Tom Cruise and Away" (1992), both of which co-starred then-wife Nicole Kidman as his love interest. In 1994, Cruise starred along with Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas and Christian Slater in Neil Jordan's "Interview with the Vampire", a gothic drama/horror film that was based on Anne Rice's best-selling novel. The film was well received, although Rice was initially quite outspoken in her criticism of Cruise having been cast in the film, as Julian Sands was her first choice. Upon seeing the film however, she paid $7,740 for a two-page ad in "Daily Variety" praising his performance and apologizing for her previous doubts about
Tom Hickey (actor) Tom Hickey (actor) Tom Hickey (born 1944) is an Irish actor who has appeared on stage and screen in a career that began in the early 1960s. He is, perhaps, best known for playing Benjy Riordan in the long-running television series, "The Riordans". Born in Kildare, Hickey began his career in 1963 at Deirdre O'Connell's Stanislavski Studio in Dublin where he trained in Stanislavski's system of acting. He has said that he sees his choice of profession as a "vocation", having decided to become an actor when he was five or six years old. In 1965, Hickey joined the cast