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Tom Cruise Biography
Name : Tom Cruise
Birth Name : Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
Date of Birth : July, 3, 1962
Place of Birth : Syracuse, New York, USA
Height : 5'9''
Weight : 170 lbs.
Sign : Cancer
Wife : Nicole Kidman(Divorced),Mimi Rogers (Divorced)
Education : Education
Occupation : Actor, Director, Producer
Father : Thomas Cruise Mapother III (electrical engineer; deceased)
Mother : Mary Lee Mapother
Siblins : Lee Anne Mapother (publicist), Marian Mapother (teacher), Cass Mapother (restaurateur)
Fan Mail : Tom Cruise
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Tom Cruise Detailed Biography
Tom Cruise is one of the most influential and powerful men in Hollywood, however, it wasn't always that way. He has had to fight his way to the top of tinseltown's A-list. Even now he constantly has to prove himself to nay-sayers who question his competence and talent.Cruise seemed to have had to struggle throughout his life. He was born into poor family that frequently moved while his father searched for work. He found it difficult to make friends because of the relocating and his troubles were only compounded by the fact that he had a form of dyslexia. He may have not been an academic success, but he was determined.. While he was still young his father left the family and Tom was thwarted with new responsibilities which he took very seriously.He developed his physique and competed in many sports. However, after suffering a knee injury that snuffed out any athletic possibilities, Cruise spent a year in a Franciscan monastery and considered becoming a priest. But after appearing in a few high school plays, he realized where his true calling lay.
He set aside a maximum limit of ten years to build an acting career and headed off to New York to begin his quest. Impoverished and barely scraping by, he started his assent towards super stardom.Much of the early 1980's were spent on forgettable teen flicks that did little to enhance his career. However, with keen business sense he managed to reinvent himself in Hollywood. By the mid 80's he was starring in some of the top grossing films including ''Top Gun,'' ''The Color of Money,'' ''Rain Man,'' and ''The Fourth of July''(receiving an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award)He was one of the highest paid actors in the world by 1990. Cruise was reportedly paid $15 million a picture in such blockbuster hits as ''Interview with the Vampire,'' ''Mission: Impossible,'' and ''Jerry Maguire'' (for which he received another Oscar nomination).
This years release of ''Magnolia'' garnered Cruise with a Golden Globe Award and an yet another Academy Award nomination. He was originally supposed to have a cameo role in the flick but it ballooned into 45 minutes of the 3 hour movie. Cruise was so eager to join the cast of ''Magnolia'' that he took a pay cut to be part of the budgeted $30 million movie.
Cruise is kind and thoughtful man who is well known for his generosity and compassion. He is one of the best liked members of the movie community. Tom has been happily married to actress Nicole Kidman since December of 1990 and the couple share 2 adopted children.
Relationships
Mimi Rogers
Cruise was married to Mimi Rogers (married on May 9, 1987, divorced February 4, 1990)[28]. Orchestrating this divorce was important to Scientology because Rogers was disaffected from Scientology (although she introduced Cruise to the religion in the first place [29]; in managing the divorce for Cruise, they were able to convince her to accept a relatively paltry $10 million for the settlement. [30]
Nicole Kidman
He later married Nicole Kidman (married on December 24, 1990, divorced August 8, 2001)[31]. He and Nicole Kidman adopted two children, Isabella (born 1993) and Connor (born 1995).[32] Cruise left Kidman three months pregnant, just shy of their 10 year wedding anniversary; she lost the child.[33]
Penélope Cruz
Cruise was next romantically linked with Penélope Cruz, the lead actress in his film Vanilla Sky. In March 2004, he announced that his relationship with Penélope Cruz had ended in January. Once again it was suggested that Scientology played a role in the relationship failing. [34]
Katie Holmes
In April 2005, Cruise began dating Katie Holmes, before announcing on 17 June 2005 that he had proposed to her at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. [35] She accepted his proposal, and the couple are expected to be married in the summer or fall of 2006. Many say Cruise is going through his midlife crisis and that the relationship won't last, but all it doesn't seem likely the way Cruise is acting. Perhaps his most notable expression of his love for Holmes was the "couch incident" which took place on the popular talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show. Cruise and Holmes are also expecting a baby in 2006, which was rumoured to be the reason of Cruise's early proposal. [36].
