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Tom Cruise
A Holllywood Power House.
Recently, Tom Cruise won a Golden Globe AwardŽ, a SAG Award 
nomination,
a Chicago Film Critics Award and his third OscarŽ nomination. Not bad for
a kid from New Jersey with no acting experiences.
There is no doubt the Tom Cruise is ond of today's hottest box-office stars. He effortlessly projects youthful sex appeal, but has put his name (and growing reputation) on the line more than once to prove himself an actor as well.
Overcoming a difficult childhood-during which his family moved at least a
dozen times, his parents divorced, and his father died of cancer-the
young, dyslexic Cruise spent a year at a Franciscan monastery before
deciding that acting was his true calling.
By the age of 18 he had landed his first movie part, in Endless Love (1981). Following roles of increasing importance in Taps (1981), Losin' It and The Outsiders (both 1983), Cruise achieved true notoriety in 1983 following his engaging lead performances in Risky Business and All the Right Moves.
The sword-and-sorcery opus Legend (1985) saw him marking time, but he
achieved superstar status after appearing as the cocky young fighter pilot
in the hugely popular Top Gun (1986), and subsequently attracted favorable
notices for his work in The Color of Money (1986, well paired with Paul
Newman) and Rain Man (1988, holding his own opposite Dustin Hoffman),
shedding the "pretty boy" and "beefcake" rep he'd been
saddled with.
Cocktail (1988) may have been a misstep, but he shook off criticism and
jumped into his next project with characteristic determination.
Described by fellow actors as dedicated and absorbed in his craft, the
magnetic, handsome young star with the devastating smile received the
nation's attention (and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor) for
his portrayal of paralyzed Vietnam vet Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of
July (1989).
Australian actress Nicole Kidman, Cruise's costar in Days of Thunder
(1990), became the charismatic young star's second wife on Christmas Eve,
1990.
They appeared together in the much heralded Far and Away (1992), which
turned out to be little more than a vehicle for the extraordinarily
good-looking couple. He then worked opposite a more challenging costar,
Jack Nicholson, in A Few Good Men (1992), and top-lined the legal thriller
The Firm (1993).
Cruise has matured as an actor, while retaining the appeal that made him popular in the first place; what's more, he's used the clout of stardom to help get some worthwhile films made.
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In 1993 he made his debut behind the camera, directing an episode of "Fallen Angels" for TV and in 1994 starred in Interview With the Vampire amidst cries of miscasting from devotees of Anne Rice's book.
He got his second Oscar nomination for playing a sleazeball womanizer in PT Anderson’s Magnolia. For Tom Cruise, the future lookks better and better.
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