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1. Thomas Cruise Moapther IV was born in Syracuse, New York in 1962.
2. Tom Cruise spent part of his childhood in Canada. His family moved to Beacon Hill, Ottawa, in late 1971
3. Tom Cruise took up acting after losing his place on a high school wrestling team due to a knee injury.
4. Tom Cruise’s first movie appearance was playing Brooke Shields’ brother in 1981’s Endless.
5. Tom Cruise has received three Oscar® nominations for acting. Best Actor nominations for Born on the 4th of July and Jerry Maguire. He got a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Magnolia.
6. Tom Cruise has received seven Golden Globe® nominations for acting….. winning three times. Cruise helped the following actors win Academy Awards®……Paul Newman in The Color of Money, Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, and Cuba Gooding Jr. in Jerry Maguire.
7. Tom Cruise was the first actor to have the distinction of starring in both the year’s Oscar® winner for Best Picture, Rain Man (1988) and the year’s Razzie® “winner” for Worst Picture, Cocktail (1988).
8. Tom Cruise was named the #1 top moneymaking star at the box office in Quigley Publications annual poll of movie exhibitors a record seven times between 1986 and 2005.
9. Tom Cruise and ex-wife Nicole Kidman made three movies together: Days of Thunder (1990), Far and Away (1992) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). They met on the set of Days of Thunder.
10. Tom Cruise’s acting idol was Paul Newman. Much to the delight of Cruise, they became good friends during work on The Color of Money (1986). Newman got him into racing, and Cruise ultimately raced on his team.
11. Check out Tom Cruise’s movie career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
12. Tom Cruise’s features and good looks were the model for the Disney character Aladdin (1992).
13. Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames are the only actors to have appeared in all six installments of the Mission: Impossible films series from 1996 through 2018.
14. Tom Cruise has worked with 8 Best Director Oscar®-winners: Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Barry Levinson, Oliver Stone, Ron Howard, Sydney Pollack, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Redford.
15. Tom Cruise is the only actor to have worked with both Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick.
16. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman signed open-ended contracts for 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut. They agreed to work on this project until Stanley Kubrick released them from it, however long that turned out to be.
17. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman arrived in the fall of 1996 to shoot 1999’s Eye Wide Shut, they expected to be wrapped and back in Los Angeles by the following spring. Instead, the production didn’t conclude until January 1998.
18. While filming 2018’s Mission Impossible – Fallout, Tom Cruise fractured his ankle in a stunt where he leaped from a building. Production was halted for seven weeks, but the July 2018 release date was kept.
19. When looking at adjusted domestic box office grosses….Tom Cruise has 27 movies that have reached that box office plateau.
20. Check out Tom Cruise‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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