Biography of Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise (Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, English Tom Cruise) is an outstanding American film actor, director and producer, known for his leading roles in the films “Rain Man”, “Eyes Wide Shut”, “Magnolia”, and the “Mission Impossible” film series. etc. Three-time winner of the Golden Globe Award and three-time Oscar nominee.
Actor Tom Cruise
Childhood and family
Tom Cruise was born on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York, into a Catholic family with English, German and Irish roots. His father, Thomas Cruise Mapother III, was an electrical engineer, and his mother, Mary Lee (née Pfeiffer), was a special education teacher (some sources mistakenly call her an actress, apparently confusing her with her namesake Michelle Pfeiffer). In addition to Tom, his parents had three more daughters: Lee Ann, Marian and Cass.
Childhood photos of Tom Cruise
The family lived in poverty and constantly moved from place to place, as the father had problems with work. He raised his children in strictness, was often rude and unfair to them, and beat them for every insignificant reason. Tom later called him "a bully and a coward." Tom grew up as a complex child. Most of all, he was embarrassed by his small stature, which is why he tried to communicate mainly with short peers or younger guys, so as not to look short compared to them. In addition, the future star had ugly crooked teeth.
Little Tom Cruise (left) with his parents and sisters
Since by the age of 14 the boy had changed 15 schools, he experienced certain problems with learning and academic performance, which were further aggravated by his dyslexia - a disease in which a person incorrectly perceives the order of written letters in a text. Fortunately, with age, this problem was overcome.
As a child, Tom Cruise suffered from crooked teeth and dyslexia.
In 1971, the family moved to Canada and settled in Ottawa, where his father took a position as a technical consultant for the Canadian Forces. Here, at Robert Hopkins School, the boy first appeared on stage in a theater group, and his first performance as part of a group of seven students created a sensation at the school festival. “The movements and improvisations were excellent. The result was a classic number performed by the ensemble,” recalled his teacher.
Star of the school theater club
In the hope of growing and getting stronger faster, Tom also began to actively engage in sports. In particular, he played floor hockey, but stood out not so much for his athletic talent as for his aggressive style of play. At one time, the boy even thought about connecting his life with sports and becoming a professional wrestler, but a knee injury did not allow this to happen.
A very young Tom Cruise
When Tom was 14 years old, his parents divorced, and his mother returned to the United States with all four children, settling in a small house in Louisville, Kentucky. The young man entered the Franciscan Theological Seminary in Cincinnati - he intended to become a Catholic priest. However, a year later he abandoned this idea and returned to a regular school.
House in Louisville where Tom Cruise lived after his parents' divorce
The family had a very difficult time: in order to feed the children, the mother constantly worked two or three jobs, and Tom and his sisters also had to work part-time after school. When the young man was 16 years old, his mother remarried. Her new chosen one, Jack South, turned out to be a wonderful stepfather, and Tom always spoke warmly about him: “He adored his mother so much that together with her he fell in love with us too, all four of us.”
Then, at the age of 16, at the insistence of his teacher, he again tried himself in a production on the school stage and suddenly realized that he had found his calling. The mother warmly supported her son in his intention to become an actor: in her youth, she herself dreamed of theater and cinema, but never decided to try herself as an actress, because she was afraid, in her words, “to leave the church, to go beyond moral standards - to lose everything that girls valued so highly in those days.”
In 1984, Tom Cruise's own father died of cancer.
Film career
Despite the fact that Tom Cruise never studied acting professionally, he was lucky: already in 1981 he was cast and began his film career with a small role in the film “Endless Love”, and later that year he played a supporting role in the movie "Lights Out".
Young Tom Cruise in the movie Lights Out
In 1983, he starred in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders, and then the charming young actor was invited to the first leading role in his career - in the youth sports drama All the Right Moves.
Still from the film “Risky Business”
Finally, in the same 1983, Paul Brickman’s film “Risky Business” was released, and the main role in this film made Tom Cruise a star of the first magnitude. The actor's star status was also reinforced by Ridley Scott's fantasy film Legend, released in 1985, and Tony Scott's super-popular film Top Gun, released in 1986, in which young Val Kilmer became one of Cruise's co-stars. . The slogan of the film “I feel the need, the need for speed” (“I feel the call, and it’s the call of speed”) gave the name to the series of racing computer games “Need for Speed”.
