Tom Cruise Biography
Tom Cruise is an American actor, producer, and filmmaker best known for his role as secret agent Ethan Hunt in the ‘Mission: Impossible film series. He is regarded as one of the biggest movie stars in the United States and was the highest-paid actor in Hollywood in 2012.
Tom Cruise Age
Cruise is 60 years old as of July 2022. He was born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV in Syracuse, on July 3, 1962, in New York the United States of America.
Tom Cruise Nationality
He is an American national and citizen by birth. Tom was born in New York, United State of America. She is of mixed ethnicity/heritage/ancestry of German American, British American, and Irish American.
Tom Cruise Height
Tom stands at a height of 5’7″ (170 cm).
Tom Cruise Family – Parents – Father
In Syracuse, New York, he was born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, the son of Mary Lee and Thomas Cruise Mapother III. His father was an electrical engineer, and his mother taught special education. He has three younger sisters.
Tom Cruise Wife – Married
In May 1987, Tom Cruise married actress Mimi Rogers. Cruise was introduced to Scientology by Rogers, and he went on to become an outspoken supporter of the Church of Scientology. Their marriage, on the other hand, ended in February 1990. He married actress Nicole Kidman in December 1990. The couple adopted two children, but their marriage also failed. On November 18, 2006, he married Katie Holmes for the third time. They have a child together. On June 29, 2012, after five and a half years of marriage, Holmes filed for divorce from Cruise. He had relationships with Spanish actress Penelope Cruz and British-Iranian actress Nazanin Boniadi in addition to his three marriages.
Tom Cruise Career
He abandoned his plans to become a priest in his late teens and instead pursued a career as an actor. As a 19-year-old, he moved to New York and landed a small role in the 1981 film ‘Endless Love.’ In 1983, he played Joel Goodson in the romantic comedy ‘Risky Business.’ The film was a box office success, and Tom Cruise, with his chocolate-boy good looks, became the heartthrob of millions of American girls. He played Lieutenant Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a young naval aviator aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, in the action drama film ‘Top Gun.’ This film was also a huge success, solidifying his status as a superstar.
His success continued into the late 1980s, with films such as ‘The Color of Money (1986), ‘Cocktail’ (1988), ‘Rain Man (1988), and ‘Born on the Fourth of July’ (1988). (1989). In the early 1990s, he frequently appeared on screen alongside actress Nicole Kidman, whom he married in 1990. In films such as ‘Days of Thunder (1990) and ‘Far and Away,’ the real-life couple co-starred as lovers (1992). In 1996, he achieved unprecedented success as Ethan Hunt in the action spy film ‘Mission: Impossible.’ The plot revolves around agent Hunt and his mission to find the mole who has been framing him for the murders of his entire team. The film was a box office smash, spawning several sequels.
Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, he remained a highly bankable and popular star, appearing in films such as ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ (1999), ‘Vanilla Sky’ (2001), ‘Minority Report’ (2002), ‘The Last Samurai’ (2003), ‘Collateral’ (2004), ‘War of the Worlds (2005), and ‘Lions for Lambs’ (2007). His most recent films include ‘Rock of Ages,’ ‘Jack Reacher,’ ‘Oblivion,’ and ‘Edge of Tomorrow (2014). Tom Cruise starred in the fifth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise, ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,’ in 2015. He returned to the role in the sixth installment of the franchise, ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout,’ in 2018. He appeared in the horror film ‘The Mummy’ in 2017. The film was a remake of the 1932 film of the same name starring Boris Karloff.
Tom Cruise Net Worth
Cruise has an estimated net worth of 600 million dollars.
Tom Cruise Movies
1. Rain Man (1988)
2. A Few Good Men (1992)
3. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
4. Collateral (2004)
5. The Last Samurai (2003)
6. Minority Report (2002)
7. Jerry Maguire (1996)
8. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
9. Mission: Impossible (1996)
10. Magnolia (1999)
