Tom Cruise Biography
Bio for Tom Cruise, Facts, Personal Life
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Tom Cruise in Brief: Fact Files
Real Name / Birth Name / Full Name / AKA: Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
Date of birth: 3 July 1962
Birthplace (location): Syracuse, New York, USA
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Gender: Male
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
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Executive summary / Best known as: Top Gun, M:I Movies
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Father: Thomas Mapother III (electrical engineer, b. 15-Oct-1934, d. Jan-1984)
Mother: Mary Lee (Pfeiffer) (Mapother) South
Father: Joseph South (stepfather)
Sister: Lee Anne (Mapother) DeVette (Cruise's spokesman; b. 1959)
Sister: Marian Mapother (teacher, b. 1961)
Sister: Cass Mapother (restauranteur, b. 1963)
Girlfriend: Melissa Gilbert (actress, dated 1982)
Girlfriend: Rebecca De Mornay (actress, cohabitated 1983-85)
Wife: Mimi Rogers (actress, m. 9-May-1987, div. Jan-1990)
Wife: Nicole Kidman (actress, m. 24-Dec-1990, div. 8-Aug-2001, two adopted children)
Daughter: Isabella Jane Kidman Cruise (adopted, b. 22-Dec-1992)
Son: Connor Anthony Kidman Cruise (adopted, b. 17-Jan-1995)
Girlfriend: Penelope Cruz (actress, dated 2001-04)
Girlfriend: Sofia Vergara (Colombian actress, dated in 2005)
Girlfriend: Katie Holmes (actress, engaged 2005, one daughter)
Daughter: Suri (b. 18-Apr-2006)
Favorite Singer: British singer Joss Stone.
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Education: Graduated from Glen Ridge High School [June 1980]. Studied drama at the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse, in conjunction with the Actors Studio, New School University, New York.
Hobby / Hobbies: Skydiving, scuba diving, and piloting his Pitts Special S-2B stunt plane.
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Salary:
Risky Business (1983): $75,000
Top Gun (1986): $2,000,000
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994): $15,000,000
Mission: Impossible II (2000): $75,000,000
Minority Report (2002): $25,000,000
The Last Samurai (2003): $25,000,000
War of the Worlds (2005): 20% profit participation
Contact, Fan Mailing, Autograph Address of Tom Cruise:
Mr. Tom Cruise
Cruise/Wagner Productions
5555 Melrose Ave
Bldg 200
Los Angeles, CA 90038
USA
Mr. Tom Cruise
c/o Rogers & Cowan
Paul Bloch
Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Avenue
7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90069
USA
Detailed Biography of Tom Cruise: Full Biography
Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born on July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, New York, USA. With his black hair, blue eyes, and unabashed cockiness, he made a strong impression in his first leading role, in the teen comedy Risky Business (1983), Cruise rode high on such hits as Top Gun and Rain Man. He led a peripatetic existence as a child, moving from town to town with his rootless family. A high school wrestler, Tom Cruise went into acting after being sidelined by a knee injury. This new activity served a dual purpose: Performing satiated his need for attention, while the memorization aspect of acting helped him come to grips with his dyslexia.
Cruise moved to New York in 1980, , supporting himself by working as a bus-boy, a porter in an apartment block and a table-cleaner at Mortimer's restaurant. In the evenings he took drama classes, auditioning for TV ads whenever possible. He held down odd jobs until getting his first movie break in Endless Love (1981). His first big hit was Risky Business (1982).
Top Gun established Tom Cruise as an action star (1985), but again he refused to be pigeonholed, and followed up Top Gun with a solid characterization of a fledgling pool shark in The Color of Money (1986) - the film that earned co-star Paul Newman an Academy Award. In 1988, Cruise took on one of his most challenging assignments as the brother of autistic savant Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. In 1989, he was finally given an opportunity to carry a major dramatic film without an older established star in tow. As paraplegic Vietnam vet Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July - a man physically destroyed yet spiritually raised by the paralysis of his lower body. He won his first Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. Cruise moved on to Days Of Thunder, with his second wife. He had come across Nicole Kidman at the premiere of her excellent Dead Calm. Kidman amused him. Now, starring together, she won him completely, and he starred with her again in his next picture, director Ron Howard's Far And Away, about Irish lovers battling for a decent life on the American frontier. With A Few Good Men (1992), he was back in form. Later, Tom Cruise appeared as the vampire Lestat in the long-delayed film adaptation of the Anne Rice novel Interview with the Vampire (1994). Fans of the book denounced this casting, as did its author Anne Rice though, having seen the picture, she made an abrupt u-turn, claiming Cruise's Lestat would be remembered like Olivier's Hamlet. His charm and intensity had coupled well again.
In 1996, Tom Cruise scored financial success with the big-budget actioner Mission Impossible, a Brian De Palma film, but it was with his multilayered, Oscar-nominated performance in Jerry Maguire (1996) that Cruise proved once again why he is considered a major Hollywood player. 1999 saw Tom Cruise reunited onscreen with Kidman in a project of a very different sort, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. In 2000, he scored again when he reprised his role as international agent Ethan Hunt in Director John Woo's MI: 2, which proved to be one of the summer's first big moneymakers. Then it was back to Crowe with Vanilla Sky, a "rock'n'roll" remake of the Spanish weird-out Open Your Eyes - Cruise had bought the remake rights after seeing the movie with production partner Paula Wagner, then got Crowe involved.
Though Vanilla Sky's sometimes surreal trappings found the film recieving a mixed reception at the box office, the same could not be said for the following years massively successful sci-fi chase film Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, which scored a direct hit at the box office, and Cruise could next be seen gearing up for his role in Edward Zwick's The Last Samurai along side Ken Watanabe. He picked a role unlike any he'd ever played; starring as a sociopathic hit man in the Michael Mann psychological thriller Collateral.
In 2005, he teamed up with Steven Speilberg again for the second time in three years with an epic adaptation of the Orson Wells alien-invasion story War of the Worlds. The events leading up to the release of the film, notably, Cruises' very public advocation of Scientology and anti-psychiatry statements, coupled with the criticism of his relationship with actress Katie Holmes, many expected the film to be a bomb at the boxoffice. The film earned $234,280,354 at the United States box office, worldwide $591,416,316.
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