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| caption = Tom Cruise at a [[Yahoo!]] press conference in Sunnyvale, California on [[March 21]], [[2006]].
| birth_date = [[July 3]], [[1962]]
| birth_place = [[Syracuse, New York]]
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| occupation = [[Actor]] and [[film producer|producer]]
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'''Tom Cruise''' (born '''Thomas Cruise Mapother IV''' on [[July 3]], [[1962]]) is an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-nominated and [[Golden Globe Award]]-winning [[United States|American]] [[actor]] and [[film producer]] who has starred in a number of top-grossing [[movie]]s and remains one of the most successful [[movie star]]s in [[Hollywood]]. His first leading [[role]] in a [[blockbuster (entertainment)|blockbuster]] movie was in [[1983 in film|1983]]'s ''[[Risky Business]]''.<ref name="imdb">{{imdb name|id=0000129|name=Tom Cruise}}</ref> In the last couple of years, he has received additional media coverage regarding his support of [[Scientology]] (and his related criticism of [[psychiatry]]), [[Trapped in the Closet (South Park episode)|rumors]] that he is a [[homosexual]], and his relationship with [[Katie Holmes]].

==Early life==
Cruise was born to Thomas Mapother III and Mary Lee Pfeiffer in [[Syracuse, New York]].<ref>{{nndb name|id=791/000022725|name=Tom Cruise}}</ref><ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169455/news IMDB, "Cruise's Family Tree Treat"]</ref>
Cruise has [[German people|German]] ancestry from his paternal great-grandparents, William Reibert and Charlotta Louise Voelker; and [[Welsh people|Welsh]] ancestry from his all-paternal great-great-grandfather, Dylan Henry Mapother, who emigrated from [[Flint, Wales|Flint]], [[Wales]] to [[Louisville, Kentucky]] in 1850.<ref>[http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/tomc/d0/i0000031.htm Ancestry of Tom Cruise: Fourth Generation]</ref> <!-- any better sources? --> <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/iconsofwales/sites/content/pages/tom_cruise.shtml]</ref> His maternal ancestry is half Irish and half German (including Alsatian). <ref>[http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=houston&id=I3330 Dreyfous-Kahrs-Thomas-Hamilton Family]</ref> Cruise had a transient existence as a child with his family residing throughout various locations in the United States and Canada. Cities where he lived included [[Ottawa, Canada]], Louisville, [[Glen Ridge, New Jersey]] (where he graduated from [[Glen Ridge High School]]) and [[Wayne, New Jersey]]. In all, Cruise attended eight elementary schools and three high schools. He briefly attended a [[Franciscan]] [[seminary]] in [[Cincinnati]] and aspired to become a [[Holy Orders|Catholic priest]]. It was recently brought forth that Cruise had suffered from child abuse when he was younger. He stated that when something went wrong, his father came down hard on him. He told ''[[Parade Magazine]]'' that his father was "a bully and a coward" and "a merchant of chaos". Cruise said he learned early on that his father was not to be trusted.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/06/people.cruise.ap/index.html CNN report about Parade Magazine article]</ref>.
Cruise became interested in acting after being sidelined from his high school's wrestling team due to a knee injury. While injured, he successfully auditioned for a lead role in his high school's production of ''[[Guys and Dolls]]'' and decided to become an actor after his success in the role.

==Hollywood==
===Acting career===
Cruise's first acting role came in 1981, where he had a small role in ''[[Endless Love]]'', a drama/romance film starring [[Brooke Shields]]. He had a much larger role in a substantially bigger film, ''[[Taps (film)|Taps]]'', starring alongside [[George C. Scott]], [[Timothy Hutton]] and [[Sean Penn]]. The film about miltary cadets was moderately successful. In 1983, he was one of many young teenage stars to appear in [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s ''[[The Outsiders]]''. The cast for this film included [[Rob Lowe]], [[Matt Dillon]], [[Patrick Swayze]], and [[Ralph Macchio]]. That same year Cruise appeared in the teen comedy ''[[Losin' It]]'' with [[Shelley Long]]. Also on 1983, ''[[Risky Business]]'' was released, ''Risky Business'' is thought to be the film that propelled Cruise to stardom. One sequence in the film, featuring Cruise [[lip sync|lip-syncing]] [[Bob Seger|Bob Seger's]] "Old Time Rock and Roll" in his [[undergarment|underwear]], has become an [[icon]]ic moment in film history. The film has been descried as "A Generation-X classic, and a career-maker for Tom Cruise".[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1017641-risky_business/] A fourth film that was released in 1983 was the high-school football drama, ''[[All the Right Moves]]''.
[[Image:Tom Cruise Top Gun sunset.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Cruise as Maverick in the 1986 blockbuster, ''[[Top Gun (film)|Top Gun]]''.]]
Cruise's next film was [[Ridley Scott]]'s ''[[Legend (film)|Legend]]''. Cruise was picked as the first choice by big producers [[Jerry Bruckheimer]] and [[Don Simpson]] for an upcoming American fighter pilot film. Cruise at first apparently turned down the project, but helped to alter the script he was given and developed the film. Afer being taken for a flight with the [[Blue Angels]], Cruise changed his mind and signed on with the project. ''[[Top Gun (film)|Top Gun]]'' opened in May of 1986 and became the highest grossing film of the year, taking in $353,816,701 in worldwide figures. He also starred in [[Martin Scorsese]]'s ''[[The Color of Money]]'' that same year. In 1988 he starred in the light hearted drama, ''[[Cocktail (film)|Cocktail]]'', the film received mixed reviews and Cruise was subsequently nominated for a Razzie award in 1989. Later that year, ''[[Rain Man]]'' was released, which also starred [[Dustin Hoffman]]. The film was praised by critics and was nominated for four [[Academy Awards]], and won all four.

