Tom Cruise Trivia | 50 facts about the famous actor

Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer. He’s one of the world’s highest-paid actors, and obviously he has received various accolades.

Let’s find out more about the actor!

1. His full name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV.
2. He was born onJuly 3, 1962.
3. He is an American actor and producer.
4. He’s one of the world’s highest-paid actors
5. He has received various accolades, including an Honorary Palme d’Or and three Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards.
6. His films have grossed over $4 billion in North America and over $11.5 billion worldwide,making him one of the highest-grossing box-office stars of all time.
7. Stopped to help a hit and run victim and paid her hospital bills. The victim was aspiring Brazilian actress Heloisa Vinhas (1996).
8. His acting idol is Paul Newman.
9. He did not stay for the remainder of the 2002 Academy Awards after opening them because it was his turn to look after his and ex-wife Nicole Kidman’s children.
10. He reportedly left the Kodak Theatre by a back door after opening proceedings and dashed home to watch the rest of the event on television with his kids Connor and Isabella.
11. Cruise earned roughly $75 million for Mission Impossible 2 (2000). He did this by turning down any upfront salary, for instead taking a back-end deal that landed him 30% of the film’s gross for both his producing and acting duties.
12. His features and good looks were the model for the Disney character Aladdin (1992).
13. In the past twenty years since his first hundred million dollar grosser (Top Gun (1986)), only six of his films have failed to reach that status.
14. Lived together with Vanilla Sky (2001) co-star Penélope Cruz from 2001 – 2004.
15. Tom visited actress Brooke Shields at her home and personally apologized to her for criticizing her in 2005 about her use of prescription medication to overcome her postpartum depression. Touched by the gesture, Brooke accepted his apology. (September 2006)
16. At age 14, he enrolled in a seminary to become a priest. He dropped out after one year.
17. He once shared a record with Tom Hanks as the actor to star in the most consecutive $100 million-grossing movies (7). Both were surpassed by Will Smith who reached eight in 2008.
18. Emilio Estevez served as best man at his wedding to Mimi Rogers.
19. In 1994, Tom received his pilot licence north of Toronto in Markham, Ontario, Canada.
20. On April 3, 2013, Tom was presented with a Certificate of Irish Heritage by the Irish government in Dublin, Ireland. His Irish roots can be traced back 840 years to the arrival of the Norman lord Strongbow in Ireland. The knights in Tom’s family were among the first wave of Anglo-Normans to invade Ireland between 1169 and 1176.
21. Because the family-held land directly of the King, they were royal tenants, and by the early 1200s the de Cruise family were Barons in Ireland. Sir Maurice Cruys, a knight who died in 1216, is a direct ancestor of Tom’s family. One of the lands they owned was called Hollywood in North County Dublin. They also had land in Meath; the civil parish of Cruicetown (in the parish of Nobber) was named after them.
22. Will not allow his likeness to be used in video games or for action figures.
23. All three of his ex-wives were 34 when they divorced him.
24. Filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit against Michael Davis, a man who allegedly offered to sell videotapes of himself having sex with the actor. The lawsuit accuses Davis of making the statements “in order to hurt the plaintiff and gain widespread publicity for himself”. (May 2001)
25. Has married two actresses who played Batman’s love interest. Nicole Kidman from Batman: Forever (1995) and Katie Holmes from Batman Begins (2005).
26. Both Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames are the only actors to have appeared in all five installments of the Mission: Impossible films series from 1996 through 2015.
27. While attending the London premiere of War of the worlds των κόσμων (2005), he was squirted in the face with water during a prank interview. His reaction on camera was stern but not livid. The culprit was charged with assault.
28. He took up acting after losing his place on a high school wrestling team due to a knee injury.
29. Owns and operates “Montana Miss” a World War II P-51 Mustang.
30. Even though the Mission: Impossible series is his signature action series, he never actually fires a gun in the original film.
31. Proposed to Katie Holmes at the Eiffel Tower in Paris
32. Although they officialized their marriage in Los Angeles prior, he and Katie Holmes celebrated their wedding in the Odescalchi castle in Bracciano, Italy. The ceremony was performed by a Scientology minister in front of more than 150 relatives and friends including Hollywood superstars.
33. Italian pop opera purveyor Andrea Bocelli serenaded the newlyweds.
34. Enjoys skydiving, scuba diving, and piloting his Pitts Special S-2B stunt plane
35. Recently restored an older home in the township of Biltmore Forest, a town within the city limits of Asheville, North Carolina. (2000)
36. Was considered for the lead role in The Matrix (1999), which went to Keanu Reeves.
37. As a child, he was used as kissing practice by his sister Lee Anne’s friends.
38. The years of birth of his wives are 11 years apart: Mimi Rogers was born in 1956, Nicole Kidman in 1967 and Katie Holmes in 1978.
39. (December 2, 2007) Although the shooting of Valkyrie (2008) caused controversy in Germany due to his Scientology membership, he was awarded at the Bambi Awards for “Courage”, a category, newly created by the organizers to honor him for “tackling a story that had never been covered by Hollywood before”. The decision was also heavily criticized by journalists and politicians.
40. Attended Princess Diana’s funeral with, his then-wife, Nicole Kidman.
41. The Japan Memorial Day Association declared October 6, 2006 “Tom Cruise Day”.
42. He has two adopted children with Nicole Kidman: Isabella Jane Cruise (born December 22, 1992) Connor Antony Cruise (Connor Cruise) (born January 17, 1995).
43. He has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant: Top Gun (1986).
44. Was introduced to Scientology by his ex-wife Mimi Rogers.
45. Once lived in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and attended the same high school as Bryan Adams.
46. Revealed to People magazine in 2010, that his first celebrity crush was Ingrid Bergman in Notorious (1946). He chose an Ingrid Bergman lookalike, Rebecca Ferguson, to be his co-star in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015) after he saw her in The White Queen (2013). Ferguson’s character in “Rogue Nation” is named Ilsa, just like Bergman’s character in Casablanca (1942).
47. Says Vanilla Sky (2001) is the best film he’s done.
48. His May 2005 appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986) was named the #1 “Celebrity Meltdown Ever” by TV Guide magazine.
49. Dated Cher and Sofía Vergara.
50. Wore braces on his flashy, million-dollar smile in 2002 to correct a misaligned bite.