Tom Cruise

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

"Tom is looking for a movie that will make the most of their chemistry," a source told Life and Style Weekly magazine.

"He’s devoting himself to putting together a project that will not only make Katie a bona fide star, but will put him back in the good graces of the movie-going public."

And it sounds as if the star couple are both looking to move in new directions with the flick.

"This time, he’s looking beyond the typical action roles. Katie is open to any project her fiance puts forward but is desperate to lose the ’girl next door’ image she gained from years starring as Joey in TV show ’Dawson’s Creek," said the insider.

Elusive Suri cruises into limelight - Sept 6, 2020
With a cherubic face and a shock of dark hair, Suri Cruise has made her broadcast debut. The youngster, daughter of Hollywood heartthrob Tom Cruise and screen beauty Katie Holmes, has been the subject of the world’s most-anticipated baby photo.

Katie Couric, in her first night as anchor of the CBS Evening News, revealed photos of four-and-a-half-month-old Suri to the world. Born on April 18, Suri has not appeared in any published photographs.

It has prompted some public speculation about her very existence. But baby Suri is for real. And there are pictures of her and her famous parents in Vanity Fair to prove it.

Tom’s popularity has fallen by 40 per cent - Aug 29, 2020
Tom Cruise’s popularity has officially fallen by 40 per cent in the last 18 months. The ’Top Gun’ star was dropped by Paramount last week, and now official figures, known in the marketing industry as Q scores have emerged, have given an indication as to why. A Q score measure the popularity of celebrities, TV shows and products to give advertisers and marketing companies and idea of their value.

Marketing Evaluations Incorporated, the company that calculates Q scores, have that Tom’s Q score has fallen by 40 per cent and the negative perception of the actor, who is a devout follower of Scientology, has increased by a massive 100 per cent.

This week it was also revealed that the ’Mission Impossible’ star is the celebrity people would least like as their best friend. 2,373 people in the UK were asked to choose who, out of 11 actors they would have as their best pal. Tom Cruise came bottom with just 3 per cent, while the winner was ’School of Rock’ star Jack Black.

Among the strange things Tom has done in the last 18 months include the now infamous couch-jumping incident on Oprah Winfrey’s chat show, publicly proposing to fiancée Katie Holmes at the top of the Eiffel Tower and speaking out against the use of anti-depressants to treat post-partum depression in accordance with his Scientology beliefs.

Tom’s representatives attacked Paramount Pictures - Aug 25, 2020
Tom Cruise’s representatives have attacked Paramount Pictures - the Hollywood studio that dropped the actor this week. Sumner Redstone - the head of Viacom, the company which owns Paramount - ended their 14 year deal with the star on Wednesday (23.08.06) blaming Tom’s conduct.

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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
October 2007