Year	Title
1981	Endless Love
1981	Taps
1983	The Outsiders
1983	Risky Business
1983	All the Right Moves
1985	Legend
1986	Top Gun
1986	The Color of Money
1988	Cocktail
1988	Rain Man
1989	Born on the Fourth of July
1990	Days of Thunder
1992	Far and Away
1992	A Few Good Men
1993	The Firm
1994	Interview with the Vampire
1996	Mission: Impossible
1996	Jerry Maguire
1999	Eyes Wide Shut
1999	Magnolia
2000	Mission: Impossible II
2001	Vanilla Sky
2002	Minority Report
2003	The Last Samurai
2004	Collateral
2005	War of the Worlds
2006	Mission: Impossible III
2007	Lions for Lambs
2008	Valkyrie
2008	Tropic Thunder
2010	Knight and Day
2011	Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
2012	Rock of Ages
2012	Jack Reacher
2013	Oblivion
2014	Edge of Tomorrow
2015	Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
2016	Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) (filming)
2017	Mena (2017) (post-production)
2017	The Mummy (2017) (post-production)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Channel
1997	True Women	Georgia Lawshe Woods	CBS
1997	George Wallace	Cornelia Wallace	TNT
1998	Gia	Gia	HBO
2010	Kung Fu Panda Holiday	Master Tigress(voice)	NBC
2015	Descendants: Wicked World	Maleficent (voice)	Disney Channel

Music Video Appearances

 

Year	Title	Performer	Album
1991	"Stand by My Woman"	Lenny Kravitz	Mama Said
1993	"It's About Time"	The Lemonheads	Come on Feel the Lemonheads
1993	"Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through"	Meat Loaf	Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell
1997	"Anybody Seen My Baby?"	The Rolling Stones	Bridges to Babylon
2003	"Did My Time"	Korn	Take a Look in the Mirror

 

Tom is the only son of Mary Lee and Thomas Cruise Mapother III who have four children. His mother is special education teacher and father is an electrical engineer. Both parents are originally from Louisville, Kentucky. He has Irish, German, and English ancestry. Tom's parents separated when he was 11 years old. He and his three sisters Marian, Lee Anne De Vette and Cass transferred to Glen Ridge of New Jersey with their mother after her remarriage. Educational achievement was not easy for him as he suffered from dyslexia which is a disability to read or understand things in a technique that other normal people are able to do. Tom Cruise was regularly bullied in the schools and for this reason he changed 15 different schools in America and Canada throughout the period of 12 years. He was excellent in athletics and considered build up a career in professional wrestling. But a knee injury distracts him from his goal. He graduated from Glen Ridge High School in New Jersey in 1980.

Early Life

He studied in Packanack School in Wayne, New Jersey. He brought up in an abusive family and had considered to become a pastor before becoming fascinated in performing arts. He also attended in a seminary to become a priest but dropped out after one year at the age of fourteen. A teacher motivated him to take part in the school's musical production Guys and Dolls at the age of sixteen. After Tom played the lead of Nathan Detroit, he established himself unexpectedly at home on the stage.

Spouse

Katie Holmes (18 November 2006 - 20 August 2012) (divorced) (1 child)
Penélope Cruz (2001 – 2004) (Live-in)
Nicole Kidman (24 December 1990 - 8 August 2001) (divorced) (2 adopted children)
Mimi Rogers (9 May 1987 - 4 February 1990) (divorced)

 

Year	Award	Category	Work	Status
1990	Academy Award	Best Actor	Born on the Fourth of July	Nominated
1997		Best Actor	Jerry Maguire	Nominated
2000		Best Supporting Actor	Magnolia	Nominated
1984	Golden Globe Award	Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical	Risky Business	Nominated
1990		Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama	Born on the Fourth of July	Won
1993		Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama	A Few Good Men	Nominated
1997		Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical	Jerry Maguire	Won
2000		Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture	Magnolia	Won
2004		Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama	The Last Samurai	Nominated
2009		Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture	Tropic Thunder	Nominated
1997	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role	Jerry Maguire	Nominated
2000		Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role	Magnolia	Nominated
2000		Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Theatrical Motion Picture	Magnolia	Nominated

 

                                 