Cruise was welcomed with similar success the following year when he received [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations for ''[[Born on the Fourth of July]]''. In 1990, Cruise starred as hot-shot Cole Trickle as a racing car driver in ''[[Days of Thunder]]''. ''Days of Thunder'' is where Cruise first met Australian actress [[Nicole Kidman]], who was his co-star. Cruises' next film was ''[[Far and Away]]'' where he again was starring with Nicole Kidman. Cruise starred in ''[[A Few Good Men]]'' with [[Jack Nicholson]] and [[Demi Moore]], the well received military thriller earned Cruise Golden Globe and MTV nominations. The following year he starred in ''[[The Firm]]'' which won Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture at the [[People's Choice Awards]].

In 1994, Cruise starred in ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]'', a drama/horror film that was also very well received. In 1996, Cruise starred in (as well as produced) ''[[Mission: Impossible]]''. The film grossed $456,494,803 worldwide, and was the third highest grossing film that year. In 1996 he starred in ''[[Jerry Maguire]]''. The film earned him an Academy Award [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] nomination as well as winning co-star [[Cuba Gooding Jr.]] an Academy Award, the film was in total, nominated for five Academy Awards. The film also saw the line "Show me the Money!" become part of popular culture. ''Jerry Maguire'' saw Tom Cruise become the first actor in history to star in five consecutive films that grossed at least $100 million in domestic release. ''[[Eyes Wide Shut]]'' (1999) which took two years to finish as director [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s last film, alongside then spouse [[Nicole Kidman]]. Cruise also performed as a [[Misogyny|misogynistic]] male guru in ''[[Magnolia (film)|Magnolia]]'' (1999), which netted him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.

In 2000, Cruise returned as [[Ethan Hunt]] in the ''Mission Impossible'' films, releasing ''[[Mission: Impossible II]]'', the film continued the series' blockbuster success at the box office, taking in $545,902,562 in worldwide figures, like its predecessor, being the third highest grossing film of the year. The following year Cruise starred in the erotic thriller remake of 1997's ''[[Abre Los Ojos]]'', ''[[Vanilla Sky]]''. In 2002, Cruise starred in the [[dystopia]]n thriller, ''[[Minority Report (film)|Minority Report]]'' as well as ''[[The Last Samurai]]'', which saw Cruise perform some of his own stunts, as he did in ''M:I-2''.

In the 2004 action thriller film ''[[Collateral]]'', Cruise combatted a good-guy stereotype which had been attributed to him. A number of Cruise's more well-known and popular movies have cast him in a similar role, one which has been half-jokingly referred to by movie fans (and some critics) as the "Generic Tom Cruise Character." In this role, Cruise portrays a character who, as the film begins, is seen as a cocky, stuck-up, self-centered egoist who cares for little other than himself. As the events of the movie unfold, his character learns to become more open-minded and altruistic, until by the time the climax has been reached, he has undergone a radical change and been transformed into a better human being. ''Collateral'' saw a surprising turn as a sociopathic gray-haired hitman with a killer smile, Vincent, who hijacks the cab to be transported to five hits on one night. His trademark smile and handling guns took a 180-degree turn for an unlikable character who is very organized and thoroughly nasty, as opposed to his popular good-guy characters. [[Image:Tripod in action.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Cruise in ''War of the Worlds''.]]

In 2005, Cruise starred in [[Steven Spielberg]]'s ''[[War of the Worlds (2005 film)|War of the Worlds]]''. The events leading up to the release of the film, notably, Cruises' very public advocation of Scientology and anti-psychiatry statements, coupled with the criticism of his relationship with actress [[Katie Holmes]], many expected the film to be a bomb at the boxoffice. In an ironic twist of events, the film earned $234,280,354 at the United States box office, becoming his most successful film in domestic figures (not taking inflation into account), and ultimately earning $591,416,316 in worldwide figures. He was however, the winner of three [[Golden Raspberry Awards|Razzie]] nominations at the end of the year.

