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TOM CRUISE

He was born in Syracuse, New York,11 on July 3, 1962, he is the son of the electronic engineer Thomas Cruise Mapother III (1934-1984) and his wife, Mary Lee Pfeiffer (1936-2017), a professor and theater fan; and brother of Lee Anne, Marian and Cass. Tom Cruise is of English, German and Irish descent.12​13​ The family lived in many cities due to his father's job instability, but they finally settled in Ottawa, Canada.14​ His studies were a problem for Tom since He went from one city to another and also suffered from dyslexia (difficulty reading and writing). Tom attended 14 different schools in just 15 years. After his parents' divorce, Cruise leaves Canada and settles with his mother and sisters in Kentucky. For a time he considered entering a Franciscan monastery,15 but in the end he decided to be an actor. Cruise grew up in near poverty and had a Catholic upbringing. The family was dominated by his abusive father, whom the actor has described as "a merchant of chaos." Cruise has said he was beaten by his father, whom he called "a bully and a coward." He has stated that "My father was the kind of person who, if something went wrong, he would kick you. It was a great lesson in my life, how he would lull you and make you feel safe and then, boom! For me it was like «There is something wrong with this guy.

After graduating from high school, Tom moved to New York16 where he attended some castings while working as a waiter. At 19 years old he decided to go to Los Angeles to try his luck in Hollywood. In 1981, after a brief role in the film Endless Love, he would be chosen to act in the film Taps alongside another young promise: Sean Penn. In his early years, Tom participated mostly in films for adolescent audiences: comedies such as Losin' It (1983) and Risky Business (1983).17​ But from very early on he added prestigious titles to his record, such as The Outsiders (1983) by Francis Ford Coppola, along with other future stars such as Patrick Swayze and Matt Dillon, and The Color of Money (1986) by Martin Scorsese, with the illustrious Paul Newman, who with this film won the Oscar for Best Actor that had eluded him so much. Since Endless Love, the figure of Tom Cruise began to be known, but in 1985 with Legend18​ by Ridley Scott and in 1986 with the blockbuster Top Gun19​ by Tony Scott, he forged his fame as an actor in romantic and action stories, which They are loved by their female fans and male fans alike. In 1987 Cruise gave his fans a little disappointment by marrying an actress older than him, Mimi Rogers. She was the one who introduced Tom to Scientology. The blockbuster film Cocktail (1988) in which he acted alongside Elisabeth Shue, despite its discreet quality, establishes him as the star of American cinema of the moment. In 1988, Cruise made a qualitative leap in his career with Rain Man, a film by Barry Levinson that swept the Oscars, winning four statuettes, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman). Cruise is not awarded an award for it, but the following year he is nominated for the Oscar for best actor for Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July, where he plays a wheelchair-bound Vietnam War veteran, a role in which he had a great success and won his first Golden Globe.

In the 1980s Cruise had several partners, among which the actress Rebecca De Mornay and the singer Cher stood out. He was married twice before his last marriage to Katie Holmes. The first time in 1987 with the actress Mimi Rogers, from whom he separated in 1990, and then with the actress Nicole Kidman, whom he met during the filming of Days of Thunder, and with whom he also divorced in a very public way at the end. 2001. His marriage to Kidman lasted almost eleven years and they were one of the most popular couples in Hollywood. They had no biological children but adopted two: Isabella Jane (born 1992) and Anthony Connor (born 1995). After starring together in Stanley Kubrick's film, Eyes Wide Shut, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman irreconcilably separated. In the June 2006 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, Kidman said she still loved Cruise: "He was huge; he still is. To me, he was just Tom, but to everyone else, he's huge. He was always lovely to me." and I loved him. I still love him." Additionally, the actress has expressed how shocked she was by her divorce.46​ After two stable relationships, Cruise had an affair with the Spanish actress Penélope Cruz, with whom he starred in the film Vanilla Sky. This film is a version of a Spanish title called Abre los Ojos, directed by Alejandro Amenábar. He met Katie Holmes while searching for a co-star for his film Mission Impossible 3. His first public appearance was on April 29, 2005, in Rome, at the David di Donatello Awards, the Italian equivalent of the Oscars.

A few months later they got engaged. Cruise, in what was a shrewd and histrionic performance to please the excited female audience of host Oprah Winfrey's talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, declared that he had fallen madly in love with Katie Holmes during the show's broadcast on television, starring in a scene as excessive as it was funny. climbing on a sofa and proclaiming his love.48​49​ Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes in 2009 Shortly after, Cruise proposed to Holmes on the morning of July 17, 2005, at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris; she accepted.50 At the press conference, attended by Holmes's mother, Cruise announced to the news: Today is a great day for me. I am engaged to a magnificent woman. The couple announced that Holmes was pregnant. On April 18, 2006, Cruise's first biological daughter was born, whom they named Suri. On November 18 of that year he married Katie Holmes, generating great excitement in Italy, the place chosen for the ceremony.

The ceremony, attended by many Hollywood stars, was celebrated by the rite of the Church of Scientology, at the Odescalchi castle in Bracciano, 35 kilometers from Rome. In June 2012, Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Cruise, citing irreconcilable differences and custody of Suri. According to TMZ, the main reason that led the actress to take the step was her husband's excessive obsession with Scientology.51​ To separate from Tom Cruise, Holmes carried out the entire process in absolute secrecy, thanks to the help she received from Nicole Kidman, Cruise's ex-wife, who advised and supported her throughout the tough lawsuit.

NAME: Geordy Saul Alvear Blacio

COURSE: 2do "D"

DATE: 24 de Septiembre del 2023