Still from the movie “Top Gun”
In the same 1986, Tom Cruise also had the chance to play one of the main roles in Martin Scorsese’s drama “The Color of Money,” in partnership with the already venerable Paul Newman at that time.
Tom Cruise and Paul Newman on the set of The Color of Money
In 1988, Roger Donaldson's melodrama Cocktail was released, but for the main role in this film, Tom Cruise was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award as the worst actor of the year. In general, critics rated this picture negatively, describing it as “a love story lacking depth and drama, in which Tom Cruise’s talent is wasted on a banal fantasy about a naive bartender.”
However, in the same 1988, a truly successful film was released, which marked the beginning of a series of more mature and profound acting works by Tom Cruise - “Rain Man” directed by Barry Levinson. In this film, there was an interesting acting duet between Tom Cruise and the magnificent Dustin Hoffman: Cruise played a calculating businessman who is angry with his parents and the whole world, and Hoffman played the tragicomic role of his older brother, helpless and autistic.
Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman are one of the best acting tandems
In the wake of the success of this film, critics especially noted Tom’s excellent performance: “Cruise’s character, with his selfishness and cruelty, saves the film from excessive sentimentality. Moreover, his change and reconciliation with the past are not so strong that he ceases to be a complete yuppie, a product of automobile America. Tom Cruise: interview with Channel One In 1989, Oliver Stone's war drama Born on the Fourth of July was released, which brought the actor his first Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination.
In 1990, he played the lead role in the sports drama Days of Thunder by Tony Scott, and in 1992 in the romantic drama Far and Away by Ron Howard, and in these two films his co-star was the rising star Nicole Kidman, with whom The actor also developed a personal relationship.
Still from the film “Far, Far Away”
Cruise's next major success was his role in Neil Jordan's mystical drama Interview with the Vampire (1994), where he played in a brilliant ensemble cast with Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater and a very young Kirsten Dunst. For this role he was once again nominated for an Oscar.
Tom Cruise in the movie Interview with the Vampire
A real success and a kind of “calling card” of Tom Cruise was the film directed by Brian De Palma “Mission: Impossible” in 1996, in which he not only played the main role, but also made his debut as a producer. While working on this film, Cruise paid tribute to his childhood dream - to play a super agent, and cooler than the famous “007”. How the skydive with Tom Cruise was filmed And, despite the cool reception in the professional community due to the excessive complexity of the plot and lack of psychological depth, viewers loved this film for its entertainment and dynamism.
With Nicole Kidman (Oscar, 1991)
In the same year, the actor starred in another wonderful film – “Jerry Maguire” by Cameron Crowe – which brought him a second Golden Globe and another Oscar nomination. During the filming of this film, Cruise's partner was the then-beginning actress Renee Zellweger, for whom this work served as a launching pad for a further successful career. Critics praised the film as "an exceptionally delicious romantic comedy with a modern twist," and it received five Oscar nominations, winning one.
Jerry McGuire received 5 Oscar nominations
In 1999, Tom Cruise and his wife Nicole Kidman played the main roles together in Stanley Kubrick's love thriller Eyes Wide Shut. This film was the last work of the great director, released after his death, and people perceived it in different ways: from “a great failure” to “a great masterpiece” - but most agreed that it excites the consciousness, provokes and captivates with its mysterious, “illuminated by primitive instincts” a. Fragment In the same year, Cruise performed in a rare supporting role for him in Paul Thomas Anderson's drama Magnolia. Despite the fact that his character is not the main character at all, this work is considered the pinnacle of the actor’s dramatic talent, and it brought him another Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination.
Still from the film “Magnolia”
After that, Cruise produced the film Mission: Impossible 2, in which he again played the resourceful superspy Ethan Hunt. This time, the film was directed by Hong Kong director John Woo, and it features his previously invented style of martial art with firearms, “Gan Kata,” also known as “gun kung fu” or “bullet ballet.”
Tom Cruise did all his motorcycle stunts himself
Critics said about this film: “Your brain may yearn for the depth of the plot, but your eyes will certainly be delighted by the incredible series of dynamic actions.” For the main role in this film, Tom Cruise received the MTV Movie Award.
