Tom Cruise

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

The pint-size star is currently promoting the swashbuckling epic The Last Samurai.

Tom’s sing song - 05/09/03
What do you do when you meet the Japanese Prime Minister? Well, if you are Tom Cruise, you sing a few Elvis songs together.

Tom was in Japan promoting his new film The Last Samurai, his new action film that was partly filmed out there. He invited the Japanese PM along to the premiere of the film, when they had their impromptu sing song.

Tom said the PM was ’a pretty good singer.’, but he didn’t say which songs the pair sang. As long as it wasn’t ’Jailhouse Rock’ I guess.

Cruise hits back - 21/05/03
Tom Cruise is threatening legal action against tourism minister Kim Howells, for suggesting he did not have the "balls" to fly to Europe because he fears a terrorist attack.

In a bid to attract more tourists to Europe the MP laid into Hollywood stars including Tom Cruise for playing action heroes yet being scared to fly.

Before you could say ’take off’ the star’s lawyer immediately threatened to sue over the ’false and defamatory’ comments.

Cruise rubbished the outspoken minister’s comments, blaming his absence at Cannes on ’work commitment.’

Tom Toasts Nicole - 27/03/03
Part time West End resident Tom Cruise was first in line to congratulate his ex-wife Nicole Kidman on receiving the ’Best Actress Award’ at The Oscars.

Tom called Nicole from the set of his new movie ’The Last Samuri’ in New Zealand. He was on speaker phone with fellow cast members as he told her "Congratulations on your amazing achievement. You are wonderful in this film and fully deserve the award. Have a fantastic evening."

He went on to say he had ’24 bottles of champagne on ice to celebrate the result’. Gosh, Tom - I hope not all for you.

Cruise wins ?7million - 16/01/03
Part time West End resident and A-list star Tom Cruise has been awarded nearly ?7 million in his legal action against a gay porn actor who claimed they had once been lovers.

A Los Angeles judge found in favour of the Mission Impossible and Minority Report star after actor Chad Stater, admitted that he had invented the story and would not be defending the case.

Cruise’s lawyer, Ricardo Cestero, said that the case was settled shortly before New Year’s Eve, although the judgment was not made public until now. "He is very, very pleased with getting this judgment and is happy to have another ruling by a court that these stories are false and defamatory," Mr Cestero said in a statement.

This is the second time Cruise, 40, has won a legal battle to prove that he is not gay. Two years ago, the actor, who was divorced from Nicole Kidman last year, sued Michael Davis, the publisher of Bold Magazine, over claims that he had a video of Cruise having sex with men.

The ?70 million lawsuit was eventually dropped when Davis took back the claim and agreed to issue a statement that Cruise "is not, and never has been, homosexual and had never had a homosexual affair".

Cruise’s next film will be Mission: Impossible 3, in which his co-star could be Kelly Brook, the former Big Breakfast presenter.

Tom Cruises’ into the West End - 06/11/02
Tom Cruise is in the process of buying a ?5.5 million flat - not far from where Madonna and Guy Ritchie live.

The property is in Portland Place, between Regent’s Park and Oxford Street. The flat is on the large side - it has six bedrooms, three with bathrooms and two with en-suite shower rooms.

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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