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birth
He was born in Syracuse, New York; son of electronic engineer Thomas Cruise Mapother III and Mary Lee Pfeiffer -
divorce from his parents
Following his parents' divorce, Cruise leaves Canada and settles with his mother and sisters in Kentucky. For a time he considered entering a Franciscan monastery, but ultimately decided to be an actor. Cruise grew up near poverty and had a Catholic upbringing. -
first years of career
. In 1981, after a brief role in the film Endless Love, he would be chosen to act in the film Taps alongside another promising young man: Sean Penn. In his early years, Tom was mostly involved in movies for teenage audiences: comedies like Go to lose it ... and get lost and Risky Business. -
Top gun
Top Gun (known as Top Gun: Pasión y gloria in Latin America, is an American action, drama and romance film from 1986, directed by Tony Scott and starring Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis. Much of the success of the film is due to the spectacular airborne scenes combined with an exciting soundtrack, highlighting the song "Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins (also known as "Footloose"). Later, Tony Scott repeated the formula with the movie Days of Thunder. starring Tom Cruise. -
first marriage
In 1987 Cruise gives a little displeasure to his fans, when he marries an actress older than him: Mimi Rogers. Rogers was the one who introduced Tom to Scientology. The 1988 blockbuster Cocktail in which she starred alongside Elisabeth Shue, despite its understated quality, enshrines her as the star of American cinema of the moment. -
From Rain Man to Kubrick
In 1988, Cruise made a qualitative leap in his career with Rain Man, a Barry Levinson film that sweeps the Oscars, obtaining four statuettes, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman). Cruise is not awarded for her, but the following year he is nominated for Oliver Stone's Born on July 4, where he plays a wheelchair-bound Vietnam War veteran, a role with which he was very excited. -
From Magnolia to Top Gun Maverik
The end of the 1990s and the beginning of the new decade are productive for Tom Cruise, who surprises with a rare role in Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson's choral film praised by critics and for which the actor won a Golden Globe and his third Oscar nomination.4 Two new installments in the Mission: Impossible saga (in 2000 and 2006) and Steven Spielberg's futuristic film Minority Report in 2002, along with Colin Farrell, revalidate Cruise's position in commercial cinema. -
Tom cruise and scientology
David Miscavige and Cruise began a strong friendship . Miscavige became an inseparable friend of the actor and began to offer him everything the actor wanted and everything he believed could please Cruise. Thus, according to Ron Miscavige, the actor enjoyed cruises, personal chefs, skeet shooting days or participating in car races through the city of Los Angeles. Some of these episodes were lived with David Miscavige himself, who made sure that Cruise did not lack any whim to enjoy. -
second marriage
On December 24, 1990 they were married in a secret wedding in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Nicole was 23 and Tom was five years older. Together they became the most powerful couple in Hollywood. Every time they appeared they were a magnet for photographers. It was not be for lowerly. When they smiled, looked at the camera, or simply walked down a red carpet, the world seemed to stop as it only stops at the contemplation of beauty. -
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mission impossible saga
Mission: Impossible is an American action film series based on the television series of the same name. The series is co-produced by and stars Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, an agent for the fictional Mission Impossible Force (IMF).
The series began in 1996 with the premiere of Mission Impossible and chronicles the missions of Hunt, who is forced to take over the IMF's core team after they are betrayed in the first film of the series.
