Tom Cruise#Lawsuits

Cruise was born on July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, New York,{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Cruise |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |title=Tom Cruise |access-date=July 2, 2020 |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041456/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Cruise |url-status=live }} to electrical engineer Thomas Cruise Mapother III (1934–1984) and special education teacher Mary Lee (née Pfeiffer; 1936–2017).{{Cite magazine |date=June 24, 2002 |title=About Tom |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1002716,00.html |url-status=dead |magazine=Time |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130824141456/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1002716,00.html |archive-date=August 24, 2013 |access-date=February 3, 2013}} His parents were both from Louisville, Kentucky,{{Cite web |title=If truth be told, Tom Cruise Mapother IV has always been something of a ladies' man |url=http://www.gloucesterhistory.com/tom_cruise_excerpt.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041358/http://www.gloucesterhistory.com/tom_cruise_excerpt.pdf |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |access-date=October 7, 2017 |website=Gloucester Historical Society}} and had English, German, and Irish ancestry.{{cite web|title=Tom Cruise's Irish Ancestry|url=http://www.eneclann.ie/exhibitions/tomcruise/|date=March 28, 2013|website=Eneclann.ie|access-date=April 4, 2013|archive-date=April 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407022504/http://www.eneclann.ie/exhibitions/tomcruise/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.wargs.com/other/mapother.html |title=Ancestry of Tom Cruise |work=Wargs.com |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-date=October 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027132928/http://wargs.com/other/mapother.html |url-status=live }} Cruise has three sisters named Lee Anne, Marian, and Cass. One of his cousins, William Mapother, is also an actor who has appeared alongside Cruise in five films.{{cite web| url= https://www.ew.com/gallery/stars-you-didnt-know-were-related/2266243_tom-cruise-and-william-mapother| title= Stars you didn't know were related| work= EW.com| access-date= February 18, 2020| archive-date= December 29, 2020| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041425/https://www.ew.com/gallery/stars-you-didnt-know-were-related/2266243_tom-cruise-and-william-mapother| url-status= live}}

Cruise grew up in near poverty and had a Catholic upbringing. He later described his father as "a merchant of chaos",{{cite web|url=http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_04-09-2006/Tom_Cruise_cover|title=I Can Create Who I Am|work=Parade|date=April 9, 2006|access-date=February 18, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110412060632/http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_04-09-2006/Tom_Cruise_cover|archive-date=April 12, 2011|url-status=dead}} a "bully", and a "coward" who beat his children. He elaborated, "[My father] was the kind of person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you. It was a great lesson in my life—how he'd lull you in, make you feel safe and then, bang! For me, it was like, 'There's something wrong with this guy. Don't trust him. Be careful around him.{{' "}} Cruise's biological father died of cancer in 1984.{{cite web| url= https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/tom-cruise-katie-holmes-upbringings-torn/story?id=16742057| title= Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes: Very Different Upbringings| publisher= ABC| first= Luchina| last= Fisher| website= ABCNews.go.com| date= July 10, 2012| access-date= October 13, 2016| archive-date= December 29, 2020| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041517/https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/tom-cruise-katie-holmes-upbringings-torn/story?id=16742057| url-status= live}}

In total, Cruise attended fifteen schools in fourteen years.{{cite web |title=New Jersey Entertainers |url=http://www.famousnewjerseyans.com/entertainers.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041523/http://www.famousnewjerseyans.com/entertainers.htm |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |access-date=October 7, 2014 |website=FamousNewJerseyans.com}} Cruise spent part of his childhood in Canada; when his father took a job as a defense consultant with the Canadian Armed Forces, his family moved in late 1971 to Beacon Hill, Ottawa.{{cite book| url= http://i.usatoday.net/life/books/tom_cruise_excerpt.pdf| title= Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography| first= Andrew| last= Morton| series= Ch. 1| publisher= Macmillan| date= January 15, 2008| access-date= October 13, 2016| isbn= 978-1-4299-3390-2| archive-date= December 29, 2020| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041359/http://i.usatoday.net/life/books/tom_cruise_excerpt.pdf| url-status= live}} He attended the new Robert Hopkins Public School for his fourth and fifth grade education.{{cite web| website= ocdsb.ca| publisher= Ottawa-Carleton District School Board| url= http://www.ocdsb.ca/sch/20102011%20Elementary%20School%20Profile/RHOP.pdf| title= Robert Hopkins School Profile| access-date= September 25, 2012| url-status=dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130117025444/http://www.ocdsb.ca/sch/20102011%20Elementary%20School%20Profile/RHOP.pdf| archive-date= January 17, 2013| df= mdy-all}} He first became involved in drama in fourth grade, under drama teacher George Steinburg. He and six other boys put on an improvised play to music called IT at the Carleton Elementary School drama festival. Drama organizer Val Wright was in the audience and later said that "the movement and improvisation were excellent ... a classic ensemble piece."

In sixth grade, Cruise went to Henry Munro Middle School in Ottawa. That year, his mother left his father, taking Cruise and his sisters back to the United States. In 1978, she married Jack South.{{Cite web|url = https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2019/04/carolyn-hax-after-acrimony-and-moms-death-how-to-tell-husband-i-dont-want-a-divorce-after-all.html|title = Carolyn Hax: After acrimony, and mom's death, how to tell husband I don't want a divorce after all|date = April 29, 2019|access-date = April 29, 2019|archive-date = December 29, 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041520/https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2019/04/carolyn-hax-after-acrimony-and-moms-death-how-to-tell-husband-i-dont-want-a-divorce-after-all.html|url-status = live}} Cruise briefly took a Catholic church scholarship and attended the St. Francis Seminary in Cincinnati; he aspired to become a Franciscan priest before leaving after a year. Priests at the seminary have said Cruise chose to leave the school when his family relocated again; however, a former classmate said that they were both asked to leave after getting caught taking liquor.{{Cite web|last=WHITE|first=CHRIS|title=EXCLUSIVE: Tom Cruise started religious journey with Catholic Church—until he was booted from seminary for swiping booze, says old friend|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/cruise-considered-catholic-priesthood-kicked-seminary-article-1.1278436|access-date=July 13, 2021|website=New York Daily News|date=March 4, 2013 |archive-date=July 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713191155/https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/cruise-considered-catholic-priesthood-kicked-seminary-article-1.1278436|url-status=live}}{{cite book| title= Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography|title-link=Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography |first=Andrew |last=Morton |publisher= Macmillan| date= January 15, 2008| isbn= 978-1-4299-3390-2}}{{rp|24–26}} In his senior year of high school, he played football for the varsity team as a linebacker, but was cut from the squad after getting caught drinking beer before a game.{{rp|47}} He went on to star in the school's production of Guys and Dolls.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/27/mission-impossible--fallout-star-tom-cruises-childhood-jobs.html|title=These were 'Mission: Impossible—Fallout' star Tom Cruise's first jobs as a kid|first=Tom Jr.|last=Huddleston|date=July 27, 2018|website=CNBC|access-date=May 21, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041527/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/27/mission-impossible--fallout-star-tom-cruises-childhood-jobs.html|url-status=live}} In 1980, he graduated from Glen Ridge High School in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-04-06-0604060155-story.html|title=Cruise tells of pain of bullies, abusive father|first=Chicago|last=Tribune|website=Chicago Tribune|date=April 6, 2006 |access-date=May 21, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041457/https://www.chicagotribune.com/|url-status=live}}

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At age 18,{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/tom-cruise-biography-filmography|title=Tom Cruise Biography, Filmography|date=March 25, 2015|website=Fox News|access-date=May 21, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041528/https://www.foxnews.com/story/tom-cruise-biography-filmography|url-status=live}} with the blessing of his mother and stepfather, Cruise moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. After working as a busboy in New York, he went to Los Angeles to try out for television roles. He signed with CAA and began acting in films. He made his film debut in a bit part in the 1981 film Endless Love, followed by a major supporting role as a crazed military academy student in Taps later that year. Cruise was originally supposed to appear as a background actor but his role was expanded after impressing director Harold Becker.{{cite magazine |last1=Higgins |first1=Bill |title=How Tom Cruise and Sean Penn Got Their Big Breaks |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/tom-cruise-sean-penn-mission-impossible-274947/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=January 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813081608/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/tom-cruise-sean-penn-mission-impossible-274947/ |archive-date=August 13, 2022 |date=December 17, 2011 |url-status=live}} In 1983, Cruise was part of the ensemble cast of Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders. That same year he appeared in All the Right Moves and Risky Business, which has been described as "A Generation X classic, and a career maker for Tom Cruise."{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1017641-risky_business/ |title=Risky Business|work=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=May 10, 2006 |archive-date=June 19, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619163126/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1017641-risky_business/ |url-status=deviated }} He also played the male lead in the Ridley Scott film Legend, released in 1985.{{cite news|date=October 9, 2015|title=Ridley Scott's beautiful dark twisted fantasy: the making of Legend|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/legend-ridley-scott/tom-cruise-making-of/|access-date=April 2, 2018|archive-date=January 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118060442/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/legend-ridley-scott/tom-cruise-making-of/|url-status=live}} By 1986's Top Gun, his status as a superstar had been cemented.{{cite news|title=Obituary: Tony Scott|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19316140|access-date=October 9, 2015|newspaper=BBC News|date=August 20, 2012|archive-date=August 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821082108/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19316140|url-status=live}}

