orig. Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
born July 3, 1962, Syracuse, N.Y., U.S.
U.S. actor.
He made his screen debut in 1981 and rose to stardom as the leading man in Risky Business (1983) and Top Gun (1986). He received acclaim for his dramatic roles in The Color of Money (1986), Rain Man (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), and Magnolia (1999). His other films include A Few Good Men (1992), Mission: Impossible (1996), Jerry Maguire (1996), Stanley Kubrick 's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), and Steven Spielberg 's Minority Report (2002).