During the first half of the 2000s, Cruise starred in four films, which received unprecedented commercial success and unanimous critical acclaim. Thus, in 2001, the fantasy and romantic thriller “Vanilla Sky” by Cameron Crowe was released, in which Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz became the actor’s two partners, and Kurt Russell and Jason Lee were involved in supporting roles.
"Vanilla Sky": naked Tom Cruise
In 2002, Steven Spielberg's science-fiction thriller Minority Report was released, in which Max von Sydow and Colin Farrell participated in the filming of which Cruise participated. Later in 2008, the American Film Institute named the film one of the ten best science fiction films of all time. Tom Cruise Watches Memes About Himself In 2003, Cruise produced the Japanese historical war drama directed by Edward Zwick, The Last Samurai. The film was an incredible success, was nominated for 4 Oscars and received many other prizes and nominations, and Tom Cruise was nominated for a Golden Globe. But, contrary to Cruise's hopes, he was not even nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor.
Still from the film “The Last Samurai”
In 2005, the actor again collaborated with Steven Spielberg to work on the fantasy action film War of the Worlds, based on the novel of the same name by H.G. Wells. On the sets of this film, he starred with 11-year-old, but already experienced at that time, actress Dakota Fanning, and 15-year-old Channing Tatum participated in the episode.
Tom Cruise doesn't save the world in War of the Worlds
In 2006, another spy thriller about Ethan Hunt's team, Mission: Impossible III, directed by J. J. Abrams, produced by Cruise, was released, and this film was received by critics even more favorably than the previous parts: “A fast-paced action film with mind-blowing stunts and special effects, The latest Mission: Impossible delivers everything that even the most scrupulous fan of the genre could want."
The next film starring Tom Cruise was James Mangold's action-comedy Knight and Day (2010), for which his successful acting duo with Cameron Diaz was resumed. And although from the point of view of some critics in this film, “logic and reason rest in the maelstrom of action while stars like Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz sell this nonsense,” audiences liked the film and was an outstanding box office success.
Scene with a fight (“Jack Reacher”) In 2010, the fourth film “Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol” directed by Brad Bird was released, and at the end of 2012 the detective thriller directed by Christopher McQuarrie “Jack Reacher” was released with the slogan “The law has limits. He doesn't have any." For this film, Cruise once again acted as producer and lead actor, and the work was successful enough for him to direct a sequel, Jack Reacher 2: Never Go Back, in 2021 with the help of director Edward Zwick.
In 2013, the post-apocalyptic action film Oblivion, directed by Joseph Kosinski, was released, during the filming of which Cruise formed a striking duet with Ukrainian-born actress Olga Kurylenko, and also played together with Morgan Freeman. This picture was characterized as “an absolutely magnificent film, in the drama of which a powerful fantastic plot is balanced with poetry and romanticism.”
With Robin Williams
In 2015, the fifth film, Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, was released, which again pleased the actor and producer with high ratings and box office receipts.
Tom Cruise in his youth and now
In 2021, Cruise played the main role in Alex Kurtzman's fantasy action film The Mummy based on the 1932 film, but this picture was not as successful as the actor's previous works. In October 2021, the biographical thriller “Made in America” directed by Doug Liman was released, in which Tom Cruise played a young pilot recruited by the CIA.
Movies
In 1980, Thomas moved to New York and the first thing he did was shorten his name. A year after arriving in the Big Apple, the aspiring film artist was noticed and invited to play Billy in the film Endless Love. Cruise received his first leading role in 1983 in the blockbuster “Risky Business.” The film grossed $65 million, and Tom received a fee of $75 thousand.
Ardent fans still keep copies of the poster for the melodrama “Cocktail,” from which the young idol looks languidly at his fans in the guise of a bartender. The performer took a responsible approach to his work and learned the art of mixing drinks from professionals.
One of Cruise's best roles is considered to be businessman Charlie Babbitt in the film Rain Man. Critics, including BBC journalist Nick Hilditch, admired Tom's performance, which raised the level of the project, freeing the plot from excessive sentimentality.
Another striking work that brought the actor millions of new fans is the image of the lonely and mysterious Lestat de Lioncourt in the famous film Interview with the Vampire. Despite the delight of fans, the fantasy drama's nominations for prestigious film awards and victories in them, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt received the Golden Raspberry for the worst duet.
