Tom Cruise, American actor and producer, born 3 July 1962 in New York, United States.
Biography and life story of celebrity in English.
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Name in English: Tom Cruise
Full real name: Thomas Cruise Mapothere IV
Nationality: United States
Language: English
Religion: Scientology
Date of birth: 3 July 1962
Place of birth: Syracuse, New York, United States
Age: 60 years (in 2022)
Astrological Sign: Cancer
Profession: Actor
Genre: Hollywood Movies
Years of activity: 1981 – present
Social status: Divorced
Ex-wife: Mimi Rogers (1987-1990), Nicole Kidman (1990-2001), Kitty Holmes (2006-2012)
Sons: 3
Biography, Life story
Tom Cruise was born on 3 July 1962 in Syracuse, a suburb of New York State in the United States, to a father working as an electrical engineer and mother of a special education teacher. His family life was unstable because of his father’s constant mobility between the states of America and Canada to seek employment, where he moved about 13 times he entered more than 15 schools, and at age 7 his family discovered that he was dyslexic, which affected his educational attainment significantly. The family settled only when his parents divorced and Cruz became responsible for the family of three sisters and a mother who remained in Kentucky after his mother’s marriage moved to New Jersey. He attended a Catholic boarding school to learn religious sciences after his mother’s marriage, but his first dream was to be a professional wrestler. In his lifetime, he went through a lot of contradictions. During his studies, he enrolled in school theatre teams. He became one of the school-level theatre stars and gained great fame among his classmates. He discovered that he had an enormous desire to act and continue this success. After graduating from high school in 1980, he decided to go to New York in search of the spotlight.
Tom Cruise began frequenting artists’ agents and attending acting tests advertised in newspapers All his efforts were unsuccessful and he spent all his money and became homeless, staying with a friend briefly in the hope that he would get a chance, One of the contradictions he faced was that he was rejected in television roles because his level of beauty was below the limit required, knowing that one magazine later selected him for the most beautiful and handsome men’s title, and eventually he got a minor role in a film (Endless Love) in front of star Brooke Shields in 1981, where he spent the last dollar he had in order to persuade the Combars broker to convince the director to accept him to this role and succeed in doing so. s home in New Jersey because he had no money to feed himself, and only $12 was paid for the taxi ticket he returned to the home. Several months after the tragedy, a producer offered him a minor role in the film Taps, where another actor apologized before filming, giving him the first opportunity to start his career, after which he participated in several small films in which he was unable to achieve the desired success. In 1983, the Cruise star shone when he was shown his first absolute title in the comedy film Riske Business, which was a breakthrough hit and became a young star, especially among young people and girls.
In 1986 Tom Cruise was able to fulfil his life’s dream when he starred in a film (Top Gun) After this film became the talk of teenagers in the United States and took his seat on the list of first stars at the American box office, and to preserve this success rejected a lot of the roles offered to him, he chose some roles in movies where the other side had a veteran artist to increase his strength and her start was with the star Paul Newman in the film (The Color of Money), directed by Martin Scorsese, two years later star Dustin Hoffman starred in the film (Rain Man), the same year he returned to young roles in a movie (Cocktail), then worked under director Oliver Stone in the film (born July 4th). In 1994 he presented his strangest ever film experience when he agreed to play a role (Vampire) In the film (Interview with the Vampire) and surprisingly, co-stars Brad Pitt and Antonio Banderas, all three of whom presented the role of vampire. After this film, Cruz was violently attacked by Ann Rice, author of the film story, because of her objection to the role, she modified the attack and apologized. In 1996, Cruz entered a new world in Hollywood when he produced and represented the film Mission Impossible, where he achieved a lot of success and fictional profits, and other parts of it were produced. His role in Jerry Maguire with Renee Zellweger and Cuba Gooding Jr. also had a major impact on his film life and the audience’s perception of him changed thanks to diversification in film roles and his lack of reliance on a single character (action hero).
He also took a small adventure when he insisted on signing up for Magnolia as a simple role in which he was paid less than $1 million while he was paid more than 20 million for his roles in other films. In 2001 he starred in the film “The Sky of Flannel”, co-starring Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz, and in 2002 he starred in the sci-fi film “Minority Report” adapted from a short story by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, directed by Steven Spielberg, in 2003 starred in the film Historical Drama (The Last Samurai). He worked with director Steven Spielberg back in 2005 in the film “War of the Worlds”, which was a spectacular success at the global box office and generated high revenues. In 2007, he co-starred in the political film Lions for Lambs, along with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, who also directed the film, and was not commercially successful. In 2008, Cruz co-starred in the comedy “Tropical Thunder” with Stiller and Jack Black. In 2010 he finished filming the action film (knight and day) with star Cameron Diaz. In 2012, he appeared in the film Rock of Ages, where he embodied the role of a rock singer named Stasi Jax, and played a difficult detective in the 2012 film Jack Richer, the science fiction film Oblivion, and in 2014 the film Edge Of Tomorrow with actress Emily Blint.
Tom Cruise married actress Mimi Rogers in 1987, and they separated after three months of marriage, and in 1990, while filming Days of Thunder, Cruise fell in love with star Nicole Kidman, who was co-starring in the same film, where they decided to associate with the same year and lasted more than 10 years, adopting two children: Isabella (December 22, 1992) and Connor (January 17, 1995), and the couple appeared together in more than one romantic drama, but decided to suddenly break up without compelling reasons. In 2006 he married actress Kitty Holmes, and they had one daughter, Suri (April 18, 2006). They separated in 2012 because of unresolvable differences.
List of works – Filmography
Films
Endless Love, Taps (1981), The Outsiders, Losin’ It, All the Right Moves, Risky Business (1983), Legend (1985), Top Gun, The Color of Money (1986), Cocktail, Rain Man (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Days of Thunder (1990), Far and Away, A Few Good Men (1992), The Firm (1993), Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), Mission: Impossible, (1996), Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia (1999), Mission: Impossible II (2000), Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, Vanilla Sky (2001), Space Station 3D, Minority Report, Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Collateral (2004), War of the Worlds (2005), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Lions for Lambs (2007), Valkyrie, Tropic Thunder (2008), knight and day (2010), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), Rock of Ages, Jack Reacher (2012), Oblivion (2013), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015).
Production
In 1993 Tom Cruise and his partner Paula Wagner founded a film production company and the Mission Impossible was their first film.
In 2006 Cruz and Wagner owned the United Artists studio.
Awards and Honors
– Nominated for Oscars several times (1990, 1997, 2000).
– Nominated for the Golden Globes several times (1984, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2009).
– Won the Golden Globe in the 1990 Best Actor category for Born on the Fourth of July.
– Won the Golden Globe in the category of Best Comedian or reviewed in 1997 for Jerry Maguire.
– Won the Golden Globe in the category of best supporting actor in 2000 for Magnolia.