Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise "Tom" Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) 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 as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell 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 successful films, including The Color of Money (1986) with Paul Newman, Cocktail (1988), Rain Man (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Far and Away (1992) with Nicole Kidman, A Few Good Men (1992), The Firm (1993), Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) with Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, Jerry Maguire (1996), Eyes Wide Shut (1999) with Nicole Kidman, Magnolia (1999), Vanilla Sky (2001) with Penélope Cruz and Cameron Diaz, Minority Report (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Collateral (2004), War of the Worlds (2005), Lions for Lambs (2007), Valkyrie (2008), Tropic Thunder (2008) with Ben Stiller, Knight and Day (2010) with Cameron Diaz, Jack Reacher (2012) and Oblivion (2013).
In 2012, Cruise was Hollywood's highest-paid actor. Fourteen of his films grossed over $100 million domestically; twenty one have grossed in excess of $200 million worldwide.

Cruise met his second wife, actress Nicole Kidman, on the set of their film Days of Thunder in 1989. The couple married on December 24, 1990.
Cruise and Kidman adopted two children, Isabella Jane (born December 1992) and Connor Antony (born January 1995).
In February 2001 Cruise filed for divorce from Kidman while she was unknowingly pregnant. The pregnancy ended with a miscarriage. In 2007 Kidman clarified rumours of a miscarriage early in her marriage to Cruise, saying in an interview, "It was wrongly reported," and explaining that she had actually had an ectopic pregnancy.