Tom Cruise ( New York State , July 3 , 1962 ) is an American film actor and producer. He has earned three Oscar nominations for best actor: in 1990 for Born on July 4 , in 1997 for Jerry Maguire and in 2000 for Magnolia .
Biographical synthesis
He was baptized with the name of Thomas Cruise Mapother the Fourth (IV). His father, Thomas Cruise Mapother the Third (III), was an Electronic Engineer, and his mother, Mary Lee, was a teacher, salesperson, and homemaker.
After several stays in different cities due to the father’s work chores, Tom and his three sisters finally settled in Ottawa , Canada .
In 1974 , his parents separated, when he was only 11 years old. After crossing the Canadian border, Mary settled with her children in Kentucky . Since then, Tom has assumed the reins of the family, taking care of the education of his sisters among other things.
Due to the constant change of schools, Tom suffered from academic adjustment, suffered from dyslexia and had difficulties with reading and writing. He managed to finish his primary studies, but because of his illness he had to abandon secondary studies.
Since he was little, he excelled in sports, mainly baseball . After leaving school, he decided to pursue professional wrestling , but a knee injury, after long training sessions in the gym, made him abandon this idea.
After these failures, Tom entered the Franciscan Monastery , with the aim of becoming a priest. They were fourteen months of meditation, where he woke up and gave birth to his artistic streak for acting. This pastoral career would come to an end when he decided to leave the Monastery, and give himself a period of ten years to finish his acting career.
the beginning
He began his acting studies in New Jersey . He went to various casting and was working as a waiter and ice cream boy. Then he decided to travel to California , where he landed his first role in the film directed by Franco Zefirelli, Eternal Love . After this role, he returned to New Jersey, to the surprise of being chosen to act in the film Taps , which made him known for his secondary intervention.
Career
In 1981 , she landed her first starring role in Risky Bussines by Paul Brickman , opposite Rebecca de Mornay . In this film, he caused the Mecca of Hollywood to notice him and that he became the idol of young adolescents.
In 1983 , among his filmography, works such as All the right moves , Loosin it and Los Marginados , by Francis Ford Coppola would follow . In 1985 he shot with the director Ridley Scott the children’s film Leyenda , showing himself with long hair.
His consecration as a star came after interpreting Top Gun in 1986 , along with Kelly McGillis . Then came great and consecutive films such as: The Color of Money by Martin Scorsese , supporting Paul Newman ; Cocktail in 1988 , with Elizabeth Shue ; and Rain Man , opposite Dustin Hoffman and directed by Barry Levinson , being one of his best roles.
In 1989 he filmed Born on July 4 , directed by Oliver Stone . With this film he won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar for best actor, due to the role he played as Ron Kovic. The statuette would go to Daniel Day-Lewis , who won the award for his performance in the film My Left Foot .
In 1990 he achieved critical acclaim with Days of Thunder , the film where he debuted as a screenwriter alongside Robert Towne .
In 1992 , he played a military lawyer in A Matter of Honor , directed by Rob Reiner alongside Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore .
A new interpretation as a lawyer would be his next film, La tapadera , in 1993 . That same year, he made his directorial debut in a television episode Fallen Angels .
Then came the film Interview with the Vampire , along with Brad Pitt and Antonio Banderas . In this adaptation of Anna Rice’s book, she played the role of Lestat de Lioncourt. The movie was directed by Neil Jordan .
His next film was Mission Impossible, produced and starred by him.
In 1996 the movie Jerry Maguire was released , with Tom winning the Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar .
A new interpretation with his wife Nicole, would arrive in 1998 with Eyes Wide Shut , by the hand of director Stanley Kubrick , whose shooting suffered multiple incidents. It was rumored that the couple’s relationship was affected by this film and that this led to a well-known marital crisis and subsequent divorce in 2001.
In 2003 , The Last Samurai was released , in 2005 War of the Worlds , a version of the literary classic by HG Wells directed by Steven Spielberg , or the second and third installments of Mission Impossible , a film in which he again played the spy Ethan Hunt. Together with Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, he appeared in Lions for Lambs ( 2007 ), a film focused on various considerations surrounding the conflict in Afghanistan .
In Valkyrie ( 2008 ) he played Major Claus Von Stauffenberg, a German military man who attacked Hitler . In Night and Day ( 2010 ) he played a spy alongside Cameron Diaz .
