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: An Unauthorized Biography is reported to be considering filing suit against the US publishers." The book has been criticized by representatives for both Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology. In an interview with "The Daily Mail", attorney Bertram Fields called the book a "boring, poorly researched book by a man who never talked to anyone involved in Tom Cruise's life or anyone close to him," and criticized what he believed to be Morton's lack of independent research for the work. Fields said that Cruise would not read the book, saying "He has no intention of reading it. He's very, very busy with