Date of Birth: July
3, 1962
Birth Location: Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Height: 173 cm
Mini Biograhy:
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, better known by his
screen name Tom Cruise, is an American actor and film producer. Forbes
magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006. He has
been nominated for three Academy Awards and won three Golden Globe Awards.
His first leading role was the 1983 film "Risky Business", which has been
described as "A 'Generation-X' classic, and a career-maker" for the actor.
After playing the role of a heroic naval pilot in the popular and
financially successful 1986 film "Top Gun", Cruise continued in this vein,
playing a secret agent in a series of "Mission: Impossible" action films
in the 1990s and 2000s. In addition to these heroic roles, he also played
other roles, such as the misogynistic male guru in "Magnolia" (1999) and a
cool and calculating sociopathic hitman in the Michael Mann crime-thriller
film "Collateral" (2004).
Economist Edward Jay Epstein argues that Cruise
is one of the few producers who are able to guarantee the success of a
billion-dollar movie franchise. Since 2005, Cruise and Paula Wagner have
been in charge of the United Artists film studio, with Cruise as producer
and star and Wagner as the chief executive. Cruise is also known for his
support of and adherence to the Church of Scientology.
Cruise was married to Mimi Rogers on May 9,
1987 and they divorced on Feb. 4, 1990. Later he married Nicole Kidman on
Dec. 24, 1990 and divorced on Aug. 8, 2001. the couple adopted two
children, Isabella Jane and Connor Antony. They separated when Kidman was
three months pregnant, just before their tenth wedding anniversary; she
later miscarried. Cruise was next romantically linked with Pen¨¦lope Cruz,
and the relationship lasted for three years. In April 2005, Cruise began
dating actress Katie Holmes. Shortly after they began their highly
publicized relationship, on June 17, 2005, Cruise announced he had
proposed to her at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. She accepted his
proposal, and the couple married in Bracciano, Italy on Nov. 18, 2006. On
April 18, 2006 Katie gave birth to a baby girl named
Suri.
