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Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise was born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV in
1962 in Syracuse, New York.
Tom has three sisters and is the only son of Mary Lee, a special
education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical
engineer.
Tom moved around a lot when he was growing up. By the time he was 14 he
had attended 15 different schools in the U.S. and Canada. He wanted to
become a priest when he was in high school, but he soon developed an
interest in acting. He dropped out of school, and went to New York at
the age of 18 looking for a career in film.
Within 5 years Tom Cruise was starring in some of the most successful
films of the 1980s including Top Gun and The Color of Money in 1986,
Rain Man with Dustin Hoffman in 1988 and Born on the 4th of July in
1989.
By the 1990s he was one of the highest-paid actors in the world earning
an average of 15 million dollars a film in such blockbuster hits as
Interview with a Vampire in 1994 and Mission Impossible in 1996. Tom
received an Oscar Nomination for Jerry Maguire for best actor in 1996.
The Mission Impossible franchise, that Tom has stared in and also has
producer credit for, has earned a total of 3 billion dollars worldwide.
In 1990 he renounced his devout Catholic beliefs and joined The Church
of Scientology. He has married, and divorced, Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman
and Katie Holmes. Tom has three children.
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