Tom Cruise

Profession: Actor
Place/Date of Birth: New York, USA, 03 July 2020
Associated with: Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman

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 spokesman Arnold Robinson confirmed that the ceremony had taken place.

Tom and Katie expected to tie knot - Nov 18 2006
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are expected to tie the knot in the celebrity wedding of the year.

A galaxy of A-list Hollywood stars have been jetting into Rome to join the couple’s celebration.

But footballer David Beckham appeared to have incurred the wrath of his Real Madrid bosses by travelling to Italy.

Manager Fabio Capello said he had ordered the former England captain to remain in Spain, but Beckham was pictured arriving in typical style with wife Victoria.

The couple have grown close to Cruise and Holmes in recent months, with Victoria even helping the bride-to-be pick her dress.

But Capello told a news conference: "David has to stay to work this weekend."

Asked if Beckham would miss the wedding, he replied: "That’s not my problem," The Sun reported.

However, it later emerged that Beckham, who has not trained all week because of an injury, would fly back to Spain to watch his team mates play Racing Santander. He may return to Italy afterwards.

Cruise and Holmes are expected to have a Scientology ceremony at a 15th-century Italian lakeside castle in Bracciano near Rome, followed by a lavish banquet.

Big-name guests include Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony, Jim Carrey and girlfriend Jenny McCarthy, Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith.

TomKat guests touch down in Rome - Nov 17 2006
It’s all go in Rome, with a host of celebrities descending on the city to join Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes for the showbiz wedding of the year. see photos

After departing on the same privately chartered jet from Burbank, California, Brooke Shields, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony touched down at Rome’s Ciampino Airport on Thursday.

Also spotted disembarking from the celeb-packed plane was Brooke Shield’s husband Chris Henchy, Jerry Maguire director Cameron Crowe, Tom’s producing partner Paula Wagner and Mission: Impossible 3 director JJ Abrams.

Surprise guest Jim Carrey also posed for photographers after flying in on his own Gulf Stream jet with girlfriend Jenny McCarthy.

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Biography

New Yorker Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3 1962) may have reached the heights of the heart throb-o-meter in the eighties but since his split with Nicole Kidman has ruined many a young woman’s fantasy with increasingly bizarre behaviour. So where did it all go wrong for the sofa leaping strange one?

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