in his film Vanilla Sky. After a three-year relationship, Cruise announced that their relationship had ended in January. In April 2005, Cruise began dating actress Katie Holmes. Shortly after they began their highly publicized relationship, on June 17, 2005, Cruise announced he had proposed to her at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. On April 18, 2006, Holmes gave birth to a baby girl named Suri at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. Cruise stated that the name derives from the Hebrew word for "princess" or the Persian word meaning red rose. She is the first biological child for both Holmes and Cruise. On November 18, 2006, Holmes and Cruise were married at the 15th-century Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano, Italy, in a Scientology ceremony attended by many Hollywood stars. Cruise owns a home in Murrieta, California.

Gallery

Movie		Character	Year
	TAPS	Cadet Captain David Shawn	1981
	The Outsiders	Steve Randle	1983
	Losin' It	Woody	1983
	Risky Business	Joel Goodsen	1983
	All the Right Moves	Stefen Djordjevic	1983
	Legend	Jack	1985
	Top Gun	Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell	1986
	The Color of Money	Vincent Lauria	1986
	Rain Man	Charlie Babbitt	1988
	Born on the Fourth of July	Ron Kovic	1989
	Days of Thunder	Cole Trickle	1990
	A Few Good Men	Lt. Daniel Kaffee	1992
	Interview with the Vampire	Lestat de Lioncourt	1994
	Mission: Impossible	Ethan Hunt	1996
	Jerry Maguire	Jerry Maguire	1996
	Eyes Wide Shut	Dr. William 'Bill' Harford	1999
	Magnolia	Frank T.J. Mackey	1999
	Mission: Impossible II	Ethan Hunt	2000
	Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures	Narration	2001
	Vanilla Sky	David Aames	2001
	Minority Report	Chief John Anderton	2002
	The Last Samurai	Captain Nathan Algren	2003
	Collateral	Vincent	2004
	War of the Worlds	Ray Ferrier	2005
	Mission: Impossible III	Ethan Hunt	2006
	Lions for Lambs	Senator Jasper Irving	2007
	Tropic Thunder	Les Grossmann	2008
	Valkyrie	Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg	2008
	Knight and Day	Miller	2010
	The Secrets of Scientology	Himself	2010
	Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol	Ethan Hunt	2011
	Rock of Ages	Stacee Jaxx	2012
	Jack Reacher	Jack Reacher	2012
	The Hardy Men	n.a.	2013
	Oblivion	Jack	2013
	Mission: Impossible 5	Ethan Hunt	2015