Tom Cruise
- Profession: Actor
- Place/Date of Birth: New York, USA, 03 July 2020
- Associated with: Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman
"It would have been nice for them to stop and wave," she said.
Local Catholic priest Nicola Fiorentini was upset the wedding was conducted by a Scientology minister.
He reportedly rang the bells at Mass to disturb Tom and Katie’s 20-minute ceremony.
Cruise and Holmes head for Maldives - Nov 19 2006
Hollywood royalty Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have flown out of Rome for a honeymoon in the Maldives.
The couple were married in a torch-lit Italian castle. Oil-fed torches glowed from the battlements of the venue, the Odescalchi castle which towers over the town of Bracciano.
Tiny candles, placed in the 15th-century castle’s windows, flickered romantically as the couple and fellow stars gathered for the ceremony.
One of the guests was seven-month-old Suri, the couple’s daughter, who, dressed in white, arrived in her mother’s arms. Holmes wore a black dress and boots before she changed into a Giorgio Armani gown for the wedding.
Cruise arrived from Rome, where the family had been staying in a luxury hotel near the Spanish Steps, in a mini bus and, sporting dark shades, waved to fans. When the groom drove up, Holmes, anxiously gesturing with a hand, watched from a castle window.
Other VIPs arriving in limousines or mini buses through the castle gates included Brooke Shields, Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez and Jim Carrey. Sky TG24 TV reported that Will Smith and David Beckham and his wife, Victoria, also went to the castle.
One of the VIP guests, Italian singer Andrea Bocelli, told Sky TG24 TV by telephone from inside the castle that "I will sing something as a gift to the newlyweds" after the ceremony. He said that because he was a Roman Catholic he would not sing during the wedding, which was expected to be a Scientology ceremony.
Pouring rain had forced Holmes and her baby to take shelter under large, green umbrellas as they left their limousine. But the sun was shining on the castle when Cruise arrived.
As the sun began to set, candles were placed in pots along the road to the castle. Men wearing tuxedos and women holding up the hems of their long gowns walked up the steep path to the castle. Police patrolled the castle’s walls and all vehicles were banned from Bracciano’s centre.
Holmes gave Cruise a wedding gift of a Vacheron Constantin watch engraved simply "I Love You", the watch company said. It said she bought the gift in Los Angeles last week.
Cruise and Holmes in castle wedding - Nov 19 2006
Hollywood royalty Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were married in a torch-lit Italian castle. Oil-fed torches glowed from the battlements of the venue, the Odescalchi castle which towers over the town of Bracciano.
Tiny candles, placed in the 15th-century castle’s windows, flickered romantically as the couple and fellow stars gathered for the ceremony.
One of the guests was seven-month-old Suri, the couple’s daughter, who, dressed in white, arrived in her mother’s arms. Holmes wore a black dress and boots before she changed into a Giorgio Armani gown for the wedding.
Cruise arrived from Rome, where the family had been staying in a luxury hotel near the Spanish Steps, in a mini bus and, sporting dark shades, waved to fans. When the groom drove up, Holmes, anxiously gesturing with a hand, watched from a castle window.
Other VIPs arriving in limousines or mini buses through the castle gates included Brooke Shields, Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez and Jim Carrey. Sky TG24 TV reported that Will Smith and David Beckham and his wife, Victoria, also went to the castle.
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Born in Syracuse Tom grew up in relative poverty following his father’s departure from the family, the actor has since claimed that he suffered abuse before the split. While Thomas III refused to pay child support, Tom’s mother Mary Lee Pfieffer moved her son from city to city, eventually settling in New Jersey where Tom, who once aspired to become a Catholic priest, then a Wrestler, took up acting. His first role was as lead in a High School production of Guys and Dolls.
1981 saw Tom take his first acting role, alongside Brooke Shields in Endless Love. He followed this up with increasingly important roles before in 1983 appearing in Risky Business, the underpanted lip syncing scene of which brought him to the attention of movie goers worldwide as well as to Director Jerry Bruckheimer who asked Tom to star in his next project. Rumour has it that the actor turned down the role of fighter pilot Maverick in Top Gun but in 1986 there he was on our screens, ready to become a cinematic icon.
As the 80s rolled on The Colour of Money, Cocktail and Rain Man ensured Tom’s place at the top of the Hollywood A list, taking him in to the nineties able to demand huge pay cheques for his work and earning him Academy Award nominations (for Born on the Fourth of July). In 1990 he met Australian actress Nicole Kidman on the set of Days of Thunder who he would soon work with again on the less successful Far and Away. Fresh from his divorce from Mimi Rogers, whom he had married just three years earlier, Tom whisked Nicole up the aisle before embarking on a roll call of more ’serious’ film work from The Firm to A Few Good Men and Interview With The Vampire.
1996 proved a successful year for Tom. He began a long relationship with the Mission:Impossible franchise and earned himself another Oscar nomination for the unforgettable Bruckheimer release Jerry Maguire. But this time seemed to mark a turning point for America’s most personable lead man. In 1999 he and Nicole took on the bizarre and controversial Kubrick movie Eyes Wide Shut which he closely followed with the Oscar nominated Magnolia which saw a further move away from his usual ’arrogant nice guy’ roles.
In 2001 the Cruise/Kidman van screeched to an unexpected halt. The couple, who had two adopted children - Isabella and Connor - were divorced just before their tenth wedding anniversary. Nicole, three months pregnant, later miscarried. Tom was soon in love again, this time with Vanilla Sky co-star Penelope Cruz with whom he was linked until 2004. He continued to create box office successes, from a second Mission Impossible movie to Collateral and Minority Report.
Following his split from Penelope Tom became ever more vocal about his beliefs as a Scientologist. The controversial religion was expected to affect his 2005 outing, War of the Worlds, however whilst the film still managed to net millions, Tom’s religious ramblings coupled with his unexpected relationship with Dawson’s Creek and Batman Begins actress Katie Holmes, sixteen years his junior, saw his own popularity wane.
Tom’s pro-Scientology and anti-psychiatry comments, a very public battle with Brooke Shields and some truly over the top, overacted protestations of love signalled the end of Tom’s relationship with Paramount pictures with whom he had worked as a Producer. Paramount weren’t the only ones to go off the actor either. The newspapers and magazines who not so long ago loved him and his movies turned against him, branding him a laughing stock and turning up the volume on the gay rumours which have plagued Cruise for so many years.
Tom and Katie carried out their fast forward relationship under the glare of the press - first bringing baby daughter Suri in to the world in April 2006 just a year after they first met, then marrying in November of the same year.
upated December 2006
November 2007