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Tom Cruise debates psychiatry on Today show
Tom Cruise jumps ecstatically on Oprah's couchOn May 23, 2005, Cruise raised some eyebrows with an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show in which he — in the words of The New York Times — "jumped around the set, hopped onto a couch, fell rapturously to one knee and repeatedly professed his love for his new girlfriend." [n.b. This scene was parodied in Scary Movie 4.] Cruise's public image came under further scrutiny after a number of subsequent television interviews in which he was described as acting in an odd manner and espousing a number of controversial views. In his famous Matt Lauer interview, Cruise appeared tired and hostile when discussing psychiatry, which the Church of Scientology considers to be a harmful "pseudoscience". [37] He accused Lauer of being "glib" and insisted that there is "no such thing as a chemical imbalance", and that through "vitamins and exercise" a person's psychiatric problems can be cured. Noting that Katie Holmes was embracing Scientology, Lauer then asked Cruise if he could be with someone who wasn't a Scientologist. He replied: "It's something you don't understand. You can be a Christian and be a Scientologist. It is a religion in that it deals with the spirit, you as a spiritual being."
This short, yet very public love affair took a dramatic turn when Cruise and Holmes got engaged in Paris [39] while on a world publicity tour for their two most recent movies (War of the Worlds for Cruise, and Batman Begins for Holmes). War of the Worlds director Steven Spielberg indicated that he was frustrated by media coverage of Cruise's relationship during promotion of the film, though he believed it to be genuine. [40] On October 5, 2005, it was reported by People magazine that Holmes is pregnant. Cruise came under fire from various medical professionals after he bought a sonogram machine to monitor his baby. The medical ACR claim that overuse or misuse of the medical equipment is unnecessary and could be harmful to the baby's health, and that it may be illegal to own. [41] The birth would be Holmes' first child, and Cruise's third; Cruise has two adopted children: Connor Antony (born January 17, 1995) and Isabella Jane (born December 22, 1992) from his marriage to Nicole Kidman.
Cruise's behavior in recent interviews and his very public romance with Katie Holmes led him to become the butt of numerous jokes on late night television shows such as Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The jokes commonly referred to Cruise being insane or parody the Lauer interview.
Speculation has been rampant in the press that the very public affair and engagement were merely designed to promote their then upcoming movies, War of the Worlds and Batman Begins. A poll in People found that 62 per cent of readers believed the Cruise-Holmes affair was merely a publicity stunt.
Concern has also been voiced about Holmes and her relationship to Scientology. Roger Friedman of the Fox News Channel claimed that Katie Holmes disappeared for sixteen days in April when even her own family did not know where she was.
Allegedly, the last time she had been seen, Holmes had flown to meet with Tom Cruise for a possible role in Mission Impossible 3. When she re-appeared, Holmes stated she was in love with Tom Cruise and studying Scientology. The actress then fired her long-time manager and agent and acquired a new "best friend", Jessica Rodriguez, a prominent member of the Church of Scientology described as part of its "royalty". Rodriguez has been referred to as Holmes' Scientology "minder" as she follows the actress everywhere (literally, including the bathroom) and openly tells Holmes what to say during interviews [46]. The reports have led to claims Holmes has been coerced or brainwashed into marrying Cruise and promoting Scientology. Fans of the actress have established a web-site, Free Katie, promoting this theory, the site claiming to be "devoted to rescuing sweet Katie from the clutches of the mad scientologist Tom Cruise!"
Worldwide film grosses
These figures do not account for inflation.
War of the Worlds $587,170,495
Mission Impossible II $545,547,560
Mission Impossible $467,000,000
The Last Samurai $456,710,575
Rain Man $412,800,000
Top Gun $344,700,000
Minority Report $342,000,000
Jerry Maguire $274,000,000
The Firm $262,292,525
A Few Good Men $236,500,000
Interview with the Vampire $221,300,000
Collateral $216,770,152
Vanilla Sky $202,726,605
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