Tom Cruise

Cover of Born on the Fourth of July [HD DVD]

Tom Cruise is one the most famous Hollywood celebrity. His off-screen name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, born July 3, 1962, popularly known by his screen name Tom Cruise, is an American actor and film producer. Forbes magazine in 2006 rated him as the world's most powerful celebrity .Nominated thrice for Academy Awards and won three Golden Globe Awards. His first leading role was the 1983 film Risky Business, which has been described as Next Generation classic, and a career launcher for the actor.tom Cruise played the role of "Maverick", a naval pilot in the highly acclaimed and successful 1986 film Top Gun, Cruise played a secret agent in a series of Mission: Impossible action films in the 1990s and 2000s.Apart from the action flicks he has been successful in various types of characters. Cruise’s debut role came in 1981, in Endless Love, opposite Brooke Shields, but he first got noticed in the movie "The Outsiders”. Cruise’s real success came after Risky Business was released, which helped to propel Cruise to stardom. In 1986 "Top Gun" was released which was the highest grosser of the year.
In early 90's Tom Cruise received Academy Award nominations for Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July. in 1996 Cruise produced and acted in Mission Impossible which was highly successful movie.3 more movies has been made in this series so far,MI2 has been the most successful.
In 1990, 1991 and 1997, People magazine rated him among the 50 most beautiful people in the world. In 1995, Empire magazine ranked him among the 100 sexiest stars in film history. Two years later, it ranked him among the top 5 movie stars of all time. In 2002 and 2003, he was rated by Premiere among the top 20 in its annual Power 100 list. Premiere ranked Cruise as Hollywood's most powerful actor in 2006, as Cruise came in at number 13 on the magazines 2006 Power List, being the highest ranked actor. On June 16, 2006, Forbes magazine published 'The Celebrity 100’; Cruise topped a list of the most powerful celebrities.