A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
TC
Thomas 'Tom' Cruise
Thomas C. Mapother IV
Thomas Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
Thomas Mapother
湯姆·克魯斯
Birthplace:
Syracuse, New York, USA
Born:
July 3, 1962
Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV; July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actors, he has received various accolades, including an Honorary Palme d'Or and three Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards. His films have grossed over $4 billion in North America and over $11.1 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing box office stars of all time. He began acting in the early 1980s and made his breakthrough with leading roles in the comedy film Risky Business (1983) and action film Top Gun (1986). Critical acclaim came with his roles in the dramas The Color of Money (1986), Rain Man (1988), and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). For his portrayal of Ron Kovic in the latter, he won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. As a leading Hollywood star in the 1990s, he starred in several commercially successful films, including the drama A Few Good Men (1992), the thriller The Firm (1993), the horror film Interview with the Vampire (1994), and the romance Jerry Maguire (1996). For the latter, he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and received his second Academy Award nomination. His performance as a motivational speaker in the drama Magnolia (1999) earned him another Golden Globe Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Since then, he has largely starred in science fiction and action films, establishing himself as an action star, often performing his own risky stunts. He has played Ethan Hunt in all six of the Mission: Impossible films from 1996 to 2018. His other notable roles in the genre include Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Collateral (2004), War of the Worlds (2005), Knight and Day (2010), Jack Reacher (2012), Oblivion (2013), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022), with Maverick being his highest-grossing film to date.
Executive Producer:
2001 The Others
2002 Narc
2003 Shattered Glass
2007 Lions for Lambs
Producer:
1996 Mission: Impossible
1998 Without Limits
2000 Mission: Impossible II
2001 The Others
2001 Vanilla Sky
2002 Hitting It Hard
2002 Narc
2003 Shattered Glass
2003 The Last Samurai
2004 Suspect Zero
2005 Elizabethtown
2006 Ask the Dust
2006 Mission: Impossible III
2007 Lions for Lambs
2011 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
2012 Jack Reacher
2015 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2016 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2018 Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2022 Top Gun: Maverick
2023 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2025 Mission: Impossible 8
???? Luna Park
???? Top Gun 3
???? Untitled Alejandro G. Iñárritu Project
Thanks:
1996 Mission: Impossible
1998 Without Limits
1999 Remembering Stanley Kubrick
2000 Mission: Impossible II
2001 The Others
2001 Vanilla Sky
2002 Hitting It Hard
2002 Narc
2003 Shattered Glass
2003 The Last Samurai
2004 Suspect Zero
2005 Elizabethtown
2006 Ask the Dust
2006 Mission: Impossible III
2007 Lions for Lambs
2011 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
2012 Jack Reacher
2015 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2016 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2018 Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2022 Top Gun: Maverick
2023 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2025 Mission: Impossible 8
???? Luna Park
???? Top Gun 3
???? Untitled Alejandro G. Iñárritu Project
Writer:
1990 Days of Thunder
1996 Mission: Impossible
1998 Without Limits
1999 Remembering Stanley Kubrick
2000 Mission: Impossible II
2001 The Others
2001 Vanilla Sky
2002 Hitting It Hard
2002 Narc
2003 Shattered Glass
2003 The Last Samurai
2004 Suspect Zero
2005 Elizabethtown
2006 Ask the Dust
2006 Mission: Impossible III
2007 Lions for Lambs
2011 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
2012 Jack Reacher
2015 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2016 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2018 Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2022 Top Gun: Maverick
2023 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2025 Mission: Impossible 8
???? Luna Park
???? Top Gun 3
???? Untitled Alejandro G. Iñárritu Project
Director:
1993 Fallen Angels
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.