Cruise followed up Top Gun with Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money (1986), which came out the same year, and which paired him with Paul Newman. Their chemistry won praise among critics with The Washington Post writing, "One of the subtle achievements of both Cruise's and Newman's performances is that you feel that both of them are genuinely top-notch pool hustlers".{{cite news|url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/thecolorofmoneyrattanasio_a0ad63.htm|title= The Color of Money (R)|newspaper= The Washington Post|accessdate= June 22, 2022|archive-date= October 13, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221013152330/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/thecolorofmoneyrattanasio_a0ad63.htm|url-status= live}} In 1988, Cruise starred in Cocktail, a film that was a box office success but failed with critics. His performance earned him a nomination for the Razzie Award for Worst Actor. Later that year he starred with Dustin Hoffman in Barry Levinson's Rain Man, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.{{Cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1989 |title=The 61st Academy Awards (1989) Nominees and Winners |access-date=July 31, 2011 |work=oscars.org |archive-date=May 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502001817/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1989 |url-status=live }}

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In 1989, Cruise portrayed real-life paralyzed Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic in Oliver Stone's war epic Born on the Fourth of July. Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "Nothing Cruise has done will prepare you for what he does in Born on the Fourth of July ... His performance is so good that the movie lives through it. Stone is able to make his statement with Cruise's face and voice and doesn't need to put everything into the dialogue."{{cite web|url= https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/born-on-the-fourth-of-july-1989|title= Born on the Fourth of July movie review|website= Rogerebert.com|accessdate= June 22, 2022|archive-date= November 14, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221114135504/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/born-on-the-fourth-of-july-1989|url-status= live}} The performance earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, the People's Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture Actor, a nomination for BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Cruise's first Best Actor Academy Award nomination.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1990|title=The 62nd Academy Awards (1990) Nominees and Winners|date=October 5, 2014 |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|access-date=June 8, 2018|archive-date=May 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510162908/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1990|url-status=live}}

Cruise's next films were Days of Thunder (1990) and Far and Away (1992), both of which co-starred then-wife Nicole Kidman as his love interest, followed by the legal thriller The Firm, which was a critical and commercial success. In 1994, Cruise starred along with Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas and Christian Slater in Neil Jordan's Interview with the Vampire, a gothic drama/horror film that was based on Anne Rice's best-selling novel. The film was well-received, although Rice was initially quite outspoken in her criticism of Cruise having been cast in the film, as Julian Sands was her first choice. Upon seeing the film, however, she paid {{USD|7,740|long=no}} ({{Inflation|US|7,740|1994|fmt=eq|round=-1}}) for a two-page ad in Daily Variety praising his performance and apologizing for her previous doubts about him.[https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,305073,00.html Go Figure] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041528/https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,305073,00.html |date=December 29, 2020 }}, Entertainment Weekly, December 30, 1994.

In 1996, Cruise starred as superspy Ethan Hunt in the reboot of Mission: Impossible, which he also produced.{{cite web |last=Foutch |first=Haleigh |title='Mission: Impossible' 20 Years Later: How An Uneasy Spy Thriller Became a Blockbuster Franchise |url=http://collider.com/mission-impossible-tom-cruise-20-years-later/ |website=Collider |date=May 22, 2016 |access-date=July 17, 2018 |archive-date=July 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717083626/http://collider.com/mission-impossible-tom-cruise-20-years-later |url-status=live }} The film was directed by Brian De Palma and was a box office success. Film critic Stephen Holden of The New York Times praised Cruise's performance, declaring "Tom Cruise has found the perfect superhero character on which to graft his breathlessly gung-ho screen personality."{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/22/movies/film-review-mission-accepted-tom-cruise-as-superhero.html|title= FILM REVIEW;Mission Accepted: Tom Cruise as Superhero|website= The New York Times|date= May 22, 1996|accessdate= June 22, 2022|last1= Holden|first1= Stephen|archive-date= July 11, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220711134509/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/22/movies/film-review-mission-accepted-tom-cruise-as-superhero.html|url-status= live}} In the same year, Cruise took on the title role in Cameron Crowe's sports drama Jerry Maguire playing a sports agent in search of love. The film was a massive financial success grossing more than {{USD|273 million|long=no}} worldwide against its {{USD|50 million|long=no}} budget.{{cite web

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In 1999, Cruise costarred with Kidman in Stanley Kubrick's erotic and psychological drama film Eyes Wide Shut. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian praised both Cruise and Kidman on their performances writing, "Cruise in particular lays himself open in that fiercely committed way that he tries everything as an actor".{{cite web|url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/29/eyes-wide-shut-review-stanley-kubrick-tom-cruise-nicole-kidman|title= Eyes Wide Shut review – chilling|website= The Guardian|date= November 29, 2019|accessdate= June 22, 2022|archive-date= November 17, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221117231038/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/29/eyes-wide-shut-review-stanley-kubrick-tom-cruise-nicole-kidman|url-status= live}} That same year he took a rare supporting role, as a motivational speaker, Frank T.J. Mackey, in Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (1999). Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers heaped praise on Cruise writing, "Cruise is a revelation, fully deserving of the shower of superlatives coming his way ... Cruise seethes with the chaotic energy of a wounded animal—he's devastating."{{cite web|url= https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/magnolia-120044/|title= Magnolia – Rolling Stone|website= Rolling Stone|date= February 27, 2001|accessdate= June 22, 2022|archive-date= July 11, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220711134345/https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/magnolia-120044/|url-status= live}} For his performance he received another Golden Globe and nomination for an Academy Award.{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2000 |title=Nominees & Winners for the 72nd Academy Awards |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=January 3, 2014 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402003006/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2000 |url-status=live }}

In 2000, Cruise returned as Ethan Hunt in the second installment of the Mission: Impossible films, Mission: Impossible 2. The film was helmed by Hong Kong director John Woo and branded with his gun fu style; it continued the series' success at the box office, taking in {{USD|547 million|long=no}} worldwide.{{Cite web |last=Mendelson |first=Scott |title=Tom Cruise's 'Mission: Impossible' Sequels Have A History Of Unexpected Delays And Long Waits |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2020/04/24/mission-impossible-tom-cruise-rebecca-ferguson-box-office-delayed-coronavirus-james-bond-shazam/ |access-date=July 3, 2022 |website=Forbes |archive-date=July 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220712162200/https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2020/04/24/mission-impossible-tom-cruise-rebecca-ferguson-box-office-delayed-coronavirus-james-bond-shazam/ |url-status=live }} Unlike its predecessor, it was the highest-grossing film of the year,{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=Simon |title='Mission: Impossible' Turns 25: The Franchise Ranked By Worldwide Box Office |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonthompson/2021/05/21/mission-impossible-turns-25-the-franchise-ranked-by-worldwide-box-office/ |access-date=July 3, 2022 |website=Forbes |archive-date=October 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013152510/https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonthompson/2021/05/21/mission-impossible-turns-25-the-franchise-ranked-by-worldwide-box-office/ |url-status=live }} but had a mixed critical reception.{{Citation |title=Mission: Impossible II |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/mission-impossible-ii |access-date=July 3, 2022 |archive-date=October 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003223833/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/mission-impossible-ii |url-status=live }} Cruise received an MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance for the film.{{Cite web |title=MTV Movie Awards: 2001 Highlights |url=https://www.mtv.com/photos/4zhv31/mtv-movie-awards-2001-highlights/5abxpc |access-date=July 3, 2022 |website=MTV |archive-date=October 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013154912/https://www.mtv.com/photos/4zhv31/mtv-movie-awards-2001-highlights/5abxpc |url-status=dead }}

His next five films were major critical and commercial successes.{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=tomcruise.htm |title=Tom Cruise |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=April 15, 2012 |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041531/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/name/nm0000129/ |url-status=live |url-access=subscription}}{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/tom_cruise/ |title=Tom Cruise Movies, News, and Pictures on Rotten Tomatoes |website=Rottentomatoes.com |access-date=July 31, 2010 |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041533/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/tom_cruise |url-status=live }} The following year, Cruise starred in the romantic thriller Vanilla Sky (2001) with Cameron Diaz and Penélope Cruz. In 2002, Cruise starred in the dystopian science fiction action film Minority Report, which was directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the short story by Philip K. Dick. It has since been included in lists of the greatest science fiction films of all time.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-sci-fi-movies-1234893930/minority-report-2002-4-1234931240/ | title=The 150 Greatest Science Fiction Movies of All Time | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=January 2024 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/minority-report-streaming-steven-spielberg-tom-cruise | title=Of course Spielberg's best shot ever is in his most underrated movie, 'Minority Report' | date=March 13, 2023 }}{{cite news | url=https://www.timeout.com/film/the-100-best-sci-fi-movies | title=The 100 best sci-fi movies of all time | newspaper=Time Out Worldwide | date=June 15, 2023 }}

