Celebrity Name : Tom Cruise

Celebrity Real Name : Thomas a Mapother

Date of Birth : July 3, 1962

Birth Location : Syracuse, New York, USA

Tom Cruise Biography :
Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer. He has starred in a number of top-grossing movies and remains one of the most successful movie stars in Hollywood. His first leading role in a blockbuster movie was in 1983’s Risky Business.[1] In recent years, he has received additional, mainly negative media coverage regarding his support of Scientology (and his related criticism of psychiatry), his eccentricity, and his relationship with Katie Holmes.

Early life :
Cruise was born to Thomas Mapother III and Mary Lee Pfeiffer in Syracuse, New York. Cruise has German ancestry from his paternal great-grandparents, William Reibert Gay and Charlotta Louise Voelker; and Welsh ancestry from his paternal great-great-grandfather, Dylan Henry Mapother, who emigrated from Flint, Wales to Louisville, Kentucky in 1850. His maternal ancestry is half Irish and half German (including Alsatian).

Hollywood Acting career :
Cruise’s first acting role came in 1981, when he had a small role in Endless Love, a drama/romance film starring Brooke Shields. After that he had a more substantial role in a bigger film, Taps, appearing alongside George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn. The film about military cadets was moderately successful. In 1983, he was one of many young teenage stars to appear in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders. The cast for this film included Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, and Ralph Macchio. That same year Cruise appeared in the teen comedy Losin’ It with Shelley Long. Also in 1983, Risky Business was released, widely thought to be the film that propelled Cruise to stardom. One sequence in the film, featuring Cruise lip-syncing Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll” in his underwear, has become an iconic moment in film history. The film has been described as “A Generation-X classic, and a career-maker for Tom Cruise”. A fourth film that was released in 1983 was the high-school football drama, All the Right Moves.

Producing career :
Cruise teamed with producer Paula Wagner to form Cruise/Wagner Productions, which has co-produced several of Cruise’s films, the first being Mission: Impossible in 1996, Cruises’ first work as a producer. He won a Nova Award (shared with Paula Wagner, Cruise’s producing partner at Cruise/Wagner Productions) for Most Promising Producer in Theatrical Motion Pictures at the PGA Golden Laurel Awards in 1997 for his work as a producer on Mission: Impossible.

Popularity :
In 1990, 1991 and 1997, People magazine rated him among the 50 most beautiful people in the world.[1] In 1995, Empire magazine ranked him among the 100 sexiest stars in film history.[1] Two years later, it ranked him among the top 5 movie stars of all time.[1] In 2002 and 2003, he was rated by Premiere among the top 20 in its annual Power 100 list.
In 2006, Premiere magazine established Cruise as Hollywood’s most powerful actor, as Cruise came in at number 13 on the magazines 2006 Power List, being the highest ranked actor. On 16 June 2006, Forbes magazine published ‘The Celebrity 100′, a list of the most powerful celebrities, in which Cruise came top. The list was generated using a combination of income (between June 2005 and June 2006), web references by Google, press clips compiled by LexisNexis, television and radio mentions (by Factiva), and the number of times a celebrity appeared on the cover of 26 major consumer magazines. As of August 2006, “a USA Today/Gallup poll in which half of those surveyed registered an “unfavorable” opinion of the actor” was cited as a reason in addition to “unacceptable behavior” for Paramount’s non-renewal of their production contract with Tom. [wikipedia]