Tom Cruise Tom Cruise Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer. He started his career at age 19 in the film "Endless Love" (1981), before making his breakthrough in the comedy "Risky Business" (1983) and receiving widespread attention for starring in the action drama "Top Gun" (1986) as Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. After starring in "The Color of Money" (1986) and "Cocktail" (1988), Cruise starred opposite Dustin Hoffman in the Academy Award for Best Picture-winning drama "Rain Man". For his role as anti-war activist Ron Kovic in the drama "Born on the Fourth of July"
Tom Cruise filmography action spy thriller film "" (1996), the first film project of his production company Cruise/Wagner Productions, which he had co-founded with Paula Wagner in 1993. As of 2018, Cruise has appeared in five more films in the "" franchise: "" (2000), "" (2006), "" (2011), "" (2015), and "" (2018). He played the titular role in the Cameron Crowe-directed comedy-drama "Jerry Maguire" (1996), which garnered Cruise the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and his second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1999, Cruise starred in the Stanley Kubrick-directed erotic thriller