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In 2003, he starred in Edward Zwick's period action drama The Last Samurai, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for best actor. In 2004, Cruise received critical acclaim for his performance as Vincent in Collateral. The critical consensus states that "Driven by director Michael Mann's trademark visuals and a lean, villainous performance from Tom Cruise, Collateral is a stylish and compelling noir thriller."{{Citation |title=Collateral |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/collateral |access-date=July 3, 2022 |archive-date=June 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605045704/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/collateral |url-status=live }} In 2005, Cruise worked again with Steven Spielberg in War of the Worlds, a loose adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel of the same name, which became the fourth highest-grossing film of the year with {{USD|591.4 million|long=no}} worldwide.{{Cite web |date=July 6, 2006 |first1=Joshua |last1=Rich |title=Hollywood's mid-term report card |url=https://ew.com/article/2006/07/06/hollywoods-mid-term-report-card/ |access-date=July 3, 2022 |website=EW.com|archive-date=October 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013152616/https://ew.com/article/2006/07/06/hollywoods-mid-term-report-card/ |url-status=live }} Also in 2005, he was a nominee for the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Movie Star{{Cite web |title=People's Choice Awards, USA (2005) |url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000530/2005/1/ |access-date=July 3, 2022 |website=IMDb |archive-date=October 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221019145733/https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000530/2005/1/ |url-status=live }} and the winner of the MTV Generation Award.{{Cite web |title=MTV Movie Awards: 2005 Highlights |url=https://www.mtv.com/photos/k9mhg0/mtv-movie-awards-2005-highlights/9rsbuv |access-date=July 3, 2022 |website=MTV |archive-date=July 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220711135430/https://www.mtv.com/photos/k9mhg0/mtv-movie-awards-2005-highlights/9rsbuv |url-status=dead }} Cruise was nominated for seven Saturn Awards between 2002 and 2009, winning once. Nine of the ten films he starred in during the decade made over {{USD|100 million|long=no}} at the box office.

In 2006, he returned to his role as Ethan Hunt in the third installment of the Mission Impossible film series, Mission: Impossible III. The film was more positively received by critics than the previous films in the series and grossed nearly {{USD|400 million|long=no}} at the box office.{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mi3.htm |title=Mission: Impossible III (2006) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-date=August 15, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815013553/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mi3.htm |url-status=live }} In 2007, Cruise took a rare supporting role for the second time in Lions for Lambs, which was a commercial disappointment. This was followed by an unrecognizable appearance as "Les Grossman" in the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder with Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr. This performance earned Cruise a Golden Globe nomination.{{Cite web |title=Tom Cruise |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/tom-cruise |access-date=July 3, 2022 |website=www.goldenglobes.com |archive-date=October 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013155022/https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/tom-cruise |url-status=live }} Cruise played the central role in the historical thriller Valkyrie released on December 25, 2008, to box office success.{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=valkyrie.htm |title=Valkyrie (2008) |website=Box Office Mojo |date=April 16, 2009 |access-date=July 31, 2010 |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041438/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl460948993/ |url-status=live }}

In March 2010, Cruise completed filming the action-comedy Knight and Day, in which he re-teamed with former costar Cameron Diaz; the film was released on June 23, 2010.{{Cite web |title=Knight and Day |url=http://www.knightanddaymovie.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819114931/http://www.knightanddaymovie.com/ |archive-date=August 19, 2010 |access-date=July 31, 2010 |website=Knightanddaymovie.com}} On February 9, 2010, Cruise confirmed that he would star in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the fourth installment in the Mission: Impossible series. The film was released in December 2011{{Cite web |date=February 9, 2010 |title=Cruise to star in 'Mission: Impossible 4' – Entertainment – Access Hollywood |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/cruise-star-mission-impossible-4-wbna35321981 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041432/https://www.today.com/popculture/cruise-star-mission-impossible-4-wbna35321981 |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |access-date=July 31, 2010 |publisher=Today.com}} to high critical acclaim{{Cite web |title=Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mission_impossible_ghost_protocol/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041502/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mission_impossible_ghost_protocol |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |access-date=June 20, 2012 |website=Rotten Tomatoes}} and box office success.{{Cite web |title=Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mi4.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190719071810/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mi4.htm |archive-date=July 19, 2019 |access-date=April 13, 2012 |website=Box Office Mojo}} Unadjusted for ticket price inflation, it was Cruise's biggest commercial success to that date.{{Cite news |last=Subers |first=Ray |date=February 7, 2012 |title=Around-the-World Roundup: 'M:I-4' Passes $600 Million Worldwide |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3364&p=.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210103136/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3364&p=.htm |archive-date=February 10, 2012 |access-date=February 13, 2012 |work=Box Office Mojo}}

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On May 6, 2011, Cruise was awarded a humanitarian award from the Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance for his work as a dedicated philanthropist.{{Cite web |title=Tom Cruise's Remarks on Receiving the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Humanitarian Award |url=http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=6765195 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408210046/http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=6765195 |archive-date=April 8, 2018 |access-date=April 8, 2018 |publisher=Simon Wiesenthal Center}} In mid-2011, Cruise started shooting the movie Rock of Ages (2012), in which he played the fictional character Stacee Jaxx. The film was released in June 2012 and was a rare box-office misstep for Cruise.{{Cite news |last=Everett |first=Christina |date=May 15, 2012 |title=Tom Cruise flaunts his abs, fake tattoos in 'Rock of Ages'-inspired photo shoot for W magazine |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/tom-cruise-flaunts-abs-fake-tattoos-rock-ages-inspired-photo-shoot-w-magazine-article-1.1078665 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120518075305/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/tom-cruise-flaunts-abs-fake-tattoos-rock-ages-inspired-photo-shoot-w-magazine-article-1.1078665 |archive-date=May 18, 2012 |access-date=May 15, 2012 |work=Daily News |location=New York}} Cruise however received positive reviews for his performance with Variety{{'s}} film critic Justin Chang writing, "Channeling the likes of Axl Rose and Keith Richards with his tattoos, heavy furs and even heavier eyeshadow, Cruise clearly relishes the opportunity to play against type even as he sends up his world's-biggest-movie-star identity, displaying a cock-of-the-rock strut that viewers haven't seen since his turn in Magnolia."{{Cite web |date=June 11, 2012 |title=Rock of Ages – Variety |url=https://variety.com/2012/film/reviews/rock-of-ages-2-1117947727/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904074124/https://variety.com/2012/film/reviews/rock-of-ages-2-1117947727/ |archive-date=September 4, 2023 |access-date=June 22, 2022 |website=Variety}}

Cruise starred as Jack Reacher in the film adaptation of British author Lee Child's 2005 novel One Shot. The film was released on December 21, 2012.{{Cite magazine |last=Schwarzbaum |first=Lisa |date=January 3, 2013 |title=Jack Reacher (2012) |url=https://ew.com/article/2013/01/03/jack-reacher-review/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041506/https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20483133_20620438,00.html |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |access-date=July 13, 2013 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}} It met with positive reviews from critics and was a box office success grossing {{USD|217 million|long=no}} worldwide.{{Cite web |title=Jack Reacher |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jack_reacher/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725214916/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jack_reacher/ |archive-date=July 25, 2013 |access-date=July 12, 2013 |website=Rotten Tomatoes}}{{Cite web |title=Jack Reacher |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=oneshot.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216094248/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=oneshot.htm |archive-date=February 16, 2015 |access-date=July 13, 2013 |website=Box Office Mojo}} In 2013, he starred in the science fiction film Oblivion based on director Joseph Kosinski's graphic novel of the same name. The film met with mixed reviews and grossed {{USD|286 million|long=no}} worldwide. It also starred Morgan Freeman and Olga Kurylenko.{{Cite web |title=Oblivion |url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/oblivion |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041528/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/oblivion |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |access-date=July 13, 2013 |website=Metacritic}}{{Cite web |title=Oblivion |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=oblivion.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713002517/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=oblivion.htm |archive-date=July 13, 2013 |access-date=July 13, 2013 |website=Box Office Mojo}} In 2014, Cruise starred in the science fiction-action film Edge of Tomorrow, which received positive reviews{{Cite web |title=Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow (2014) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/live_die_repeat_edge_of_tomorrow |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041436/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/live_die_repeat_edge_of_tomorrow |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |access-date=November 17, 2020 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango}} and grossed over {{USD|370 million|long=no}}.{{Cite web |date=September 11, 2014 |title=Edge of Tomorrow |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=allyouneediskill.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412045213/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=allyouneediskill.htm |archive-date=April 12, 2016 |access-date=April 16, 2016 |website=Box Office Mojo}}

