
Tom Cruise
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Biography
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer. Regarded as a Hollywood icon, he has received various accolades, including an Honorary Palme d'Or, three Golden Globe Awards, and nominations for four Academy Awards. His films have grossed over $12 billion worldwide, placing him among the highest-grossing actors ever. He is one of Hollywood's most bankable stars and consistently one of the world's highest-paid actors.
Cruise began acting in the early 1980s and made his breakthrough with leading roles in Risky Business (1983) and Top Gun (1986). Critical acclaim came with his roles in the dramas The Color of Money (1986), Rain Man (1988), and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). He won a Golden Globe Award for portraying Ron Kovic in the latter. He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. As a leading Hollywood star in the 1990s, he starred in commercially successful films, including the drama A Few Good Men (1992), the thriller The Firm (1993), the horror film Interview with the Vampire (1994), and the romance Jerry Maguire (1996). For the latter, he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Cruise's performance in the drama Magnolia (1999) earned him another Golden Globe Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Cruise subsequently became a science fiction and action film star, often performing his risky stunts. He has played fictional agent Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible film series since 1996. His other films in the genre include Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Collateral (2004), War of the Worlds (2005), Knight and Day (2010), Jack Reacher (2012), Oblivion (2013), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022).
Cruise holds the Guinness World Record for the most consecutive $100-million-grossing movies, a feat achieved from 2012 to 2018. In December 2024, he was awarded the US Navy's highest civilian honour, the Distinguished Public Service Award, for his "outstanding contributions" to the military with his screen roles. Forbes ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006. He was named People's Sexiest Man Alive in 1990 and received the top honour of "Most Beautiful People" in 1997. Outside his film career, Cruise has been an outspoken advocate for the Church of Scientology.
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Known For

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Graham Norton Show

The Daily Show

The Oscars

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The One Show

The Colbert Report

GMTV

Running Man

Honest Trailers

Top Gear

The Early Show

American Idol

The Jonathan Ross Show

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields

Celebrities Uncensored

The Jay Leno Show

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Young Guns

BRATS

Austin Powers in Goldmember

Religulous

Simone Biles Rising

Endless Love

Val

Tropic Thunder

The Outsiders

Time Out: The Truth About HIV, AIDS and You

Rock of Ages

Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around

Rain Man

Collateral

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

The Mummy

War of the Worlds

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

American Made

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Minority Report

Untitled Top Gun 3

Icons Unearthed: Tom Cruise

Vanilla Sky

Interview with the Vampire

Magnolia

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Mission: Impossible III

Risky Business

The Last Samurai

Legend

The Firm

Mission: Impossible

A Few Good Men

Born on the Fourth of July

Tom Cruise: Lights, Camera, Action

Edge of Tomorrow

Knight and Day

Tom Cruise: Hollywood’s Last Legend

Jerry Maguire

Eyes Wide Shut

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Top Gun: Maverick

On Your Six: Thirty Years of Top Gun

Far and Away

Oblivion

Valkyrie

Tom Cruise: The Last Movie Star

Jack Reacher

Top Gun

Cocktail

Mission: Impossible II

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Production Credits

Suspect Zero

Vanilla Sky

The Last Samurai

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Mission: Impossible III

Fallen Angels

Ask the Dust

Narc

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Elizabethtown

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

The Frightening Frammis

Mission: Impossible

The Others

Jack Reacher

Untitled Top Gun 3

Mission: Impossible II

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Top Gun: Maverick

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
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