Tom Cruise Biography

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Tom Cruise
 
Tom Cruise
 
 
 
Birth Name
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
Date Of Birth
3rd July 1962
Place Of Birth
Syracuse, New York, USA
Height
5’ 7”(1.70m)
Film Debut
Endless Love (1981)
Signature Film
Top Gun (1986)
 
 
 
Tom Cruise
 
Tom Cruise
 
 
 
Mini Biography:
 
Tom Cruise a deeply sensitive, spiritual youngster and a brilliant boy took birth on1962 in Syracuse, France, it was not wrong to predict him as one of the top 100 movie stars of all time in future at his 14 seeing his versatilities,but his opinion and ambition at that time was was to become a priest .as because this  Franciscan boy was studying in a   theological school where  ministers or priests were used to get training,  was quite obvious.

In New York, Tom Cruise was a destined & most deserving one, who was one of the highest paid  actors  in the screen history. He was the only son among four children of parents of migrating habit.
Eternally Tom had to face lot of difficulties in his boyhood as his parents used to be on the move always and he had attended 15 different schools in the US and Canada by the time he was 14 and at this time his parents were divorced and he finally decided to settle in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, with his mother and her new husband.
When he was in high school, his interest started inclining towards acting and eventually he dropped his plans of becoming a priest,, and thereafter he went to  New York for achieving a career in acting at the age of 18.. His entry into films gave his career a big boost to become a legend of  acting in films, this continued for  next 15 years of his life . He had launched  his own film  with a small part in Endless Love (1981) and   the day it is released it earned an undeniable box office returns,which was highly appreciated by both male and female audiences.

In traditional sense he was below average height and not very  handsome  but in 5 years time he became star of  the top earning  films of the 1980s including Top Gun (1986); The Color of Money (1986), Rain Man (1988) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). By the 1990s his blockbuster hits gave him 15 million dollars a picture approx ,which was one of the highest paid, in an Interview with the Vampire was disclosed: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), Mission: Impossible (1996) and Jerry Maguire (1996) - for which he was awarded with an Academy Award Nomination for best actor.
Tom Cruise a highly intellect, kind  hearted ,,sympathetic for poor  and generos was one of the best liked members of the movie community. ,married to actress Nicole Kidman on 2001.He had endured a lot to travel from his lonely wandering youth to till he became a superstar which is an undeniable fact.

 
 
 
Salary:
 
War of the Worlds (2005)
20% profit participation
Minority Report (2002)
$25,000,000+
Vanilla Sky (2001)
$20,000,000 + 30% of Profits
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
$75,000,000 (gross participation)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
$20,000,000
Jerry Maguire (1996)
$20,000,000 against 15%
Mission: Impossible (1996)
$70,000,000 (gross participation)
The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
$15,000,000
Far and Away (1992)
$13,000,000
Rain Man (1988)
$3,000,000+% of gross
Top Gun (1986)
$2,000,000
Risky Business (1983)
$75,000
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Interesting Videos of Tom Cruise:
 
 
Tom cruise dance
 
 
 
 

Crazy Ole' Tom Cruise on the Today Show
 
 
 
 
 
Tom Cruise Birthday Party