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Tom Cruise's teeth before and after correction
The apogee of Tom's career is considered to be the detective thriller Mission: Impossible, the first part of which served as the beginning of a long-running series. The film is also famous for the fact that, in addition to playing the main role of agent Ethan Hunt, the artist first tried himself as a producer.
4 years later, Mission: Impossible 2 came out on the big screen. The film received not only audience but also financial success, grossing $550 million in total. This was largely due to the spectacular performance of stunts: Cruise, using only one safety rope, easily jumped from cliff to cliff, and then completely hung on one hand . Tom subsequently appeared in all subsequent parts of the franchise.
The project played a decisive role in the creative biography of the star. Perhaps that's why Cruise did everything in his power to become indispensable to the producers. So, during the filming of the “Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol” part, which took place in Dubai, the actor climbed to the top of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper, from where he climbed down the wall of the building with the help of a safety net. Later, Tom managed to completely control the flying plane: for 6 minutes the performer was in the air, clinging to a ledge on the transporter, filming for the part “Tribe of Outcasts.”
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Tom Cruise in his youth in the film “Risky Business”
In the film “Magnolia” Cruise appeared in the background, which did not stop him from attracting the attention of critics and the public. And the picture itself interested viewers for a number of reasons. Among them is a scene with a rain of frogs, which attracted interest from animal rights activists. The creators had to explain that none of the amphibians were harmed, and rubber frogs and computer-drawn frogs were falling from the sky in the frame.
In 2001, Cruise starred in the fantasy melodrama Vanilla Sky, for which he received the Saturn Award for Best Actor. In the film, Tom's partners were Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz. The project used compositions from popular musical groups, including Radiohead, U2 and the Monkees, as musical accompaniment.
In the neo-noir thriller “Collaborator,” the artist played the hitman Vincent. Work on the film was accompanied by changes in the cast and crew. So, Vincent was initially supposed to be played by Russell Crowe, and 3 weeks after the start of filming, the cameraman left due to a conflict with the director and producer Michael Mann.
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Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz
Every project in which Cruise stars receives great resonance in the creative community. This includes the action movie “War of the Worlds” by Steven Spielberg and the military thriller “Operation Valkyrie.” Tom got into the feed after he saw a photo of his hero - Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, a real historical character, a Wehrmacht colonel. The actor was surprised by the resemblance to the prototype, which inspired the performer.
Despite the presence of diverse roles in the actor’s repertoire, the main role for Cruise was the image of a hero. Tom appeared as an imperturbable winner in the action comedy Knight and Day. After the premiere, the film initially upset the creators and participants, as the first days of release were disastrous, but within a few months the global box office exceeded $260 million.
Cruise got another leading role in the 2012 thriller “Jack Reacher.” The film is an adaptation of the novel by English writer Lee Child. The work “The Shot” immediately gained the status of a bestseller, so shortly after the book’s release, Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to create a film.
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Tom Cruise in the movie "Mission: Impossible"
In the science-fiction action movie "Edge of Tomorrow," Tom's character had to fight an army of alien invaders. Although the plot can hardly be called original, the film received praise from viewers and critics. On the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the rating was 91%.
Another time, the performer had to save the world from an alien invasion in the dystopia “Oblivion,” in which Cruise played the main role. The heroine of Olga Kurylenko helped him in a difficult matter. The blockbuster was warmly received in Russia. Cruz and Kurylenko visited Moscow before the premiere and appeared on the “Evening Urgant” show.
In the film Made in America, Tom portrayed the famous smuggler pilot Barry Seal. The film was a success, but it was overshadowed by a tragic event. When the work was in full swing, the plane carrying members of the film crew was involved in a plane crash. Shortly before the incident, deceased stunt pilot Alan Purvin said on social networks that he was glad to expand his horizons and collaborate with Tom Cruise.
In addition to successful projects, the artist’s filmography also includes failures. Thus, for his role as soldier Nick Morton in the action adventure film The Mummy, Tom was again awarded the Golden Raspberry anti-award, and on Rotten Tomatoes positive reviews amounted to 16%. But this did not affect the box office, which amounted to $409 million.
