1. Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was calved connected July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, N.Y., to Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer, and Mary Lee Pfeiffer, some of Louisville, Ky. (His gramps and great-grandfather were some Thomas Cruise Mapother, arsenic well.)

2. He has 2 older sisters, Lee Anne and Marian, and 1 younger sister, Catherine, nicknamed Cass. 

3. Cruise wanted to enactment from astir the clip helium was 4 and started doing impressions of everyone from Donald Duck to Humphrey Bogart and Elvis Presley.

4. In 1974, erstwhile the household was surviving successful Ottawa, Mary Lee packed up and took the kids backmost to Louisville. She officially divorced Tom III successful August 1975 and, six weeks later, he remarried, briefly. Joan Lebendiger, precocious widowed, had 4 kids, 1 of whom aboriginal told biographer Andrew Morton that they ne'er saw their stepbrother Tom again aft the wedding.

"As a kid, I had a batch of hidden choler astir that. I'd get hit, and I didn't understand it," Cruise recalled to Vanity Fair in 1994.

"He was the benignant of feline who truly got picked connected a batch astatine schoolhouse himself erstwhile helium was increasing up," helium said of his father. "He had besides been small, though helium ended up being six ft two. People had been rather brutal to him. Inside, I judge helium was a truly delicate individual." Tom III could besides "actually beryllium rather loving." 

But in 2006 helium told Parade that his dada was "a bully and a coward—the idiosyncratic where, if thing goes wrong, they footwear you. It was a large acquisition successful my life, however he'd lull you in, marque you consciousness harmless and then, bang!"

Cruise visited his begetter successful the infirmary earlier helium died of crab successful 1984 and Tom III said he'd get amended and they would "'talk astir the full thing,'" the histrion told VF, but that ne'er came to pass.

5. Tom was precise adjacent to his mother, whom helium described to James Lipton connected Inside the Actors Studio as "a precise warm, charismatic woman, precise kind, precise generous." She worked 4 jobs astatine immoderate fixed clip to instrumentality attraction of them, and Tom had a insubstantial way to transportation in. "Every nighttime I'd travel home, bathe my feet and beryllium successful the household room, and Tom would massage my feet for a half-hour," Mary Lee recalled to Rolling Stone. (She died astatine 80 successful 2017.)

6. He was besides protective of his sisters and, arsenic the antheral of the house, took connected the relation of scrutinizing their boyfriends erstwhile they'd travel by to conscionable the family.

7. Cruise was raised Catholic and helium spent his freshman twelvemonth of precocious schoolhouse astatine St. Francis Seminary successful Cincinnati, aft a clergyman named Father Ric Schneider gave a speech astatine his (also Catholic) schoolhouse successful Louisville. "He was a emblematic teenager, trying to find his mode successful life," Schneider told the New York Daily News successful 2013. "We would springiness them an IQ test, and helium conscionable astir made the cut. The cutoff is 110, and helium scored precisely 110."

It's been rumored that Cruise considered entering the priesthood, but helium doesn't it retrieve it that way. "We didn't person the wealth backmost then, and I went for the acquisition for a year, and it was free," Cruise has explained.

8. Mary Lee got remarried to Jack South successful 1978 and the full household moved to New Jersey erstwhile Tom was 16.

"In the beginning, I felt threatened by my stepfather," Cruise told Rolling Stone. "There's a portion of you that's successful emotion with your mother. But helium is specified a wise, astute man. He loved my parent truthful overmuch that helium took america each in, 4 young people. We'd stake connected shot games, and helium was a unspeakable bettor, truthful I'd marque tons of money."

As for his dad, Tom III, who had precocious passed away, "I deliberation that helium felt remorse for a batch that had happened. He was a idiosyncratic who did not person a immense power connected maine successful my teens; the values and information truly came from my stepfather. But helium was important. Really important. It's each benignant of complex. There wasn't one thing I felt."

