Tom Cruise

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

Tom Cruise wants to make a film with Katie Holmes - April 27, 2020
Tom Cruise wants to make a film with fiancee Katie Holmes. The devout Scientologist has revealed he is eager to appear on the big screen with the mother of his new baby daughter Suri. He said: "I can’t wait to do a movie with Kate. I don’t think working together is a bad idea at all." The Hollywood actor made the revelation at the London premiere of his latest film ’Mission Impossible: III’.

His comments are bound to come as a surprise to the ’Dawson’s Creek’ beauty who was reportedly instructed by Tom to give up her acting career to be a full-time mum after their baby was born. However, the star couple should be wary of any possible collaboration as previous movies featuring real-life lovers have flopped at the box-office.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck - known as ’Bennifier’ during their time together - appeared in the flop movie ’Gigli’, while Madonna and director husband Guy Ritchie are responsible for the disastrous castaway movie ’Swept Away’.

Tom Cruise claims the joy he felt was indescribable - April 25, 2020
Tom Cruise claims the joy he felt when his daughter was born last week was "indescribable". The actor and his fiancee Katie Holmes welcomed baby girl Suri into the world last Tuesday (18.04.06) and the ’Mission Impossible’ star admits he is still yet to come down off his cloud.

In an interview with America’s ’20/20’ TV programme, Cruise said: "It was powerful. It was indescribable. What words can you use? It’s still something that I’m processing and keep reliving." Cruise - who already has two adopted children, Isabella, 13, and Connor, 11, from his marriage to ex-wife Nicole Kidman - also insists his new arrival isn’t going to stop him carrying out death-defying stunts in his movies.

The 43-year-old actor - who separated six ribs while filming the latest instalment in the action series - said: "I have three beautiful children and I love the adventure of life and filmmaking... You can get struck by lightning just walking out of your house. I’m interested in life. And, I’m very active and I love it."

Tom and Katie used decoy cars to leave the hospital - April 21, 2020
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes used decoy cars to leave the hospital after their daughter was born. The ’Mission Impossible’ star used a plan worthy of agent Ethan Hawke himself, to get his fiancee and the new-born baby away from the Santa Monica hospital without being followed.

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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