In his first films (“Risky Business”, “Cocktail”) had the typical smile of the handsome boy who goes of ready. Today, after a Globe of gold and three nominations to the Oscar, that seductive, challenging and safe smile of itself that it outlines the lawyer of “Some Good Men” belongs more to one of the respected men of Hollywood.

Of small badly it passed it enough. His father, electrical engineer, dragged to his woman and her four children (three children and he) by more than a dozen of different cities in search of work. Tom went very to the drift in his studies, because of the continuous changes of school and because she had problems of dislexia. Their parents divorced being adolescent he, and had to become the man of the family. It was good in free fight but an injury in the knee closed the doors to him of a possible sport race. It studied during a year in a franciscano monastery but instead of receiving the call of God, who called to him was the cinema.

Although it does not seem it at first, two characteristics of Tom Cruise are the enthusiasm and tozudería. One occurs ten years of margin to dream up an actor race. First that obtains it is a secondary paper in the scholastic films “Guys and Dolls” and “Godspell”. But to prevail it must leave. It is released to New York and it begins a duro way of nocturnal classes of interpretation, to step on cástings, and of not having nor a dollar in the pocket.

In long time, the only thing that obtains is papelillo in the film “Endless Love”, carried out by Brooke Shields. Its first excellent paper is in the film “Losin'It”, that leaves a flavor him of mouth badly: it does not want to be another actor of youthful comedies to use and to throw. So, being unmarked of other actors of his villa, like Rob Lowe, he wants to be a quality actor. And thanks to the explosion of “Top Gun” begin to take off.

In his trajectory towards the estrellato it knows to take advantage of the opportunities to work next to true legend like Paul Newman in “the color of the money”, Dustin Hoffman in “Rain Man” and Jack Nicholson in “Some Good Men”. By his realistic interpretation of the quadriplegic excombatiente of “Born the Four of Julio” it obtains a Gold Globe and it caresses an Oscar to the Best Actor than until now always one has resisted to him. Unforgettable the scenes in which one faces his mother, who tries to give spirits him although he does not accept his condition of quadriplegic.

Almost as popular as his films it has been his marriage with the actress Nicole Kidman, whom knew during the running of “Days of Thunder”, and with whom she adopted two children, Connor and Isabella. During long time one of the stable pairs has been considered them more sexys and of Hollywood. But in February of the 2001 they announce that they divorce, after ten years of marriage and after to have carried out together the erótico thriller “Eyes Wide Shut” of Stanley Kubrick, indeed on the jealousy in the pair. Ironies of the life.

During the divorce proceedings, the news explodes pump: Cruise maintains a romance with the Spanish actress Penélope Cruz. With time they appear before the average ones as even and although there are doubts on if it is a sincere or pre-mounted relation, the certain thing is that in October of 2002 still they follow together.

The professional maturity of Cruise, who is one of stars of tie Hollywood to the religious sect of the Cienciología, is deriving by the ways of the production of commercial films. Its new roll of coproducer began in the film “Impossible Mission”, whose collection still propped up more to Tom Cruise in the club of the actors with more than 20 million dollars in the bank.