9. He was ever a daredevil, jumping disconnected things, riding his motorcycle excessively fast, sometimes into walls and, present and there, breaking bones. In precocious schoolhouse helium joined the glee nine and did plays. He was besides an athlete, implicit the years dabbling successful soccer, baseball, basketball, shot and crystal hockey, and helium wrestled. Sports and acting were wherever helium truly stood retired and, shocker, the ladies person loved him since grammar school.

"I was a chaotic kid," Cruise admitted. "I'd chopped school. Everything had to bash with my wanting ever to propulsion the envelope to see: wherever bash I basal with myself? How acold tin I go?"

10. Cruise has been unfastened astir his conflict with dyslexia, calling himself "a functional illiterate" successful school, though helium "loved learning. I wanted to learn, but I knew I had failed successful the system."

"My vigor was ever each implicit the place. Reading was not astatine the apical of my list, due to the fact that it took maine truthful long," helium told Cameron Crowe for Interview in 1986. "When I wrote a paper, my parent would assistance maine with it. I would instrumentality a trial and get precise nervous. I would skip questions and skip lines. I've gotten better. I've learned to power my eyes. I utilized to person to usage my digit each the time. I conscionable wasn't relaxed astir it."

11. Senior twelvemonth of precocious schoolhouse helium got kicked disconnected the shot squad aft helium was caught drinking, according to Morton, but that near him clip to audition for the schoolhouse musical, Guys and Dolls. He played Nathan Detroit, and a commercialized manager who happened to drawback a show told him helium should prosecute acting professionally. So, helium started going to New York connected weekends to audition for musicals—and helium missed his graduation ceremonial portion performing successful an amateur accumulation of Godspell.

12. Cruise made his movie debut successful the 1981 play Taps, successful a relation that was bigger than the 1 helium was primitively formed successful "because you could spot close distant that helium had a elephantine talent," erstwhile Paramount caput Sherry Lansing said successful Stephen Galloway's 2017 biography Leading Lady. "He was ever highly focused and exceptionally polite."

13. On the acceptable of Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders, featuring a veritable who's-who of '80s-era heartthrobs, prankster Cruise scrawled "Helter Skelter" connected co-star Diane Lane's reflector and enactment chromatic connected her toilet seat.

14. The lone absorption Cruise received for his iconic Risky Business creation to "Old Time Rock and Roll" was 1 enactment successful the script: "Joel dances successful underwear done the house." He ad-libbed the rest, grabbing the candlestick, "using it arsenic a guitar, jumping connected the table. I waxed fractional the level and kept the different fractional dirty, truthful I could descent successful connected my socks. As we went along, I threw much worldly in," helium shared with Crowe successful 1986.

15. Cruise dated his Risky Business co-star Rebecca De Mornay, who called him a "pure person." She told Rolling Stone successful 1986, "There's thing earnest and virtuous astir him that's rather rare." According to Taps co-star Sean Penn, they were retired astatine a nine successful New York 1 nighttime and aft realizing that a miss helium was talking to was trying to prime him up, Cruise "screamed astatine her, 'I person a woman I'm in love with!'" (Perhaps astatine the clip readers thought Penn mightiness beryllium exaggerating.) He and De Mornay started dating successful the summertime of 1983 and maintained a long-distance narration portion helium changeable Ridley Scott's Legend successful London, but broke up erstwhile helium returned to the U.S. to commencement making Top Gun.

16. Top Gun producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson envisioned nary 1 different than Cruise playing Maverick aft they saw a mag communicative astir the elite flying schoolhouse astatine San Diego's Miramar Naval Air Station and went down to spot the blistery shots successful person. "From the archetypal clip we went down to Miramar—even earlier the publication was written—we said, 'These guys are Tom Cruises,'" Bruckheimer told Rolling Stone.

17. Although Cruise besides told Rolling Stone successful 1986 that helium wasn't definite he would beryllium capable to get married successful his "present authorities of mind," helium tied the knot with Mimi Rogers connected May 9, 1987, 2 years aft gathering her astatine a meal party. Emilio Estevez was Cruise's champion man.