===Producing career===
Cruise teamed with producer [[Paula Wagner]] to form [[Cruise/Wagner Productions]], which has co-produced several of Cruise's films<ref>{{imdb company|id=0130381|company=Cruise/Wagner Productions [us]}}</ref>, the first being ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)|Mission: Impossible]]'' in 1996, Cruises' first work as a producer. He won a Nova Award (shared with [[Paula Wagner]], Cruise's producing partner at Cruise/Wagner Productions) for Most Promising Producer in Theatrical Motion Pictures at the PGA Golden Laurel Awards in 1997 for his work as a producer on ''Mission Impossible''.

His next project as a producer was the 1998 film, ''[[Without Limits]]'', a film about famous runner [[Steve Prefontaine]]. Cruise returned to work as a produced in 2000, continuing work on the ''Mission Impossible'' sequel. He then served as an executive producer for ''[[The Others]]'' which starred [[Nicole Kidman]], also that year, he again worked as actor/producer in ''[[Vanilla Sky]]''. He subsequently worked on (but did not star in) ''[[Narc (film)|Narc]]'', ''[[Hitting It Hard]]'' and ''[[Shattered Glass]]'', with ''Shattered Glass'' being particularly successful. His next project, which he also starred in, was ''[[The Last Samurai]]'', he was jointly nominated for the Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award at the 2004 PGA Golden Laurel Awards. He then worked on ''[[Suspect Zero]]'', ''[[Elizabethtown]]'' and ''[[Ask the Dusk]]''. he reprised his role as actor/producer in the third 'Mission Impossible'' film.

Tom Cruise is noted as having negotiated some of the most lucrative movie deals in Hollywood, and was described in 2005 by Hollywood economist [[Edward Jay Epstein]] as "one of the most powerful - and richest - forces in Hollywood". Epstein argues that Cruise is one of the few producers (the others being [[George Lucas]], [[Steven Spielberg]] and [[Jerry Bruckheimer]]) who are regarded as able to guarantee the success of a billion-dollar movie franchise. Epstein also contends that the public obsession with Cruise's tabloid controversies obscures full appreciation of Cruise's exceptional commercial prowess in the industry [http://www.slate.com/id/2121617/].

==Popularity==
In 1990, 1991 and 1997, ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' magazine rated him among the 50 most [[beauty|beautiful]] people in the world.<ref name="imdb" /> In 1995, ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine ranked him among the 100 sexiest stars in film history.<ref name="imdb" /> Two years later, it ranked him among the top 5 movie stars of all time.<ref name="imdb" /> In 2002 and 2003, he was rated by ''[[Premiere (magazine)|Premiere]]'' among the top 20 in its annual Power 100 list.<ref name="imdb" />

His frequent controversial outbursts promoting the Church of Scientology and his Scientology-based strong [[Anti-psychiatry|anti-psychiatry]] beliefs, combined with his unusually erratic behavior throughout 2005 ''(detailed below)'' may have led to a drop in his popularity. [http://www.geniusinsight.com/news_oct05.html#cruise One survey] for example, showed Cruise's popularity drop from 11th to 197th most liked celebrity over a six month period.<sup> [http://www.geniusinsight.com/news_oct05.html#cruise]</sup> In 2006, Premiere magazine established Cruise as Hollywood's most powerful actor, as Cruise came in at number 13 on the magazines 2006 Power List, being the highest ranked actor.<ref name="powerlist">{{cite web | title=Tom Cruise named Hollywood’s most powerful actor | work=indobase.com | url=http://stories.indobase.com/article_5143.shtml | accessdate=12 May | accessyear=2006}}</ref>

==Relationships==
===Mimi Rogers===
Cruise was married to [[Mimi Rogers]] (married on [[May 9]], [[1987]], divorced [[February 4]], [[1990]])<ref name="imdb" />. [[Scientology]] took interest in the divorce because Rogers was disaffected from Scientology (although she introduced Cruise to the religion in the first place); in managing the divorce for Cruise, they were able to convince her to accept a relatively paltry $10 million for the settlement. [http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/celebrities_con.html].

===Nicole Kidman===
Cruise met [[Nicole Kidman]] on the set of their film ''[[Days of Thunder]]''. The couple married on [[December 24]], [[1990]] and divorced on [[August 8]], [[2001]].<ref name="imdb" /> He and Kidman adopted two children, Isabella (born 1993) and Connor (born 1995).<ref name="imdb" /> Cruise left Kidman three months pregnant, just shy of their 11 year wedding anniversary; she lost the child[http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,8039,00.html]. Reportedly, Kidman refused to explore Scientology and remained [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] during their marriage.

