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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, popularly known as Tom Cruise, an American actor churned record breaking hit films over the years is a successful film producer as well. Cruise was ranked as the "world's most powerful celebrity" by the Forbes magazine in 2006. Tom has been nominated for Academy Awards thrice and has won three Golden Globe Awards. Top was noticed and several heads turned, for his role of a desperate naval pilot in the popular 1986 film 'Top Gun'. Cruise carried on with his same zeal portraying his maverick image forward, playing a secret agent in a series of Mission: Impossible action films in the 1990s and 2000s. Tom Cruise is the Superstar of Hollywood.
| Profile | |
| Born | Thomas Cruise Mapother IV July 3, 1962 (1962-07-03) (age 46) Syracuse, New York |
| Years active | 1981 "present |
| Spouse(s) | Mimi Rogers (1987 "1990) Nicole Kidman (1990 "2001) Katie Holmes (2006 "present) |
| Domestic partner(s) | Penelope Cruz (2001 "2004) |
| Official website | http://www.tomcruise.com |
| Awards won | |
| BAFTA Awards | |
| #1 | Britannia Award 2005 Excellence in Film |
| Golden Globe Awards | |
| #2 | Best Actor " Motion Picture Drama 1989 Born on the Fourth of July Best Actor " Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1996 Jerry Maguire Best Supporting Actor " Motion Picture 1999 Magnoli |
| Golden Raspberry Awards | |
| #3 | Worst Screen Couple 1994 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles shared with Brad Pitt Most Tiresome Tabloid Targets 2006 shared with Katie Holmes |
| Other awards | |
| #4 | NBR Award for Best Actor 1996 Jerry Maguire NBR Award for Best Cast 1999 Magnolia Saturn Award for Best Actor (film) 2001 Vanilla Sky IAS Freedom Medal of Valor 2006 |
Cruise's height remains somewhat in dispute. He himself is quoted as having said in 1988: "I have always been pretty much the same weight, 147 pounds - at 5Â feet 9Â inches (175Â cm)." However, the Internet Movie Database quotes him as only 5Â feet 7Â inches (170Â cm) tall.
Read more...Cruise was married to Mimi Rogers on May 9, 1987; they divorced on February 4, 1990. Rogers is generally believed to have introduced Cruise to Scientology.
Read more...Cruise met Nicole Kidman on the set of their film Days of Thunder. The couple married on December 24, 1990 and divorced on August 8, 2001. He and Kidman adopted two children, Isabella Jane (b. December 22, 1992) and Connor Antony (b. January 17, 1995). They separated when Kidman was three months pregnant, just before their tenth wedding anniversary; she later miscarried.
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