18. Paul Newman, his co-star successful 1987's The Color of Money, turned him connected to contention car driving and Cruise has been feeling the request for velocity connected onshore and successful the aerial (and sometimes connected the water) ever since. Years aboriginal the pupil became the teacher when, successful 2010, Cruise taught Zac Efron about motorcycles. "I don't know," Efron told Details erstwhile asked why Cruise offered to bash that. "I don't adjacent privation to know. It's conscionable truthful chill that helium gave a s--t, the information that helium cared astatine all."

19. Mimi and her archetypal husband, Jim Rogers, were some members of the Church of Scientology (Jim was a high-level auditor) and she's said to person introduced Cruise to the organization, giving him L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics and different literature. His immersion successful Scientology coincided with the merchandise of Top Gun and the histrion becoming 1 of the biggest stars successful the world, and to this time Cruise remains the astir celebrated subordinate of the church.

20. Despite being critically panned, 1988's Cocktail, starring Cruise arsenic a playboy bartender, gave Disney its biggest opening play ever astatine the time: $11.8 million.

21. According to Morton's 2008 biography Tom Cruise, manager Oliver Stone wanted Tom to beryllium injected with a chemic that would person rendered him temporarily paralyzed truthful helium could amended place with the relation of real-life Vietnam War seasoned and activistic Ron Kovic successful 1989's Born connected the Fourth of July. The security institution understandably unopen that thought down. The movie inactive won 2 Oscars, champion editing and champion manager for Stone, truthful it worked out.

22. People named Cruise its "Sexiest Man Alive" successful 1990. Soon after, helium and Rogers divorced. When Vanity Fair asked astir his archetypal matrimony successful 1994, Cruise replied tersely, "It was a agelong clip ago. I truly don't deliberation astir it."

23. Cruise met Nicole Kidman during casting for the racing play Days of Thunder and they tied the knot connected Dec. 24, 1990. They adopted 2 children, Isabella and Connor, and starred successful 2 much movies together, Far and Away and Eyes Wide Shut.

After Isabella arrived, Cruise told Vanity Fair successful 1994, "We talked astir children from clip to time, but determination was always the work. But past we went, When is it ever going to beryllium the close time? That's however the speech started. You're lying successful furniture astatine nighttime and you're trying to sleep, truthful you rotation implicit and you go, What would hap if we had this successful our life?

"One of the things that Nic and I speech astir is that present abruptly we're a family. We're astatine that constituent wherever we're trying to specify wherever we are. Can we inactive party? Are we truly boring? Oh, my God . . . we're old!"

24. Disney had Cruise successful caput erstwhile they created the look of the rubric quality successful 1992's Aladdin. "There's a assurance with each of his attitudes and his poses," pb animator Glen Keane said successful a DVD extras feature.

25. An aged tabloid go-to backmost successful the 1980s and '90s was to assertion that this oregon that prima was gay, and Cruise was alert that the rumor was retired there.

"First of all, I don't deliberation it's an indictment," Cruise told Vanity Fair successful 1994. "But I hadn't heard those rumors till astir 3 months agone myself… I don't cognize wherefore they accidental it. I've heard everything from I've cheated connected my woman to my woman was determination connected the acceptable of The Firm because she was pissed disconnected astir my emotion country connected the beach. It's not true, but radical are going to accidental what they privation to say."

26. Cruise wanted Brian De Palma to nonstop Mission: Impossible, which would people his debut arsenic a shaper with his cause turned spouse Paula Wagner, adjacent though De Palma was successful movie jailhouse pursuing respective flops. Cruise adjacent deferred his $20 cardinal wage (not including his back-end deal) truthful they could rise the movie's budget. Mission accomplished: M:I made astir $500 cardinal worldwide and spawned a franchise. De Palma, however, didn't be the film's premiere successful May 1996, reportedly due to the fact that helium and Cruise didn't ever spot oculus to oculus during production.

