TOM CRUISE

Tom Cruise is an actor and film producer American born July 3, 1962 in Syracuse (New York). He became famous for his role in the movie Top Gun. Since then, he has starred in many successful films such as Rain Man, Born on July 4, Interview with the vampire saga and Mission Impossible. Tom Cruise has received three Academy Award nominations, seven Golden Globe nominations, he won three times.

According to the website IMDb, Tom Cruise would have earned $ 80 million for each episode of the series Mission Impossible. Thus, for these films, he would have won in all and for close to $ 300,000,000. According to Forbes magazine, Tom Cruise is the highest paid actor in Hollywood with 75 million $ 1

Tom Cruise was born on July 3, 1962 Syracuse (New York), son of Mary Lee Pfeiffer, professor of education suited whose ancestors are of German origin, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer. It is ascendanceirlandaise: his great-grandfather Thomas O'Hara took the surname of his stepfather, and became Thomas Cruise Mapother, first name. He has three sisters Cass, Marian and Anne Lee (order of youngest to oldest). Child, he has a passion for sport and practice a lot: basketball, football, hockey, baseball, etc.. Tom Cruise Mapother deWilliam cousin is mainly known for playing the role of Ethan Rom in Lost. However, he also participated in numerous films in which his cousin played with Born on the 4th of July, Magnolia, Mission: Impossible 2, Vanilla Sky, Minority Report. Tom Cruise spent part of his childhood in the city of Ottawa (Canada) where he regularly attends the Museum of Nature. Varieties of minerals fascinate. After a trip to Vesuvius, he wants to become a biologist. The future holds against by a different fate.

Career [edit]

The Cruise Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

At fifteen, Tom Cruise is not destined to become an actor, after a year in a Franciscan monastery, he was ready to take orders. In high school, he discovers an actor performing in shows such as Godspell and White Guys and Dolls. Forced to abandon the fight, following a major injury forcing him to choose a less physical activity, he arrived in New York in 1980 at the age of eighteen years and obtained his first appearance in an infinite love Franco Zeffirelli (1981), and beginning his film career. He continued that year playing the role of a young soldier in Taps Harold Becker.

The next three years are critical. Coppola first drowning in the middle of a generation of young players with a promising future in Outsiders, then it appears in three other films, including Risky Business. In 1985, the Ridley Scott dépayse by sending in fantasy with Legend, but ultimately it is the brother of Ridley, Tony, Tom Cruise accesses recognition in Top Gun.

He tries to auteur cinema that will get him out of his emotional crisis [Who?]. Spiritual son of Paul Newman as the pool in The Color of Money, brother and responsible moving in Rain Man, paralyzed Vietnam veteran in Born on the 4th of July, exceeded lawyer in The Firm, the actor follows 1 m 70 an eclectic and applies to all types of public, even expanding its register in 1994 with Interview with the Vampire, where he plays a vampire.

In 1992, he teamed up with his agent Paula Wagner and takes the cap of producer support in 1996 Mission impossible. He then formed a couple in crisis romantically involved with Nicole Kidman in Stanley Kubrick's latest film, Eyes Wide Shut. In 2002 released the result of his collaboration with Steven Spielberg in the science fiction film Minority Report. After the success of The Last Samurai in 2004, seen in the role of villain in the thriller Michael Mann: Collateral (August 2004). In the summer of 2005, comes on the screen the second collaborative effort Cruise / Spielberg, War of the Worlds - which saves 87 million dollars2 - before we discover 3in Mission Impossible 2006.

On 22 August 2006, U.S. studio Paramount Pictures terminates the contract of Tom Cruise, after fourteen years of collaboration, for "unacceptable behavior" and "creative suicide" 2. However, in 2010, he appeared in the film Night and Day alongside Cameron Diaz, in which he plays the role of a former secret agent accused of betraying the CIA and now hunted relentlessly.

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Married life [edit]

Nicole Kidman, who was his wife for 11 years

Tom Cruise married Mimi Rogers, who introduced into the Church of Scientology, May 9, 1987 to February 4, 1990 divorce.

In 1989, he met Nicole Kidman on the set of Days of Thunder. It recommends the actress for the film Distant Horizons directed by Ron Howard, where he plays the lead role. After his divorce, he lived with Nicole Kidman, whom he married Dec. 24, 1990.

Their relationship becomes one of the most prominent Hollywood. They adopted two children, Isabella (born 1992) and Connor (born 1995). Separation occurs, however, after ten years, released in February 2001. The divorce was August 8, 2001.

The cause is mainly a miscarriage actress and incompatibility of religion. She wanted to see their children raised in the Catholic tradition, while he wanted to follow the precepts of the Church of Scientology which he is a member and strong supporter.

Tom Cruise in 1989

He then meets Penelope Cruz on the set of Vanilla Sky. They appear publicly a week after the formalization of his divorce with Nicole Kidman. In 2004, it announced the end of their relationship.

   

From 2006 to 2012, lives with Tom Cruise Katie Holmes. They make their relationship public in 2005. The audience holds especially the passage of the actor on the set of the television show Oprah's where Tom Cruise excited, talking about his love for Holmes, waddling, kneeling, shaking hands and Winfrey jumping on the couch arms in the air, all under the laughter from the audience. However, this benefit was seen as a sign of an unbalanced state of the actor. Takes place in a parody Scary Movie 4. This gave rise to a new term in the Anglo-American jargon: jumping the couch (which can be translated as "jumping the couch"), designating a star who "loses it."

In April 2006, Katie Holmes gives birth to a baby girl named Suri.

Saturday, November 18, 2006, he married Katie Holmes in Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano, 30 kilometers north of Rome (Italy) according to the rite of the Church of Scientology. This is the third marriage of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes for the first. The world press think the couple is a "coup" media