===Penélope Cruz===
Cruise was next romantically linked with [[Penélope Cruz]], the lead actress in his film ''[[Vanilla Sky]]''. In March 2004, he announced that his relationship with [[Penélope Cruz]] had ended in January. It was suggested that [[Scientology]] played a role in the relationship failing. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3570639.stm]

===Katie Holmes===
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[[Image:Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise.jpg|thumb|230 px|Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes at a Yahoo! press conference in March 2006.]]
In April 2005, Cruise began dating [[Katie Holmes]], before announcing on [[17 June]] [[2005]] that he had proposed to her at the top of the [[Eiffel Tower]] in [[Paris]], [[France]]. [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8822036] She accepted his proposal, and the couple are expected to be married in the summer or fall of 2006.
On [[April 18]], [[2006]] Katie gave birth to a baby girl named [[Suri]], whose name was chosen with its relation to Scientology, the Persian Rose and the birthplace.<ref>[http://www.birdwatchperu.com/TR_interesting_tours.html]</ref> It's the first child for Holmes and third for Cruise, who (as previously mentioned) has two adopted children with Nicole Kidman. <ref>[http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1170244,00.html Katie Holmes & Tom Cruise Have a Girl!] ''[[People (magazine)|People.com]]''. [[April 18]], [[2006]].</ref> Coincidentally, Suri was born on the same day Grier Hammond was born to [[Brooke Shields]], whom Cruise had criticized less than a year earlier for treating her [[postpartum depression]] with [[anti-depressants]].

==Controversy==
===Scientology===
Cruise is arguably Hollywood's most outspoken member of the [[Church of Scientology]]. He became involved with the church in 1990 through his first wife, [[Mimi Rogers]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/1791617.stm Cruise lobbies over Scientology] BBC News</ref> It has been claimed that Cruise belongs to one of the highest echelons of the Church of Scientology, known as "[[Operating Thetan]] Seven" or OT-VII <ref>[http://www.scientology-lies.com/faq/celebrities/tom-cruise.html Tom Cruise - Involvement in Scientology] Scientology Lies</ref>, and it has been suggested that Cruise's increasing willingness to talk openly about Scientology may be a reflection of this. <ref>[http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,362731,00.html Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology] Spiegel</ref>

{{wikinews|Tom Cruise debates psychiatry on Today show}}
A controversy erupted in 2005 after he openly criticized actress [[Brooke Shields]] for using the drug [[Paxil]], an anti-depressant, which Shields claims helped her recover from [[postpartum depression]] after the birth of her daughter in 2003. Cruise asserted, contrary to assertions in the medical field, that there is no such thing as a [[chemical imbalance theory|chemical imbalance]], that psychiatry is a form of [[pseudoscience]]. This led to a heated argument with [[Matt Lauer]] on ''[[The Today Show]]'' on [[June 24]], [[2005]].<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8344309/ "In tense moment, Cruise calls Lauer 'glib'"] [[MSNBC|MSNBC.COM]]. (June 28, 2005)</ref>
Brooke Shields responded to Cruise's comments as "irresponsible and dangerous"<ref name="words">[http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,16683,00.html Brooke & Tom's War of the Words] E online</ref>. (Coincidentally, Holmes and Shields both gave birth on April 18, 2006.)

Cruise has publicly said that Scientology, specifically the L. Ron Hubbard Scientology Study Tech, helped him overcome his [[dyslexia]].<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7968809/ Cruise credits Scientology for his success] MSNBC</ref> <!-- Unsourced image removed: [[Image:Szaszcruise picture.jpg|thumb|right|Cruise with Dr. Szasz shown at a [[Citizens Commission on Human Rights|CCHR]] annual dinner.]] -->
Cruise also claimed in an ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' interview that [[psychiatry]] "is a [[Nazism|Nazi]] science" and that [[methadone]] was actually originally called Adolophine after [[Adolf Hitler]], a myth well-known as an [[urban legend]]. <ref>[http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/cruise%20tripped%20up%20by%20magazine%20over%20scientology%20claims CRUISE TRIPPED UP BY MAGAZINE OVER SCIENTOLOGY CLAIMS] contactmusic.com</ref> In an interview with ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' magazine, Cruise claimed that "In Scientology, we have the only successful [[drug rehabilitation]] program in the world. It's called [[Narconon]]... It's a statistically proven fact that there is only one successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. Period". While Narconon claims to have a success rate over 70% <ref>[http://www.scientology.org/en_US/world/betterment/narconon/ NARCONON: A NEW LIFE FOR DRUG ADDICTS] Scientology web site</ref>, the accuracy of this figure has been disputed. <ref>[http://www.xenu.net/archive/oca/narconon/success.html Narconon's success rates] Operation Clambake</ref> It has been reported that Cruise adopted his [[anti-psychiatry]] philosophies from [[Thomas Szasz|Dr. Thomas Szasz]], a leading critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry. <ref>[http://domino.american.edu/AU/media/mediarel.nsf/41cc7d6ab41c6e4685256869007a3b8f/b5bba5470dbb96cb8525702f006b9750?OpenDocument American University Mental Health Expert Can Discuss Tom Cruise and “War of the Words”] American University News</ref>