In 2015, Cruise returned as Ethan Hunt in the fifth installment of the Mission: Impossible series, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, which he also produced.{{Cite web |date=May 7, 2013 |title=Tom Cruise Signs to Star in Mission: Impossible 5 |url=https://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=103854 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041543/https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/103854-tom-cruise-signs-to-star-in-mission-impossible-5 |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |access-date=April 2, 2015 |website=ComingSoon.net}} Returning cast members included Simon Pegg as Benji and Jeremy Renner as William Brandt, with Christopher McQuarrie as director. The film earned high critical acclaim{{Cite web |title=Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (2015) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mission_impossible_rogue_nation |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041440/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mission_impossible_rogue_nation |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |access-date=September 29, 2019 |website=Rotten Tomatoes}} and was a commercial success.{{Cite web |title=Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mi5.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131117020323/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mi5.htm |archive-date=November 17, 2013 |access-date=September 29, 2019 |website=Box Office Mojo}} Cruise starred in the 2017 reboot of Boris Karloff's 1932 horror movie The Mummy.{{Cite news |last=Mendelson |first=Scott |date=January 21, 2016 |title=Tom Cruise will officially star in the Mummy |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2016/01/21/tom-cruise-brings-star-power-to-universals-mummy-reboot/#2d447df71ccf |url-status=live |work=Forbes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041441/https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2016/01/21/tom-cruise-brings-star-power-to-universals-mummy-reboot/#2d447df71ccf |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |access-date=January 22, 2016}} The new film, also titled The Mummy, received negative reviews and disappointed at the box office, though still grossed over {{USD|400 million|long=no}}.{{Cite web |last1=Setoodeh |first1=Ramin |last2=Lang |first2=Brent |date=June 14, 2017 |title=Inside 'The Mummy's' Troubles: Tom Cruise Had Excessive Control (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/the-mummy-meltdown-tom-cruise-1202465742/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615013001/http://variety.com/2017/film/news/the-mummy-meltdown-tom-cruise-1202465742/ |archive-date=June 15, 2017 |access-date=May 21, 2020}}{{Cite news |last=Scott |first=A. O. |date=June 7, 2017 |title=Review: 'The Mummy,' With Tom Cruise, Deserves a Quick Burial |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/movies/the-mummy-review-tom-cruise.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041442/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/movies/the-mummy-review-tom-cruise.html |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |access-date=May 21, 2020 |work=The New York Times}} In 2018, Cruise again reprised Ethan Hunt, in the sixth film in his franchise, Mission: Impossible – Fallout. The film was more positively received by critics than the previous films in the series and grossed over {{USD|791 million|long=no}} at the box office.{{Cite web |title=Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mission_impossible_fallout |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712221032/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mission_impossible_fallout |archive-date=July 12, 2018 |access-date=September 29, 2019 |website=Rotten Tomatoes}}{{Cite web |title=Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=missionimpossible6.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212012649/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2449573377/ |archive-date=February 12, 2021 |access-date=January 11, 2019 |website=Box Office Mojo}} Unadjusted for ticket price inflation, it was Cruise's biggest commercial success to date.{{Cite web |title=Tom Cruise Movie Box Office Results |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=tomcruise.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190910171041/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=tomcruise.htm |archive-date=September 10, 2019 |access-date=August 16, 2019 |website=Box Office Mojo}}

In May 2020, it was reported that Cruise would be starring in and producing a movie shot in outer space.{{Cite web|last=Kit|first=Borys|date=May 26, 2020|title=Doug Liman to Direct Tom Cruise Movie That Will Shoot in Space|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/doug-liman-direct-tom-cruise-space-set-movie-1296052|access-date=June 1, 2020|website=The Hollywood Reporter|archive-date=May 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503163536/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/doug-liman-direct-tom-cruise-space-set-movie-1296052|url-status=live}} Doug Liman would be directing, writing, and co-producing. Both will fly to the International Space Station as part of a future Axiom Space mission in a SpaceX Dragon 2 spacecraft.{{cite news|date=September 22, 2020|title=Tom Cruise is officially going to space for his next movie|url=https://www.nme.com/news/film/tom-cruise-is-officially-going-to-space-for-his-next-movie-2758685|access-date=November 18, 2020|archive-date=January 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126025424/https://www.nme.com/news/film/tom-cruise-is-officially-going-to-space-for-his-next-movie-2758685|url-status=live}} In May 2021, Cruise protested against the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) by returning all three of his Golden Globe Awards in light of controversy surrounding the HFPA,{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/tom-cruise-returns-his-3-golden-globes-in-protest-against-hfpa/|title=Tom Cruise Returns His 3 Golden Globes in Protest Against HFPA|first=Jeremy|last=Fulser|work=The Wrap|date=May 10, 2021|access-date=May 10, 2021|archive-date=May 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510192733/https://www.thewrap.com/tom-cruise-returns-his-3-golden-globes-in-protest-against-hfpa/|url-status=live}} particularly its lack of diversity, specifically no black members, and ethical questions related to financial benefits to some of its members.{{Cite web|last=Melas|first=Chloe|title=Tom Cruise returns Golden Globe Awards in protest of HFPA|date=May 10, 2021 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/entertainment/tom-cruise-scarlett-johansson-golden-globes/index.html|access-date=May 12, 2021|publisher=CNN|archive-date=May 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512003050/https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/entertainment/tom-cruise-scarlett-johansson-golden-globes/index.html|url-status=live}}

File:Tom Cruise Sydney Premiere Mission Impossible part one (53019353900) (cropped).jpg premiere of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.]]

In 2022, Cruise reprised his role as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick, a film which he also produced. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where Cruise earned an Honorary Palme d'Or.{{cite news|url= https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2022/05/18/tom-cruise-honored-with-surprise-award-at-cannes-film-festival/9828005002/|title= Tom Cruise wins surprise Palme d'Or award at Cannes Film Festival: 'I make movies for the big screen'|website= USA Today|accessdate= June 22, 2022|archive-date= October 21, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221021152746/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2022/05/18/tom-cruise-honored-with-surprise-award-at-cannes-film-festival/9828005002/|url-status= live}} The film was released to widespread critical praise, with many reviewers deeming it superior to its predecessor.{{Cite web |date=May 12, 2022 |first=Christopher |last=Campbell |title=Top Gun: Maverick First Reviews: The Most Thrilling Blockbuster We've Gotten In Years |url=https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/top-gun-maverick-first-reviews-the-most-thrilling-blockbuster-weve-gotten-in-years/ |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=June 22, 2022 |archive-date=May 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512215327/https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/top-gun-maverick-first-reviews-the-most-thrilling-blockbuster-weve-gotten-in-years/ |url-status=live }} The film broke several box office records upon its release; earning over {{USD|1 billion|long=no}}, becoming the highest-grossing film of his career.{{cite web|url= https://www.ign.com/articles/top-gun-maverick-is-officially-tom-cruises-highest-grossing-movie-ever|title= Top Gun: Maverick Is Officially Tom Cruise's Highest-Grossing Movie Ever|website= IGN|first= Adam|last= Bankhurst|date= June 18, 2022|accessdate= June 22, 2022|archive-date= October 13, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221013155219/https://www.ign.com/articles/top-gun-maverick-is-officially-tom-cruises-highest-grossing-movie-ever|url-status= live}} Cruise earned {{USD|100 million|long=no}} for the film, when combining ticket sales, his salary, and his cut of home entertainment rentals and streaming revenues.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2022/film/features/movie-star-salaries-joaquin-phoenix-joker-2-tom-cruise-1235320046/|title=Inside Movie Stars' Salaries: Joaquin Phoenix Nabs $20M for Joker 2, Tom Cruise Heads to Over $100M and More|date=July 20, 2022|first=Brent|last=Lang|website=Variety|access-date=July 21, 2022|archive-date=July 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220720160107/https://variety.com/2022/film/features/movie-star-salaries-joaquin-phoenix-joker-2-tom-cruise-1235320046/|url-status=live}}

Cruise reprised his role as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One which was released in theaters on July 12, 2023. The film received critical acclaim, but was a box office disappointment due to the box-office and cultural phenomenon dubbed Barbenheimer, which was the same-day release of Christopher Nolan's historical epic film Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig's fantasy comedy Barbie.{{cite web|url= https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/mission-impossible-barbie-oppenheimer-b2380677.html|title= Mission: Impossible struggles at box office against record-breaking might of Barbenheimer|website= The Independent|date= July 24, 2023|accessdate= November 11, 2023|archive-date= November 11, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231111170801/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/mission-impossible-barbie-oppenheimer-b2380677.html|url-status= live}} Peter Debruge of Variety praised Dead Reckoning for its performances, action sequences and a satisfying ending, writing, "This outing may be one-half of a two-part finale, but it gives audiences enough closure to stand on its own".{{cite web|url= https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one-review-tom-cruise-1235661556/|title= 'Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One' Review: A Stunt-Loving Tom Cruise Takes On AI … and Big-Screen CG Rivals|website= Variety|date= July 5, 2023|accessdate= November 11, 2023|archive-date= October 26, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231026091115/https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one-review-tom-cruise-1235661556/|url-status= live}} In 2024, he appeared in the Paris 2024 Olympics closing ceremony to promote Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympics, by jumping from the roof of the Stade de France stadium in Paris. He took the flag from Mayor Karen Bass and athlete Simone Biles.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3d9ervrv5mo|date=August 12, 2024|access-date=August 14, 2024|title=Tom Cruise descends from stadium roof in daring Olympic finale|work=BBC}}

