Resumo de Tom Cruise

Cruise was born to Thomas Mapother III and Mary Lee Pfeiffer in Syracuse, New York.<2> Cruise has German ancestry from his paternal great-grandparents, William Reibert Gay and Charlotta Louise Voelker; and Welsh ancestry from his paternal great-great-grandfather, Dylan Henry Mapother, who emigrated from Flint, Wales to Louisville, Kentucky in 1850.<3> <4> His maternal ancestry is half Irish and half German (including Alsatian).<5>Cruise's family resided in near-poverty, because Cruise's father would not pay child support after his estrangement from the family when his son was eleven. Cities in which Tom lived included Ottawa, Ontario (where he attended Lisgar Collegiate Institute), Louisville, Kentucky, Winnetka, Illinois and Wayne, New Jersey. In all, Cruise attended eight elementary schools and three high schools. He briefly attended a Franciscan seminary in Cincinnati and aspired to become a Catholic priest. He eventually graduated from Glen Ridge High school in New Jersey.It was recently discovered that Cruise had suffered from child abuse when he was younger. He stated that when something went wrong, his father came down hard on him. He told Parade Magazine that his father was "a bully and had a huge nose"<citationneeded> and "a merchant of chaos". Cruise said he learned early on that his father was - and, by extension, some people were - not to be trusted: "I knew from being around my father that not everyone means me well."<6> Having gone through fifteen schools in twelve years, Cruise, who dropped his father's name at age twelve, was also subject to bullying at school.Cruise started acting after being sidelined from his high school's wrestling team due to a knee injury. While injured, he successfully auditioned for a lead role in his high school's production of Guys and Dolls and decided to become an actor after his success in the role.HollywoodActing careerCruise's first acting role came in 1981, when he had a small role in Endless Love, a drama/romance film starring Brooke Shields. After that he had a more substantial role in a bigger film, Taps, appearing alongside George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn. The film about military cadets was moderately successful. In 1983, he was one of many young teenage stars to appear in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders. The cast for this film included Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, and Ralph Macchio,all of which was later called the the New Rat Pack . That same year Cruise appeared in the teen comedy Losin' It with Shelley Long. Also in 1983, Risky Business was released, widely thought to be the film that propelled Cruise to stardom. One sequence in the film, featuring Cruise lip-syncing Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock and Roll" in his underwear, has become an iconic moment in film history. The film has been described as "A Generation-X classic, and a career-maker for Tom Cruise".<8> A fourth film that was released in 1983 was the high-school football drama, All the Right Moves.Cruise's next film was Ridley Scott's Legend. Cruise was picked as the first choice by big producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson for an upcoming American fighter pilot film. Cruise at first apparently turned down the project, but helped to alter the script he was given and developed the film. After being taken for a flight with the Blue Angels, Cruise changed his mind and signed on with the project. Top Gun opened in May of 1986 and became the highest grossing film of the year, taking in US$353,816,701 in worldwide figures. The Marines even used it as an ad for its recruitment and did succeed. He also starred in Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money along with Paul Newman that same year, which earned Paul Best Actor academy award and Tom won prominence too. In 1988 he starred in the light hearted drama Cocktail. The film received mixed reviews and Cruise was subsequently nominated award in 1989. Later that year, Rain Man was released, which also starred Dustin Hoffman and directed by Barry Levinson. The film was praised by critics and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, and won four, including Best Picture and Best Actor.Cruise on the cover of TIME December 25, 1989Cruise was welcomed with similar success the following year when he received Academy Award nominations for Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July,which was based on the best selling autobiography of Anti-Vietnam War hero Ron Kovic and for the first time audience knew Tom could play complicated roles other than handsome boys. In 1990, Cruise starred as hot-shot Cole Trickle as a race car driver in Tony Scott's Days of Thunder. Days of Thunder is where Cruise first met American born and Australian raised actress Nicole Kidman, who was his co-star. Cruises' next film was Ron Howard's Far and Away where he again was starring with Nicole Kidman. Although it was not such a success compared with his past works, he won the love from Nicole. Cruise starred in A Few Good Men with Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore, the well received military thriller earned Cruise Golden Globe and MTV nominations. The following year he starred in Sydney Pollack's The Firm along with Gene Hackman and Ed Harris, which was based on the best selling novel of John Grisham, won Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture at the People's Choice Awards

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