[[As of 2005]], Tom Cruise has begun campaigning on behalf of the Church of Scientology before politicians and government officials around the world. Such advocacy does not go well in several European countries where this organization is considered to be a cult. As an example, on July 13th, 2005, after it was learned that he lobbied [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] and [[Jean-Claude Gaudin]] (the mayor of [[Marseille]]), the city council of [[Paris]] vowed "never to receive [before the council or the mayor] the actor Tom Cruise, spokesman for Scientology and self-declared militant for this organisation" <ref>[http://www.examiner.ie/breaking/story.asp?j=182470131&p=y8z47x994&n=182471074&x= Paris snubs Scientology 'militant' Cruise] Irish Examiner</ref><ref>[http://www.sorcellerie.net/snews.asp?act=see&id=558 Tom Cruise ne sera pas citoyen d'honneur de Paris] (In French)</ref>

He has also campaigned and raised donations for [[Downtown Medical]], which he co-founded, to offer New York 9/11 rescue workers detoxification therapy based on the works of [[L. Ron Hubbard]]. This has drawn criticism from the medical profession<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/nyregion/04DETO.html?ex=1148011200&en=c46507c25827d1c3&ei=5070 ''Scientologist's Treatments Lure Firefighters''], Michelle O'Donnell, [[NY Times]], [[4 October]], [[2003]]</ref>, as well as firefighters.<ref>[http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/id/3472160 ''Cruise Blasted by 9/11 Firefighters''], World Entertainment News Network, [[14 December]], [[2005]]</ref>

{{wikinews|Isaac Hayes quits South Park over Scientology episode}}
On [[March 13]], [[2006]] ([[L. Ron Hubbard]]'s birthday), Scientologist [[Isaac Hayes]] quit the television show ''[[South Park]]'', reportedly because of [[Trapped in the Closet (South Park episode)|a controversial episode]] that [[satire|satirized]] [[Scientology]]. Dubbed "Closetgate" by the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', the controversy continued as [[Comedy Central]], the channel that broadcasts ''[[South Park]]'' in the [[United States|U.S.]], pulled the "[[Trapped in the Closet (South Park episode)|Trapped in the Closet]]" episode at the last minute from a scheduled repeat on [[March 15]] [[2006]]. It was alleged that Cruise threatened [[Paramount]] with withdrawal from promotion of his latest film ''[[Mission: Impossible III|Mission Impossible 3]]'' if the episode was broadcast. (This rumor later turned out to be false). [[Viacom]] owns both Paramount and Comedy Central. Paramount and Cruise's representatives denied any threats. [[Trey Parker]] and [[Matt Stone]], in a typically satirical response, claimed to be "servants of [[Xenu]]" and declared that the "million-year war for Earth" had only just begun. The ''[[Los Angeles Times|LA Times]]'' reported that, "For Stone and Parker, Closetgate will be the gift that keeps on giving." <ref>[http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article352197.ece South Park declares war on Tom Cruise] The Independent</ref>

Concern has also been voiced about Holmes and her relationship to [[Scientology]]. Roger Friedman of the [[Fox News]] Channel claimed that Katie Holmes disappeared for sixteen days in April when even her own family did not know her whereabouts. <ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1601921,00.html]</ref> Allegedly, the last time she had been seen, Holmes had flown to meet with Tom Cruise for a possible role in ''Mission Impossible 3''. When she re-appeared, Holmes stated she was in love with Tom Cruise and studying Scientology. The actress then fired her long-time manager and agent and acquired [[Jessica Rodriguez]], a prominent member of the Church of Scientology. <ref>[http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/10/wkatie10.xml]</ref>
===2005 Oprah appearance===
[[Image:Cruiseonoprah.jpg|200px|thumb|Tom Cruise jumps ecstatically on [[Oprah Winfrey|Oprah]]'s couch]]
Cruise has indulged in over-the-top media-friendly expressions of his deep love for Holmes, most notably the "[[jumping the couch|couch incident]]" which took place on the popular talk show, ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'' of [[May 23]], [[2005]]: Cruise &#8212; in the words of ''[[The New York Times]]'' &#8212; "jumped around the set, hopped onto a couch, fell rapturously to one knee and repeatedly professed his love for his new girlfriend." This scene has been parodied in numerous venues in film (''[[Scary Movie 4]]'') and TV (''[[Family Guy]]'') (the "couch incident" was voted #1 of 2005's "Most Surprising Television Moments" on a countdown on E! <ref>[http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column/index.cfm?columnID=9334]</ref> ), and the Internet (including one reworking of the scene to make it look like Cruise kills Oprah with [[Sith]] lightning emanating from his hands).<ref>[http://youtube.com/watch?v=sV3f98QYzLs]</ref> Comedian [[Dane Cook]] parodied the incident a week later on Jimmy Kimmel, professing his love for Katie Holmes with a home-made tattoo on his back (A photograph affixed with tape) and going all the way to the female restroom to get her. In early 2006, when [[James Frey]] made his infamous appearance on Oprah, [[Best Week Ever]] released a [[mashup]] of Cruise's appearance and Frey's<ref>[http://www.bestweekever.tv/2006/02/15/tom-cruise-on-oprah-the-way-it-shouldve-been/ Best Week Ever: Tom Cruise On Oprah, The Way It Should Have Been]</ref>, in which Oprah appears to call Cruise a liar.