Cruise reprised the role of Ethan Hunt in the second part, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, released in May 2025. Cruise also declared it would be the last film in which he would portray Ethan Hunt.{{Citation |last=McQuarrie |first=Christopher |title=Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning |date=May 23, 2025 |type=Action, Adventure, Thriller |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9603208/ |access-date=November 18, 2024 |others=Tom Cruise, Hannah Waddingham, Hayley Atwell |publisher=Paramount Pictures, Skydance Media}}{{Cite web |title=MSN |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning-release-date-plot-cast-and-everything-we-know-so-far/ar-AA1uj3rv |access-date=November 20, 2024 |website=www.msn.com}} He will also star in an untitled film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu which will be his first film at Warner Bros. Pictures in twelve years.{{cite web |first=Justin |last=Kroll |url=https://deadline.com/2024/02/tom-cruise-alejandro-inarritu-next-legendary-1235833486/ |title=Tom Cruise To Star In Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Next Film At Warner Bros. And Legendary |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=February 22, 2024 |access-date=February 23, 2024 |archive-date=February 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222235301/https://deadline.com/2024/02/tom-cruise-alejandro-inarritu-next-legendary-1235833486/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last1=Ritman | first1=Alex |first2=Naman | last2=Ramachandran |date=October 22, 2024 |title=Tom Cruise, Alejandro G. Iñárritu Film at Warner Bros. and Legendary Sets U.K. Shoot (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/global/tom-cruise-alejandro-inarritu-film-uk-shoot-1236186267/ |access-date=November 20, 2024 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

Cruise partnered with his former talent agent Paula Wagner to form Cruise/Wagner Productions in 1993,{{cite news|title=MGM Partners With Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner to Form New United Artists |url= http://sev.prnewswire.com/entertainment/20061102/LATH10602112006-1.html |agency=PR Newswire |publisher=Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios |date=November 2, 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080929115013/http://sev.prnewswire.com/entertainment/20061102/LATH10602112006-1.html |archive-date= September 29, 2008 |url-status=dead}} and the company has since co-produced several of Cruise's films, the first being Mission: Impossible in 1996 which was also Cruise's first project as a producer. In addition, Cruise has produced films in which he does not appear in, namely The Others, Shattered Glass, Elizabethtown, Narc, Ask the Dust, and Without Limits.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000129/|title=Tom Cruise Production Credits|website=IMDb|access-date=January 22, 2016|archive-date=July 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730052652/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000129/|url-status=live}}

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Cruise is noted as having negotiated some of the most lucrative film deals in Hollywood and was described in 2005 by Hollywood economist Edward Jay Epstein as "one of the most powerful—and richest—forces in Hollywood." Epstein argues that Cruise is one of the few producers (the others being George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Jerry Bruckheimer) who are regarded as able to guarantee the success of a billion-dollar film franchise. Epstein also contends that the public obsession with Cruise's tabloid controversies obscures full appreciation of Cruise's exceptional commercial prowess.{{cite web|last=Epstein|first=Edward Jay|author-link=Edward Jay Epstein|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2121617/|title=Tom Cruise Inc.|website=Slate.com|date=June 27, 2005|access-date=October 31, 2008|archive-date=September 28, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928120812/http://www.slate.com/id/2121617/|url-status=live}}

On August 22, 2006, Paramount Pictures announced it was ending its 14-year relationship with Cruise. In The Wall Street Journal, chairman of Viacom (Paramount's parent company) Sumner Redstone cited the economic damage to Cruise's value as an actor and producer from his controversial public behavior and views.{{cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/2006/08/22/news/newsmakers/cruise_paramount/index.htm?cnn=yes |title=CNN: Paramount Pictures cuts ties with Tom Cruise |work=CNN|date=August 23, 2006 |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041556/https://money.cnn.com/2006/08/22/news/newsmakers/cruise_paramount/index.htm?cnn=yes |url-status=live }}{{cite web| url= http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_27267912.shtml |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070930015319/http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_27267912.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |title=Sumner Redstone Rebuke of Tom Cruise: Now What? |publisher=National Ledger |access-date=August 8, 2009}} Cruise/Wagner Productions responded that Paramount's announcement was a face-saving move after the production company had successfully sought alternative financing from private equity firms.{{cite news |last=Lieberman |first=David |url=https://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2006-08-23-hedge-films-usat_x.htm |title=Cruise seeks financial backing from hedge funds |work=USA Today |date=August 24, 2006 |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041532/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/media/2006-08-23-hedge-films-usat_x.htm |url-status=live }} Industry analysts such as Edward Jay Epstein commented that the real reason for the split was most likely Paramount's discontent over Cruise/Wagner's exceptionally large share of DVD sales from the Mission: Impossible franchise.{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d817b680-33a0-11db-981f-0000779e2340.html|title=Paramount vs Cruise: all down to the killer cut|work=Financial Times|date=August 24, 2006|access-date=April 2, 2015|archive-date=July 25, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725052653/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d817b680-33a0-11db-981f-0000779e2340.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|first=Nicole |last=Sperling |url= https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003052563 |title=Biz eyeing economics of Cruise-Par breakup: DVD slowdown forcing restraint |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=August 24, 2006 |access-date=August 8, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113093430/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003052563 |archive-date=January 13, 2009 }}

In November 2006, Cruise and Paula Wagner announced that they had taken over the film studio United Artists (UA). Cruise acted as a producer and starred in films for UA, while Wagner served as UA's chief executive. Production began in 2007 of Valkyrie, a thriller based on the July 20, 1944, assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler. The film was acquired in March 2007 by UA. On March 21, 2007, Cruise signed to play Claus von Stauffenberg, the protagonist. This project marked the second production to be greenlighted since Cruise and Wagner took control of UA. The first was its inaugural film, Lions for Lambs, directed by Robert Redford and starring Redford, Meryl Streep and Cruise. In August 2008, Wagner stepped down from her position at UA; she retained her stake in UA, which combined with Cruise's share amounted to 30% of the studio.{{Cite news|last=Eller|first=Claudia|date=August 14, 2008|title=Wagner resigns as chief of UA|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-14-fi-wagner14-story.html|access-date=March 3, 2023|periodical=Los Angeles Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041508/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-14-fi-wagner14-story.html |archive-date=December 29, 2020|url-status=live}}

Cruise began working with Paramount again as a producer and star with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, without Wagner, which was a critical and commercial success. He and Wagner would collaborate for the final time on the modestly successful Jack Reacher series, also for Paramount.{{Citation |last=Bird |first=Brad |title=Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol |date=December 21, 2011 |type=Action, Adventure, Thriller |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229238/ |access-date=March 21, 2024 |others=Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg |publisher=Paramount Pictures, Skydance Media, TC Productions |archive-date=March 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240325214335/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229238/ |url-status=live }}

In January 2024, it was announced that his production company was forming a new strategic partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery to develop and produce original and franchise films.{{Cite news|last=Lang|first=Brett|date=January 9, 2024|title=Tom Cruise Signs Deal With Warner Bros. to Develop and Produce Original and Franchise Films|url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/tom-cruise-warner-bros-deal-new-movies-1235866282/#article-comments|access-date=January 11, 2024|periodical=Variety|archive-date=January 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110220303/https://variety.com/2024/film/news/tom-cruise-warner-bros-deal-new-movies-1235866282/#article-comments|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|last=Masters|first=Kim|date=January 11, 2024|title=What Tom Cruise's New Deal Really Means|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/inside-tom-cruise-new-deal-1235785619/|access-date=January 11, 2024|periodical=THR|archive-date=January 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240111170100/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/inside-tom-cruise-new-deal-1235785619/|url-status=live}}

{{see also| Tom Cruise filmography|List of awards and nominations received by Tom Cruise}}

