Tom Cruise filmography

A photograph of Cruise attending the Paris film premiere of Edge of Tomorrow in 2014
Cruise attending the Paris premiere of Edge of Tomorrow in 2014

Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor role in the 1981 romantic drama Endless Love.[1][2] Two years later he made his breakthrough by starring in the romantic comedy Risky Business (1983),[3][4] which garnered his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.[5] In 1986, Cruise played a fighter pilot in the Tony Scott-directed action drama Top Gun (the highest grossing film that year),[6][7] and also starred opposite Paul Newman in the Martin Scorsese-directed drama The Color of Money. Two years later he played opposite Dustin Hoffman in the Academy Award for Best Picture-winning drama Rain Man (1988), and also appeared in the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture-winning romantic drama Cocktail (1988). In doing so Cruise became the first and only person as of 2014 to star in a Best Picture Oscar winner and a Worst Picture Razzie winner in the same year.[8] His next role was as anti-war activist Ron Kovic in the drama adaptation of Kovic's memoir of the same name, Born on the Fourth of July (1989). For his performance Cruise received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.[5][9]

In 1992, he starred opposite Jack Nicholson in the legal drama A Few Good Men,[10] an adaptation of the Broadway play of the same name also written by Aaron Sorkin.[11] Cruise next appeared in The Firm (1993), a film adaptation of the John Grisham legal thriller of the same name,[12] and in the same year also made his directorial debut by directing an episode of the anthology television series Fallen Angels.[13][14] Three years later Cruise starred as spy Ethan Hunt in the action spy film Mission Impossible (1996), the first film project of his production company Cruise/Wagner Productions,[15] which he had co-founded with Paula Wagner in 1993.[16][17] As of 2015, Cruise has reprised his role as Hunt in four more films in the Mission Impossible film series: Mission: Impossible II (2000), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015).

He played the titular role in the Cameron Crowe-directed comedy-drama Jerry Maguire (1996), which garnered Cruise the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and his second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.[5][18] In 1999, Cruise starred in the Stanley Kubrick-directed erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut opposite his then wife Nicole Kidman,[19] and also appeared in the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed drama Magnolia. For the latter he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.[5][20] Cruise reteamed with Crowe on the science fiction thriller Vanilla Sky (2001), which earned him a Saturn Award for Best Actor.[21] The following year he starred in the Steven Spielberg-directed science fiction thriller Minority Report (2002). In 2005, he collaborated again with Spielberg on the science fiction thriller War of the Worlds and received the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film from BAFTA Los Angeles.[22] Three years later he appeared in the satirical action comedy Tropic Thunder (2008) and played Claus von Stauffenberg in the historical thriller Valkyrie (2008). Cruise played the eponymous role in the thriller Jack Reacher, and appeared in the romantic musical comedy Rock of Ages (both 2012). His next films Oblivion (2013), and Edge of Tomorrow (2014) saw him return to the science fiction genre.[23][24]

Film

A photograph of Cruise at the 61st Academy Awards in 1989
Cruise at the 61st Academy Awards in 1989
A photograph of Cruise attending the film premiere of Collateral in 2004
Cruise attending the premiere of his film Collateral in 2004
A photograph of Cruise on MTV Live in 2008
Cruise on MTV Live in 2008
Title Year Role Notes Ref(s)
Endless Love 1981 Billy [1]
Taps 1981 David Shawn [25]
The Outsiders 1983 Steve Randell [26]
Losin' It 1983 Woody [27]
Risky Business 1983 Joel Goodson [28]
All the Right Moves 1983 Stefen Djordjevic [29]
Legend 1985 Jack [30]
Top Gun 1986 Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell [6]
The Color of Money 1986 Vincent Lauria [31]
Cocktail 1988 Brian Flanagan [32]
Rain Man 1988 Charlie Babbitt [33]
Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Ron Kovic [34]
Days of Thunder 1990 Cole Trickle Also writer (story) [35][36]
Far and Away 1992 Joseph Donelly [37]
A Few Good Men 1992 Lt. Daniel Kaffee [10]
The Firm 1993 Mitch McDeere [12]
Interview with the Vampire 1994 Lestat de Lioncourt [38]
Mission: Impossible 1996 Ethan Hunt Also producer [39]
Jerry Maguire 1996 Jerry Maguire [40]
Without Limits 1998 — Producer [41]
Eyes Wide Shut 1999 William Harford [42]
Magnolia 1999 Frank T. J. Mackey [43]
Mission: Impossible II 2000 Ethan Hunt Also producer [44][45]
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures 2001 Narrator [46]
The Others 2001 — Executive producer [47]
Vanilla Sky 2001 David Aames Also producer [48]
Space Station 3D 2002 Narrator [49]
Minority Report 2002 John Anderton [50]
Austin Powers in Goldmember 2002 Himself Cameo [51]
Narc 2002 — Executive producer [52]
Shattered Glass 2003 — Executive producer [53]
The Last Samurai 2003 Nathan Algren Also producer [54][55]
Collateral 2004 Vincent [56]
War of the Worlds 2005 Ray Ferrier [57]
Elizabethtown 2005 — Producer [58]
Ask the Dust 2006 — Producer [59]
Mission: Impossible III 2006 Ethan Hunt Also producer [60]
Lions for Lambs 2007 Senator Jasper Irving [61]
Tropic Thunder 2008 Les Grossman [62]
Valkyrie 2008 Claus von Stauffenberg [63]
Knight and Day 2010 Roy Miller [64]
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 2011 Ethan Hunt Also producer [65]
Rock of Ages 2012 Stacee Jaxx Also credited as singer on the film's soundtrack:
"Paradise City"
"Wanted Dead or Alive"
"I Want To Know What Love Is"
"Pour Some Sugar On Me"
"Here I Go Again"
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn"
"Rock You Like A Hurricane"
"Don't Stop Believin'"		 [66][67]
Jack Reacher 2012 Jack Reacher Also producer [68]
Oblivion 2013 Jack Harper [69]
Edge of Tomorrow 2014 Maj. William Cage [70]
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation 2015 Ethan Hunt Also producer
Post-production		 [71]