===Litigation===
*'''[[Daily Express|The Daily Express newspaper]]''' — During his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman, the couple endured public speculation about their sex life and rumors that Cruise was gay. In 1998, he sued a British tabloid that alleged that the marriage was a sham designed to cover up his homosexuality.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/203779.stm Cruise and Kidman win libel case - BBC News]</ref>
*'''Chad Slater''' — In May 2001 he filed a lawsuit against gay porn actor Chad Slater (aka [[Kyle Bradford]]). Slater had allegedly told the celebrity magazine ''Actustar'' that he had engaged in an affair with Cruise. Both Slater and Cruise denied this, and in August 2001 Slater was ordered to pay $10 million to Cruise in damages.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/2664159.stm Cruise wins 'gay' claims legal battle - BBC News]</ref>
*'''Michael Davis''' — He also sued [[Michael Davis (magazine publisher)|Michael Davis]], a magazine publisher, who alleged that he had photographs that would prove Tom Cruise was homosexual; this suit was dropped in exchange for a public statement by Davis that Tom Cruise was heterosexual.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/1686039.stm Cruise gay claims dropped - BBS News]</ref>

===Wiretapping investigation===
On March 17, 2006, the "Page Six" gossip column in the ''[[New York Post]]'' reported that Cruise's former wife Nicole Kidman was questioned by the FBI as part of the ongoing [[Anthony Pellicano|Pellicano wiretap investigation]]. Telephone voice recordings of Kidman speaking to Cruise were found when authorities first raided Pellicano's offices in 2002.

The tapes were allegedly made in 2001, shortly after Kidman and former husband Cruise announced they were separating. Cruise used lawyer Dennis Wasser to negotiate his separation, and Wasser regularly retained Pellicano's services. Although he has not been charged in the case, Wasser has been told by the FBI he is a "person of interest."[http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=8&theme=&usrsess=1&id=109997][http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds30609.html]

Cruise's personal attorney [[Bertram Fields]] has also been repeatedly connected to the same wiretapping investigation.

===Publicist===
Cruise's more open attitude to [[Scientology]] has been attributed to the departure of his publicist of 14 years, [[Pat Kingsley]], in March 2004. He replaced her with his sister, fellow Scientologist [[Lee Anne DeVette]], who served in that role until November 2005 [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117932447?categoryid=13&cs=1]. He then demoted his sister and replaced her with veteran publicist [[Paul Bloch]], from the publicity firm Rogers and Cowan. Such restructuring is seen as a move to curtail publicity about his Scientology views, as well as the hard-sell of the Tom/Kat relationship backfiring with the public [http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1499693,00.html],
[http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/JustSaying/story?id=798031&page=1].
DeVette explained that it was her decision to work on philanthropic projects rather than publicity[http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/eo/20051108/113151894008.html].

===Miscellaneous===
In April 2005, Cruise began dating Katie Holmes. This very public love affair took a dramatic turn when Cruise and Holmes got engaged in Paris [http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-06-17-cruise-holmes_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA] while on a world publicity tour for their two most recent movies (''[[War of the Worlds (2005 film)|War of the Worlds]]'' for Cruise, and ''[[Batman Begins]]'' for Holmes). ''War of the Worlds'' director [[Steven Spielberg]] indicated that he was frustrated by media coverage of Cruise's relationship during promotion of the film, though he believed it to be genuine. [http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/20/people.spielberg.reut/] On [[October 5]], [[2005]], it was reported by ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' magazine that Holmes was pregnant. Cruise came under fire from various medical professionals after he bought a sonogram machine to monitor his baby. The [[American College of Radiology]] claims that overuse or misuse of the medical equipment is unnecessary and could be harmful to the baby's health, and that it may be illegal to own. [http://marriage.about.com/od/entertainmen1/p/tomcruise.htm] On May 4, 2006 the California Assembly passed a bill to ban distribution of ultrasound machines to non-licensed practitioners, though the law must still go through the Senate.<ref>[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0605070301may07,1,4935846.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed Law concerning ultrasound machines] Chigago Tribune</ref> On April 18, 2006 Holmes gave birth to a baby girl named Suri, the first child for both Holmes and Cruise although the latter has two adopted children: Connor Antony (born [[January 17]] [[1995]]) and Isabella Jane (born [[December 22]] [[1992]]) from his marriage to Nicole Kidman.<ref name="imdb" />

Cruise's behavior in recent interviews and his very public romance with Katie Holmes led him to become the butt of numerous jokes on late night television shows such as ''[[Late Night with Conan O'Brien]]''. [http://www.scientomogy.info/mccheese.htm] The jokes commonly referred to Cruise being insane or parody the Lauer interview.

