Tom Cruise was born on July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, New York. After developing an interest in acting during high school, he rocketed to fame with his star turns in Risky Business and Top Gun. Cruise later earned acclaim for his work in the hit film Jerry Maguire and the Mission: Impossible franchise. He also was targeted by the tabloids for his marriages to actresses Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes.

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Childhood

Considered one of the world's biggest movie stars, Tom Cruise never aspired to be an actor. A sports star at his high school, Cruise played football on the local team as a linebacker, and was a star in the school's field hockey team. His classmates pegged him as a future sports star, and the future acting legend spent most of his free time practicing sports and occasionally acting in school productions

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The obsession with sports, however, wasn't so much a passion of Cruise's as much as it was a form of escape from an abusive and dangerous father. As a young child in a New York home, Cruise was intimidated and bullied constantly by his father. He recalled being beaten and threatened as a child, and grew to fear his father early in his life.

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Early Life

As he grew older, Cruise's mother grew more wary of her husband. The family lived in a state that could only be described as poverty, and his mother finally saw her chance to escape. They moved to live with Cruise's grandparents in Canada and later to Cincinnati, where Cruise played football on the local team and grew close to Catholic groups for support for his abusive childhood.

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MOVIES

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

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With the IMF now disbanded and Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) out in the cold, a new threat -- called the Syndicate -- soon emerges. The Syndicate is a network of highly skilled operatives who are dedicated to establishing a new world order via an escalating series of terrorist attacks. Faced with what may be the most impossible mission yet, Ethan gathers his team and joins forces with Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson), a disavowed British agent who may or may not be a member of this deadly rogue nation.

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Initial release: July 23, 2015 (Austria)
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Box office: 682.7 million USD
Budget: 150 million USD
Initial DVD release: December 15, 2015 (USA)

Oblivion

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In the year 2077, Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) works as a security repairman on an Earth left empty and devastated after a war with aliens. Jack has two weeks left before his mission ends and he joins his fellow survivors on a faraway colony. However, Jack's concept of reality comes crashing down after he rescues a beautiful stranger (Olga Kurylenko) from a downed spacecraft. The woman's arrival triggers a chain of events that culminates in Jack's nearly single-handed battle to save mankind.

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Initial release: March 26, 2013 (Buenos Aires)
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Featured song: Oblivion
Box office: 286.2 million USD

The Mummy

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Nick Morton is a soldier of fortune who plunders ancient sites for timeless artifacts and sells them to the highest bidder. When Nick and his partner come under attack in the Middle East, the ensuing battle accidentally unearths Ahmanet, a betrayed Egyptian princess who was entombed under the desert for thousands of years. With her powers constantly evolving, Morton must now stop the resurrected monster as she embarks on a furious rampage through the streets of London.

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Initial release: 2017 (Brazil)
Director: Alex Kurtzman
Box office: 409.2 million USD
Producers: Alex Kurtzman, Chris Morgan, Sean Daniel, Roberto Orci
Screenplay: Jon Spaihts, Christopher McQuarrie, David Koepp, Dylan Kussman

American Made

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Barry Seal, a TWA pilot, is recruited by the CIA to provide reconnaissance on the burgeoning communist threat in Central America and soon finds himself in charge of one of the biggest covert CIA operations in the history of the United States. The operation spawns the birth of the Medellin cartel and almost brings down the Reagan White House.

Initial release: August 25, 2017 (Indonesia)
Director: Doug Liman
Box office: 134.9 million USD
Budget: 50 million USD
Producers: Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Brian Oliver, Doug Davison, Tyler Thompson

COMING SOOM

Mission: Impossible – Fallout

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Ethan Hunt and his IMF team find themselves in a race against time after a mission goes wrong.

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Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) - Official Trailer

Initial release: July 26, 2018 (Brazil)
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Music composed by: Joe Kraemer
Producers: Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, J.J. Abrams, Dana Goldberg, David Ellison, Bryan Burk, Don Granger
Production companies: Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot Productions, Skydance Media

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