Thomas Cruise
Mapother IV (Syracuse, New York, July 3, 1962), better known as Tom Cruise, is an American actor. He has starred in such films as Risky Business, Top Gun, The Color of Money, The War of the Worlds, Days of Thunder, Rain Man, Eyes Wide Shut, Minority Report, The Last Samurai, Jack Reacher, The Edge of Tomorrow and the Saga of Mission impossible among others.
He has also won three nominations for the Oscar for Best Actor: in 1990 for Born on July 4, in 1997 for Jerry Maguire and in 2000 for Magnolia. Considered one of the sex symbols of cinema, his love life has been exposed in the media [citation needed].
He has married three well-known actresses: Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes. His relationship with Penelope Cruz also caused him to speak, as did his affiliation and propaganda to the Church of Scientology, which Cruise attributes to having provided him with a better spiritual awareness and other benefits, such as his cure for dyslexia.
The bad reputation of the organization, caused by complaints of scams and others, 1 have affected in recent years its public image and professional progress.
His long-standing company, Paramount Pictures, decided to dispense with him, and to continue his career Cruise has reactivated another veteran firm, United Artists, with which he hopes to produce his future projects. Vanity Fair published the list of the Top 40 Hollywood celebrities with the highest revenue in 2010. Cruise was ranked 35th on the list, earning an estimated $ 14.5 million for his films.
private life
He married twice before his last marriage with Katie Holmes. The first time in 1987 with the actress Mimi Rogers from which she split in 1990 and 1991, and then with the actress Nicole Kidman, whom she met during the filming of Days Of Thunder, and from which she also divorced in a very mediatic way at the end of 2001. With Kidman their marriage lasted almost eleven years, did not have biological children but adopted two: Isabella (born in 1992) and Connor Anthony (in 1995).
After Stanley Kubrick's film, Eyes Wide Shut, they separated irreconcilably. After two stable relationships, she had an affair with the Spanish actress Penélope Cruz, with whom she starred in the movie Vanilla Sky. This movie is a version of a Spanish title called Abre los Ojos, directed by Alejandro Amenábar. He met Katie Holmes during the search for a co-star for her movie Mission Impossible 3. Her first public appearance was on April 29, 2005, in Rome, at the David di Donatello Awards, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar Awards.
After a few months they got engaged. Cruise claimed to have fallen madly in love with the actress in the talk show host Oprah Winfrey The Oprah Winfrey Show, starring in an excessive scene climbing on a couch and proclaim his love during the transmission of the show on television.
Soon after, Cruise proposed to Holmes on the morning of July 17, 2005, at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris; she accepted At the press conference, assisted by Holmes's mother, Cruise announced to the news: Today is a magnificent day for me. I am committed to a magnificent woman. The couple announced that Holmes was pregnant. On April 18, 2006 was born the first biological daughter of Cruise, which they called Suri. On November 18 of that year he married Katie Holmes, generating great excitement in Italy, place chosen for the ceremony.
The ceremony was celebrated by the rite of the Church of Scientology, at the Odescalchi castle in Bracciano, 35 kilometers from Rome. In June 2012, Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Cruise alleging irreconcilable differences and custody of Suri. According to the TMZ media, the main reason that led the actress to take the step was the excessive obsession that her husband showed by Scientology.