Date of Birth: Tuesday, July 03, 1962

Place of Birth: Syracuse, New York, USA

Height: 5'7

His birth name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV.

Though below average height and not particularly handsome in the traditional sense, within 5 years Tom Cruise was starring in some of the top grossing films of the 1980s including Top Gun (1986); Color of Money, The (1986), Rain Man (1988) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989).

By the 1990s 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: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), Mission: Impossible (1996) and Jerry Maguire (1996) for which he received an Academy Award Nomination for best actor.

Has three sisters: Marian, Lee Anne and Cass.

Wore braces on his flashy, million-dollar smile in 2002 to correct a misaligned bite.

In 2005, Cruise, whose former lovers including Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz, has confirmed that he is dating Katie Holmes.

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