Biography of Tom Cruise
Bello e impossibile
July 3, 1962The celebrated actor Tom Cruise, whose real name is answering curious Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse (New York, United States), from a large family, accustomed to frequent displacements (changed something like eight elementary schools and three high schools). Perhaps few people know, then, that Tom Cruise as a boy he suffered from dyslexia, being able to heal only in adulthood after numerous attempts to cure. Thanks to the continuous movement of the family passes youth across the United States, living for short periods in Louisville, Ottawa and Cincinnati. After her parents ' divorce, after a year of study in a Franciscan Seminary, he settled in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, along with her mother, who had remarried. Here Tom Cruise he enrolled in a drama course.
In 1980 she moved to New York in search of the great chance to break into the movies. The 1981 is his first with a cameo role in the melodrama "endless love" by Franco Zeffirelli, alongside Brooke Shields and Martin Hewitt. Back in New Jersey, he discovers he has got a part in "Taps-Rings of revolt" (1981) by Harold Becker. Follow "the hangover" (1983) by Curtis Hanson, "the boys of 56th Street" by Francis Ford Coppola, "Risky Business" with Rebecca De Mornay and "the rebel" by Michael Chapman. His career seems downward and the big breakthrough can only be around the corner. The golden opportunity presents itself as the already acclaimed Ridley Scott who wants him to star in "Legend" (1985). After leaving triumphantly from a similar trial with renowned filmmaker, Tom Cruise the following year becomes in effect a worldwide star thanks to the interpretation of Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in a film which marked a generation, "Top Gun" (a film that launched the true icons, such as the pilot), Tony Scott with Kelly McGillis and Val Kilmer , and later alongside Paul Newman in "the color of money" by Martin Scorsese. He married in May 1987 to actress Mimi Rogers divorced the following year.
Among the public and critics who consider Tom Cruise just a handsome without personality must soon change his mind, not just the skill always proven and growing but also for intelligence with which chooses the scripts, never dull or commercial corrivamente. Between 1988 and 1989 Tom Cruise winds a series of extraordinary renditions including is lawful remember Charlie Babbitt of "Rain Man" (alongside a superb Dustin Hoffman), and his appearance in "born on the fourth of July" (1989) by Oliver Stone, which gets an Oscar nomination. The December 24, 1990 in Telluride in Colorado he married model and actress Nicole Kidman. Convert meanwhile to the Scientology religion, because of its overt now adopts a child, sterility, and his wife Isabella Jane, daughter of a pair of Miami very poor and unable to maintain it. In 1995 the two adopt even a son, Connor. In the years ' 90 the gorgeous actor is the protagonist of a series of memorable movies. It's very difficult to say that a film by Tom Cruise is not at least of a very good standard.
Next to the beautiful and talented wife, touching perhaps the apex with the participation as a main character in Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, "Eyes Wide Shut". In the middle are amazing works like "code of honor" (1992) by Rob Reiner, "the partner" (1993) by Sydney Pollack, "interview with the Vampire" (1994) by Neil Jordan, "Mission: Impossible" (1996) by Brian De Palma, "Jerry Maguire" (Golden Globe and Oscar Nomination in 1996 for best actor) and Cameron Crowe's "Magnolia" (1999) by Paul Thomas Anderson. Tom Cruise does not hold back in 2000 for the "cartoony" sequel "Mission: Impossible II" (directed by John Woo's hyperbolic). Collect another admirable enterprise with a moving interpretation of her character (alongside the beautiful Cameron Diaz) in Vanilla Sky (2001) directed by Cameron Crowe. Then it was the turn of "Minority Report" (2002), science fiction movie ever too praised Steven Spielberg. After "Eyes wide shut" and with the meeting on the set of sinuous Penelope Cruz Cruise-Kidman marriage falls apart. The two former better companions let themselves, according to the Chronicles, in a civilized manner and without too much hysteria.
But Tom Cruise is a professional who does not let himself be carried away by the events tested; subsequent interpretations are proof: "the last samurai" (2003, by Edward Zwick), "Collateral" (2004, by Michael Mann) in which she played unusually bad, and "war of the worlds" (2005, adapted from the novel by H.G. Wells, even with Steven Spielberg). The last job Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt's character for the third time, for the third installment of the series "Mission: Impossible". The release in Italy (May 2006) is preceded by the birth of their daughter Suri, had the actress Katie Holmes, 16 years his junior, whom he married on November 18, 2006, following the rite of Scientology.
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