Television

Title Year Role Channel Notes Ref.
Fallen Angels 1993 — Showtime Episode: "The Frightening Frammis" (director) [13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ferguson, John. "Endless Love". Radio Times (Immediate Media Company). Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ Morton, Andrew (January 15, 2008). Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography. New York City: St. Martin's Press. pp. 47–48. ISBN 978-1250036070.
  3. ↑ Ebert, Roger (October 19, 1986). "Tom Cruise: Color him bankable". Roger Ebert. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  4. ↑ Teodorczuk, Tom (July 26, 2010). "How Tom Cruise lost his mojo". The Daily Telegraph (Telegraph Media Group). Retrieved December 20, 2014.
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  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Oughton, Jack. "Outrageous Film Characters You Didn’t Know Were Based On Real People". Empire (Bauer Media Group). Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Top Gun (1986)". Box Office Mojo. Amazon.com. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Razzle Dazzle". Los Angeles Times (Austin Beutner). Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  9. ↑ "The 62nd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Kehr, Dave (December 11, 1992). "Full Court Press". Chicago Tribune (Tony W. Hunter). Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  11. ↑ De Moraes, Lisa (November 7, 2014). "NBC Wants Aaron Sorkin Back For Live Staging Of 'A Few Good Men'". Deadline.com. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved January 7, 2015.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Travers, Peter (June 30, 1993). "The Firm". Rolling Stone (Jann Wenner). Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Variety and Daily Variety Television Reviews, 1993-1994". Variety (Penske Media Corporation). September 3, 1993. Retrieved December 31, 2014.
  14. ↑ "Cruise set for directing bow". Variety (Penske Media Corporation). February 22, 1993. Retrieved December 31, 2014.
  15. ↑ Kronke, David (May 12, 1996). "He Accepted the Mission". Los Angeles Times (Austin Beutner). Retrieved December 31, 2014.
  16. ↑ Garrahan, Matthew (June 10, 2007). "Camera rolling on studio renaissance". Financial Times (Pearson PLC). Retrieved December 20, 2014.
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  31. ↑ Canby, Vincent (October 17, 1986). "The Color of Money (1986)". The New York Times (Arthur Ochs Sulzberger). Retrieved December 9, 2014.
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  35. ↑ Benson, Shiela (June 27, 1990). "Movie Review : Utility Vehicle : 'Days of Thunder': The NASCAR racing footage and Tom Cruise's grin are fine. Robert Towne's malnourished screenplay isn't.". Los Angeles Times (Austin Beutner). Retrieved December 9, 2014.
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  37. ↑ James, Caryn (May 22, 1986). "Far and Away (1992)". The New York Times (Arthur Ochs Sulzberger). Retrieved December 9, 2014.
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  40. ↑ McCarthy, Todd (December 8, 1996). "Review: 'Jerry Maguire'". Variety (Penske Media Corporation). Retrieved December 9, 2014.
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  53. ↑ "Shattered Glass – Production Credits". The New York Times (Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.). Retrieved December 9, 2014.
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  66. ↑ Lane, Anthony (June 25, 2012). "Face the Music". The New Yorker (Condé Nast). Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  67. ↑ "Tom Cruise Covers Guns N' Roses, Russell Brand Sings Jefferson Starship on 'Rock of Ages' Soundtrack". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). May 1, 2012. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
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