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Tom Cruise
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Tom Cruise Now: Mission Impossible Star Performs Skydiving Stunt at Olympics Closing Ceremony
Tom Cruise wrapped up the Paris Olympics with a death-defying stunt. During the Olympics closing ceremony on August 11, the actor jumped off the roof of Stage de France and propelled down to the stadium’s floor on a cable, where he greeted athletes and snapped a few selfies as he walked toward the stage. Once on stage, Cruise shook hands with gymnast Simone Biles and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who handed him the Olympic flag. The Mission: Impossible star then secured the flag to the back of his motorcycle and took off.
The year-old then appeared in a previously filmed video clip that showed Cruise driving through the streets of Paris and boarding a plane headed to Los Angeles, symbolizing the passing of the torch from the Paris Games to the Los Angeles Olympics in summer Cruise put on skydiving gear and jumped out of the plane, soaring through Los Angeles and past the Hollywood sign, which he redesigned to feature the Olympic rings in place of the two Os at the end of Hollywood.
Major Moments from the Paris Games
Cruise is famous for doing many of his own stunts in his movies, including the Mission: Impossible and Top Gun franchises. Ahead of the release of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One in July , he told Entertainment Tonight that his most dangerous stunt took years of practice to perfect: “You have to be razor sharp when you do something like that.”
Who Is Tom Cruise?
Actor Tom Cruise has been one of the most prominent movie stars in Hollywood dating back to the s. After developing an interest in acting during high school, he rocketed to fame with his turns in Risky Business and Top Gun. Cruise has since become an action movie veteran, counting the Mission: Impossible franchise, Edge of Tomorrow, and Top Gun: Maverick among his many successes. The four-time Oscar nominee has also earned acclaim In , if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. Nonetheless, this sensitive, deeply religious youngster who was born in in Syracuse, New York, was destined to become one of the highest paid and most sought after actors in screen history. Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (; born July 3, ) is an American actor and producer. He has starred in many movies, including War of the Worlds and Jerry Maguire. He is one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood. His first movie was Endless Love. His first leading role was in the movie Risky Business and later in Top Gun. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards. These were for the same movies: Born on the Fourth of July (), Jerry Maguire (), and Magnolia (). He is known for playing the lead role Ethan Hunt in six Mission Impossible films. Other key films are Vanilla Sky (), Minority Report (), The Last Samurai (), Collateral (), War of the Worlds (), Knight and Day (), Jack Reacher (), Oblivion (), Edge of Tomorrow (), American Made (), and Top Gun: Maverick (). Tom Cruise was born in Syracuse, New York. He is the son of Mary Lee, a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III (died ), an electrical engineer. Cruise has three sisters, Lee Anne, Marian, and Cass. Cruise's surname originates from his great grandfather, born Thomas Cruise O'Mara, who was renamed "Thomas Cruise Mapother" (Mapother is a Welsh surname). Cruise is of Irish, German and English ancestry. One of his paternal great grandfather, Patrick Russell Cruise, was born in North County Dublin, in he married Teresa Johnson in Warrenstown House, County Meath, in They left Ireland for America that same year and settled in New York. Cruise is a Scientologist. He is one of the most famous members of the organization. Cruise has an adopted daughter and adopted son with his second wife Nicole Kidman. He has a daughter Suri (born April ), by Katie Holmes. He and American actor (born ) This article is about the American actor. For other people named Tom Cruise, see Tom Cruise (disambiguation). Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, ) is an American actor and producer. Regarded as a Hollywoodicon, he has received various accolades, including an Honorary Palme d'Or and three Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards. His films have grossed over $12 billion worldwide, placing him among the highest-grossing actors of all time. One of Hollywood's most bankable stars, he is consistently one of the world's highest-paid actors. Cruise began acting in the early s and made his breakthrough with leading roles in Risky Business () and Top Gun (). Critical acclaim came with his roles in the dramas The Color of Money (), Rain Man (), and Born on the Fourth of July (). For his portrayal of Ron Kovic in the latter, he won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. As a leading Hollywood star in the s, he starred in commercially successful films, including the drama A Few Good Men (), the thriller The Firm (), the horror film Interview with the Vampire (), and the romance Jerry Maguire (). For the latter, he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Cruise's performance in the drama Magnolia () earned him another Golden Globe Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Cruise subsequently established himself as a star of science fiction and action films, often performing his own risky stunts. He has played fictional agent Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible film series since His other films in the genre include Vanilla Sky (), Minority Report (), The Last Samurai (), Collateral (), War of the Worlds (), Knight and Day (), Jack Reacher (), Oblivion (), Edge of Tomorrow (), and Top Gun: Maverick ().
Tom is the only son (among four children) of nomadic parents, Mary Lee (Pfeiffer), a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer. His parents were both from Louisville, Kentucky, and he has German, Irish, and English ancestry. Young Tom spent his boyhood always on the move, and by the time he was 14 he had attended 15 different schools in the U.S. and Canada. He finally settled in Glen Ridge, New Jersey with his mother and her new husband. While in high school, Tom wanted to become a priest but pretty soon he developed an interest in acting and abandoned his plans of becoming a priest, dropped out of school, and at age 18 headed for New York and a possible acting career. The next 15 years of his life are the stuff of legends. He made his film debut with a small part in Endless Love () and from the outset exhibited an undeniable box office appeal to both male and female audiences.
With handsome movie star looks and a charismatic smile, within 5 years Tom Cruise was starring in some of the top-grossing films of the s including Top Gun (); The Color of Money (), Rain Man () and Born on the Fourth of July (). By the s he was one of the highest-paid actors in the world earning an average 15 million dollars a picture in such blockbuster hits as Interview with the Vampire (), Mission: Impossible () and Jerry Maguire (), for which he received an Academy Award Nomination for best actor. Tom Cruise's biggest franchise, Mission Impossible, has also earned a
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