Thomas Cruise Mapother IV famous as Tom Cruise born on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York, USA is a Hollywood Super Star and film producer. Tom Cruise in one of the highest paid and most sought after actors in Hollywood history. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won three Golden Globe Awards. In 2006, Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity. Tom Cruise made his film debut with a small part in Endless Love and from the outset exhibited an undeniable box office appeal to both male and female audiences. 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.
Tom Cruise Childhood
Tom Cruise was born in July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York. He is the son of Mary Lee , a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer. Tom Cruise's oldest sister, Lee Anne, was born in Louisville. His older sister Marian was born in Syracuse, as were Tom and his younger sister, Cass. When Tom Cruise was twelve, his mother left his father, taking Cruise and his sister Lee Anne with her. After a long period of near-poverty, in which Tom's newspaper-delivery earnings helped put food on the table, his mother married a plastics salesman named Jack South.
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Tom Cruise Personal Life
Tom Cruise personal life is not so smooth as his film carrer. He married Mimi Rogers on May 9, 1987; they divorced on February 4, 1990. Tom 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 when Kidman was three months pregnant; she later miscarried. Tom Cruise was next romantically linked with Penelope Cruz, the lead actress in his film Vanilla Sky. After a three-year relationship, in March 2004, Cruise announced that their relationship had ended in January. In April 2005, Tom Cruise began dating actress Katie Holmes. On April 18, 2006 Katie gave birth to a baby girl named Suri at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. The couple married in Bracciano, Italy on November 18, 2006.
Awards and Achievements of Tom Cruise
* In 1990, 1991 and 1997, People magazine rated Tom Cruise among the 50 most beautiful people in the world.
* In 1995, Empire magazine ranked Tom Cruise among the 100 sexiest stars in film history.
* In 1997, Empire magazine ranked Tom Cruise among the top 5 movie stars of all time.
* In 2002 and 2003, Tom Cruise was rated by Premiere among the top 20 in its annual Power 100 list.
* In 2006, Premiere ranked Tom Cruise as Hollywood's most powerful actor.
* On June 16, 2006, Forbes magazine published 'The Celebrity 100', a list of the most powerful celebrities, which Tom Cruise topped.
* Tom Cruise has been nominated for three Academy Awards.
* Tom Cruise has won three Golden Globe Awards.
Tom Cruise Fact file
* Tom Cruise is right handed when writing, but does most things left handed.
* At age 14, he enrolled in a seminary to become a priest. He dropped out after one year.
* In childhood Tom Cruise suffers from dyslexia.
* Tom Cruise earned his pilot's license in Toronto, Canada in 1994.
* Tom Cruise is a big fan of British singer Joss Stone.
Tom Cruise Student life
Tom Cruise attended Robert Hopkins Public school for grades three, four, and five. The Mapother family then moved to the suburb of Beacon Hill, in Ottawa, Ontario, so Tom's father could take a position as a defence consultant with the Canadian Armed Forces. There, Cruise completed grade six at Henry Munro Middle School. Besides Ottawa, cities in which Cruise lived included Louisville, Kentucky; Winnetka, Illinois; and Wayne, New Jersey. In all, Tom Cruise attended eight elementary schools and three high schools. He briefly attended a Franciscan seminary in Cincinnati (on a church scholarship) and aspired to become a Catholic priest. In his senior year, he played football for the varsity team as a linebacker, but he was cut from the squad after getting caught drinking beer before a game. Tom Cruise graduated from Glen Ridge High School in New Jersey in 1980.
Tom Cruise early Career
The first play he participated in was called IT, in which Cruise won the co-lead with Michael de Waal. Tom Cruise started acting after being sidelined from his high school's wrestling team due to a knee injury. While injured, he successfully auditioned for a lead role in his high school's production of Guys and Dolls and decided to become an actor after his success in the role. Tom Cruise's first film role came in 1981, when he had a small role in Endless Love, a drama/romance film starring Brooke Shields. Later that same year he had a more substantial role in the film Taps, appearing alongside George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn.
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