Tom Cruise
- Profession: Actor
- Place/Date of Birth: New York, USA, 03 July 2020
- Associated with: Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman
Last week it was claimed the smitten couple are planning a shotgun beach wedding in Mexico next month - because Cruise doesn’t want his baby born outside of marriage. A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "Tom’s old fashioned. He wants his child to be born in wedlock. He’s very romantic and wants everything to be in place before the birth." "They both decided on the Ritz-Carlton in Cancun as soon as they got engaged and initially were planning on tying the knot around Christmas. Katie didn’t know that she was pregnant, so their arrangements suddenly had to be scrapped."
Katie Holmes is concentrating on her pregnancy - Oct 13, 2020
Katie Holmes has quit her latest film role to concentrate on her pregnancy. The stunning actress - who last week announced she was pregnant with fianc? Tom Cruise’s baby - has pulled out of new movie ’Shame On You’, directed by veteran actor Dennis Quaid, to avoid any stress while pregnant, according to America’s People magazine Katie’s former ’Dawson’s Creek’ co-star Oliver Hudson, who played Eddie Doling in the teen drama, says he is not surprised the actress is sacrificing her career for her unborn child. He said: "She’s a nurturer. She wouldn’t be having a baby if she wasn’t ready."
Earlier this week, Katie was photographed showing off a sizeable bump - sparking speculation she is more than three months pregnant as previously rumoured. The pictures of the 27-year-old beauty, relaxing in a park with fianc? Tom Cruise, show her silky blue top clinging to a bulging tummy. It was believed Katie was around 12 weeks pregnant, but according to one onlooker who saw the couple she looked much further along in her pregnancy. The onlooker said: "She looked more like five months pregnant than three. "If she does have six months to go, she is going to be as big as a house by the time the baby arrives."
Katie’s sizeable bump - Oct 05
Katie Holmes has been photographed showing off a sizeable bump - sparking speculation she is more than three months pregnant as previously rumoured.
The pictures of the actress relaxing with fianc? Tom Cruise in a park show her silky blue top clinging to her bulging tummy.
The smitten pair announced they were expecting a baby earlier this month, and it was thought 27-year-old Katie was around 12 weeks pregnant. But an onlooker who saw the couple at the Los Angeles park told Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper: "She had a very considerable bump and you could see
her belly button through her floaty top. To me she looked more like a girl who was five months pregnant than three. "If she does still have six months of her term left to go, she is going to be as big as a house by the time the baby arrives."
Last week it was revealed the brunette beauty is set to give birth in silence.
As devout disciples of cult religion Scientology Katie and her husband-to-be would have to maintain a vigil of total silence in the delivery suite. The bizarre ritual - which Scientologists believe prevents children from turning mad - is nothing new to Cruise who insisted the biological mothers of the adopted children he had with Nicole Kidman have their babies in silence.
Katie will take on Tom’s surname - Sept 05
Katie Holmes is set to take on Tom Cruise’s surname when they wed later this year. Unlike the actor’s previous wives, Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman, who retained their own names, Katie is reportedly planning to become Mrs Cruise, both privately and professionally. The beautiful actress may also be known by Tom’s affectionate nickname for her.
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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.
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