27. Shooting M:I, Cruise insisted they usage a instrumentality large capable to make the 120 mile-per-hour upwind he'd beryllium facing if helium was truly clinging to a slug bid portion a chopper exploded down him. A unit subordinate told Galloway, "He said, 'I privation the upwind blowing successful my look and I privation my jaws to beryllium blowing.' That's Tom. He's a guy's guy."

28. The aggravated Eyes Wide Shut sprout was scheduled to past 4 months but ended up keeping Tom and Nicole successful London for 18 months. Also during their clip successful England, arsenic destiny would person it, they attended Princess Diana's ceremonial successful September 1997, arsenic did with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, who were successful municipality making Saving Private Ryan.

29. "All I tin accidental is that I anticipation we are unneurotic erstwhile we are 80," Nicole Kidman told Talk in 2000. "I can't accidental we volition be, but I volition beryllium truthful devastated if we are not." Alas, they announced their separation connected Feb. 5, 2001. "She knows why, and I cognize why," Cruise cryptically told Vanity Fair aboriginal that year. "She's the parent of my children, and I privation her well. And I deliberation that you conscionable determination on. And I don't accidental that lightly. I don't accidental that with anything."

30. Penélope Cruz successfully sued an Australian tabloid successful June 2003, winning damages and a retraction implicit a communicative claiming she and then-boyfriend Cruise had postponed their impending matrimony due to the fact that she had cheated connected him. They broke up successful January 2004 aft much than 2 years of dating, a root telling People the narration "just ran its course."

31. The Church of Scientology denied a 2012 Vanity Fair study that Homeland actress Nazanin Boniadi, past a religion member, had fundamentally been recruited to day Cruise for a fewer months, starting successful October 2004 with a radical outing that included renting the skating rink astatine Rockefeller Center and meal astatine Nobu. "I'd alternatively not speech astir that," Boniadi told the New York Post successful 2013.

32. Cruise specifically held retired for J.J. Abrams to nonstop Mission: Impossible III—Abrams' diagnostic movie debut—after watching immoderate episodes of Alias. Paramount was freaking out, wanting M:I3 for a summertime 2005 tentpole release, which wasn't going to hap if Cruise and Abrams—busy astatine the infinitesimal with a amusement called Lost—got their way, but it turned retired Cruise had an ace up his sleeve. Spielberg was acceptable to rotation with War of the Worlds successful clip to springiness Paramount the summertime blockbuster it needed portion they waited for Abrams to go available.

33. On May 23, 2005, a giddy Cruise raised his arms successful victory, got down connected 1 genu and did a mates of fist pumps, and then jumped up connected Oprah Winfrey's sofa (also twice), fueled by emotion for his caller girlfriend, Katie Holmes. "You're gone," the speech amusement big observed.

"I've got truthful overmuch energy, I can't assistance it," Cruise said.

They were some laughing hysterically and the workplace assemblage was cheering, but… possibly you had to beryllium there?

Lest anyone forget, Holmes was astatine the taping and Winfrey led a chant for her to travel out. "She's gonna run!" Cruise exclaimed. "She is freaking out." Then helium took disconnected for backstage to spell get her, the camera trailing him, and erstwhile they had emerged Cruise enveloped the Dawson's Creek prima successful a hug.

That infinitesimal unwittingly acceptable the code for Cruise and Holmes' full relationship, romanticist to galore but to everyone… conscionable a lot.

35. Cruise and Holmes' daughter, Suri Cruise, was calved connected April 18, 2006.

36. Mission: Impossible III came retired connected May 5, 2006, and did… fine. It was (and remains) the lowest-grossing installment of the franchise, making $134 cardinal domestically, but much memorably it marked the infinitesimal wherever folks started wondering if Cruise had mislaid his movie-star mojo, if his unadulterated zeal had turned disconnected audiences for good. Not making it better: Paramount severed its 14-year narration with Cruise's accumulation institution that August, and then-Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone really told the Wall Street Journal, "We don't deliberation that idiosyncratic who effectuates originative termination and costs the institution gross should beryllium connected the lot. His caller behaviour has not been acceptable to Paramount."

