Thomas Cruise Mapother IV ( born July 3, 1962),
widely known as Tom Cruise, is an
American film actor and producer. He
has been nominated for three
Academy Awards and has won three
Golden Globe Awards. He started his
career at age 19 in the 1981 film
Endless Love . After portraying
supporting roles in Taps (1981) and
The Outsiders (1983), his first leading
role was in Risky Business , released
in August 1983. Cruise became a full-
fledged movie star after starring in
Top Gun (1986). He is well known for
his role as secret agent Ethan Hunt in
the Mission: Impossible film series
between 1996 and 2011.
Cruise has starred in many Hollywood
blockbusters , including The Color of
Money (1986), Cocktail (1988), Rain
Man (1988), Born on the Fourth of July
(1989), Far and Away (1992), A Few
Good Men (1992), The Firm (1993),
Interview with the Vampire: The
Vampire Chronicles
(1994), Jerry Maguire (1996), Eyes
Wide Shut (1999), Magnolia (1999),
Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Report
(2002), The Last Samurai (2003),
Collateral (2004), War of the Worlds
(2005), Lions for Lambs (2007),
Valkyrie (2008), Knight and Day (2010)
, Rock of Ages (2012), Jack Reacher
(2012) and Oblivion (2013). As of
2012, Cruise is Hollywood 's highest-
paid actor. Fourteen of his films
grossed over $100 million
domestically; twenty have grossed in
excess of $200 million worldwide.
Cruise is known for his support for the
Church of Scientology and its affiliated
social programs.
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