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This article is about the American actor. For other people named Tom Cruise, see Tom Cruise (disambiguation).

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Tom Cruise
$\"Cruise$ Cruise at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (1962-07-03) July 3, 1962 (age 62) Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Occupations	Actor producer
Years active	1980\u2013Present
Works	Full list
Spouses	\n Mimi Rogers \n (m. 1987; div. 1990) \n Nicole Kidman \n (m. 1990; div. 2001) \n Katie Holmes \n (m. 2006; div. 2012)
Children	3
Relatives	William Mapother (cousin)
Awards	Full list
Website	tomcruise.com
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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer. Regarded as a Hollywood icon,^[1]^[2]^[3] he has received various accolades, including an Honorary Palme d'Or and three Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards. His films have grossed over $12 billion worldwide,^[4] placing him among the highest-grossing actors of all time.^[5] One of Hollywood's most bankable stars, he is consistently one of the world's highest-paid actors.^[6]\n

Cruise began acting in the early 1980s and made his breakthrough with leading roles in Risky Business (1983) and Top Gun (1986). Critical acclaim came with his roles in the dramas The Color of Money (1986), Rain Man (1988), and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). For his portrayal of Ron Kovic in the latter, he won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. As a leading Hollywood star in the 1990s, he starred in commercially successful films, including the drama A Few Good Men (1992), the thriller The Firm (1993), the horror film Interview with the Vampire (1994), and the romance Jerry Maguire (1996). For the latter, he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Cruise's performance in the drama Magnolia (1999) earned him another Golden Globe Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.\n

Cruise subsequently established himself as a star of science fiction and action films, often performing his own risky stunts. He has played fictional agent Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible film series since 1996. His other films in the genre include Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Collateral (2004), War of the Worlds (2005), Knight and Day (2010), Jack Reacher (2012), Oblivion (2013), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022).\n

Cruise holds the Guinness World Record for the most consecutive $100-million-grossing movies, a feat that was achieved during the period of 2012 to 2018.^[7] In December 2024, he was awarded the US Navy's highest civilian honor, the Distinguished Public Service Award, in recognition of his \"outstanding contributions\" to the military, with his screen roles.^[8] Forbes ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006.^[9] He was named People's Sexiest Man Alive in 1990,^[10] and received the top honor of \"Most Beautiful People\" in 1997.^[11] Outside his film career, Cruise has been an outspoken advocate for the Church of Scientology.\n

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\n Filmography \n Accolades \n
Producer	\n Mission: Impossible (1996) \n Without Limits (1998) \n Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) \n Vanilla Sky (2001) \n The Last Samurai (2003) \n Elizabethtown (2005) \n Ask the Dust (2006) \n Mission: Impossible III (2006) \n Mission: Impossible \u2013 Ghost Protocol (2011) \n Jack Reacher (2012) \n Mission: Impossible \u2013 Rogue Nation (2015) \n Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) \n Mission: Impossible \u2013 Fallout (2018) \n Top Gun: Maverick (2022) \n Mission: Impossible \u2013 Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) \n Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning (2025) \n
Writer	\n Days of Thunder (1990) \n
Related	\n Top Gun\n Pete \"Maverick\" Mitchell \n Mission: Impossible\n Ethan Hunt \n Jack Reacher\n Jack Reacher \n The Vampire Chronicles\n Lestat de Lioncourt \n Cruise/Wagner Productions \n Tom Cruise: Unauthorized (1998) \n Tom Cruise: All the World's a Stage (2006) \n \"Being Tom Cruise\" \n Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography (2008) \n Tom Cruise Purple \n
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Early life

Acting career

1980s: Breakthrough and stardom

1990s: Dramatic roles

2000s: Established career

2010s: Action star

2020s: Franchise films

Production

Break with Paramount

Management of United Artists

Return to Paramount

Move to Warner Bros. Discovery

Acting credits and accolades

Personal life

Marriages and relationships

Litigation

Scientology advocacy

Political lobbying

Controversies

Criticism of psychiatry

YouTube video removal

Purported influence

See also

References

Further reading

External links

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Media collections