Tom Cruise

Profession: Actor
Place/Date of Birth: New York, USA, 03 July 2020
Associated with: Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman

The joke’s on Tom ? June 05
Tom Cruise has been the victim of a stunt by pranksters posing as journalists at the London premiere of new movie, War of the Worlds. After being squirted in the face with water during an interview, a clearly rattled Cruise managed to maintain his composure and continue on his two-hour walkabout outside the Leicester Square cinema. A four-man TV crew who were filming the prank for an upcoming Channel 4 show were arrested on suspicion of assault, and the station has since issued an apology to the star. This latest incident comes just as reports are surfacing that movie bosses have renegotiated the actor?s Mission Impossible 3 contract because they are worried his recent outspoken behaviour is damaging his box office clout.
Gossip by Cher Tippetts

Tom & Katie to wed ? June 05
Tom Cruise has announced that he and Katie Holmes are to marry after a whirlwind courtship. Fittingly for a relationship that been conducted in the media spotlight, the announcement came during a Paris press conference to promote Cruise?s new film, War of the Worlds. Without prompting, the ever-excitable Tom revealed he had not slept a wink since popping the question during a romantic visit to Eiffel Tower the previous evening. Judging by the colossal rock Holmes is now sporting on her left ring finger and Tom?s smug grin, I think we can assume she said yes.
Gossip by Cher Tippetts

Tom and Brooke?s war of words ? May 05
Tom Cruise has hit out at women who take anti-depressants for post-natal depression in an interview for US TV show, Access Hollywood. The star claimed to have helped people battle addiction to ?dangerous? prescription drugs using a combination of vitamins and Scientology. Cruise told his host that Brooke Shields was misguided for using Paxil to treat depression following the birth of her child, asking ?where has her career gone?? Shields has since responded by calling Cruise?s comments ?dangerous? and by offering him two tickets to see her in Chicago in the west-end ? an adult ticket for the actor and a child ticket for his young girlfriend. Over to you Tom?
Gossip by Cher Tippetts

Cruise/Holmes love-match a sham? - May 05
Readers of People magazine certainly seem to think so. In a recent poll conducted by the US magazine, 62% of readers dismissed the ?romance? as a ploy to drum up business for their latest films. There?s no denying that, by announcing the relationship just as they are about to embark on promotional duties for War of the Worlds and Batman Begins, Cruise and Holmes will have ensured maximum press coverage for their respective films. But if it is an elaborate publicity stunt, it could end up back firing spectacularly ? in another poll, for EW.com, 61% of respondents said they liked Cruise less since he has flaunted his new romance and Scientology beliefs in the media.
Gossip by Cher Tippetts

Tom loses cool on Oprah ? May 05
Tom Cruise appeared on Oprah yesterday and put in what must be one of the most theatrical performances of his career. During an interview which was punctuated by the Hollywood star punching the air, falling to his knees and jumping up and down on Oprah?s sofa, a giddy Cruise repeatedly professed his love for girlfriend Katie Holmes. He gushed to a bemused and faintly scared-looking Oprah, ?I can?t be cool, I can?t be laid back. Something has happened and I want to celebrate that. I want to celebrate her.? Cruise topped off the bizarre spectacle by running back stage where Holmes had been watching and dragging her out in front of the cameras for yet another public smooch.
Gossip by Cher Tippetts

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Biography

New Yorker Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3 1962) may have reached the heights of the heart throb-o-meter in the eighties but since his split with Nicole Kidman has ruined many a young woman’s fantasy with increasingly bizarre behaviour. So where did it all go wrong for the sofa leaping strange one?

Born in Syracuse Tom grew up in relative poverty following his father’s departure from the family, the actor has since claimed that he suffered abuse before the split. While Thomas III refused to pay child support, Tom’s mother Mary Lee Pfieffer moved her son from city to city, eventually settling in New Jersey where Tom, who once aspired to become a Catholic priest, then a Wrestler, took up acting. His first role was as lead in a High School production of Guys and Dolls.

1981 saw Tom take his first acting role, alongside Brooke Shields in Endless Love. He followed this up with increasingly important roles before in 1983 appearing in Risky Business, the underpanted lip syncing scene of which brought him to the attention of movie goers worldwide as well as to Director Jerry Bruckheimer who asked Tom to star in his next project. Rumour has it that the actor turned down the role of fighter pilot Maverick in Top Gun but in 1986 there he was on our screens, ready to become a cinematic icon.

As the 80s rolled on The Colour of Money, Cocktail and Rain Man ensured Tom’s place at the top of the Hollywood A list, taking him in to the nineties able to demand huge pay cheques for his work and earning him Academy Award nominations (for Born on the Fourth of July). In 1990 he met Australian actress Nicole Kidman on the set of Days of Thunder who he would soon work with again on the less successful Far and Away. Fresh from his divorce from Mimi Rogers, whom he had married just three years earlier, Tom whisked Nicole up the aisle before embarking on a roll call of more ’serious’ film work from The Firm to A Few Good Men and Interview With The Vampire.

1996 proved a successful year for Tom. He began a long relationship with the Mission:Impossible franchise and earned himself another Oscar nomination for the unforgettable Bruckheimer release Jerry Maguire. But this time seemed to mark a turning point for America’s most personable lead man. In 1999 he and Nicole took on the bizarre and controversial Kubrick movie Eyes Wide Shut which he closely followed with the Oscar nominated Magnolia which saw a further move away from his usual ’arrogant nice guy’ roles.

In 2001 the Cruise/Kidman van screeched to an unexpected halt. The couple, who had two adopted children - Isabella and Connor - were divorced just before their tenth wedding anniversary. Nicole, three months pregnant, later miscarried. Tom was soon in love again, this time with Vanilla Sky co-star Penelope Cruz with whom he was linked until 2004. He continued to create box office successes, from a second Mission Impossible movie to Collateral and Minority Report.

Following his split from Penelope Tom became ever more vocal about his beliefs as a Scientologist. The controversial religion was expected to affect his 2005 outing, War of the Worlds, however whilst the film still managed to net millions, Tom’s religious ramblings coupled with his unexpected relationship with Dawson’s Creek and Batman Begins actress Katie Holmes, sixteen years his junior, saw his own popularity wane.

Tom’s pro-Scientology and anti-psychiatry comments, a very public battle with Brooke Shields and some truly over the top, overacted protestations of love signalled the end of Tom’s relationship with Paramount pictures with whom he had worked as a Producer. Paramount weren’t the only ones to go off the actor either. The newspapers and magazines who not so long ago loved him and his movies turned against him, branding him a laughing stock and turning up the volume on the gay rumours which have plagued Cruise for so many years.

Tom and Katie carried out their fast forward relationship under the glare of the press - first bringing baby daughter Suri in to the world in April 2006 just a year after they first met, then marrying in November of the same year.
upated December 2006
November 2007