Tom Cruise: A Brilliant Actor and Spiritual Rehabilitant
November 10, 2011
Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer loved by millions of Hollywood movie fans especially women due to his eye-catching personality and looks. He has proved his talent for acting through a number of commercially successful films for which he won three Golden Globe Awards and got nominated for three Academy Awards. Winning awards doesn’t seem to be his purpose, what seems to be his motive is to provide excellent entertainment to his fans worldwide. 
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, known to us as Tom Cruise, was born to an electric engineer Thomas Cruise Mapother III and a special education teacher Mary Lee on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York and was raised as a Roman Catholic. He went through his six grades at Robert Hopkins Public School and Henry Munro Middle School. He was athletically active and had participated in various plays as a child. He used to get bullied and made fun off for reasons he knows better than me. At the age of 12 he had visited a Franciscan Seminary in Cincinnati from where he got aspiration to become a catholic priest (strange as many celebrities were aspired but never went through to become one).
Tom’s debut in Hollywood was The Outsiders (March 1998). But his first lead role came in Risky Business (August 1983). Then, my all time favorite film in which he played a naval pilot, Top Gun (1986). The film was a financial success and Tom earned a lot of fame. Again he made his mark in Mission Impossible film series that stretches from 1990s to 2000s. His other successful films include Rain Man (1988), Days of Thunder (1990), A Few Good Men (1992), Jerry Maguire (1996), Magnolia (1999), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Collateral (2004) and War of the Worlds (2005).
Tom has been the centre of controversies over many incidents, rumors, and issues. Such as his sex life came under speculation during his marriage with, again one of my favorite actresses, Nicole Kidman that he was ‘gay”. I am not sure whether such speculations about his being gay or his having a affair was to damage his reputation in the industry or defame him as a celebrity but he did get $10 million dollars in Litigation from Chad Slater (Gay porn actor) in August 2001. He also sued Daily Express, Micheal Davis of Bold Magazine and threatened to sue The Beat’s publications which he didn’t act upon.
Then the Oprah Winfrey Show incident in which he “jumped around the set, professing his love for his new girlfriend”. This jumping around and hoping onto a couch topped the “Most Surprising Television Moments” and at BoxOfficeProphets.com in 2005.
Tom has undertaken rehabilitation treatment in Scientology and is also quite an outspoken activist for Church of Scientology, a field in which he became involved in the 1990s. Scientology is a spiritual training which teaches that we Humans are Immortals having forgotten their true nature. Tom had earned Scientology’s Freedom Medal of Valor in l2004 for his efforts and contributions to the field.
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