Tom Cruise

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

Katie’s family, including her dad, Martin, brother Marty and sister Jen also arrived on yesterday. Stepping into one of a fleet of vans, the Holmes family were all smiles as they told reporters they’re "very happy to be here".

Tom and Katie were the first to arrive in Rome with an entourage of ten people and are currently staying at the Hotel Hassler near the city’s famous Spanish Steps, where police have been holding back the hordes of fans hoping to catch a glimpse of the glamorous couple.

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TomKat spotted in Rome - Nov 15 2006
Tom Cruise and fiancee Katie Holmes made a late-night visit to City Hall, sending paparazzi chasing after them on scooters through the streets of Rome.

Yesterday’s appearance was their first together in the Italian city in the days before their wedding on Saturday, reportedly to be held in a castle overlooking Lake Bracciano.

Tom wore a dark grey pinstriped suit and a striped lavender tie as he escorted Katie, who was clutching what appeared to be a very sleepy baby Suri, the couple’s seven-month-old daughter.

Katie, 27, wore a dark jacket over what appeared to be a dark skirt or dress as she crossed a cobblestone square atop ancient Capitoline Hill.

Mayor Walter Veltroni is a big film fan and the driving force behind Rome’s first international film festival this year, and speculation quickly grew that the Hollywood couple were paying a courtesy visit.

TomKat were first photographed together in Rome in April 2005. Two months later, the Mission: Impossible star announced that he had proposed to Katie atop the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

The 44-year-old actor had been spotted by photographers on Tuesday as he was being driven from his hotel atop the Spanish steps.

Residents around the imposing 15th-century Odescalchi Castle, which is rumoured to be the venue for the wedding, have been rushing to rent out windows and terraces overlooking the mansion to the media, pouring into the location near Rome.

Problems with TomKat wedding? - Nov 10 2006
It seems Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ big day may not go quite as they planned, according to reports.

Firstly, the Catholic priest in the Italian town they are said to have chosen for their big day is apparently refusing to marry them because the Top Gun actor is twice divorced.

And now the town mayor has said the paperwork for a civil ceremony hasn’t been completed.

The star-studded event is due to take place on November 18.

The small town of Bracciano has been teeming with paparazzi since it was reported the celebrations would take place at the luxurious Castello Odescalchi.

Bracciano priest Nicola Fiorentini is quoted by the Daily Mirror as saying: "Cruise is divorced. Even if he were not, another fundamental requirement would be missing - the authorisation of the parish."

Mayor Patrizia Riccioni added: "I don’t think it would be legal - there are papers and documents we certainly don’t have."

Date confirmed for TomKat wedding - Oct 25 2006
The mystery and anticipation surrounding Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ forthcoming nuptials is finally over, as their rep confirms the date of TomKat’s big day.

The date has finally been set for November 18 in Italy, with invites sent out to guests on October 20 requesting that they keep the weekend of November 16-19 free for the celebrations, according to Us Weekly magazine.

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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.
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