Channel Navigator   Tom Cruise GalleryPage .1.Page .2.Page .3.Page .4.Page .5.Page .6.Page .7. Name : Tom Cruise Birthday : 3, Jul 1962 ( Tuesday ) Zodiac Sign : Cancer Blood Type : Height : 170 Weight : 91kg Measurement : Enter to Gallery ( Picture : 83 ) - Tom Cruise Profile photo Online Movie Play : Tom Cruise 1. Vanilla Sky Biography of Tom Cruise : <table width="390" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><tr><td class="sm">Full Name:Thomas Cruise Mapother IV<BR> Date of birth (location) : Syracuse, New York, USA <BR> <BR> In 1976, if you had told 14 year old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be considered one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to become a priest. Nonetheless, this sensitive, deeply religious youngster who was born in 1962 in Syracuse, NY, was destined to become Tom Cruise, one of the highest paid and most sought after actors in screen history. The only son (among four children) of nomadic parents young Tom spent his boyhood eternally on the move and by the time he was 14 he had attended 15 different schools in the US and Canada. He finally settled in Glen Ridge, NJ, with his mother and her new husband. While in high school, he developed an interest in acting and abandoned his plans of becoming a priest, dropped out of school, and at age 18 headed for New York and a possible acting career. The next 15 years of his life are the stuff of legends. He made his film debut wit h a small part in Endless Love (1981) and from the outset exhibited an undeniable box office appeal to both male and female audiences. <BR> <BR> Though below average height and not particularly handsome in the traditional sense, within 5 years Tom Cruise was starring in some of the top grossing films of the 1980s including Top Gun (1986); The Color of Money (1986); Rain Man (1988) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). By the 1990's he was one of the highest paid actors in the world earning an average 15 million dollars a picture in such blockbuster hits as Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994); Mission: Impossible (1996) and Jerry Maguire (1996) for which he received an Academy Award Nomination for best actor. In 1990 he renounced his devout Catholic beliefs and embraced The Church Of Scientology claiming that Scientology teachings had cured him of the dyslexia that had plagued him all of his life. A kind and thoughful man well known for his compassion and generosity, Tom Cruise is one of the best liked members of the movie community. He was married to actress Nicole Kidman until 2001. Thomas Cruise Mapother IV has indeed come a l ong way from the lonely wanderings of his youth. <BR> <BR> Actor - filmography<BR> (2000s) (1990s) (1980s) <BR> Cold Mountain (2002) .... Inman <BR> Space Station (2002) (voice) .... Narrator <BR> Minority Report (2002) .... Officer John Anderton <BR> Vanilla Sky (2001) .... David Aames <BR> America: A Tribute to Heroes (2001) (TV) .... Himself <BR> 73rd Annual Academy Awards, The (2001) (TV) (uncredited) .... Presenter of Best Director <BR> Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) (voice) .... Narrator <BR> 2000 MTV Movie Awards (2000) (TV) <BR> Mission Improbable (2000) (TV) .... Himself <BR> ... aka Being Tom Cruise (2000) (TV) <BR> Mission: Impossible II (2000) .... Ethan Hunt <BR> ... aka M:I-2 (2000) (USA: promotional abbreviation)<BR> Magnolia (1999) .... Frank T.J. Mackey, Seduce & Destroy Seminar Leader/Earl Partridge's son <BR> ... aka mag-no'li-a (1999) (USA: promotional title) <BR> Eyes Wide Shut (1999) .... Doctor William 'Bill' Harford<BR> ... aka EWS (1999) (USA: promotional abbreviation) <BR> Salute to Dustin Hoffman, A (1999) (TV) .... Himself <BR> ... aka 27th American Film Institute Life Achievement Award: A Salute to Dustin Hoffman, The (1999) (TV) (USA: complete title) <BR> Jerry Maguire (1996) .... Jerry Maguire <BR> Mission: Impossible (1996) .... Ethan Hunt <BR> ... aka Mission Impossible (1996) <BR> Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) .... Lestat de Lioncourt <BR> ... aka Interview with the Vampire (1994) (USA: short title) <BR> Firm, The (1993) .... Mitch McDeere <BR> Time Out: The Truth About HIV, AIDS, and You (1992) (V) .... Himself <BR> Few Good Men, A (1992) .... Lieutenant Daniel Alistair 'Danny/Dan' Kaffee<BR> Far and Away (1992) .... Joseph Donnelly <BR> 63rd Annual Academy Awards, The (1991) (TV) (uncredited) .... Presenter - Best Director <BR> Days of Thunder (1990) .... Cole Trickle <BR> Born on the Fourth of July (1989) .... Ron Kovic <BR> Rain Man (1988) .... Charlie Babbitt <BR> Young Guns (1988) (uncredited) .... Charlie Crawford <BR> Cocktail (1988) .... Brian Flanagan <BR> Color of Money, The (1986) .... Vincent Lauria <BR> Top Gun (1986) .... Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell <BR> Legend (1985) .... Jack <BR> All the Right Moves (1983) .... Stefen 'Stef' Djordjevic <BR> ... aka All Right (1983) <BR> Risky Business (1983) .... Joel Goodson <BR> Outsiders, The (1983) .... Steve Randle <BR> Losin' It (1983) .... Woody <BR> Taps (1981) .... David Shawn <BR> Endless Love (1981) .... Billy <BR> </td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="sm"><script language="JavaScript" src="../../sponsor/banner_box.js"></script></td></tr></table>       Tom Cruise's Related News at Yahoo! Auction : Tom Cruise's Articles at eBay.com ! Buy : Tom Cruise CDs&DVD Books at Amazon.com ! Download Latest Tom Cruise's Ringtones!