• Empire magazine chosen him 41 on the list of the "100 Sexiest Stars” in film history.
• Empire (UK) magazine ranked him 3 in the "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" 1997 list.
• People magazine chosen him as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.
• He was voted as Best Dressed Male Movie Star.
• People magazine chosen him as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1990.
• People magazine chosen him as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1991.
• People magazine chosen him as "Sexiest Man Alive".
• John Huston Award for Artists Rights received by him in 1998.
• Premiere magazine ranked him 14 in 2003 annual Power 100 List. The magazine ranked him 16 in 2002.
• Star TV ranked him 4 as Top 10 Box Office Stars of the 1990s.
• He is the first actor in record whose five consecutive movies grossed $100 million in the US: A Few Good Men in 1992, The Firm in 1993, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles in 1994, Mission: Impossible in 1996 and Jerry Maguire in 1996.
• Entertainment Weekly voted him the 31st Greatest Movie Star of all time.
• VH1 ranked him 18 in the list of 100 Hottest Hotties.
• Premiere magazine ranked him 14 in 2005 Power 50 list in which he was the top ranked actor.
• He was the Top in Forbes magazine's "100 Top Celebrities" list (2006)
• Premiere magazine ranked him 14 on 2006 "Power 50" list. The magazine ranked him14 in 2005 also.
• Forbes magazine ranked him 1 in "Celebrity 100 Who Made Bank” list.
• "Tom Cruise Day" was declared by The Japan Memorial Day Association in 2006.
• He supports Spanish soccer club Real Madrid for his friend David Beckham.
• "The Top 10 Box Office Moneymakers of 2007" listed him number 7.
• He is the only actor who worked with all of the top directors including Oliver Stone in Born on the Fourth of July, Martin Scorsese in The Color of Money, Stanley Kubrick in Eyes Wide Shut and Steven Spielberg in Minority Report.
• Hollywood Walk of Fame awarded him a Star in October 16, 1986.

 

Year & Work	Salary
Taps(1981)	$50,000
Risky Business(1983)	$75,000
Legend(1985)	$500,000
Top Gun(1986)	$2,000,000
The Color of Money(1986)	$1,000,000
Cocktail(1988)	$3,000,000
Rain Man(1988)	$3,000,000 +% of gross
Born on the Fourth of July(1989)	Unspecified % of gross
Days of Thunder(1990)	$9,000,000
Far and Away(1992)	$13,000,000
A Few Good Men(1992)	$12,500,000
The Firm(1993)	$12,000,000
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles(1994)	$15,000,000
Mission: Impossible(1996)	$70,000,000 (gross participation)
Jerry Maguire(1996)	$20,000,000 against 15%
Eyes Wide Shut(1999)	$20,000,000
Magnolia(1999)	$100,000
Mission: Impossible II(2000)	$75,000,000 (gross participation)
Vanilla Sky(2001)	$20,000,000 + 30% of Profits
Minority Report(2002)	$25,000,000 +
The Last Samurai(2003)	$25,000,000 + % of profits
War of the Worlds(2005)	(20% profit participation)
Mission: Impossible III(2006)	$75,000,000 (gross participation)
Valkyrie(2008)	$20,000,000 against 20%
Knight and Day(2010)	$11,000,000 + % of profits
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol(2011)	$12,500,000 + % of back end

 

1. "I love well-prepared lobster, pasta, and flounder…and strawberries.” (Cosmopolitan)
2. "When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.”
3. On ex-wife Nicole Kidman, "I’ve learned a lot about myself. I’ve learned that change isn’t always a bad thing that sometimes you have to confront things for everyone. And that you can get through things and still love that person and care about people even if you have disagreements. I feel that way about Nic.”
4. "I always look for a challenge and something that’s different.”
5. "I don’t pretend to be the character… I AM the character.”
6. "I’m going to work my ass off and do whatever it takes, blood, sweat, and tears…” (Vanity Fair)
7. On ex-wife Nicole Kidman, "What I had with Nic, we had some extraordinary moments together and times that I will cherish and I’ll never forget. We’re people too and things happen. But when that time comes again that I’m going to get married, I’ll do that.”
8. "When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you’re either going to sink or you’re going to swim.”
9. On hosting The Nobel Peace Prize Concert, "One of the things that we believe in is peace, freedom. ‘I’m just proud to be here, and very proud to be a Scientologist here and to be part of this.”
10. On getting awards, "Awards are wonderful. I’ve been nominated many times and I’ve won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn’t, it’s still been a blast.”
11. On practicing Scientology, "I believe in life. I know that life comes in at your heart and it doesn’t matter if you’re an actor, a filmmaker or a gentleman on the street, it comes at you. What Scientology gives me is the tools to deal with that, to better enjoy my life and to be able to contribute more.”
12. "I believe in God. … There is no way you can be up here [in the Rocky Mountains] and think that there isn't a God.” - Interview (May 29, 2008)