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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born Jul. 3, 1962 (50 years ago)), better known by his screen name of Tom Cruise, is an American actor and movie producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world s most powerful celebrity in 2006 (6 years ago). He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won three Golden Globe Awards. His first leading role was the 1983 (29 years ago) movie 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 rental car atlanta hartsfield airport naval pilot in the popular and financially successful 1986 (26 years ago) movie Top Gun, Cruise continued in this vein, playing a secret agent in a series of Mission: Impossible action movies in the 1990 (22 years ago) and 2000 (12 years ago). In addition to these heroic roles, he also played other roles, such as the misogynistic male guru in Magnolia (1999, 13 years ago) and a cool and calculating sociopathic hitman in the Michael rental car atlanta hartsfield airport Mann crime-thriller movie Collateral (2004, 8 years ago).
In 2005 (7 years ago), theHollywoodjournalist, 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 (7 years ago), Cruise and Paula Wagner have been in charge of the United Artists movie 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 theChurchofScientology.
Cruise was born inSyracuse,New York, the son of Mary Lee (née Pfeiffer), a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer. Although Cruise s paternal surname (Mapother) is Welsh, it appears that his paternal great-grandfather, Thomas O Mara, was of Irish ancestry rental car atlanta hartsfield airport and adopted his stepfather s surname, becoming the first Thomas Cruise Mapother. He also has German and English ancestry from his paternal great-grandparents, William Reibert and Charlotte Louise Voelker, and German ancestry through rental car atlanta hartsfield airport his mother. Tom Cruise s oldest sister, Lee Anne, was born inLouisville. rental car atlanta hartsfield airport His older sister Marian was born inSyracuse, as were Tom and his younger sister, Cass.
Cruise attendedRobertHopkinsPublic schoolfor grades three, four, and five. The Mapother family then moved to the suburb of Beacon Hill, inOttawa,Ontario, so Cruise s father could take a position as a defence consultant with the Canadian Armed Forces. There, Cruise completed grade six atHenryMunroMiddle rental car atlanta hartsfield airport School, rental car atlanta hartsfield airport part of the Carleton Board of Education, where he was active in athletics, playing floor hockey almost every night, showing himself to be a ruthless player, eventually chipping his front tooth. In the game British Bull Dog , he then lost his newly capped tooth and hurt his knee. Henry Munro was also where Cruise became involved in drama, under the tutelage of George Steinburg. The first play he participated in was called IT, in which Cruise won the co-lead with Michael de Waal, one playing Evil , the other playing Good. The play met much acclaim, and toured with five other classmates to various schools around theOttawaarea, even being filmed at the local Ottawa TV station. The two were also singled rental car atlanta hartsfield airport out for a version of Jesus Christ Superstar, rental car atlanta hartsfield airport as well as a Marcel Marceau-type act. It was at this point that Mary Lee Mapother helped foster her son s acting aspirations: when the religious overtones of the former caused rental car atlanta hartsfield airport concern for school principal Jim Brown, Cruise rental car atlanta hartsfield airport s mother convinced him that the play should proceed, and she founded the Gloucester Players, a theatrical troupe where Cruise and some of the boys in Steinburg s class acted.
When Cruise was twelve, his mother left his father, taking rental car atlanta hartsfield airport Cruise rental car atlanta hartsfield airport 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.
Besides Ottawa, cities in which Cruise lived included Louisville, Kentucky; Winnetka, Illinois; and Wayne, New Jersey. In all, Cruise rental car atlanta hartsfield airport attended eight elementary schools and three high schools. He briefly attended a Franciscan seminary inCincinnati(on rental car atlanta hartsfield airport a church scholarship) and aspired to become a Catholic rental car atlanta hartsfield airport 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. Cruise graduated fromGlenRidgeHigh SchoolinNew Jerseyin 1980 (32 years ago).
Cruise has said that he suffered from abuse as a child. This was partially due to his suffering from dyslexia. He stated that when something went wrong, his father came down hard on him. He told Parade Magazine that his father rental car atlanta hartsfield airport was a bully and a merchant of chaos. Cruise said he learned early on that his father was – and, by extension, some people were – not to be trusted: I knew from being around my father that not everyone rental car atlanta hartsfield airport means me well. Having gone through fifteen schools in twelve years, Cruise, who dropped his father s name at age twelve, was also a victim of bullying at school.
Cruise started acting after being sidelined from his high school s wrestling team due to a knee injury. While injured, he successfully auditioned rental car atlanta hartsfield airport 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. His cousin William Mapother is also an actor most known for playing Ethan Rom on Lost.