In February 2006 an article in ''Life & Style'' magazine reported that Cruise and Holmes were splitting up, but keeping up a public pretense until the Spring (when the birth of their child will roughly coincide with the release of ''[[Mission Impossible 3]]'', Cruise's next film). [[Arnold Robinson]], a publicist for the couple, denied there being any truth to the story. A representative for ''Life & Style'' magazine responded, "We stand 100 percent behind our story", and claimed it had been verified by two anonymous friends of Cruise. [http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/15/people.cruise.holmes.ap/index.html]

In an April 2006 interview with ''[[GQ (magazine)|GQ]]'' magazine taken while Holmes was pregnant, Cruise jokingly suggested that he might eat her [[placenta]] after birth - a health practice known as [[placentophagy]]. He was quoted as saying "I'm gonna eat the [[placenta]]. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I'm gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there." But when the interviewer said it would be a big meal, Cruise replied: "OK, maybe I won't." In a later interview with [[Diane Sawyer]], Cruise joked about the comments and said he wasn't really going to eat it. [http://www.sky.com/showbiz/article/0,,50001-1218958,00.html][http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article358628.ece][http://www.newswire.co.nz/main/viewstory.aspx?storyid=312840&catid=3008]

During the [[London]] premiere of ''War of the Worlds'', Cruise was on one of his familiar walkabouts when much to his surprise he was squirted with a water pistol (disguised as a microphone) by a performer working on a TV programme for the [[Channel Four]] Station in the UK, in which various famous people were targeted for practical jokes. While maintaining his composure, the actor called the perpetrator a "jerk" and said he was "incredibly rude". [[Police]] later made arrests after the incident, but no charges were later brought[http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/cruiseap062005.html]. The programme in question was entitled ''[[Balls of Steel]]''.

All salaries are reported by [[the Internet Movie Database|IMDb]] source. They do not account for inflation.

==Selected filmography==


{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year !! Title !! Role !! Other notes !! Salaries
|-
| [[1981 in film|1981]] || ''[[Endless Love (film)|Endless Love]]'' || Billy ||
|-
| [[1981 in film|1981]] || ''[[Taps (film)|Taps]]'' || Cadet Captain David Shawn ||
|-
| [[1983 in film|1983]] || ''[[The Outsiders (film)|The Outsiders]]'' || Steve Randle ||
|-
| [[1983 in film|1983]] || ''[[Losin' It]]'' || Woody ||
|-
| [[1983 in film|1983]] || ''[[Risky Business]]'' || Joel Goodson || || $75,000
|-
| [[1983 in film|1983]] || ''[[All the Right Moves]]'' || Stef ||
|-
| [[1985 in film|1985]] || ''[[Legend (film)|Legend]]'' || Jack O' The Green ||
|-
| [[1986 in film|1986]] || ''[[Top Gun (film)|Top Gun]]'' || Lt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell || || $1,000,000
|-
| [[1986 in film|1986]] || ''[[The Color of Money]]'' || Vincent Lauria ||
|-
| [[1988 in film|1988]] || ''[[Cocktail (film)|Cocktail]]'' || Brian Flanagan ||
|-
| [[1988 in film|1988]] || ''[[Young Guns]]'' || Cowboy || uncredited cameo
|-
| [[1988 in film|1988]] || ''[[Rain Man]]'' || Charlie Babbitt || || $3,000,000 + % of gross
|-
| [[1989 in film|1989]] || ''[[Born on the Fourth of July]]'' || Ron Kovic || Academy Award Nomination - Best Actor
|-
| [[1990 in film|1990]] || ''[[Days of Thunder]]'' || Cole Trickle ||
|-
| [[1992 in film|1992]] || ''[[Far and Away]]'' || Joseph Donnelly || || $13,000,000
|-
| [[1992 in film|1992]] || ''[[A Few Good Men]]'' || Lt. Daniel Kaffee ||
|-
| [[1993 in film|1993]] || ''[[The Firm (film)|The Firm]]'' || Mitch McDeere ||
|-
| [[1994 in film|1994]] || ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]'' || Lestat de Lioncourt || || $15,000,000
|-
| [[1996 in film|1996]] || ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)|Mission: Impossible]]'' || [[Ethan Hunt]] || || $70,000,000 (gross participation)
|-
| [[1996 in film|1996]] || ''[[Jerry Maguire]]'' || Jerry Maguire || Academy Award Nomination - Best Actor || $20,000,000 against 15%
|-
| [[1999 in film|1999]] || ''[[Eyes Wide Shut]]'' || Bill Harford || || $20,000,000
|-
| [[1999 in film|1999]] || ''[[Magnolia (film)|Magnolia]]'' || [[Frank T.J. Mackey]] || Academy Award Nomination - Best Supporting Actor
|-
| [[2000 in film|2000]] || ''[[Mission: Impossible II]]'' || Ethan Hunt || || $75,000,000 (gross participation)
|-
| [[2001 in film|2001]] || ''[[Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures]]'' || Narrator ||
|-
| [[2001 in film|2001]] || ''[[Vanilla Sky]]'' || David Aames || also producer || $20,000,000 + 30% of profits
|-
| [[2002 in film|2002]] || ''[[Space Station 3D]]'' || Narrator ||
|-
| [[2002 in film|2002]] || ''[[Minority Report (film)|Minority Report]]'' || John Anderton || || $25,000,000+
|-
| [[2002 in film|2002]] || ''[[Austin Powers in Goldmember]]'' || Himself || cameo
|-
| [[2003 in film|2003]] || ''[[The Last Samurai]]'' || Nathan Algren || also producer || $25,000,000 + % of profits
|-
| [[2004 in film|2004]] || ''[[Collateral (film)|Collateral]]'' || Vincent ||
|-
| [[2005 in film|2005]] || ''[[War of the Worlds (2005 film)|War of the Worlds]]'' || Ray Ferrier || [[Golden Raspberry Awards|Razzie]] Nomination - Worst Actor || 20% profit participation ('''$118,283,263.20''')
|-
| [[2006 in film|2006]] || ''[[Mission: Impossible III]]'' || Ethan Hunt || also producer
|| $75,000,000

