Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer. As a Hollywood star, he has won numerous honors, including an Honorary Palme d’Or and three Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for four Academy Awards.
His films have grossed more than $4 billion in North America and more than $11.5 billion globally, making him one of the highest-grossing box-office stars of all time. He is consistently one of the highest-paid actors in the world.
Cruise debuted as an actor in the early 1980s, with prominent roles in the comedy film Risky Business (1983) and the action blockbuster Top Gun (1986).
What are some of Tom Cruise top movies?
Below are some of Tom Cruise‘s top movies:
Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick, Mission: Impossible, Jack Reacher, The Mummy, American Made, Mission: Impossible 2, Edge of Tomorrow, The Ousiders, War of the Worlds, Risky Business, Vanilla Sky, Eyes Wide Shut, Interview with the Vampire, The Last Samurai, Jerry Maguire, Tropic Thunder, Mission: Impossible III
What are some of Tom Cruise’s Awards and legacies?
In 2006, Premiere named Cruise as Hollywood’s most powerful actor, ranking him 13th on the magazine’s 2006 Power List, making him the highest-ranked actor. In the same year, Forbes named him the world’s most powerful celebrity. In 2016, the founder of CinemaScore named Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio as “two stars, it doesn’t matter how bad the film is, they can pull [the box office] up.”
In Japan, October 10, 2006, was named “Tom Cruise Day”; the Japan Memorial Day affiliation stated that he was given the honor due of “his love for and close association with Japan.”
When reviewing Days of Thunder, film reviewer Roger Ebert noticed parallels between several of Cruise’s 1980s films and dubbed the pattern the “Tom Cruise Picture.” Ebert cited nine main aspects that comprise the Tom Cruise Picture: the Cruise character, the mentor, the superior woman, the craft he must hone, the arena in which it takes place, the arcana or information he must master, the path or journey, the proto enemy, and the character’s eventual opponent. A Few Good Men and The Last Samurai, two of Cruise’s later films, can also be considered part of this formula.
Cruise is an aerobatic pilot who received the Aviation Inspiration and Patriotism Award from the Kiddie Hawk Air Academy in 2010 and was included into the Living Legends of Aviation. Cruise has a P-51 Mustang, among other planes.
