This article was originally published in 2022 and contains 60 facts to celebrate Tom Cruise’s 60th birthday. To celebrate his 61st birthday, the book has been updated to include 61 facts.
Tom Cruise’s life, career, and legacy are epic, dramatic, and sometimes complex, but not to be ignored. One of our last remaining old-school movie stars, Cruise has proven to have a wide range of abilities over the years, using his powers in Hollywood to create memorable cinematic moments and behind-the-scenes innovations that continually push himself to new heights. limit. sky.
To appreciate Tom Cruise’s complexity and brilliance on the occasion of his 61st birthday, we’ve compiled 61 facts that just hint at why Tom Cruise remains one of the most famous men on Earth. For more than 40 years, he’s been grinning and running like hell onscreen, and he shows little sign of stopping anytime soon.
1. Tom Cruise’s real name was Thomas Cruise Mapother IV.
2. Tom Cruise’s cousin, William Mapother, was also an actor, best known as the lost.
3. Here is an incomplete list of directors Tom Cruise has worked with over the years: Barry Levinson, Ben Stiller, Brad Bird, Brian De Palma, Cameron Crowe, Christopher McQuarrie, Curtis Hanson, Doug Liman, Edward Zwick, Francis Ford Coppola, Franco Zeffirelli, Stanley Kubry Paul Thomas Anderson, Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Sidney Pollack, Rob Reiner, John Woo, Michael Mann and Steven Spielberg.
4. Early in his career, the actor appeared in six films in just two years: endless Love (1981), Faucet (1981), outsider (1983), lose it (1983), risky business (1983), and all the right moves (1983).
5. Tom Cruise made his first movie at 19 as Billy endless Love.
6. Top Gun: Maverick is Tom Cruise’s highest-grossing film, grossing over $1 billion.The film is Paramount Pictures’ second highest-grossing film domestically, after Titanic.
7. Attended Neighborhood Theater and Actors Studio at The New School University in New York, where he studied drama.
8. Tom Cruise was nominated three times for an Oscar and twice for ” born on the fourth of july and jerry maguireand then as a supporting role Magnolia.
9. Cruise has yet to win an Oscar despite being nominated for three.
10. Tom Cruise hasn’t been nominated for an Oscar since 2000.
11. Cruise did win three Ballon d’Ors born on the fourth of july, jerry maguireand Magnolia.
12. May 2021, Tom Cruise returns his three golden balls Protest the lack of racial diversity and alleged ethical misconduct by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
13. At the age of seven, Cruise was diagnosed with dyslexia.
14. Tom Cruise was introduced to Scientology in the 1980s by his first wife, Mimi Rogers.
15. Tom Cruise claims His dyslexia was cured by Scientology.
16. The infamous Tom Cruise promotional video about Scientology, Leaked online January 2008was spoofed in a spoof movie superhero movieactor Miles Fisher played the role of Tom Cruise.
17. The Alliance of Women Film Journalists nominated him four times for an inauspicious award: Most Shocking Age Difference Between Leading Man and Lover.He won in 2019 Mission: Impossible 6: Falloutwith co-star Rebecca Ferguson.
18. Tom Cruise has only one TV credit — directing. He directed the episode “The Terrible Flamis” in the 1993 Showtime anthology series fallen angel.
19. Aside from stand-up shows and award shows, he has yet to act on real television.
20. On October 16, 1986, Cruise received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.