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Tom Cruise Basic Information
Stage Name: | Tom Cruise |
Real Name: | Thomas Cruise Mapother IV |
Occupation: | Actor, Producer |
Date Of Birth/Age: | July 3, 1962 (61) Years Old |
Place of Birth: | Syracuse, New York, U.S. |
Gender: | Male |
Nationality: | American |
Marital Status: | Divorced |
Education: | Robert Hopkins Public School Henry Munro Middle School St. Francis Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio Glen Ridge High School |
Height: | 1.7 m |
Net Worth: | $600M |
Tom Cruise Biography
Tom Cruise is an American actor who was born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962. He is one of the highest-paid performers in the world and has won numerous honors, including three Golden Globe Awards, an Honorary Palme d’Or, and four Academy Award nominations. He is one of the highest-earning movie stars of all time with over $4 billion in North American and over $11.5 billion worldwide in box office receipts for his productions.
Family
Parents
Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer, and Mary Lee (née Pfeiffer; 1936–2017), a special education teacher, welcomed Cruise into the world in Syracuse, New York. His parents had Irish, English, and German ancestry, and they were both from Louisville, Kentucky. Cruise was raised as a Catholic and within reach of poverty. Later on, he referred to his father as “a merchant of chaos,” “a bully,” and “a coward” who beat his kids.
Siblings
Tom Cruise is one of three siblings. His siblings include Cass Mapother, Marian Mapother Henry, and Lee Ann Mapother DeVette.
His sister Marian works for Clearwater Real Estate and is a licensed real estate agent in Florida. The owner of Cass’s Cafe and a Scientologist is his other sister, Cass Mapother. She is nonetheless well known for being Tom Cruise’s sister, a well-known Hollywood megastar.
Lee Ann Mapother DeVette, a publicist, was also a Scientologist. Mapother worked as a publicist for his brother. She then went to work for Tom’s production company, where she still works now.
Children
He and his ex-wife, Nicole Kidman, are parents to one son, Connor Cruise, and one daughter, Isabella “Bella” Cruise. When they were married, the Golden Globe winner and the Big Little Lies actress adopted Bella and Connor.
The child of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise is Suri Cruise. She is the only kid the former couple had together. Cruise grew up in New York City and enjoys dancing and seeing Broadway plays.
Wife
Tom is currently not married, neither is he seeing anyone. Nicole Kidman, Katie Holmes, and Mimi Rogers are all former spouses of Cruise.
Lifestyle
Net Worth
Celebrity Net Worth estimates his net worth to be $600 million, and given his annual salary of $50 million, anticipate it to rise further. Tom is worth over half a billion dollars as a result of his long career as an enduring A-lister. He has been in some of the highest-grossing films of all time, which is his primary source of income.
Cars
Tom Cruise’s can include a 2005 Bugatti Veyron ($1.9 Million), a Mercedes-Benz S-Class ($109,800), a 1998 Nissan 300ZX SCCA Race Car ($102,000), a 2000 Ford Excursion ($70,000), a 1996 Porsche 993 ($63,750), a 2010 Ford Mustang Saleen S281 ($60,000), a 2002 Mercedes-Benz CLK 200 ($53,000), a 1983 Porsche 928 ($38,500), a 1949 Buick Roadmaster ($32,995), a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS ($32,000), a 1983 BMW 3 Series 320i E30 ($13,400), a 1976 Dodge Colt ($5,000), and a 1958 Chevrolet Corvette C1.
House
Sussex Estate
Tom Cruise has a country estate in West Sussex, England. The estate is worth $4.2 million and spans 14 acres of land and 11,000 square feet, with eight bedrooms and five baths.
Beverly Hills Manor
Tom Cruise’s Beverly Hills property has seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms and covers 10,286 square feet. The Top Gun star purchased this house for $32.5 million in 2007 and sold it for a reputed $40 million in 2016.
Florida Penthouse
In Clearwater, Florida, Tom Cruise is the owner of a $9.6 million condo. His stunning two-story penthouse apartment comes complete with a private outdoor pool, a pool garden, a movie theater, a car elevator, a rooftop deck, a hot tub, and a gym.
Movies & TV Shows
Cruise debuted as an actor in the early 1980s, with prominent roles in the comedy film Risky Business (1983) and the action blockbuster Top Gun (1986). His roles in the dramas The Color of Money (1986), Rain Man (1988), and Born on the Fourth of July (1989) earned him critical praise. In the latter, he earned a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his depiction of Ron Kovic.
As a big Hollywood celebrity in the 1990s, he appeared in several commercially successful films, including A Few Good Men (1992), The Firm (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1994), and Jerry Maguire (1996). Since then, Cruise has mainly featured in sci-fi and action movies, establishing himself as an action hero and frequently pulling off dangerous feats himself.
Since 1996, he has portrayed Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible movie series. Along with these films, he also had notable roles in 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), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022), with Maverick being his highest-grossing movie.