Cruise s first movie role came in 1981 (31 years ago), when he had a small role in Endless Love, a drama/romance movie starring Brooke Shields. Later that same year he had a more substantial role in the movie Taps, appearing alongside George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn. The movie about military cadets was moderately successful. In 1983 (29 years ago), he was one of many teenaged stars to appear in Francis Ford Coppola rental car atlanta hartsfield airport s The Outsiders. The cast for this movie included Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, and Ralph Macchio, two of which were part of the Brat Pack. That same year Cruise appeared in the teen comedy Losin It. Cruise s breakthrough came after Risky Business was released, which helped to propel Cruise rental car atlanta hartsfield airport to stardom. One sequence in the film, featuring Cruise lip-syncing Bob Seger s Old Time Rock and Roll in his underwear, has become an iconic moment in 1980 (32 years ago) film. The movie has been described as A Generation-X classic, and a career-maker for Tom Cruise. A fourth movie that was released in 1983 (29 years ago) was the high-school football drama, All the Right Moves. Cruise s next movie was the 1985 (27 years ago) fantasy movie Legend directed by Ridley Scott.
Cruise rental car atlanta hartsfield airport was then selected as the first choice by producers Jerry Bruckheimer rental car atlanta hartsfield airport and Don Simpson for an upcoming American fighter pilot film. Cruise at first apparently turned down the project, but helped to alter the script he was given and developed the film. After being taken for a flight with the Blue Angels, Cruise changed his mind and signed on with the project. The project was titled rental car atlanta hartsfield airport Top Gun and opened in May 1986 (26 years ago), becoming the highest grossing movie of the year, taking in US$354 million in worldwide figures. rental car atlanta hartsfield airport Also in 1986 (26 years ago), he starred in Martin Scorsese s The Color of Money along with Paul Newman, which earned Newman a Best Actor Academy Award. In 1988 (24 years ago), he starred in the lighthearted drama Cocktail, which received mixed reviews and Cruise received his first nomination for a Razzie award in 1989 (23 years ago). Later that year, Rain Man was released, rental car atlanta hartsfield airport which also starred Dustin Hoffman and was directed rental car atlanta hartsfield airport by Barry Levinson. The movie was praised by critics and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, and won four, including Best picture (wallpaper) and Best Actor (for Hoffman).
Cruise was welcomed with similar success the following year when he received Academy Award nominations for Oliver Stone s Born on the Fourth of July, which was based on the best selling autobiography of parapalegic veteran and anti-war rental car atlanta hartsfield airport activist Ron Kovic. rental car atlanta hartsfield airport In 1990 (22 years ago), Cruise starred as hot-shot racecar driver Cole Trickle in Tony Scott s Days of Thunder. Cruise s next movie was Ron Howard s Far and Away where he again was starring with Nicole Kidman. After Days of Thunder he starred in the military thriller rental car atlanta hartsfield airport A Few Good Men with Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore. This movie was very well received and earned Cruise a Golden Globe and MTV nominations. The following year he starred in Sydney Pollack s The Firm along with Gene Hackman and Ed Harris. It was based on the best selling novel by John Grisham, and won Favorite Dramatic Motion picture (wallpaper) at the People s Choice rental car atlanta hartsfield airport Awards.
In 1994 (18 years ago), Cruise starred along with Brad pitt (17 walls), Antonio Banderas and Christian Slater in Neil Jordan s Interview with the Vampire, a gothic drama/horror movie that was based on Anne Rice s best-selling novel. rental car atlanta hartsfield airport The movie was well received, although Rice was outspoken in her criticism of Cruise having been cast in the film, as River Phoenix was her first choice. rental car atlanta hartsfield airport In 1996 (16 years ago), Cruise starred in (as well as produced) Brian de Palma sMission: Impossible. The film, a remake of the 1960 (52 years ago) TV series, grossed US$456 million worldwide, making it the third highest grossing movie that year. That same year he played the title role in the comedy-drama Jerry Maguire. The movie earned rental car atlanta hartsfield airport him an Academy Award Best Actor nomination as well as winning co-star Cuba Gooding, Jr. an Academy Award; the movie was nominated for five Academy Awards in total. The movie also included the catchphrase Show Me the Money! which became part of popular culture. In 1999 (13 years ago) he starred in the erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut which took two years to complete and was director Stanley Kubrick s last film. It was also the last movie in which he starred alongside then spouse Nicole Kidman. But the film, which had a straightforward description of sex and a recondit