Tom Cruise

Profession: Actor
Place/Date of Birth: New York, USA, 03 July 2020
Associated with: Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman

Posh and Katie have become firm friends and have been spotted eating out and shopping together.

The former Dawson’s Creek star has even been spotted sporting a Posh-style bobbed hairdo this week, which resembles the former Spice Girl’s hair before she went blonde.

Suri Cruise’s birthday party - April 25 2007
Suri Cruise may be just a year old but that didn’t stop parents Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes from making sure she had a birthday party to remember.

A special lunch was held for the little girl at the couple’s Beverley Hills mansion, while the entertainment included dragonfly and butterfly-shaped pinatas, sweet-filled containers hung from trees which release their goodies after being hit with a stick, according People.com.

And to ensure their little one had a good day, TomKat weren’t skimping on the pennies, as Katie revealed in recently how Suri "loves just being outside right now" - so her big present was a gym set for the backyard, alongside a stack of books, balls and dolls.

A source close to the family said the birthday girl was just about old enough to appreciate it, as she was running around "walking and talking".

They added: "Tom and Suri kicked the ball around the lawn during the party."

Family and friends dined out on pizza, as well as cupcakes from Sprinkles, an exclusive bakery in Beverly Hills - which may not have been such a good idea with all those designer clothes around.

According to the source "Tom, Katie and Suri were wearing chocolate" by the end of the party.

Happy Birthday to Suri - April 18 2007
Suri Cruise is one today. When the pretty baby was born a year ago, she was hidden from the glare of the world until September, when mum Katie Holmes and dad Tom Cruise posed for pictures with her in Vanity Fair.

Suri, who was born after months of publicity generated by the courtship of the Tinseltown duo, including Tom’s couch-hopping appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, was the first biological child for the War Of The Worlds actor, who has two adopted children from his marriage to Nicole Kidman.

"She has Kate’s lips and eyes," he said of Suri. "I think she looks like Kate."

"I think she has Tom’s eyes. I think she looks like Tom. She’s a glorious girl. She’s the miracle of our life," the former Dawson’s Creek actress added.

The baby has certainly had an eventful first 12 months - in November she was at the marriage of her parents in Bracciano, Italy, and she was even spotted with her dad at the Academy Awards rehearsals in February.

How family Cruise will be celebrating this milestone today we aren’t sure, but one thing’s certain - everyone wants an invite.

Actress Brooke Shields - whose daughter Grier was born on the same day as Suri - has said she wants a joint bash.

"We haven’t planned that yet. I think they’re going to be away for her birthday. So maybe it will happen after we get back," she said.

We take a look at Suri’s year and a few other celebrity babies.

Tom to promote 9/11 detox? - April 10 2007
Tom Cruise is apparently set to promote the controversial Scientology-inspired detox programme for 9/11 workers with a huge fundraising gala in New York.

Proceeds from the glitzy April 19 gala, for which tables for eight will reportedly cost up to $100,000, will benefit the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project.

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Biography

New Yorker Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3 1962) may have reached the heights of the heart throb-o-meter in the eighties but since his split with Nicole Kidman has ruined many a young woman’s fantasy with increasingly bizarre behaviour. So where did it all go wrong for the sofa leaping strange one?

Born in Syracuse Tom grew up in relative poverty following his father’s departure from the family, the actor has since claimed that he suffered abuse before the split. While Thomas III refused to pay child support, Tom’s mother Mary Lee Pfieffer moved her son from city to city, eventually settling in New Jersey where Tom, who once aspired to become a Catholic priest, then a Wrestler, took up acting. His first role was as lead in a High School production of Guys and Dolls.

1981 saw Tom take his first acting role, alongside Brooke Shields in Endless Love. He followed this up with increasingly important roles before in 1983 appearing in Risky Business, the underpanted lip syncing scene of which brought him to the attention of movie goers worldwide as well as to Director Jerry Bruckheimer who asked Tom to star in his next project. Rumour has it that the actor turned down the role of fighter pilot Maverick in Top Gun but in 1986 there he was on our screens, ready to become a cinematic icon.

As the 80s rolled on The Colour of Money, Cocktail and Rain Man ensured Tom’s place at the top of the Hollywood A list, taking him in to the nineties able to demand huge pay cheques for his work and earning him Academy Award nominations (for Born on the Fourth of July). In 1990 he met Australian actress Nicole Kidman on the set of Days of Thunder who he would soon work with again on the less successful Far and Away. Fresh from his divorce from Mimi Rogers, whom he had married just three years earlier, Tom whisked Nicole up the aisle before embarking on a roll call of more ’serious’ film work from The Firm to A Few Good Men and Interview With The Vampire.

1996 proved a successful year for Tom. He began a long relationship with the Mission:Impossible franchise and earned himself another Oscar nomination for the unforgettable Bruckheimer release Jerry Maguire. But this time seemed to mark a turning point for America’s most personable lead man. In 1999 he and Nicole took on the bizarre and controversial Kubrick movie Eyes Wide Shut which he closely followed with the Oscar nominated Magnolia which saw a further move away from his usual ’arrogant nice guy’ roles.

In 2001 the Cruise/Kidman van screeched to an unexpected halt. The couple, who had two adopted children - Isabella and Connor - were divorced just before their tenth wedding anniversary. Nicole, three months pregnant, later miscarried. Tom was soon in love again, this time with Vanilla Sky co-star Penelope Cruz with whom he was linked until 2004. He continued to create box office successes, from a second Mission Impossible movie to Collateral and Minority Report.

Following his split from Penelope Tom became ever more vocal about his beliefs as a Scientologist. The controversial religion was expected to affect his 2005 outing, War of the Worlds, however whilst the film still managed to net millions, Tom’s religious ramblings coupled with his unexpected relationship with Dawson’s Creek and Batman Begins actress Katie Holmes, sixteen years his junior, saw his own popularity wane.

Tom’s pro-Scientology and anti-psychiatry comments, a very public battle with Brooke Shields and some truly over the top, overacted protestations of love signalled the end of Tom’s relationship with Paramount pictures with whom he had worked as a Producer. Paramount weren’t the only ones to go off the actor either. The newspapers and magazines who not so long ago loved him and his movies turned against him, branding him a laughing stock and turning up the volume on the gay rumours which have plagued Cruise for so many years.

Tom and Katie carried out their fast forward relationship under the glare of the press - first bringing baby daughter Suri in to the world in April 2006 just a year after they first met, then marrying in November of the same year.
upated December 2006
February 2008