His first leading role was in the film Risky Business, released in August 1983. Since 2005, Cruise and Paula Wagner have been in charge of the United Artists film studio, with Cruise as producer and star and Wagner as the chief executive. Cruise’s surname originates from his great-grandfather, Thomas Cruise O’Mara, who was adopted by a Welsh immigrant and renamed “Thomas Cruise Mapother”.

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His first leading role was in the film Risky Business, released in August 1983. The play met much acclaim, and toured with five other classmates to various schools around the Ottawa area, even being filmed at the local Ottawa TV station. When Cruise was twelve, his mother left his father, taking Cruise and his sister Lee Anne with her. 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 him. in 1996, he took on the title role in Jerry Maguire, for which he earned a Golden Globe and his second nomination for an Academy Award.

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Morgan Freeman And Tom Cruise Team Up To Save Us From Oblivion! Morgan Freeman has signed on to help Batman Tom Cruise save the world.The flick, Oblivion, has Cruise as the last man on Earth in a post-apocalyptic world, who stays behind to kill all the aliens that have taken over.Not much is known about Freeman’s role; we’re guessing it will be something epic!The script is currently [...] [link]

He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won three Golden Globe Awards. Cruise first debuted in a major movie in Francis Ford Coppola’s film The Outsiders, released in March 1983. The Mapother family then moved to the suburb of Beacon Hill, in Ottawa, Ontario, so Cruise’s father could take a position as a defence consultant with the Canadian Armed Forces. The first play he participated in was called IT, in which Cruise won the co-lead with Michael de Waal, one playing “Evil”, the other playing “Good”. When Cruise was twelve, his mother left his father, taking Cruise and his sister Lee Anne with her. in his senior year, he played football for the varsity team as a linebacker, but he was cut from the squad after getting caught drinking beer before a game. Later that year he starred with Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, which won the Academy Award for Best Film and Cruise the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film was directed by Hong Kong director John Woo and branded with his Gun fu Style, and it continued the series’ blockbuster success at the box office, taking in almost $547M in worldwide figures, like its predecessor, being the third highest grossing film of the year.

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