Personal life of Tom Cruise
In the first half of the 1980s, Tom Cruise repeatedly entered into relationships with older women, including his partner in the film Risky Business, actress Rebecca Demornay (3 years older than Cruise), singer and guitarist Patti Scialfa (9 years older than Cruise). years) and the famous singer Cher (16 years older than Cruise). According to the latter’s frank statement, Cruise was very good in bed and was one of her top five lovers. “I was crazy about Tom Cruise, and we had a passionate affair,” she recalled.
Young Tom Cruise with his first girlfriend
The actor's positive reputation was restored in 1987, when he married actress Mimi Rogers (however, she was also 5-8 years older than Tom, according to various sources). Mimi introduced Cruise to Scientology, and he subsequently became a staunch adherent and promoter of this religion - now he is called the “3rd or even 2nd person” in the church hierarchy.
Because of his girlfriend Mimi Borners, Tom Cruise joined Scientology
In 1989, on the set of the film “Days of Thunder,” the actor met a young actress from Australia, Nicole Kidman, and they began a relationship. Cruise, in love, divorced his first wife on February 4, 1990, and on December 24 of the same year, at the age of 28, he married 23-year-old Nicole.
Nicole Kidman married Tom Cruise at 23
The couple really wanted to have children, but they could not conceive their own baby. So they decided to become foster parents, adopting Isabella Jane in 1992 and adopting Connor Anthony in 1995. Subsequently, Nicole herself was surprised at her own determination to start a family so early: “By the age of 27, I already had two children and four years of marital experience. But that’s what I wanted,” she recalled.
Kidman and Cruise's children are adopted
However, in February 2001, Cruz announced to his wife that he intended to divorce her. According to the actress, she begged her husband not to leave her, but he left without explanation, refusing to discuss family problems. As it turned out, Nicole was at that moment in the early stages of pregnancy, which the couple did not yet know. Due to the stress of breaking up with her husband, she lost the child - or, as the actress later admitted, the pregnancy turned out to be ectopic. Why do women leave Tom Cruise? After the couple's divorce, their adopted children remained under the joint custody of both parents, but lived primarily with their father and were affiliated with the Church of Scientology. At the age of 26, daughter Isabella got married, but neither of her parents attended her wedding, although both helped organize and pay for the celebration.
Almost simultaneously with the divorce, Cruise entered into a new relationship - with Penelope Cruz, his co-star in the film Vanilla Sky. It was a bright romance that seemed very promising, and the young people even talked about marriage. But the situation was darkened by the fact that Penelope could not give up her Buddhist beliefs in favor of Scientology, while for Cruise this was very important. Three years later, the couple broke up because, according to Penelope, Scientology turned out to be a “third wheel” in their relationship.
Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz's relationship didn't stand the test of religion
Later, reports appeared that the church began to purposefully select a new bride for Cruise, but he himself did not confirm this information. One way or another, during this period he began a romantic relationship with a girl who, like him, was a member of the Church of Scientology - British-Iranian actress Nazanin Boniadi. But this couple did not work out, and the relationship soon broke up.
In the photo: Nazanin Boniadi
In April 2005, Cruise began dating actress Katie Holmes, and a month later the actor publicly declared his love for her on the famous “Oprah Winfrey Show.” On October 6, 2005, the couple officially announced that they were expecting a child, and on April 18, 2006, the actors had a daughter, Suri.
Unlike Cruise's previous lovers, Katie Holmes agreed to fully accept the faith and practices of Scientology, and on November 18, 2006, the couple officially married. More than 150 guests were invited to the ceremony. Among them were many stars of the first magnitude - colleagues of Tom Cruise: Will Smith and his wife, John Travolta, Richard Gere, Jim Carrey, as well as beauties Victoria Beckham, Brooke Shields and J. Lo. Among the guests was the creator of wedding suits for the bride and groom, Giorgio Armani. At the entrance, guests were greeted by people in Renaissance costumes, and the ceremony itself took place in a real medieval Armory.
Wedding of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
Tom Cruise's new family lacked for nothing. By the age of five, little Suri already had a wardrobe worth several million, the title of the most influential child in the world and the title of the most photographed girl on Earth.
Tom Cruise with daughter Suri
The couple appeared together everywhere and beamed with smiles, although rumors leaked behind their backs that “Mrs. Cruise” lived in “Scientology hell” and was under supervision 24 hours a day. On June 29, 2012, Katie Holmes, unexpectedly for her husband, filed for divorce and demanded full custody of her daughter. She also stated that she was renouncing her Scientology beliefs and "has now decided to raise Suri as a Catholic and has already sent her to a private Catholic school in Manhattan."
