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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (pron.: /ˈtɒməs ˈkruːz ˈmeɪpɒθər/; born July 3, 1962), best known as Tom Cruise, is an American film actor and producer who portrayed Jack Reacher in the film of the same name.
He has received several accolades for his work, including three Golden Globe Awards and nominations for three Academy Awards. Cruise is one of the best-paid actors in the world, and his films have grossed over $4 billion in North America and over $10.1 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing box-office stars of all time.
Biography[]
Cruise began acting in the early 1980s and made his breakthrough with leading roles in the comedy Risky Business (1983) and the action drama Top Gun (1986). Critical acclaim came with his roles in the dramas The Color of Money (1986), Rain Man (1988), and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). For portraying Ron Kovic in the latter, he won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. As a leading Hollywood star in the 1990s, Cruise starred in several commercially successful films, including the drama A Few Good Men (1992), the thriller The Firm (1993), the horror film Interview with the Vampire (1994), and the romance Jerry Maguire (1996), for which he won another Golden Globe and received his second Oscar nomination. His performance as a motivational speaker in the 1999 drama Magnolia earned him a third Golden Globe and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. As an action star, Cruise has played Ethan Hunt in six films of the Mission: Impossible film series from 1996 to 2018. He also continued to feature in several science fiction and action films, including 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), and Edge of Tomorrow (2014).
Filmography[]
| Year | Title | Acting Role | Crew Role | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Top Gun | Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell | N/A | |
| The Color of Money | Vincent Lauria | N/A | ||
| 1988 | Rain Man | Charlie Babbitt | N/A | |
| 1990 | Days of Thunder | Cole Trickle | Story by | |
| 1992 | A Few Good Men | Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee | N/A | |
| 1996 | Mission: Impossible | Ethan Hunt | Producer | |
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible 2 | Ethan Hunt | Producer | |
| 2005 | Elizabethtown | N/A | Producer | |
| 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | Ethan Hunt | Producer | |
| 2011 | Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol | Ethan Hunt | Producer | |
| 2012 | Jack Reacher | Jack Reacher | Producer | |
| 2013 | Oblivion | Jack Harper | N/A | |
| 2014 | Edge of Tomorrow | Major William Cage | N/A | |
| 2015 | Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation | Ethan Hunt | Producer | |
| 2016 | Jack Reacher: Never Go Back | Jack Reacher | Producer | |
| 2018 | Mission: Impossible – Fallout | Ethan Hunt | Producer | |
| 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell | Producer | |
| 2023 | Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | Ethan Hunt | Producer | |
| 2024 | Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two | Ethan Hunt | Producer |
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