37. Suri was introduced to the satellite connected the September 2006 screen of Vanity Fair, zipped up successful her father's leather overgarment akin to however Paul McCartney snuggled girl Mary connected the screen of his 1970 solo medium McCartney. The archetypal glimpse astatine the screen was a immense get for Katie Couric's archetypal nighttime arsenic pb anchor of the CBS Evening News.

38. Cruise and Holmes' wedding astatine the 15th-century Castello Orsini-Odescalchi successful Rome connected Nov. 18, 2016, reportedly cost upward of $3 million. Guest Giorgio Armani designed the bride's ceremonial and reception dresses and attendees included Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, John Travolta and Kelly Preston, David and Victoria Beckham, Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy, Leah Remini and Angelo Pagan, and Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony. Andrea Bocelli performed.

39. Church of Scientology person David Miscavige was Cruise's champion man. According to Remini, who near the religion successful 2013, a accepted Scientology wedding ceremonial includes the vow "to ne'er adjacent their eyes successful slumber connected a disagreement oregon an upset."

40. Shields and hubby Chris Henchy were besides successful attendance, Cruise having apologized for publically disparaging his Endless Love co-star's usage of medicine to dainty postpartum depression. "If you get invited to that wedding, you go," Shields recalled connected The Jenny McCarthy Show successful 2016. The histrion adjacent provided the bride's "something old": an antique enamel compact.

41. 2010's Knight and Day with Cameron Diaz was wide treated arsenic immoderate benignant of "comeback" movie for Cruise, a trial to spot if helium could inactive person a monster enactment movie deed aft Mission: Impossible III underwhelmed.

"I don't recognize wherefore radical deliberation that," helium marveled to the U.K.'s Telegraph. "I've been moving the full time."

42. His roles successful the interim had included his unrecognizable—and hilarious—surprise crook arsenic crass, bullying, bald and abdominous workplace exec Les Grossman successful Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder, for which helium earned a Golden Globe nomination.

"I had astir a twelve radical making the silicone prosthetics for his head, neck, chest, and hands," constitution decorator Barney Burman recalled to Grantland. "We made him peculiar gloves. I did the sculpting, idiosyncratic other did the molds, idiosyncratic other was casting them. I had six antithetic radical punching hairs into the scalp piece, truthful his full caput was one-at-a-time, hand-punched hairs; his arms were hand-punched 1 astatine a time; his thorax was hand-punched."

Added Aida Caefer, "I made the abdominous suits for Tom Cruise. He was each for the much ridiculous, the better. The suit went from his cervix each the mode down to his ankles…The quality moved astir a batch and helium was truthful soaked successful sweat that we had rotating suits for him—one successful the greeting and 1 aft lunch."

"Tom choreographed each his ain moves," Stiller said. "I retrieve watching him bash this worldly and reasoning this is truthful frigging funny."

44. For 2011's Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol, Cruise hung disconnected the borderline of the Burj Khalifa successful Dubai—the world's tallest building—without a treble (though with the due wires). And portion he'd been doing arsenic overmuch of his ain carnal laboring arsenic imaginable for decades, this reinvigorated Cruise's estimation arsenic the feline who does each the death-defying stunts the security companies volition allow. The film's $695 cardinal worldwide container bureau besides signaled that Cruise's estimation had preceded him—in a bully way.

45. Holmes filed for divorcement successful June 2012. Her father, lawyer Martin Holmes, had helped draught their prenuptial statement and each was remarkably settled wrong weeks. And neither of them person ever talked astir what happened. They've acknowledged that they were erstwhile joined to each other, but wherefore it ended has remained anyone's guess. And, oh, however the radical person guessed.

46. Eyebrows were raised erstwhile the 5-foot-7 Cruise was tapped to play 6-foot-5 vigilante Jack Reacher from Lee Childs' best-selling caller series.

"Size successful my books is simply a metaphor for an unstoppable force," Childs explained. "Cruise portrays that successful his ain way."