Tom Cruise was filming the film “Oblivion” during this period, and colleagues Fr.
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In March 2021, information appeared in the press about Tom Cruise’s affair with his colleague in the film Mission: Impossible 6, 28-year-old Vanessa Kirby.
Vanessa Kirby is Tom Cruise's new girlfriend
Cruz is a motorsports enthusiast. He feels confident driving sports cars and motorcycles, both on the set (which allows producers to save a lot on doubles) and in real life.
In 2011, the actor took part in an advertising campaign for the Red Bull racing team, piloting a Formula 1 car at the Willow Springs track in California. In addition, he has a pilot's license. Thanks to his friendship with David Beckham, the actor began supporting the Spanish football club Real Madrid.
Cruise's personal fortune is estimated at at least $500 million.
Personal life
The world community has always been interested in the personal life of the popular Hollywood actor. Cruz has been married three times. In his youth, the artist married Mimi Rogers. The ex-wife is 6 years older than Tom. Thanks to Mimi, the performer became a follower of the Church of Scientology. The marriage was considered exemplary, but in the end the couple separated, allegedly because Cruise refused to move to Los Angeles.
In 1990, on the set of Days of Thunder, Tom met his future second wife, Nicole Kidman. The lovers got married that same year, after the Christmas holidays. The Kidman-Cruise family was considered strong; the actors were married for 11 years and adopted two children - daughter Isabella and son Connor.
In 1999, Tom and Nicole starred together in Stanley Kubrick's thriller Eyes Wide Open. Kidman and Cruise played a married couple who could not deal with their problems. After 2 years, the most beautiful couple in Hollywood filed for divorce. The official reason for the separation was the employment of the spouses. During the divorce, Kidman sued her ex-husband for $10 million. The adopted children remained under the guardianship of their father.
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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
In 2001, Tom began an affair with actress Penelope Cruz when they worked together on the film Vanilla Sky. The lovers did not enter into a legal marriage and separated after three years of relationship.
A year later, Tom met his third wife, also actress Katie Holmes. The beautiful novel was discussed and covered by all the tabloids. Cruise proposed marriage to his beloved in Paris six months after the birth of his daughter Suri and gave Katie a luxurious diamond ring.
The couple officially announced their engagement on The Oprah Winfrey Show. During the broadcast, the artist did not hold back his emotions: Cruise jumped on the couch for a long time, then hugged the TV presenter, and fell on his knee in front of his chosen one. Later, this episode ended up in the plot of the comedy Scary Movie 4. The wedding took place in 2006 in Italy.
The star couple were married for 6 years, and in August 2012, Holmes and Cruise officially filed for divorce. Tom was not going to leave his daughter, he loves children very much and has long dreamed of a big family, but for the above reasons he rarely sees them. According to rumors, Cruz's religion and views on life turned out to be the bone of contention.
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Subsequently, the media more than once attributed new novels to Tom. In 2015, information appeared that Cruise's chosen one was Emily Thomas, his personal assistant. It soon became clear that the girl had a fiancé. Later, there were rumors about relationships with co-stars Rebecca Ferguson and Hayley Atwell.
During his film career, Tom changed his image several times. After his first appearances on screen, his wardrobe was full of bright shirts, but after starring in Interview with the Vampire, the actor began to show interest in stylish jackets. And after participating in “Mission,” the artist became addicted to black leather jackets.
The celebrity's hairstyle also underwent changes. At the beginning of his career, Cruise allowed himself to experiment with the length and even color of his hair, but since the early 2000s he has mostly appeared on screen with a short haircut. Tom Cruise grew a beard for his work in The Last Samurai.
Beliefs and social activities
Tom Cruise is actively involved in the social programs of the Church of Scientology and is an ardent promoter of it, fighting for its recognition in Europe as one of the official religions.
Tom Cruise is an experienced Scientologist
In 2003, he founded the New York First Responder Detoxification Fund and contributed significant funds to it to provide medical assistance to firefighters and first responders in the aftermath of the largest terrorist attack in New York on September 11, 2001. The foundation's medical program uses, among other things, the "detoxification" method developed by Scientology founder Ron Hubbard as part of Scientology's "bridge to total freedom."