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In 2006, Premiere ranked Cruise as Hollywood's most powerful actor,{{cite web|title=The Power List 2006|url=http://www.premiere.com/best/2816/the-power-list-2006.html|work=Premiere|date=June 2006|access-date=July 29, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070120121741/http://www.premiere.com/best/2816/the-power-list-2006.html|archive-date=January 20, 2007}} as Cruise came in at number 13 on the magazine's 2006 Power List, being the highest ranked actor.{{cite web|url=http://www.premiere.com/newsletter/2851/the-power-list-2006-page13.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070120122143/http://www.premiere.com/newsletter/2851/the-power-list-2006-page13.html|archive-date=January 20, 2007|title=The Power List 2006|work=Premiere|access-date=July 3, 2012}} The same year, Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity. The founder of CinemaScore in 2016 cited Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio as the "two stars, it doesn't matter how bad the film is, they can pull [the box office] up."{{Cite news|url=http://www.reviewjournal.com/neon/las-vegan-s-polling-company-keeps-tabs-hollywood|title=Las Vegan's polling company keeps tabs on Hollywood |last=Lawrence|first=Christopher|date=August 30, 2016|newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal|access-date=December 24, 2016|archive-date=December 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224100303/http://www.reviewjournal.com/neon/las-vegan-s-polling-company-keeps-tabs-hollywood |url-status=live }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/tom-cruise-eyes-wide-shut-mission-impossible-top-gun-jack-reacher-a9177726.html|title=Why Tom Cruise is contemporary cinema's Peter Pan|date=October 31, 2019|website=The Independent|access-date=May 21, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041518/https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/tom-cruise-eyes-wide-shut-mission-impossible-top-gun-jack-reacher-a9177726.html|url-status=live}} October 10, 2006, was declared "Tom Cruise Day" in Japan; the Japan Memorial Day Association said that he was awarded with a special day because of "his love for and close association with Japan."{{cite web |url=http://www.hollywood.com/news/Cruise_Day_Declared_in_Japan/3563377 |title=Tom Cruise Day |website=Hollywood.com |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-date=December 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121208204831/http://www.hollywood.com/news/Cruise_Day_Declared_in_Japan/3563377 |url-status=live }}

While reviewing Days of Thunder (co-written Cruise), film critic Roger Ebert noted the similarities between several of Cruise's 1980s films and nicknamed the formula the "Tom Cruise Picture".{{Cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/days-of-thunder-1990|title=Days Of Thunder movie review & film summary (1990) | Roger Ebert|first=Roger|last=Ebert|website=www.rogerebert.com|access-date=May 21, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041544/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/days-of-thunder-1990|url-status=live}} Ebert listed nine key ingredients that make up the Tom Cruise Picture: the Cruise character, the mentor, the superior woman, the craft he must hone, the arena it takes place in, the arcana or knowledge he must learn, the trail or journey, the proto enemy, and the eventual enemy of the character. Some of Cruise's later films like A Few Good Men and The Last Samurai can also be considered to be part of this formula. Widescreenings compares two of these Cruise characters in an article on the film A Few Good Men:{{blockquote|

[screenwriter] Aaron Sorkin interestingly takes the opposite approach of Top Gun, where Cruise also starred as the protagonist. In Top Gun, Cruise plays Mitchell who is a 'hot shot' military underachiever who makes mistakes because he is trying to outperform his late father. Where Maverick Mitchell needs to rein in the discipline, Daniel Kaffee needs to let it go, finally see what he can do.{{cite web|url=http://www.widescreenings.com/few-good-men-analysis-review.html|title=Review and analysis: A Few Good Men|first=Inspired by R. Swanson and CrystalX by Vit|last=Dlouhy|website=Widescreenings.com|access-date=October 7, 2017|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041520/http://www.widescreenings.com/few-good-men-analysis-review.html|url-status=live}}

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Cruise is an aerobatic pilot and was inducted as part of the Living Legends of Aviation in 2010, receiving the Aviation Inspiration and Patriotism Award from the Kiddie Hawk Air Academy. In addition to other aircraft, Cruise owns a P-51 Mustang.{{cite web|url=https://generalaviationnews.com/2010/01/13/living-legends-of-aviation-to-honor-tom-cruise-buzz-aldrin/|title=Living Legends of Aviation to honor Tom Cruise, Buzz Aldrin|last=Wood|first=Janice|website=General Aviation News|date=January 2010|accessdate=August 4, 2022|archive-date=August 31, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831015054/https://generalaviationnews.com/2010/01/13/living-legends-of-aviation-to-honor-tom-cruise-buzz-aldrin/|url-status=live}}

Cruise splits his time between homes in Beverly Hills, California;{{Cite web|url=https://www.celebhomes.net/tom-cruise/|title=Tom Cruise House – Beverly Hills {{!}} {{!}} Celebrity Homes|website=www.celebhomes.net|date=December 10, 2012 |access-date=April 27, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041451/https://www.celebhomes.net/tom-cruise/|url-status=live}} Clearwater, Florida;{{Cite web|url=https://popculture.com/celebrity/2018/07/28/tom-cruise-new-florida-penthouse-scientology-headquarters/|title=Tom Cruise's New Florida Penthouse Near Scientology Headquarters Features 'Pool Garden and Kitchen'|website=Popculture.com|access-date=April 27, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041452/https://popculture.com/celebrity/news/tom-cruise-new-florida-penthouse-scientology-headquarters/|url-status=live}} and the south of England, where he has lived in various places such as Central London, Dulwich,{{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/464290.stm|title=Star couple 'buy London home'|website=news.bbc.co.uk|access-date=April 27, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041453/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/464290.stm|url-status=live}} East Grinstead,{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12071605/Tom-Cruise-puts-4.95-million-East-Grinstead-mansion-up-for-sale.html|title=Tom Cruise puts £4.95 million East Grinstead mansion up for sale|journal=The Daily Telegraph|date=December 28, 2015|access-date=April 27, 2020|issn=0307-1235|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041533/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12071605/Tom-Cruise-puts-4.95-million-East-Grinstead-mansion-up-for-sale.html|url-status=live}} and Biggin Hill.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kentlive.news/news/celebs-tv/tom-cruises-quiet-life-biggin-7088449|title=Tom Cruise's quiet life in Biggin Hill and his daughter's very ordinary life|first=Sam|last=Honey|date=May 16, 2022|website=KentLive|access-date=July 5, 2022|archive-date=September 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904074133/https://www.kentlive.news/news/celebs-tv/tom-cruises-quiet-life-biggin-7088449|url-status=live}} In the early-to-mid-1980s, Cruise had relationships with Melissa Gilbert,{{cite web |last1=Ross |first1=Martha |title=Is Tom Cruise's rumored new girlfriend ... July 2021 |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/12/is-tom-cruises-rumored-new-girlfriend-hayley-atwell-ready-for-tom-cruise/ |website=mercurynews.com |date=July 12, 2021 |publisher=The Mercury News |access-date=April 25, 2022 |archive-date=October 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013153314/https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/12/is-tom-cruises-rumored-new-girlfriend-hayley-atwell-ready-for-tom-cruise/ |url-status=live }} Rebecca De Mornay,{{cite web|url=http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1502989/20050527/index.jhtml |title=Cruise Control |work=Vh1 |date=May 27, 2005 |access-date=June 5, 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110629061048/http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1502989/20050527/index.jhtml |archive-date=June 29, 2011}} Patti Scialfa,{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-romancing-the-boss-vol-30-no-15/|title=Romancing the Boss|website=People|access-date=April 27, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041528/https://people.com/archive/cover-story-romancing-the-boss-vol-30-no-15/|url-status=live}} and Cher.{{cite web |url= http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/cher-once-dated-tom-cruise/story-e6frfmqi-1111116193761 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100617043717/http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/cher-once-dated-tom-cruise/story-e6frfmqi-1111116193761 |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 17, 2010 |title=Cher reveals affair with Tom Cruise |work=NewsComAu |access-date=April 2, 2015}}

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Cruise married actress Mimi Rogers on May 9, 1987.{{cite web |url= http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20096360,00.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150919084109/http://www.people.com/people/article/0%2C%2C20096360%2C00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 19, 2015 |title=Now Married to Mimi Rogers, Tom's Cruising Days Are Over |work=People}} They divorced on February 4, 1990. Rogers had grown up in Scientology and was one of its "auditors";{{cite book |last=Reitman |first=Janet |author-link=Janet Reitman |title=Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion |title-link=Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion |date=2011 |isbn=978-0-618-88302-8 |ol=24881847M |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |pages=272–273}} they met when Cruise became one of her clients.{{cite journal | last = Masters | first = Kim |date=September–October 2005 | title = The Passion of Tom Cruise|journal=Radar }} as excerpted by Radar at [https://web.archive.org/web/20061019111857/http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2005/08/the_passion_of_tom_cruise_excerpt.php RadarOnline.com] In a 1993 Playboy interview, Rogers discussed her split from Cruise and said that he had been considering becoming a monk, which affected their intimacy. Rogers later retracted the comments and claimed she had been misinterpreted.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/725636363|title=Mimi Rogers withdraws Tom Cruise sex claims|first=Gerard|last=Evans|date=March 1, 1993|newspaper=Evening Standard|access-date=April 12, 2023|archive-date=August 31, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831015036/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/725636363/|url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=http://www.ariel-leve.com/st_interviews/tomcruise.html |title=Cruise's Bruises |first=Ariel |last=Leve |date=August 15, 2004 |newspaper=The Sunday Times |via=Ariel-leve.com |access-date=August 9, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303212437/http://ariel-leve.com/st_interviews/tomcruise.html |archive-date=March 3, 2012}} Rogers received a {{USD|4 million|long=no}} divorce settlement.

