Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise (born July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York), born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, is an American film actor who has starred in a number of top-grossing movies and is considered a sex symbol.Cruise's parents moved frequently when he was a child, residing in a number of locations throughout the United States and Canada, including Ottawa, Ontario, Louisville, Kentucky and Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Before going into acting, Cruise attended a Franciscan seminary and aspired to become a Catholic priest. Cruise also attended California State University, Sacramento for a semester.
He received Academy Award nominations for Born on the Fourth of July and Jerry Maguire, both as Best Actor; and for Magnolia, as Best Supporting Actor. He has been married twice, to Mimi Rogers and later Nicole Kidman. Cruise divorced Kidman in 2001, and for a time he was romantically linked with Penelope Cruz, the lead actress in his film Vanilla Sky.
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 a role of this type, Cruise has portrayed a character who, as the film begins, is seen as a cocky, stuck-up, self-centered egoist who cares for little other than himself. But 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. Examples of the "Generic Tom Cruise Character" can be seen in Top Gun, Rain Man, A Few Good Men, Jerry Maguire, Cocktail, The Last Samurai, and others.
Cruise is a well-known member of The Church of Scientology (as of 1990), a fact that has occasionally led to protests at openings of his movies in Europe.
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