Many medical professionals criticize this approach as pseudoscientific and medically dangerous, but some patients have reported feeling much better. According to the Fire Department, some firefighters have joined the Scientology religion after undergoing a “detoxification” program, and several have even left their families because of it.
In 2004, the leader of the Church of Scientology and Cruise's closest friend, David Miscavige, established the "Scientology Medal of Freedom" and awarded him this medal.
Tom Cruise in the movie Tropic Thunder In January 2004, Cruise made a shocking statement: “I believe that psychiatry should be outlawed.” He savaged actress Brooke Shields for taking an antidepressant to treat postpartum depression. Cruz said chemical imbalances in the body do not exist and psychiatry is a pseudoscience. To this, the actress replied that it makes sense for Cruise to “focus on saving the world from aliens and allow women suffering from postpartum depression to decide for themselves which treatment to choose.” Later, in August 2006, Cruise apologized to Brooke Shields for his remarks towards her.
But this was not the only time he spoke out against psychiatry, which Scientology does not recognize. On this basis, the actor seriously quarreled with director Steven Spielberg - he mentioned several times in front of Cruise about his psychiatrist friend and the medicine that he prescribed. A couple of days later, the entrance to this doctor’s waiting room was blocked by a large picket of Scientologists, and Spielberg was seriously angry about this.
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Tom Cruise is the founder and board member of the Hollywood Education and Literacy Foundation, which helps illiterate adults learn to read, a topic close to the actor's heart because he himself suffered from dyslexia as a child and had difficulty reading. He also provides financial support to many other charities, in particular, the Barbara Davis Center for Juvenile Diabetes, the Elizabeth Glaser Foundation for Children with AIDS, the HELP Foundation for the Disabled, the Jackie Chan Foundation, and others.
Scientology and beliefs
In 1990, Tom Cruise joined the Church of Scientology, which was founded by religious philosopher Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. The basis of the religion was the idea of human immortality and the possibility of spiritual rebirth. According to the actor, Scientology helped him get rid of many problems that had plagued him since childhood. Illnesses such as dyslexia are a thing of the past.
Cruise became an open follower of the teaching and began to actively promote it in European countries, even though Scientology did not receive due recognition. Nevertheless, thanks to the artist, the “Purification” program, based on the basic tenets of the teaching, started working. The project was created for participants in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. The star’s efforts were rewarded with an award - the Medal of Freedom, which was presented to Tom by the head of the Church of Scientology, David Miscavige.
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Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman with children
In 2021, information appeared that the Hollywood actor decided to move to the UK to be closer to the church. The celebrity bought the estate, which previously belonged to the founder of the religious movement. Because of his work, Cruz often lives in the United States, where he has several properties.
Tom converted his adopted children Isabella and Connor, who today are considered the same ardent adherents of Scientology as their adoptive father. Cruise is unable to see his only natural daughter: the girl attends the Catholic Church, and close communication with adherents of other religions is prohibited in Scientology.
The actor looks at many things unconventionally. For example, Tom called psychiatry “Nazi science.” Once he even got into a heated argument with Brooke Shields, who was taking medication for postpartum depression, but Cruise later had to apologize to his colleague.
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The film “Mission: Impossible 6” will be released in the summer of 2021, in which Cruise again plays the leading role and participates in producing. In August 2021, while performing a stunt for this film, the actor received a serious injury - a fracture of two bones of the ankle joint. By October, he had partially recovered and re-entered the filming, but the actor’s further independent performance of stunts was in question.
Tom Cruise is still in action
Along with official awards, the actor also has several informal “titles” received in different years:
- People magazine's sexiest man alive (1990)
- No. 1 in Forbes magazine's 100 Achievers (2006),
- No. 3 in the ranking of movie stars of all time according to Empire magazine (1997, 2005),
- No. 4 in total box office grosses of the 1990s,
- box office champion for 2005 (overtaking Tom Hanks, who held this position for 6 years),
- Movie Actor Who Dresses Best, Based on Audience Voting (1997)
- one of the 50 most beautiful people on the planet according to People magazine (1990, 1991, 1997),
- No. 14 in the ranking of the most influential people according to Premiere magazine (2003, 2005, 2006).