Cruise met his second wife, actress Nicole Kidman, on the set of their film Days of Thunder (1990). The couple married on December 24, 1990. They adopted two children: Isabella Jane (born 1992) and Connor Antony (born 1995). On February 5, 2001, the couple's spokesperson announced their separation.{{cite web |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20133675,00.html |title=Hearts Wide Shut |first=Alex |last=Tresniowski |website=People |date=February 19, 2001 |access-date=January 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702003212/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20133675,00.html |archive-date=July 2, 2012 |url-status=live}} Cruise filed for divorce two days later, and their marriage was dissolved later that year, with Cruise citing irreconcilable differences.{{cite news |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/nicole-kidman-says-she-still-loves-tom-cruise-1C9433600 |title=Nicole Kidman says she still loves Tom Cruise |website=The Today Show |date=May 9, 2006 |access-date=January 10, 2024 |archive-date=October 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211002195607/https://www.today.com/popculture/nicole-kidman-says-she-still-loves-tom-cruise-1C9433600 |url-status=live}} Kidman stated that their marriage failed because at the time, she "was a child" who "needed to grow up."{{Cite magazine |date=October 29, 2013 |title=Nicole Kidman on Her Marriage to Tom Cruise: The Only People Who'd Understand Are Brad and Angelina |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/10/nicole-kidman-tom-cruise-marriage |access-date=March 16, 2025 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}} In a 2007 interview with Marie Claire, Kidman noted the incorrect reporting of a miscarriage early in her marriage: "It was wrongly reported as miscarriage by everyone who picked up the story. So it's huge news, and it didn't happen. I had a miscarriage at the end of my marriage, but I had an ectopic pregnancy at the beginning of my marriage."{{cite magazine |last=Gordon |first=Meryl |url=http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity-lifestyle/celebrities/Nicole-Kidman-Interview-3 |title=Nicole Kidman Tells It Like It Is |magazine=Marie Claire |date=November 11, 2007 |access-date=January 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117025440/http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity-lifestyle/celebrities/Nicole-Kidman-Interview-3 |archive-date=January 17, 2013 |url-status=live}}

Cruise was next romantically linked with Penélope Cruz, his co-star in Vanilla Sky (2001). Their three-year relationship ended in 2004.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3570639.stm|title=Cruise and Cruz end relationship|work=BBC News|date=March 26, 2004|access-date=October 31, 2008|archive-date=January 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106083855/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3570639.stm|url-status=live}} An article in the October 2012 issue of Vanity Fair stated that several sources have said that after the breakup with Cruz, Scientologist leaders launched a secret project to find Cruise a new girlfriend. According to those sources, a series of "auditions" of Scientologist actresses resulted in a short-lived relationship with Iranian-British actress Nazanin Boniadi, who subsequently left Scientology.{{cite magazine|title=Tom Cruise's Scientology Marriages: The Secret Wife-Auditioning Process Before Katie Holmes, Revealed|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/09/tom-cruise-scientology-marriage-katie-holmes|date=September 1, 2012|access-date=September 5, 2012|magazine=Vanity Fair|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041533/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2012/09/tom-cruise-scientology-marriage-katie-holmes|url-status=live}} Scientology and Cruise's lawyers issued strongly worded denials and threatened to sue, accusing Vanity Fair of "shoddy journalism" and "religious bigotry".{{cite news |last= Adams |first= Guy |title= Scientology threatens Vanity Fair over Tom Cruise 'auditions' claims |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/scientology-threatens-vanity-fair-over-tom-cruise-auditions-claims-8122450.html |access-date= September 12, 2012 |newspaper= The Independent |date= September 11, 2012 |quote= Citing a mixture of "shoddy journalism" and "religious bigotry," the Church of Scientology is threatening to sue Vanity Fair over a recent article claiming that it helped "audition" young actresses to find a suitable girlfriend for Tom Cruise. |location= London |archive-date= December 29, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041454/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/scientology-threatens-vanity-fair-over-tom-cruise-auditions-claims-8122450.html |url-status= live }} Journalist Roger Friedman later reported that he received an email from director and ex-Scientologist Paul Haggis confirming the story.{{cite news|title=Exclusive: Oscar Winner Paul Haggis on Tom Cruise Scientology Girlfriend: 'I'm appalled that any church would treat its parishioners this way{{'-}}|url=http://www.showbiz411.com/2012/09/02/oscar-winner-paul-haggis-on-tom-cruise-scientology-girlfriend|date=September 2, 2012|access-date=September 5, 2012|last=Friedman|first=Roger|website=Showbiz411.com|archive-date=March 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314144635/http://www.showbiz411.com/2012/09/02/oscar-winner-paul-haggis-on-tom-cruise-scientology-girlfriend|url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=Tom Cruise lawyer on Vanity Fair expose: 'Tired old lies{{'-}} |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57506112/tom-cruise-lawyer-on-vanity-fair-expose-tired-old-lies/ |work=CBS News |date=September 5, 2012 |access-date=September 5, 2012 |archive-date=September 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120906052445/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57506112/tom-cruise-lawyer-on-vanity-fair-expose-tired-old-lies/ |url-status=live }}

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In April 2005, Cruise began dating actress Katie Holmes. On April 27 that year, Cruise and Holmes—dubbed TomKat by the media—made their first public appearance together in Rome.{{Cite news|title=Tom, Katie flying high on romance |last=Soriano |first=César G. |date=May 5, 2005 |url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-05-03-cruise-main_x.htm|access-date=March 3, 2023|periodical=USA Today|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041552/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-05-03-cruise-main_x.htm |archive-date=December 29, 2020|url-status=live}} A month later, Cruise publicly declared his love for Holmes on The Oprah Winfrey Show; he jumped on Winfrey's yellow couch and stood there to make the announcement. On October 6, 2005, Cruise and Holmes announced they were expecting a child.{{cite news| last= Smith| first= Ryan E.| date= October 6, 2005| url= http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051006/ART09/51006019/-1/ART| title= Baby frenzy begins: Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise are expecting their first child together| work= The Blade| place= Toledo| access-date= September 17, 2021| archive-date= December 29, 2020| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041503/https://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20051006%2FART09%2F51006019%2F-1%2FART| url-status= live}} In April 2006, their daughter Suri was born.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/healthandbeauty/mother-and-baby/822629/tom-cruise-unique-gesture-following-daughter-suri-cruise-birth/|title=Suri Cruise’s estranged dad Tom Cruise made this unique gesture following her birth|date=March 26, 2025|website=HELLO!}}

