Tom Cruise
QUICK FACTSNAME
Tom Cruise
OCCUPATION
Film Actor, Producer
BIRTH DATE
July 3, 1962 (age 56)
PLACE OF BIRTH
Syracuse, New York
ZODIAC SIGN
Cancer
The actor and Scientologist Tom Cruise is the star of several blockbusters, including Risky Business, A Few Good Men, The Firm and Jerry Maguire.
Who is Tom Cruise?
Tom Cruise was born on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York. After developing an interest in performing in high school, he rose to fame with his star spins at Risky Business and Top Gun. Later, Cruise was recognized for his work in the hit movie Jerry Maguire and the Mission: Impossible franchise. He was also attacked by the tabloids for his marriages with the actresses Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes.
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Films
'Griffins', 'The strangers'
Cruise established a term of 10 years to build a career as an actor. He left school and moved to New York, fighting for one audition after another before getting an appearance on Endless Love in 1981, starring Brooke Shields. Around this same time, it obtained a small paper in the drama of the military school Taps (1981), co-starring by Sean Penn.
His role in Taps was improved after director Harold Becker saw the potential of Cruise and his performance caught the attention of several critics and filmmakers. In 1983, Cruise appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders, also starring Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon and Rob Lowe, all prominent members of a group of young actors that the entertainment press called "Brat Pack". The film was not well received, but it allowed Cruise to work with an acclaimed director on a high-profile project.
'Risky business'
His next film, Risky Business (1983), raised $ 65 million. He also made Cruise a highly recognizable actor, thanks in large part to the memorable scene of the young star dancing in his underwear.
'Top Gun'
In 1986, after a two-year hiatus, the budding actor released the big-budget fantasy film Legend, which performed poorly at the box office. That same year, however, the status of Cruise's A-list was confirmed with the release of Top Gun, which was co-starring Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards and Meg Ryan. The action-romance fueled by testoterone, set on the stage of a naval elite flight school, became the highest-grossing film of 1986.
'The color of money', 'Rain Man', 'Born on the fourth of July'
Cruise followed the tremendous success of Top Gun with a series of critically acclaimed and commercially successful films. First he starred in The Color of Money (1986), with co-star Paul Newman, and then worked with Dustin Hoffman on Rain Man (1988). Cruise's next role, like Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic in the biopic Born on Fourth of July (1989), earned him an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe for Best Actor.
'A Few Good Men', 'The Firm', 'Interview with a vampire'
In 1992, Cruise proved once again that he could play his own screen opposite legend when he co-starred Jack Nicholson in the military drama A Few Good Men. The film grossed more than $ 15 million on its first weekend and gave Cruise a Golden Globe nomination. He continued to demonstrate his skills as a protagonist in The Firm (1993) and Interview with a Vampire (1994), which was co-starring by Brad Pitt.
'Mission: Impossible', 'Jerry McGuire'
Next, Cruise hit the big screen with two big hits: the $ 64 million blockbuster Mission: Impossible (1996), which also produced the star, and the acclaimed Jerry McGuire (1996), directed by Cameron Crowe. For the latter, Cruise won a second Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe for Best Actor.
'Eyes tight shut', 'Magnolia'
Cruise and Kidman spent much of 1997 and 1998 in England shooting Eyes Wide Shut, an erotic thriller that would be the last film by director Stanley Kubrick. The film came out in the summer of 1999 mixed reviews, but that year, Cruise had a great success with the release of Magnolia. His performance as a self-confident sex guru in the ensemble film earned him another Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
'Vanilla Sky', 'The Last Samurai'
Cruise then starred in the long-awaited hit: Mission: Impossible 2 in 2000, along with Anthony Hopkins, Thandie Newton and Ving Rhames. In 2002, he starred in Vanilla Sky, his second collaboration with Crowe, as well as Steven Spielberg's Minority Report. The following year, Cruise traveled to Australia to film the $ 100 million war epic The Last Samurai, which earned him another Golden Globe nomination.
'War of words'
Cruise showed that it was still a big draw when starring Steven Spielberg's remake of the science fiction classic War of the Worlds (2005), which grossed more than $ 230 million at the box office.
