Tom Cruise
- Net worth $600 million
- Birthday July 3, 1962
- Status Single
- Country United States
- Ethnicity German, Irish, English
- Source(-s) of wealth Actor, Producer
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Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer and his current net worth is $600 million.
Tom Cruise was born in Syracuse, New York as the son of Mary Lee, a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer, both originally from Louisville, Kentucky.
He has other three sisters: Lee Anne, Marian and Cass, they are of English, German and Irish ancestry.
Growing up, his family was very poor, and dominated by his abusive father, whom he has described as “”a merchant of chaos.”
He has spent a part of his childhood in Canada, and moved back to Beacon Hill, Ottawa with his family so that his father could take a position as a defense consultant.
In fourth grade he has become involved in drama, under the tutelage of George Steinburg.
In sixth grade, Cruise went to Henry Munro Middle School, and in the spring of that year he came back to United States with his mother and sisters, after his mother left his father.
He went to Franciscan seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, on a church scholarship and wanted to become a Catholic priest, before acting.
In his late school year, he played football for the varsity team as a linebacker, but was cut from the team after getting caught drinking beer.
In total, Cruise attended 15 schools in 14 years, including stints in at least two suburban New Jersey towns, including Glen Ridge.
On his film career he was nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards.
He began his acting career at age of 19 in the film Endless Love (1981), and has his first leading role in the romantic comedy Risky Business released in 1983.
He became famous after portraying Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the action drama Top Gun (1986).
Cruise is one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood with roles in many successful films in the 1980s, including The Color of Money (1986), Cocktail (1988), Rain Man (1988), and Born on the Fourth of July (1989).
Then in the 1990s starred in a number of hit films including the legal thriller The Firm (1993), the drama horror film Interview with the Vampire (1994), the romantic comedy-drama sports film Jerry Maguire (1996), and many more.
But he is best known for his role as secret agent Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible films series, whose last film was released in 2015.
After a number of hit films, Tom was Hollywood’s highest-paid actor in 2012, with 16 of his films grossed over $100 million domestically, and 22 grossed in excess of $200 million worldwide.
He is also an outspoken advocate for the Church of Scientology and its associated social programs and it credits with helping him overcome dyslexia.
He is Hollywood favorite Scientologist who also banked a big backend paycheck for 2015’s “Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation”, plus upfront fees for a “Jack Reacher” sequel and “Mena”.
At the age of 54 he still manages to get action hero roles thanks to no small part to his success as agent Ethan Hunt.
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