Tom Cruise

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

Tom and Katie left the St John’s Hospital just 12 hours after the ’Dawson’s Creek’ actress gave birth to 7lb 7oz baby Suri on Tuesday (18.04.06). The couple quickly leapt into a black Ford Excursion SUV with their wrapped-up baby and fled the medical centre. Simultaneously two identical Excursions rushed away from the scene heading for decoy locations, one of those reportedly being a Los Angeles Scientology Centre, of which Tom is a regular visitor.

Tom Cruise was celebrating the birth of his baby girl - April 20, 2020
Tom Cruise was celebrating the birth of his "gorgeous" baby girl last night. The Hollywood star told pals he had been "jumping on couches" since fiancee Katie Holmes delivered daughter Suri on Tuesday (18.04.06). He said in an email to US TV host Diane Sawyer: "It’s a girl! Her name is Suri and she’s absolutely gorgeous. "Kate was, and is, an absolute champ."

It’s thought 27-year-old Katie - who had the 7lb 7oz baby at St John’s Hospital, near Santa Monica - stuck to the silent birth she and Tom, 43, had allegedly planned. As devout followers of Scientology, it was claimed the pair would follow a bizarre tradition that encourages mums to deliver babies without making any noise. A hospital worker is quoted by the Daily Mail newspaper as saying: "You couldn’t hear anything coming from the room. "She may have been giving birth but she was as quiet as a mouse."

Another source told The Sun newspaper: "Everybody in the room was told to stay silent and the nurses made hand signals. But Katie did indicate she wanted an epidural to help with the pain. "Tom recorded the whole thing with a camera and said it was the most beautiful moment of his life."

It’s a girl! - April 19, 2020
Tom Cruise welcomed the newest member of his family into the world last night after his girlfriend Katie Holmes gave birth to Suri - a baby girl. According to Cruise’s rep, the child weighed a healthy 7 pounds, 7 ounces and was 20 inches in length. Both mother and daughter are doing very well. Everyone is now back home.

The birth follows one of the most highly-publicised pregnancies in recent memory. Although it’s true that the birth was completely silent in the order of a scientologist birth, the rumour about Cruise eating the placenta appears to have been a red herring.

The name Suri has its origins in Hebrew (meaning ’princess’) or in Persian (meaning ’red rose’). It’s also the name of a shaggy breed of lama, but it’s unlikely that this influenced their decision.

This is the first time that Katie Holmes, 27, has given birth. Cruise has two other children whom he adopted during his marriage to Nicole Kidman: Isabella, 13, and Connor, 11.

Katie has been banned from speaking to her baby - April 11, 2020
Katie Holmes has been banned from speaking to her baby for a week after it is born, it has been reported. The pregnant actress has agreed not to talk to her new arrival, believed to be a girl, for at least seven days after she has entered the world, in accordance with fiance Tom Cruise’s Scientology beliefs.

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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