Tom Cruise!
Tom Cruise in Cruise Mapother IV 2008Thomas, better known as Tom Cruise (Syracuse, July 3, 1962) is an American actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranks him as one of the most powerful celebrity in the world in 2006. [1] He was nominated for three Academy Awards and won three Golden Globe Awards. His first major success was in the 1983 film, Risky Business [2], which has been described as "A Generation-X classic, and building a career for the actor. [3] After playing the role of a naval officer and fighter pilot in the popular 1986 film, Top Gun, Cruise starred in another action role, playing a secret agent in a series of action movie Mission: Impossible (1996, 2000, 2006, 2011). In addition to these roles as a hero, he has performed roles with facets of other much more complex as the doctor William in Eyes Wide Shut (1999), the misogyny guru in Magnolia (1999) and the casual, sociopathic killer in thriller by Michael Mann, Collateral (2004).
Economist Edward Jay Epstein argues that Cruise is one of the few producers (the others being George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Jerry Bruckheimer) who have been able to ensure the success of a billion dollars. Since 2005, Cruise and Paula Wagner have been appointed in charge of United Artists Studio: Cruise as producer and Wagner as chief executive. [4] Cruise is also known for his membership and his support of Scientology. His high public criticism against psychiatry and the use of anti-depressant drugs have aroused controversy and interest from the media.
[Edit] Early anniCruise was born in Syracuse, New York, [5] the son of Mary Lee, a physical education teacher, Thomas Cruise Mapother III and, an electrical engineer. [6] Cruise has German and English origin, derived from his paternal great-grandparents, William and Charlotte Louise Voelker Reibert, and, presumably, a derivation from Wales by his paternal great-grandfather, Dylan Henry Mapother, who emigrated from Flint, Wales to Louisville, Kentucky in 1850. [7] [ 8] Her older sister, Lee Anne, was born in Louisville. His younger sister, however, was born in Syracuse the same as Tom and the other younger sister, Cass [9].
Cruise attended the public schools "Robert Hopkins" for grades 3, 4 and 5 and Middle School Henry Munro "for Grade 6, Gloucester, now Ottawa, Ontario. [10] The family lived in the suburb of Gloucester Beacon Hill, the father became a consultant for the Defense of the Canadian armed forces. Cruise entered the theater early in the school, "Robert Hopkins", under the supervision of the teacher George Steinburg. [11]
[Edit] The discovery of recitazioneTom Cruise became an actor almost by accident. While he trained to participate in a local competition of wrestling, he decided to lose weight in order to fall into the categories laid down by race, running up and down the stairs. One slip caused the injury of a tendon and Tom became interested in other activities. He decided to try to participate in a school production of Guys and Dolls. Tom showed himself to the role of Nathan Detroit and on that occasion brought out the talent that was later the key to its success.
He decided to move to New York to become an actor and his father asked, "How much will it cost me anything?" [12]
[Edit] The beginnings cinematograficiTom decided to follow your instincts. He moved to New York at the age of seventeen, he resolved to become famous within three years. Thanks to his performance in Guys and Dolls had his first agent, Tobe Gibson, who advised him the stage name of Tom Cruise.
Tom Cruise in New York 1989a enrolled in evening classes of the Neighborhood Playhouse acting school, lived in a shared apartment trying to make ends meet with odd jobs. The renewal of the contract, decided to change agent. His new agent had him fly to Los Angeles for a casting of a sitcom and then did it appear in Franco Zeffirelli's Endless Love, which was the film debut of Cruise (1981).
He began a career as a male model that point, but when he realized that many of his pictures were finished in a gay newspaper, he stopped doing that work, which guaranteed him a certain entratura. Tom decided to return to Glen Ridge, but before she auditioned for a film that would lead to success: Taps - Ring of revolt. Tom David Shawn starred in this film at the behest of producer Stanley Jaffe, and it was for him his first major role.
Tom was convinced by his agent to interpret for a weekend in 1982 as a lion - a mind-blowing trip, sexy comedy prohibited to minors. The film however was not well received either critically or by the public. Tom moved to Los Angeles and signed a contract with a new agent, Paula Wagner. Then participated in the cast for the film Children of the 56th street and Francis Ford Coppola was awarded the interpretation of Steve Randle.
