Tom Cruise

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

In terms of relationships, Cruise has not always had staying power. He married actress Mimi Rogers on 9 May 1987 but they were divorced on 4 February 1990. It is believed that Rogers introduced Cruise to Scientology. On 24 December 1990, he married Nicole Kidman, whom he had met on the set of ‘Days of Thunder’ (1990).

Together they adopted two children, Isabella Jane (b. 22 December 1992) and Connor Antony (b. 17 January 1995). Shortly before their 10th wedding anniversary and with Kidman three month’s pregnant with their first biological child, the couple separated. Kidman later miscarried and they were divorced on 8 August 2001. Cruise then dated his ‘Vanilla Sky’ (2001) co-star, Penelope Cruz, from 2001 to January 2004. In April 2005, he started dating actress Katie Holmes and they were engaged on 17 June 2005, with Cruise proposing to her at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. “Tom/Kat”, as they are known, married in an eleborate ceremony in Italy in November, 2006, several months after Holmes gave birth to their daughter Suri in Los Angeles.

Cruise enjoys scuba diving, skydiving and piloting his Pitts Special S-2B stunt plane. He received his pilot’s licence in 1994 in Toronto, Canada. He makes regular donations to charities, including The Tsunami Relief Fund, The Ashley Flint Fund, Themoms.biz Diabetes Fund, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign and The Church of Scientology. He co-founded Downtown Medical, which offers Scientology-based detoxification therapy to New York 9/11 rescue workers. Together with Oprah Winfrey, he co-hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Norway in 2004.

Viewed by his friends as kind, thoughtful, compassionate and generous, Cruise has suffered rumours in the past about being gay and has more recently endured much negative media coverage concerning his Scientology beliefs and his relationship with Katie Holmes.

On 23 May 2005, the normally reserved Cruise stunned the world with “that couch-jumping incident” on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ when he excitedly exclaimed his love for Holmes. The American TV Guide magazine named this the number one Celebrity Meltdown Ever. The term “jumping the couch”, meaning to go off the deep end in public, quickly made its way into popular speech. On 22 August 2006, the Wall Street Journal announced that Paramount Pictures was terminating its $3 million per annum development deal with Cruise, after fourteen years. The reason cited was the under-performance of ‘Mission: Impossible III’ (2006) which was attributed to Cruise’s recent controversial behaviour and views.

Never having been one who cares much for what other people think of him and still being one of the highest paid and sought after actors in film history, Cruise has several production projects in the pipeline. These include the announced films: ‘War Magician’ (2007), ‘The Eye’ (2007), ‘I Married a Witch’ (2007), An untitled Sam Jones/Motocross project (2008) and ‘Deathrace 3000’ (2008). Whilst the world eagerly awaits his next moves, on both a personal and a professional level, Cruise continues to pursue his dreams with an intensity and instinct for survival that he learned in his youth.

Carey Latimore

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