Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography He also consulted with Los Angeles, California attorney Graham Berry. Baressi stated he had begun investigating Cruise after his marriage to Nicole Kidman ended, but after six years of research on the actor had not been able to find any evidence that Cruise was gay. Baressi gave all of his research to Morton, and later told "InTouch" magazine: "Everything I have found, and everything I know, points to Tom being heterosexual." Morton also traveled to Toronto, Ontario, Canada to interview people who knew Cruise when he was filming "Cocktail". Several Paramount Pictures employees were interviewed about Cruise's termination by Sumner
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