Tom Cruise

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

We take a look at Suri’s year and a few other celebrity babies.

Tom to promote 9/11 detox? - April 10 2007
Tom Cruise is apparently set to promote the controversial Scientology-inspired detox programme for 9/11 workers with a huge fundraising gala in New York.

Proceeds from the glitzy April 19 gala, for which tables for eight will reportedly cost up to $100,000, will benefit the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project.

Based in the downtown Manhattan clinic, the project offers free treatments to firefighters, police officers and other rescue workers who may have been exposed to high levels of toxins at Ground Zero.

The treatments, which aren’t officially endorsed by the New York Police or Fire Departments, use the Scientology-style detox method of ingesting niacin and cold-pressed oils and sweating out toxins with long sessions in a sauna for up to five hours a day to release toxins.

City councillor Hiram Monseratte, who is a member of the gala’s host committee, told the New York Post of the controversial technique, saying: "I’ll do anything to help my members."

Having toured the facility and spoken to firefighters and cops who’ve undergone the treatment to improve symptoms including insomnia, breathing problems and skin rashes, Hiram told the newspaper that he’d witnessed the benefits first-hand.

But, although high-profile Scientologist Tom has reportedly already invested part of his personal fortune into the clinic, not everyone is as enthusiastic about the techniques.

Dr Bob Hoffman a representative of the New York City Poison Control Centre has described the treatment as "hocus-pocus", adding that, "For some people, sitting in a hot environment can be very dangerous."

New TomKat baby rumour - Mar 9 2007
Could Tom Cruise and wife Katie Holmes be expecting a second child together?

US entertainment website TMZ.com reports that a ’confidante’ of TomKat was spotted in a trendy West Hollywood baby boutique working on ideas for a boy’s nursery. The famous pair already have a baby girl, Suri.

The friend was reportedly overheard in Petit Tresor, saying: "We want to be prepared for a baby boy."

Having a kid certainly isn’t cheap in Hollywood. The website pitches the cost of an eggshell blue-themed room alone at a whopping 45,000 dollars.

Apparently the shop has been given an April 15 deadline to come up with some designs - that’s three days before Suri’s first birthday.

Suri, ten months, is Tom and Katie’s only child together but the actor has two adopted children from his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman, Isabella and Conor.

Daily Cruise - Mar 8 2007
Aaaaaah - it seems newlywed Tom Cruise just can’t bear to be parted from Katie.

His new(ish) wife is set to go back to work soon on a new film called Mad Money - and apparently her hubby is planning to be on set every day, according to the New York Post.

Tom is also planning to bring their daughter Suri to the Louisiana set of the chick heist comedy, says the paper.

There was no comment from a spokesperson for TomKat - and a producer on the film says he hasn’t heard anything about the reported visits.

The movie, which also stars Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah, is apparently much lighter than Factory Girl - which Tom apparently vetoed for Katie because of its raunchy subject matter.

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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