Personal life
In 1987 he married actress Mimi Rogers , whom he divorced in 1990 . In that same year he met Nicole Kidman while filming the movie Days of Thunder, after seeing her in Total Calm, he personally asked to hire the actress as his partner in the history of race car competition. On 24 December as as 1990 they were married in Telluride , Colorado . The ceremony was held following the rites of the Scientologist Church, to which Tom Cruise belongs. A year later, in 1991 , they would shoot their first movie together, Far and Away .
In 1993 they adopted a girl, whom they named Isabella Jane. He was away from his profession for a year, dedicating himself entirely to raising the baby. In 1995 they adopted their second child, whom they christened Connor Anthony Cruise.
The couple divorced at the beginning of 2001 , they even attended the wedding of Thalía and Tommy Mottola in December 2000, this separation plunged him into a very hard stage in his personal life, which is strongly reflected in the performance in the film Vanilla Sky. It is known that Cruise made unsuccessful attempts to reestablish the relationship with Kidman and then Tom had an affair with the Spanish actress Penelope Cruz , with whom he starred in the movie Vanilla Sky . This film is a version of a Spanish title called: Abre los Ojos , directed by Alejandro Amenábar .
He met Katie Holmes, his current wife, while searching for a co-star for his film Mission Impossible III, although she ultimately did not act in the film. His first public appearance was on April 29, 2005, in Rome, at the David di Donatello Awards, the Italian equivalent of the Oscars. Within a few months they got engaged. Cruise fell madly in love with the actress and starred in the Oprah Winfrey show in a reaction by getting on a couch and proclaiming love for the actress. Cruise proposed to Holmes on the morning of July 17, 2005, at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris; she accepted. [6] At the press conference, attended by Holmes’s mother, Cruise announced the news, stating, “Today is a magnificent day for me. I am engaged to a magnificent woman.”The couple announced that Holmes was pregnant.
The 18 of April of 2006 was fathered her first biological daughter -Suri- with actress Katie Holmes , with whom he married on 18 of November of 2006 , generating great excitement in Italy , chosen for the ceremony place was held for the rite of the Church of Scientology, in the Odescalchi castle in Bracciano, 35 kilometers from Rome.
In June 2012 Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Cruise alleging irreconcilable differences and custody of Suri. According to the media TMZ, the main reason that led the actress to take the step was the excessive obsession that her husband showed for Scientology. The famous actor wanted Suri to join the “Sea Organization.” A branch of Scientology in which children are sent, without their parents, to immerse themselves in belief with military-like discipline. They live together and are not allowed to marry anyone who does not belong to the “Sea Org”, although they are not allowed to have children so if any woman becomes pregnant she is forced to abort. They also do not believe in medicine, the members do not have health insurance, they receive the treatments that the organization deems appropriate. It’s not easy to get out of thereincludes a three-year process of pressure, isolation, etc.
Filmography
- Endless love ( 1981 ).
- Taps, beyond honor ) (1981).
- Go lose it and lose yourself ( 1983 ).
- Rebels ( 1983 ).
- Risky business (1983).
- All the right moves (1983).
- Legend ( 1985 ).
- Top gun ( Idols of the air ) ( 1986 ).
- The color of money (1986).
- Rain man ( 1987 ).
- Cocktail ( 1988 ).
- Born on the Fourth of July ( 1989 ).
- Days of Thunder ( 1990 ).
- Far and away ( A very distant horizon ) ( 1992 ).
- Some Good Men (1992).
- The cover ( 1993 ).
- Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles ( Interview with the Vampire ) ( 1994 ).
- Mission impossible ( 1995 ).
- Jerry Maguire ( 1996 ).
- Eyes wide shut ( 1999 ).
- Magnolia ( 1999 ).
- Mission Impossible II ( 2000 ).
- Vanilla sky ( 2002 ).
- Minority report (2002).
- The Last Samurai ( 2003 ) with Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly.
- Collateral ( 2004 ).
- War of the Worlds ( 2005 )
- Mission impossible III ( 2006 ).
- Lions for Lambs ( 2007 )
- Tropic thunder ( 2008 ).
- Valkyrie (2008).
- Knight and Day ( Night and Day ) ( 2010 ).
- Mission Impossible IV ( 2011 )
- The Age of Rock (2012)
- Jack Reacher (2012) (Producer)
- Oblivion (2013)
- Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
- Mission Impossible: Secret Nation (2015) (Producer)
- Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) (Producer)
- The Mummy (2017)
- American Made (2017)
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) (Producer)
- Top Gun: Maverick (2020)
In production phase
- Rock of ages ( 2012 )
- The matarese circle ( 2013 )
- Top gun 2 (2013).
- Hardy men (2013).