|}

== Worldwide film grosses ==
:<small>''These figures do not account for inflation.''</small>

{|class="wikitable"
!Year
!Title
!Gross
|-
|[[2005 in film|2005]]
|''[[War of the Worlds (2005 film)|War of the Worlds]]''
|$591,416,316
|-
|[[2000 in film|2000]]
|''[[Mission: Impossible II]]''
|$545,902,562
|-
|[[2003 in film|2003]]
|''[[The Last Samurai]]''
|$456,758,981
|-
|[[1996 in film|1996]]
|''[[Mission: Impossible (film)|Mission: Impossible]]''
|$456,494,833
|-
|[[2002 in film|2002]]
|''[[Minority Report (film)|Minority Report]]''
|$358,372,926
|-
|[[1988 in film|1988]]
|''[[Rain Man]]''
|$354,825,435
|-
|[[1986 in film|1986]]
|''[[Top Gun]]''
|$353,816,701
|-
|[[1996 in film|1996]]
|''[[Jerry Maguire]]''
|$273,552,592
|-
|[[1993 in film|1993]]
|''[[The Firm (film)|The Firm]]''
|$270,248,367
|-
|[[1992 in film|1992]]
|''[[A Few Good Men]]''
|$243,240,178
|-
|}

<small>See [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/ boxofficemojo.com]. Figures are subject to minor adjustments (usually upwards) when studios release revised official figures, which sometimes occurs years after first release.</small>

==Other work==
Tom Cruise co-hosted the annual [[Nobel Peace Prize]] Concert in [[Oslo]], [[Norway]] with [[Oprah Winfrey]] in 2004.

==See also==
* [[Homosexuality and Scientology]]
* [[List of famous Louisvillians]]
* "[[Jumping the couch]]"
* [[Citizens Commission on Human Rights]]
* [[List of Scientologists]]
* [[Church of Scientology]]

==Notes==
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==References==
* [http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,353577,00.html "Actor Tom Cruise Opens Up about his Beliefs in the Church of Scientology"], SPIEGEL Online. (April 27, 2005)
* Shields, Brooke. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/opinion/01shields.html "War of Words"], [[New York Times]]. (July 1, 2005)
* "[http://www.nbc4.tv/irresistible/4006544/detail.html Cruise Leaves Big Tip For Accident Victim]", [[NBC]]4 TV. (December 17, 2004)
* "[http://www.beliefnet.com/story/129/story_12944_1.html Tom Cruise Says Scientology Helped with Learning Disability]", beliefnet / [[Associated Press]]. (July 11, 2003)
* Gonzales, Luis. "[http://www.beliefnet.com/story/153/story_15301_1.html New Church of Scientology Opens in Madrid]", beliefnet.
* "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/1791617.stm Cruise lobbies over Scientology]". [[BBC|BBC News]]. (January 30, 2002)
* "[http://marriage.about.com/od/entertainmen1/p/tomcruise.htm Tom Cruise buys sonogram machine to watch baby]". (November 25, 2005)
* "[http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1073518_1114381,00.html Tom & Katie Expecting a Baby]". ''People'' magazine. (October 5, 2005)

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