47. Not arsenic initially OK with the originative licence was Interview With the Vampire author Ann Rice, who according to Vanity Fair was livid successful the aboriginal '90s erstwhile Cruise was formed to play Lestat, having written the quality with Rutger Hauer successful mind.

"It ever helps if 1 is arguable successful casting a movie," manager Neil Jordan said. "I conscionable thought that if Tom was consenting to spell the region this quality demands—and helium was—then we could extremity up with thing rather extraordinary, and we did."

48. Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation was legendary earlier it deed theaters successful 2015 for Cruise's viral airplane stunt, successful which helium hung onto the doorway of an Airbus A400M arsenic it took off. For real. He besides did his ain motorcycle pursuit and learned however to clasp his enactment for six and a fractional minutes for the underwater papers swap.

49. He was backmost connected the motorcycle for Mission: Impossible—Fallout and "when the [safety] rigs didn't work, we conscionable went for it," manager Christopher McQuarrie told the New York Times. "Everything that you're seeing Tom doing, he's doing escaped riding connected acold cobblestones. Sometimes determination was rain; sometimes determination was greeting dew. There was ever a information of skidding and wiping out."

Cruise besides did his ain skydiving on with Henry Cavill's stunt double, dangled from a enactment attached to a flying helicopter, and piloted a chopper for a mid-air pursuit scene, getting his certification successful six weeks. It usually takes 3 months, McQuarrie said, but Cruise trained for 16 hours a time to chopped the clip successful half.

"Tom was having the clip of his life," the manager said.

50. Cruise has social media accounts but they are strictly for un-risky business, and helium prefers to not cognize everything that's happening online. "Sometimes I person to for work, but I support it precise limited," helium told E! News successful 2016. "I don't walk clip doing that benignant of stuff."

51. Cruise isn't 1 to fto himself spell successful betwixt physically taxing roles. "Sea-kayaking, caving, fencing, treadmill, weights, rock-climbing, hiking… I jog… I bash truthful galore antithetic activities," helium has said.

In fact, helium refers to his idiosyncratic workout space—a mentation of which helium takes with him everywhere—as the "Pain Cave."

"Only the motivated tin enter," helium explained to the AP astatine the 2017 premiere of The Mummy. "All you got to bash is conscionable beryllium motivated. Anyone tin travel in, we person the unit travel in, and we conscionable marque it disposable to everyone."

As co-star Jake Johnson revealed: "You commencement each greeting with the regular challenge. So earlier enactment starts, you're successful there. His hairsbreadth and constitution squad is successful there, his unit is successful there, truthful there's astir 15, 20 radical each time doing their squats and jumping jacks. And past I kinda got into it with him…I wanted to beryllium successful a Tom Cruise movie and bash it the Tom Cruise way."

That includes, alas, avoiding sugar.

"I emotion sugar," Cruise assured James Corden on The Late Late Show successful 2018, "but I can't devour it due to the fact that erstwhile I'm training, I'm doing each these movies—so I nonstop it to everyone." And then, "I hold for the calls. Like, 'tell maine astir it.'"

52. Don't archer anyone, but Cruise is human: Aside from what helium did to himself moving astir successful childhood, helium threw retired his backmost making Legend; developed an ulcer portion shooting Eyes Wide Shut; tore his labrum scaling a cliff astatine Dead Horse Point, Utah, for Mission: Impossible 2; and broke an ankle connected Mission: Impossible—Fallout.

"It was the casual 1 wherever I'm moving and I leap from 1 gathering to the next," Cruise aboriginal described the fateful stunt on The Tonight Show.

53. But this feline commits. In summation to doing 3 months of chopper aviator grooming successful six weeks and learning however to clasp his enactment similar he's David Blaine, helium played excavation for 12 hours a time to play Fast Eddie Felson's protegee successful The Color of Money. He mislaid 18 pounds and work classical books retired large to enactment connected his diction to play centuries-old Lestat successful Interview With the Vampire. He learned German to amended embody a World War II-era serviceman successful Valkyrie. He really spent a year and a fractional learning however to alert a helicopter for Mission: Impossible—Fallout (before his whirlwind certification).

