Tom Cruise - Hollywoods Most Popular Actor
Becoming Hollywoods best actor and bankable star is what every actor wishes to be
. For Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, it was an icing on the cake. Now dont get puzzled on who is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, it is actually the original name of Tom Cruise. Cruise has been on a roll ever since he acted in the movie Top Gun.
Many hardcore Tom Cruise fans would be knowing that Top Gun was not his debut film. His debut film was Risking Business in the year 1983. But it was the film Top Gun that initiated his career. After Top Gun, Cruise acted in a variety of movies which gave him a lot of critical and commercial success, but the movie Mission Impossible was the one that cemented his career as the most successful actor of Hollywood.
Cruises personal life has not been good compared to his movie career. He was born as the only son to his parents along with a sister named Lee Anne. Cruise always described his father as a ruthless person who used to beat and abuse him whenever he felt like. When he was twelve, his mother left his father and took Cruise and his sister with her. Its hard to believe that Cruise never had a hunch towards acting, though he was actively involved in many plays during his junior and high school. He wanted to become a Catholic priest and briefly attended the Franciscan seminary in Cincinnati on a scholarship. But the acting bug had already bitten him, so he left the seminary and decided to try his luck in acting.
Acting in many commercial and offbeat films increased Cruises popularity by nominating him for many awards like Golden Globe, Academy Award and MTV Movie Awards. As of today, Cruise has won three Golden Globe awards, one MTVs best male performer for the movie Mission Impossible, a Peoples Choice Award and an MTV Generation Award.
Gossips, rumors and paparazzi follow any Hollywood star and Tom Cruise is no exception. He had a brief relationship with Rebecca De Mornay, his co-star in Risky Business, which lasted for only two years. Then he married actress Mini Rogers in 1987 and divorced her in 1990. As most people say, love a thing from which a person cannot run and in Cruises case, it became true when he started dating Nicole Kidman, who he paired up with for his film Days of Thunder and eventually married her in 1990. Cruise was then romantically linked with Penelope Cruz, while acting on Vanilla Sky. This led to the ultimate breakdown of his marriage with Nicole Kidman and they both divorced in 2001. Soon he ended his relationship with Penelope Cruz in 2004 and in 2005 he began dating actress Katie Homes, whom he married in 2006.
Everyone knows that Tom Cruise is an intense follower of the Church of Scientology. If you dont know what kind of a Church that is, then here are some facts about it. The Church of Scientology teaches people that humans are immortal spiritual beings and like aliens every human being has hidden abilities which are unlocked. Cruise extensive beliefs have not been liked by certain sections of the society, especially by the Paris City Council who has termed Cruise as a spokesperson and a militant of Scientology and has decided to avoid any further dealings with him. Stacy Francis, a participant in the X Factor, who shot to negative fame when she performed at Tom Cruises 40th birthday, denies that she has nothing to do with his beliefs and she does not know him now. During one of his interviews, he said that Scientology had helped him overcome dyslexia which was troubling him for many years.
A successful celebrity like Tom Cruise was troubled by a lot of controversies that affected him both financially and personally. In August 2006, Paramount Pictures decided to end their fourteen-year relationship with Cruises production company Cruise/Wagner Productions. The representatives stated that Toms contentious public behavior and views was tarnishing the companys public image, which was later on found to be false as the original reason was that Cruise was holding a large share in the DVD sales from the Mission Impossible franchise. Stemming from the most famous controversy, the Toms couch incident in the Oprah Winfrey Show lead to the invention of a phrase called jumping the couch. He jumped around the set, hopped on the couch and shouted his extensive love for his girlfriend Katie Homes. Man! It not only shocked the audience, but also Oprah Winfrey.
Anyways, Tom Cruise is making a comeback through his upcoming release as the famous spy, Ethan Hunt. Yeah, I know you guessed it. Mission ImpossibleGhost Protocol. I like this franchise very much and Im eagerly looking forward to its release. Dont wait, Im going to go ahead and book the tickets online right away on my laptop connected to ATT Uverse Internet.
by: Mark Bennett
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