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Tom Cruise - Acclaimed Modern-Day Actor 1962-

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I feel very fortunate , . . to be able to do what I love and love what I do. It’s been a great journey for me, and I never take it for granted. —TOM CRUISE, ON HIS FILM CAREER

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[ike most others, Tom Cruise was stunned and saddened by he terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. "There really are no words," he told an interviewer a few weeks later. He praised the people of New York and Washington who had found a way to keep going despite fear and uncertainty.

"I've been telling people, '[do] random acts of kindness.’ . . . Be there for each other. Reach out. We’ll get through this.”

That strength and determination are typical of the actor, who that year confronted constant questions about his divorce from Nicole Kidman. He had developed his positive attitude during a childhood in which he struggled with an undiagnosed learning disorder and was constantly the new kid on the block. Thomas Cruise Mapother TV was born on July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, New York, to Thomas Mapother III, an electrical engineer, and Mary Lee Pfeiffer Mapochcr, a teacher. Tom had two older sisters, Lee Anne and Marian, and a younger sister, Cass. Toms father spent little time with his family. His job with General Electric required him to move every eighteen months or so. When young Tom started school, the Mapothers lived in Ottawa, Canada. He struggled to make friends and was frustrated with his schoolwork.
Tom suffered from a learning disorder called dyslexia, in which a person sees a printed word as a jumble of letters or sees the letters reversed. Scientists believe dyslexia is caused by a combination of neurological, physiological, and genetic factors. Tom Cruise seems to have inherited dyslexia: his mother and sisters also have it.
In 1974 Torn Mapother left his family, and Mary Lee moved with her children to Louisville, Kentucky. She received no child support, so she was forced to work three jobs. Cruise remembers that his mother was always upbeat: “For her, the cup was always half full. Always. And I loved her for it.”
Mary Lee remarried four years later and moved her family to Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Tom, now sixteen, was in his third high school. He found comfort and acceptance in sports—he was on the football, basketball, lacrosse, tennis, baseball, and wrestling teams. While he recuperated from a knee injury, a choir teacher suggested he try out for the school musical. Tom took the advice and won the lead role of Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls. When he heard the applause for the opening night’s performance, Tom realized he wanted to be an actor.

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After graduation Tom moved to New York City, dropped his last name, and waited tables while he auditioned. He told himself he had ten years to succeed in show business. He didn’t have to wait that long; a few months later he landed a bit part in Endless Love, starring Brooke Shields.
The following year, Tom obtained a role in Taps, starring Sean Penn. Critics praised Cruise’s performance but were disappointed with his next movie, Losiri It. Cruise learned to be more careful about choosing film roles. He accepted a minor role and low pay for rhc opportunity to work with director Francis Ford Coppola in The Outsiders (1983). Tom landed his first lead role in Risky Business (1983). The film was a huge hit, earning $63 million. In the movie Top Gun (1986), however, Cruise truly achieved fame, loin’s performance as a brash, “hotdogging” pilot established him as one of the biggest stars of his generation.
Cruise now had a “signature” character: the cocky, young go-getter. He played the same character-type opposite Paul Newman in The Color of Money (1987), in Cocktail (1988), and opposite Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man (1988). Now among the hottest Hollywood stars, Cruise’s fee per movie rose to $5 million.
In 1989 Cruise detoured from his usual character type and accepted a challenging true-life role as handicapped Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July. His powerful performance won him a Best Actor Oscar nomination. Kovic himself was so pleased with Cruise’s portrayal that he gave Cruise the Bronze Star he’d earned in combat. “1 told him it was for his heroic performance,” Kovic said.
On the set of his nest film, Days of Thunder (1990), Cruise’s life took an unexpected turn: he fell in love with his costar, Nicole Kidman and married her on Christmas Eve. Although the pair was obviously in love in real life, their on-screen chemistry in the 1991 film Far and Away was weak, and the movie was panned.
Cruise bounced back in the 1992 film ,4 Pew Good Men. In an all-star cast that included Kevin Bacon, Demi Moore, and Jack Nicholson, Cruise played a military lawyer. A Few Good Men earned $102 million and garnered four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Cruise received a Golden Globe Award for his performance.
In 1993 Tom Cruise fulfilled a treasured dream. He and his wife adopted a baby girl, Isabella Jane Kidman Cruise. “Becoming a father is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me,” said Cruise. “I have longed for a child for so long. I look at her and thank God . . . for giving rne such a precious gift.” The couple adopted a second child, a boy they named Connor Antony, in 1995.
Cruise next starred In the 1 996 blockbuster Mission: Impossible, a takeoff on the popular 1960s TV series. That year he also starred in Jerry Maguire (1996), the tale of a slick sports agent that Cruise believed was “really a love story . . . from a male perspective.” That performance brought a second Academy Award nomination for Cruise.
Following two offbeat movies in 1999—Eyes Wide Shut, directed by Stanley Kubrick and costarring his wife, Nicole Kidman, and Magnolia— Cruise reprised his Mission: Impossible role in a sequel released in 2000. Future projects include a Steven Spielberg science fiction thriller called Minority Report and a remake of the 1975 cult classic Death Race 2000.
In 2001, after nearly ten years of marriage, Cruise filed for divorce from Kidman. The two separately attended the premiere of The Others, their last project together. A few months later Cruise caused a media fuss when he appeared publicly with his Vanilla Sky costar, Penelope Cruz.
Cruise is known for his kindness and generosity and is well liked in the Hollywood community. On September 21, 2001, he joined a host of celebrities in a telethon to raise money for victims of the September 11 attacks. The actor was “awestruck” by the courage and compassion of those who died. He believes that those are qualities the’rest of the world will do well to emulate.

“We are at a crossroads,” he said, “and we have to do whatever we can to make the world better. I feel very, very strongly about that.”

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