Tom Cruise

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

He also claimed to have brokered deals to sell a sex video of Dustin Diamond, who played Screech on Saved by the Bell, and a video of skater Tonya Harding’s wedding night, according to reports. He also claimed to have obtained topless shots of Jessica Lynch, the US Army prisoner of war who was rescued in Iraq.

Tom Cruise holds a minute’s silence - Sept 23 2007
Tom Cruise and the crew of his new film, Valkyrie, held a minute’s silence for German anti-Nazi heroes as the team prepared to film at the site where they were executed, a fellow cast member said.

In the movie, Cruise plays Col Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg - the aristocratic army officer who was among those executed after a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944.

The German government initially declined permission to film at the so-called Bendlerblock - part of the Defence Ministry grounds and now a memorial to the anti-Nazi resistance - citing concerns over "the dignity of the place."

However, it reversed its decision this month.

On Friday night, the movie makers gathered at the site to start filming scenes, German media reported.

"Shortly before we started filming, screenplay writer Christopher McQuarrie, director Bryan Singer and Tom Cruise made short remarks and then asked for a minute’s silence - out of respect for the place and out of respect for the life achievement of these people who were executed there," German actor Christian Berkel, who plays fellow plotter Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, was quoted as saying in the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

TomKat refused entry? - Aug 8 2007
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were reportedly left fuming after they were refused entry to a St Tropez nightclub.

The A-list couple turned up at the glitzy Caves Du Roi club in the exclusive Byblos Hotel but were turned away by bouncers.

A insider told the Daily Mirror: "The VIP area was full and the management weren’t willing to move the guests already there to make room for Tom.

"It wouldn’t have been fair - they’d spent a fortune."

To add insult to injury P Diddy walked straight past the doormen and partied the night away with members of the Dubai royal family.

The pair then went to the VIP Room club and despite the owner whisking them to a special table, looked decidedly uncomfortable.

A club source said: "Tom looked really out of place among all the clubbers with glowsticks dancing away to house tunes. He sat there tapping his foot nervously to the music and couldn’t get out of there fast enough."

Cruise back in driving seat - Aug 3 2007
It wasn’t quite Top Gun, but amateur pilot Tom Cruise seemed to relish taking the controls of a 1941 Boeing Stearman aircraft on location of his new movie Valkyrie in Germany.

And the star’s piloting skills appear to have won him a fan in co-pilot Thomas Schuttoff.

"There are pilots who can fly a plane. But Tom Cruise has the soul of a flyer - I saw that right from the start," Thomas told German newspaper Bild. "He was so nice."

The star only made one mistake during his flight - pressing the button for the tower instead of the one for his co-pilot’s earphones.

The historic double decker plane was used by the US Air Force to train during the Second World War.

Tom started production on Valkyrie earlier this month, playing Colonel Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg who attempted to assassinate Hitler.

His co-stars in the film include British actors Eddie Izzard, Bill Nighy and Kenneth Branagh who plays Von Stauffenberg’s mentor.

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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