Tom Cruise

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

"Tom has been told he’s Scientology’s Christ-like figure," a source told The Sun. "Like Christ, he’s been criticised for his views. But future generations will realise he was right."

The Mission: Impossible star, who is one of the top ranking Scientologists, joined the Church of Scientology in the mid-1980s and his wife Katie Holmes has also converted.

The religion’s founder was the American science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard and and is, according to its website, "the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, others and all of life".

Tom tries to recruit Beckhams? - Jan 18 2007
It seems Tom Cruise is trying to recruit yet more pals to the Scientology cult - this time it is LA newcomers Posh and Becks.

The Mission Impossible star apparently thinks David would benefit from joining and following some Scientology principles.

But mum-of-three Victoria isn’t quite sold on the idea, according to The Sun - and objects to the regular donations that members have to make.

Last week The Real Madrid striker admitted he "spent hours" on the phone to Tom before quitting his current team for LA Galaxy.

Victoria has also been spotted with Tom and Katie during her LA visit - the trio were seen in the Ivy earlier this week.

A source told the paper: "Tom spoke to David for hours about Scientology. He feels it could help to lift him out of the blues over his football career.

"But Victoria is having none of it. She can’t see the point of joining something like that where you have to donate money."

Tom and Katie’s LA bash - Dec 11 2006
Not even a spot of rain dampened Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ star-studded LA post-wedding party on Saturday night.

The 300 invited guests began arriving at the home of Tom’s producing partner, Paula Wagner, at around 6pm on Saturday, where tents had been erected to keep everyone dry.

Police cordoned off the area, as stars including Steven Spielberg, Jerry Bruckheimer, Orlando Bloom, Dakota Fanning, plus Katie’s Dawson’s Creek co-star James Van Der Beek and Tom’s ex-girlfriend Penelope Cruz arrived to raise a glass to the newlyweds.

Even some of the couple’s Italian wedding guests turned up for a second get together, including Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Brooke Shields, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.

One guest told People magazine: "Tom seemed really proud, parading Katie around his guests. There was so much love in the air that it seemed like a family reunion."

Earlier that day, the couple took their families to watch Tom’s daughter Bella’s soccer game.

Katie’s family also stopped off at the Beverly Hills Polo Lounge en-route to the bash.

Katie and Tom argue on honeymoon? - Nov 28 2006
Is there trouble in paradise? It seems celebrity newlyweds Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have been arguing whilst on honeymoon in the Maldives.

The problems apparently started after the couple boarded their private jet from Rome to their luxury destination and Tom’s best man David Miscavige, flew with them.

Mum-of-one Katie was said to be tired, emotional and upset that Tom had brought the senior Scientologist along.

An insider told Star magazine: "It was hardly a romantic start. Katie had the wedding of her dreams in Italy, but she wasn’t expecting what 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
February 2008