Tom Cruise

**Thomas Cruise Mapother IV** (; born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer. He has starred in many movies, including _War of the Worlds_ and _Jerry Maguire_. He is one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood.

His first movie was _Endless Love_.  His first leading role was in the movie _Risky Business_ and later in _Top Gun._ He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards.  These were for the same movies: _Born on the Fourth of July_ (1989), _Jerry Maguire_ (1996), and _Magnolia_ (1999). He is known for playing the lead role Ethan Hunt in eight _Mission Impossible_ films. Other key films are _Vanilla Sky_ (2001), _Minority Report_ (2002), _The Last Samurai_ (2003), _Collateral_ (2004), _War of the Worlds_ (2005), _Knight and Day_ (2010), _Jack Reacher_ (2012), _Oblivion_ (2013), _Edge of Tomorrow_ (2014), _American Made_ (2017), and _Top Gun: Maverick_ (2022). He won his first Oscar award - for lifetime achievement - on November 16, 2025.

## Early life

Tom Cruise was born in Syracuse, New York. He is the son of Mary Lee, a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III (died 1984), an electrical engineer. Cruise has three sisters, Lee Anne, Marian, and Cass. Cruise's surname originates from his great grandfather, born Thomas Cruise O'Mara, who was renamed "Thomas Cruise Mapother" (Mapother is a Welsh surname). Cruise is of Irish, German and English ancestry. One of his paternal great grandfather, Patrick Russell Cruise, was born in North County Dublin, in 1799 he married Teresa Johnson in Warrenstown House, County Meath, in 1825. They left Ireland for America that same year and settled in New York.

## Personal life

Cruise is a Scientologist. He is one of the most famous members of the organization.

Cruise stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in (170 cm).

Cruise has an adopted daughter and adopted son with his second wife Nicole Kidman. He has a daughter Suri (born April 2006), by Katie Holmes. He and Holmes married in November 2006 and separated in 2012.

## Movie

|Year|Title|Role|Notes|<abbr>Ref(s)</abbr>|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_Endless Love_|Billy|Cameo|||
|_Taps_|David Shawn||||
|_The Outsiders_|Steve Randle||||
|_Losin' It_|Woody||||
|_Risky Business_|Joel Goodson||||
|_All the Right Moves_|Stefan Djordjevic||||
|_Legend_|Jack||||
|_Top Gun_|Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell||||
|_The Color of Money_|Vincent Lauria||||
|_Cocktail_|Brian Flanagan||||
|_Rain Man_|Charlie Babbitt||||
|_Born on the Fourth of July_|Ron Kovic||||
|_Days of Thunder_|Cole Trickle|Also co - wrote story|||
|_Far and Away_|Joseph Donelly||||
|_A Few Good Men_|Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee||||
|_The Firm_|Mitch McDeere||||
|_Interview with the Vampire_|Lestat de Lioncourt||||
|_Mission: Impossible_|Ethan Hunt|Also producer|||
|_Jerry Maguire_|Jerry Maguire||||
|_Without Limits_|N/A|Producer only|||
|_Eyes Wide Shut_|Bill Harford||||
|_Magnolia_|Frank T.J. Mackey||||
|_Mission: Impossible II_|Ethan Hunt|Also producer|||
|_Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures_|Himself / Narrator||||
|_The Others_|N/A|Executive producer only|||
|_Vanilla Sky_|David Aames|Also producer|||
|_Space Station 3D_|Narrator||||
|_Minority Report_|John Anderton||||
|_Austin Powers in Goldmember_|Himself as Austin Powers|Cameo uncredited|||
|_Narc_|N/A|Executive producer only|||
|_Shattered Glass_|N/A|Executive producer only|||
|_The Last Samurai_|Nathan Algren|Also producer|||
|_Collateral_|Vincent||||
|_War of the Worlds_|Ray Ferrier||||
|_Elizabethtown_|N/A|Producer only|||
|_Ask the Dust_|N/A|Producer only|||
|_Mission: Impossible III_|Ethan Hunt|Also producer|||
|_Lions for Lambs_|Senator Jasper Irving||||
|_Tropic Thunder_|Les Grossman||||
|_Valkyrie_|Claus von Stauffenberg||||
|_Knight and Day_|Roy Miller/Matthew Knight||||
|_Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol_|Ethan Hunt|Also producer|||
|_Rock of Ages_|Stacee Jaxx|Also credited as singer on the film's soundtrack|||
|_Jack Reacher_|Jack Reacher|Also producer|||
|_Oblivion_|Jack Harper||||
|_Edge of Tomorrow_|Major William Cage||||
|_Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation_|Ethan Hunt|Also producer|||
|_Jack Reacher: Never Go Back_|Jack Reacher|Also producer|||
|_The Mummy_|Nick Morton||||
|_American Made_|Barry Seal||||
|_Mission: Impossible – Fallout_|Ethan Hunt|Also producer|||
|_Top Gun: Maverick_|Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell|Also producer|||
|_Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One_|rowspan="2"|Ethan Hunt|Also producer||
|_Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning_|Also producer; _post-production_||||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Tom Cruise
- **image**: Tom Cruise-2428.jpg
- **caption**: Cruise at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
- **birth name**: Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
- **birth place**: Syracuse, New York, USA
- **years active**: 1981–present
- **spouse**: Mimi Rogers (1987–1990)
Nicole Kidman (1990–2001)
Katie Holmes (2006–2012)
- **children**: 3
- **website**: [http://www.tomcruise.com/ TomCruise.com]