15 Facts About Tom Cruise {READ TILL THE END}

• Tom Cruise’s real name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV.
• Tom Cruise’s cousin William Mapother is also an actor, most notably known for playing the role of Ethan in Lost.
• Here is an incomplete list of the directors that Tom Cruise has worked with over the years: Barry Levinson, Ben Stiller, Brad Bird, Brian De Palma, Cameron Crowe, Christopher McQuarrie, Curtis Hanson, Doug Liman, Edward Zwick, Francis Ford Coppola, Franco Zeffirelli, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Sydney Pollack, Rob Reiner, John Woo, Michael Mann, and Steven Spielberg.
• At the beginning of his career, the actor starred in six films over the span of only two years: Endless Love (1981), Taps (1981), The Outsiders (1983), Losin’ It (1983), Risky Business (1983), and All The Right Moves (1983).
• Tom Cruise was 19 in his first film, playing Billy in Endless Love.
• Top Gun: Maverick is Tom Cruise’s highest-grossing film, surpassing $1 billion at the box office. The film is Paramount’s second domestic highest-grossing film, following Titanic.
• Attended the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actors Studio at New School University, New York, where he studied drama.
• Tom Cruise has been nominated for an Oscar three times, twice as lead actor for his roles in Born on the Fourth of July and Jerry Maguire, and then as supporting actor in Magnolia.
• Although he has been nominated three times, Cruise has yet to win an Oscar.
• Tom Cruise has not been nominated for an Oscar since the year 2000.
• Cruise did win three Golden Globe awards for Born on the Fourth of July, Jerry Maguire, and Magnolia.
• In May 2021, Tom Cruise returned his three Golden Globe Awards to protest the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s lack of racial diversity and alleged moral misconduct.
• At age seven, Cruise was diagnosed with dyslexia.
• Tom Cruise was introduced to Scientology in the 1980s by his first wife, Mimi Rogers.
• Tom Cruise claims that his dyslexia was cured by Scientology.

All the facts are taken from “Consequence.net”, only for entertainment and educational purposes!