54. "I haven't seen him successful awhile, but helium has sent maine a day acquisition each twelvemonth since I was 11 years old," Dakota Fanning said connected Watch What Happens Live successful 2016 astir her dada successful 2005's War of the Worlds. "Beautiful gifts, it's truly kind. I ever think, 'Oh, erstwhile I'm 18, he'll astir apt stop. Oh, 21, he'll stop. But each year."

What does Team Cruise prime out? "It's usually shoes," the actress, past 22, shared.

55. In 1986, helium told Cameron Crowe, "Let's look it, I'm not redeeming lives here. I consciousness fortunate, but this is conscionable 1 facet of my life. I emotion my work, but my household is precise important to me, too. You prime up the insubstantial and spot that determination are galore things happening extracurricular my small world."

Since then, the real-life heroics include, each wrong a fewer years successful the '90s: He lifted 2 boys implicit a barricade to forestall them being crushed astatine the Mission: Impossible premiere successful London; helium sent his ain yacht's skiff to rescue a household whose sailboat was connected occurrence successful the Mediterranean successful 1996; helium rushed to the assistance of a pistillate who had been mugged successful London; and helium paid the $7,000 exigency country measure for an uninsured cashier who was injured successful a deed and run—an mishap Cruise witnessed.

"It's conscionable an impulse," Cruise told People successful 2000 astir his spate of bully deeds. "I was ne'er a Boy Scout, truthful possibly I'm making up for it now."

Or, arsenic helium said successful the video of an interrogation for his religion that went viral successful 2008, "You can't thrust past an accident, due to the fact that arsenic a Scientologist you are the lone 1 who tin help"

57. Cruise has been nominated for 3 Oscars: Best Supporting Actor for Magnolia and Best Actor for Jerry Maguire and Born connected the Fourth of July. He has 7 Golden Globe nominations and 3 wins, for those 3 films.

58. He returned each 3 Globes in 2021 arsenic the Hollywood Foreign Press Association came nether occurrence for its deficiency of diverseness successful its ranks.

59. Cruise's movies person collectively grossed much than $11 cardinal astatine the container bureau worldwide, though Top Gun: Maverick is his first film to transverse the billion-dollar threshold connected its own.

Prior to the merchandise of the 36-years-in-the-making, pandemic-delayed sequel, his highest-grossing movie worldwide was Mission: Impossible—Fallout, with $791 million. Domestically, his biggest film was War of the Worlds with $234 million—though adjusted for inflation, it was the original Top Gun ($180 cardinal successful 1986 vs. $444 cardinal successful 2022). Top Gun: Maverick has made $534 cardinal successful the U.S.

60. Of people those are existent F-18s and the actors are truly flying in Top Gun: Maverick. "It is aggressive. You can't enactment that, the distortion successful the face," Cruise explained successful a making-of featurette. "They're pulling 7 1/2, 8 G's. That's 1,600 pounds of force."

As helium recalled to Empire, helium told the workplace earlier they got started, "'You don't cognize however hard this movie's going to be. No-one's ever done this before.'" But helium was firm about not wanting to bash immoderate "CGI stuff."

And successful the end, Cruise said, "There's ne'er been an aerial series changeable this way. I don't cognize if determination ever volition beryllium again, to beryllium honest."

61. When Tom Cruise wants to archer you helium appreciates you, helium sends dessert. The White Chocolate Coconut Bundt Cake from Doan's Bakery in Woodland Hills, Calif., has go the worldly of holiday-gift-giving legend, sent to the likes of Tom Hanks, Rosie O'Donnell and, much recently, Top Gun: Maverick co-stars Miles Teller and Jon Hamm.

When December comes around, the unit astatine Hanks' accumulation institution Playtone "start eyeing what message has travel in," Hanks shared connected the Mythical Kitchen YouTube series Last Meals. "Is the large container coming in? Are we getting what has fundamentally been called 'the Tom Cruise cake?'"