His career began and his agent made him an audition for Risky Business - Out with the old ... the children dance. Joel Goodson will play well in his first role as a leading actor. The interpretation assured Tom he made a reputation and raise substantially its cachet of engagement.
[Edit] successoMa the real breakthrough came a few years later. After playing in 1984 in Legend of Jack Ridley Scott, Tom was offered the part of Lt. Pete Mitchell "Maverick" in Top Gun by Tony Scott in 1985, film with which Tom Cruise became a star. Top Gun was a box office hit in 1986 and established the record book for the purchase of VHS, also gave birth to the myth of the military pilot.
In 1986 she starred opposite Paul Newman in The Color of Money, the sequel to the 1961 film The Hustler. In 1988 Brian Flanagan starred in Cocktail, successful collections and audiences. Then recited the part of Charlie Babbit in Rain Man alongside the Oscar-winning Dustin Hoffman, winning numerous awards. After years of brilliant roles, in 1989 it was the turn of a dramatic role that established him as an actor of extraordinary talent and versatility. The Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic Born July 4, 1990 earned him his first Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe.
After the film Days of Thunder - in which he met his future wife Nicole Kidman - she starred in Far and Away next to the young wife, then in 1992 starring in A Few Good Men opposite Jack Nicholson in 1993's The partner of Sydney Pollack and Interview with the Vampire in 1994 teamed up with Brad Pitt.
Now in the mid nineties one of the most powerful actors in Hollywood, as well as a safe investment for directors and production houses, he returned to break the bank the box office in 1996 with a Mission: Impossible. The following year he again won the Golden Globe in Jerry Maguire. After the interpretation of Magnolia in 1999, was the star, with his wife, the last masterpiece of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, a project begun three years earlier in which Tom also sacrificed the lead role of the Matrix.
In 2000 he turned the sequel to Mission: Impossible and the year after the film Vanilla Sky marked the end of his relationship with Nicole Kidman and the birth of the history between him and Penelope Cruz.
In 2002 he turned Minority Report by Steven Spielberg and narrated the documentary Space Station 3D, the following year was the protagonist in The Last Samurai.
After Collateral in 2004, the couple gave birth to Cruise-Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005). In 2007 he made Lions for Lambs with Meryl Streep, directed by and starring Robert Redford, and July 19 there was the first shooting of the film Valkyrie, directed by Bryan Singer, beset by some controversy as to its interpretation of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg who plots to kill Hitler. Tropic Thunder comes out in 2008, with a cameo from Cruise who plays the part of a memorable film producer Les Grossman. Recently, the American actor has acquired the rights to bring the near future on the big screen adaptation of the Rolling hills of blood book, written by journalist Mario Spezi and Douglas Preston crime writer [13]. The story recounts the chronicle of killings in and around Florence between 1968 and 1985 by the infamous fellow snacks Mercatale, Pietro Pacciani, Mario Vanni and Giancarlo Lotti.
To celebrate the twenty-five year career, 8 May 2008 he was put online on its official website.
[Edit] Private life
Katie Holmes and Tom Tom CruiseNel 1983 he met on the set of Risky Business connects the beautiful Rebecca De Mornay undertaken with a report which lasted about two years and ended shortly before the young actor was filming of Top Gun. At that time he had a brief affair with the famous singer and actress Cher.
On May 9, 1987 Tom Cruise married actress Mimi Rogers, six years older than him. A follower of Scientology, it is very likely that it was the Rogers to convince the wife to adhere to this belief, choice that Cruise also confirmed after the divorce, which occurred on December 4, 1990.
Just in 1990, Cruise, at the height of success, he met Nicole Kidman in the movie Days of Thunder: after a very short engagement, the two were married December 24 1990. The marriage lasted about ten years until divorce Journal of 8 August 2001, the couple adopted two children: Isabella (born 1992) and Connor (born 1995).
After separation by actress Australia, Tom had a romantic relationship with actress Penelope Cruz Iberian, met in 2001 on the set of Vanilla Sky. In March 2004, the relationship between the two ended.
On November 18, Cruise marries actress Katie Holmes, with whom he had a baby girl April 19, 2006, Suri. The celebration of the actor's third marriage took place in Italy in the castle Odescalchi. Since 1990 he is a follower of Scientology.
