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It seems a Mission: Impossible for a young seminary student to become the world's biggest movie star, but Thomas Cruise Mapother IV made All The Right Moves.

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Tom Cruise
born: 03-07-1962
birth place: Syracuse, New York, USA

In 1990, Cruise renounced his Catholic beliefs and turned instead to The Church of Scientology, claiming in an interview that Scientology had cured his dyslexia, which caused a furore in the medical community. Despite criticism aimed at Cruise for his beliefs, by the 1990s he was one of the highest paid actors in the world, earning an average of $15 million per film.

He played hotshot Cole Trickle in the stock car racing film ‘Days of Thunder’ (1990) where he met his future wife, Nicole Kidman who starred as Dr Claire Lewicki. In the critically acclaimed ‘Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles’ (1994), he starred as Lestat de Lioncourt with Brad Pitt. Cruise made his debut as Producer with Brian De Palma’s ‘Mission: Impossible’ (1996), in which he also starred as Ethan Hunt with John Voight. He had joined with Paula Wagner to form Cruise/Wagner Productions, which has since co-produced several of his films, and they won a 1997 Nova Award for Most Promising Producer in Theatrical Motion Pictures for ‘Mission: Impossible’ (1996). He played the title role in ‘Jerry Maguire’ (1996), with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Renée Zellweger, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

Other 1990s films were ‘Far and Away’ (1992) again starring with Kidman; ‘A Few Good Men’ (1992), a military thriller with Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore which was well received and earned Cruise MTV and Golden Globe nominations; ‘The Firm’ (1993), that won Favourite Dramatic Motion Picture at the People’s Choice Awards; the dark drama, that was the late Stanley Kubrick’s last film, ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ (1999) with Nicole Kidman; and ‘Magnolia’ (1999) with Julianne Moore and William H. Macy, for which he received and Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Cruise produced ‘Without Limits’ (1998) about the famous athlete Steve Prefontaine.

Starting the New Millennium with a strong focus on working as both producer and actor, Cruise completed the blockbuster sequel ‘Mission: Impossible II’ (2000) and then ‘Vanilla Sky’ (2001) co-starring Penelope Cruz. Films he produced but in which he did not act include: ‘The Others’ (2001), starring Nicole Kidman, ‘Narc’ (2002) and ‘Hitting It Hard’ (2002). To follow was the very successful ‘Shattered Glass’ (2003), ‘Suspect Zero’ (2004), ‘Elizabethtown’ (2005) with Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon and Alec Baldwin, and ‘Ask the Dust’ (2006) with Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek and Donald Sutherland.

Cruise played Chief John Anderton in the futuristic thriller ‘Minority Report’ (2002) and had a role in the hugely successful ‘Austin Powers in Goldmember’ (2002) with Mike Myers and Beyoncé Knowles. In the war drama ‘The Last Samurai’ (2003), Cruise played Nathan Algren, performing some of own stunts, and also produced the film. In a departure from his usual ‘good guy’ roles, he played grey-haired contract killer Vincent in ‘Collateral’ (2004), a crime thriller with Jamie Foxx and Jada Pinkett Smith. Next was Steven Spielberg’s ‘War of the Worlds’ (2005), a box office smash hit, followed by the third in the series, ‘Mission: Impossible III’ (2006) which Cruise once again produced.

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