On November 18, Holmes and Cruise were married at the 15th-century castle Castello Orsini-Odescalchi in Bracciano, in a Scientologist ceremony attended by many Hollywood stars.{{cite news |last=Soriano |first=César G |title=Mr. and Mrs. TomKat: Inside their fairy-tale wedding |work=USA Today |date=November 20, 2006 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-11-19-tomkat-highlights_x.htm |access-date=February 12, 2008 |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041543/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-11-19-tomkat-highlights_x.htm |url-status=live }}{{cite news|url=http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061119/NEWS08/611190359 |title=Cruise, Holmes exchange vows in castle |work=Toledo Blade |date=November 19, 2006 |access-date=September 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080203185150/http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20061119%2FNEWS08%2F611190359 |archive-date=February 3, 2008 |url-status=dead}} Their publicists said the couple had "officialized" their marriage in Los Angeles the day before the Italian ceremony.{{cite news| last= Sanminiatelli| first= Maria |date= November 19, 2006| title= Now they are one: The TomKat is officially united at long last| work= Orlando Sentinel}} There has been widespread speculation that their marriage was arranged by the Church of Scientology.{{cite news|url=http://www.wmagazine.com/celebrities/archive/katie_holmes|title=Holmes, Sweet Holmes| work= W|date=August 2005|access-date=July 30, 2012|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130502020714/http://www.wmagazine.com/celebrities/archive/katie_holmes|archive-date=May 2, 2013|url-status=dead}}{{cite news |url=https://www.vulture.com/2012/07/katie-holmes-cruise-has-left-the-building.html |title=An Inquiry Into the Very Public Private Marriage of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise |work=Vulture |publisher=New York Media LLC |date=July 22, 2012 |access-date=July 30, 2012 |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041501/https://www.vulture.com/2012/07/katie-holmes-cruise-has-left-the-building.html |url-status=live }} David Miscavige, the head of Scientology, served as Cruise's best man.{{cite news | title = Cruise and Holmes go on honeymoon | work = BBC News | date = November 19, 2006 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6160350.stm | access-date = February 10, 2007 | archive-date = December 29, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041535/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6160350.stm | url-status = live }} On June 29, 2012, Holmes filed for divorce from Cruise.{{cite news |title=Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes to divorce |url=http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/29/report-tom-cruise-katie-holmes-set-to-divorce/ |publisher=CNN Entertainment |date=June 29, 2012 |access-date=June 29, 2012 |archive-date=June 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629212600/http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/29/report-tom-cruise-katie-holmes-set-to-divorce/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite news|last=Heyman|first=J.D.|title=Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Are Divorcing|url=https://people.com/celebrity/tom-cruise-katie-holmes-split/|work=People|date=June 29, 2012|access-date=June 29, 2012|archive-date=June 29, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629171231/http://www.people.com/people/article/0%2C%2C20608003%2C00.html|url-status=live}} On July 9, the couple signed a divorce settlement worked out by their lawyers.{{cite news|last=Duke|first=Alan|title=Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes settle divorce|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/09/showbiz/cruise-holmes-divorce/index.html|publisher=CNN|access-date=July 9, 2012|date=July 10, 2012|archive-date=July 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120710035841/http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/09/showbiz/cruise-holmes-divorce/index.html|url-status=live}} New York law requires all divorce documents remain sealed, so the exact terms of the settlement are not publicly available.{{cite web|last=Sternberg|first=Louis|title=Did Katie Holmes File for Divorce from Tom Cruise in New York to Protect Her Privacy?|url=http://www.louislsternberglaw.com/2012/07/14/did-katie-holmes-file-for-divorce-from-tom-cruise-in-new-york-to-protect-her-privacy/|website=louislsternberglaw.com|date=July 14, 2012|access-date=July 14, 2012|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041504/http://www.suffolkdivorcelawyer.com/2012/07/14/did-katie-holmes-file-for-divorce-from-tom-cruise-in-new-york-to-protect-her-privacy/|url-status=live}} Cruise stated that ex-wife Katie Holmes divorced him in part to protect the couple's daughter Suri from Scientology and that Suri is no longer a practicing member of the organization.{{cite news |last=Marcus |first=Stephanie |date=November 8, 2013 |title=Tom Cruise Admits Katie Holmes Divorced Him To Protect Suri From Scientology |work=The Huffington Post |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/tom-cruise-katie-holmes-protect-suri-scientology_n_4240715.html?ir=Entertainment |url-status=live |access-date=February 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041516/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tom-cruise-katie-holmes-protect-suri-scientology_n_4240715?ir=Entertainment |archive-date=December 29, 2020}}

In 1998, Cruise successfully sued the Daily Express, a British tabloid which alleged that his marriage to Kidman was a sham designed to cover up his homosexuality.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/203779.stm |title=Cruise and Kidman win libel case |work=BBC News |date=October 29, 1998 |access-date=April 15, 2012 |archive-date=May 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503095051/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/203779.stm |url-status=live }} In May 2001, Cruise filed a lawsuit against gay porn actor Chad Slater. Slater had told the celebrity magazine Actustar that he had been involved in an affair with Cruise. This claim was strongly denied by Cruise,{{cite news|last=Davis|first=Simon|title=Cruise sues porn star over gay love claims|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1329163/Cruise-sues-porn-star-over-gay-love-claims.html|access-date=May 6, 2013|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=May 4, 2001|location=London|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041520/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1329163/Cruise-sues-porn-star-over-gay-love-claims.html|url-status=live}} and Slater was ordered to pay {{USD|10 million|long=no}} to Cruise in damages after Slater declared he could not afford to defend himself against the suit and would therefore default. Cruise requested a default judgment, and in January 2003, a Los Angeles judge decided against Slater after he admitted that his claims were false.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/2664159.stm |title=Cruise wins 'gay' claims legal battle |work=BBC News |date=January 16, 2003 |access-date=April 15, 2012 |archive-date=February 18, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080218071220/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/2664159.stm |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Silverman|url=https://people.com/celebrity/cruise-wins-10-million-in-gay-lawsuit/|title=Cruise Wins $10 Million in Gay Lawsuit|magazine=People|date=January 16, 2003|access-date=February 17, 2019|archive-date=February 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190218202013/https://people.com/celebrity/cruise-wins-10-million-in-gay-lawsuit/|url-status=live}}

Cruise also sued Bold Magazine publisher Michael Davis for {{USD|100 million|long=no}}, because Davis had alleged that he had video that would prove Cruise was gay. The suit was dropped in exchange for a public statement by Davis that the video was not of Cruise, and that Cruise was heterosexual.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/1686039.stm |title=Cruise gay claims dropped |work=BBC News |date=December 1, 2001 |access-date=April 15, 2012 |archive-date=December 21, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071221105132/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/1686039.stm |url-status=live }} In 2006, Cruise sued cybersquatter Jeff Burgar to obtain control of the TomCruise.com domain name. When owned by Burgar, the domain redirected to information about Cruise on Celebrity1000.com. The decision to turn TomCruise.com over to Cruise was handed down by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on July 5, 2006.{{cite web |author=Arbitration and Mediation Center |url=http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2006/d2006-0560.html |title=WIPO Domain Name Decision: D2006-0560 |website=Arbiter.wipo.int |date=July 5, 2006 |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-date=August 6, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060806044303/http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2006/d2006-0560.html |url-status=live }}

In 2009, magazine editor Michael Davis Sapir{{cite news|date=December 27, 2012|title=Tom Cruise Gives Guarded Testimony in Wiretapping Case|url=https://eu.sj-r.com/story/entertainment/television/2012/12/27/tom-cruise-gives-guarded-testimony/43791053007/|work=The State Journal-Register|access-date=March 29, 2024|archive-date=August 31, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831015036/https://www.sj-r.com/story/entertainment/television/2012/12/27/tom-cruise-gives-guarded-testimony/43791053007/|url-status=live}} filed a suit charging that his phone had been wiretapped at Cruise's behest. That suit was dismissed by a Central Civil West court judge in Los Angeles on the grounds that the statute of limitations had expired on Sapir's claim.{{cite web|url=http://www.celebuzz.com/2012-07-06/tom-cruise-accused-of-wiretap-conspiracy-with-convicted-criminal-anthony-pellicano-during-nicole-kidman-divorce-exclusive/|title=Tom Cruise Accused of Wiretap Conspiracy With Convicted Criminal Anthony Pellicano During Nicole Kidman Divorce|work=Celebuzz|date=July 6, 2012|access-date=April 4, 2015|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041520/https://www.celebuzz.com/2012-07-06/tom-cruise-accused-of-wiretap-conspiracy-with-convicted-criminal-anthony-pellicano-during-nicole-kidman-divorce-exclusive/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/tom-cruise-bert-fields-win-dismissal-wiretapping-suit-81691/|title=Tom Cruise, Bert Fields Win Dismissal of Pellicano Wiretapping Suit|work=TheWrap|date=March 18, 2013|access-date=February 18, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041548/https://www.thewrap.com/tom-cruise-bert-fields-win-dismissal-wiretapping-suit-81691/|url-status=live}} In October 2012, Cruise filed a lawsuit against In Touch and Life & Style magazines for defamation after they claimed Cruise had "abandoned" his six-year-old daughter.{{cite news | url=https://www.tmz.com/2012/10/24/tom-cruise-50-million-dollar-lawsuit-life-and-style-abandoned-suri/ | title=Tom Cruise Files $50 Mil Lawsuit Over Mag Claiming He Abandoned Suri | date=October 24, 2012 | work=TMZ | access-date=October 24, 2012 | archive-date=October 25, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025113549/http://www.tmz.com/2012/10/24/tom-cruise-50-million-dollar-lawsuit-life-and-style-abandoned-suri/ | url-status=live }} During deposition, Cruise admitted that "he didn't see his daughter for 110 days". The suit was settled the following year.{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/tom-cruise-settles-50m-lawsuit-reports-abandoned-suri-article-1.1554419|title=Tom Cruise settles $50M lawsuit over reports he 'abandoned' Suri|work=New York Daily News|access-date=April 6, 2015|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041527/https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/tom-cruise-settles-50m-lawsuit-reports-abandoned-suri-article-1.1554419|url-access=subscription}}

Cruise was converted to Scientology by his first wife, Mimi Rogers, in 1986 and became an outspoken advocate for the Church of Scientology in the 2000s. His involvement in the organization was leaked by the tabloid Star in 1990, and he publicly announced he followed Scientology in a 1992 interview with Barbara Walters. Cruise has said that Scientology, through its teaching method Study Technology, helped him overcome his dyslexia.{{cite web |title=Tom Cruise: My Struggle to Read |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20140587,00.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041506/https://people.com/archive/tom-cruise-my-struggle-to-read-vol-60-no-3/ |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |access-date=April 2, 2015 |website=People}}{{cite news|title=Cruise credits Scientology for his success|work=Today.com|date=May 24, 2005|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/cruise-credits-scientology-his-success-wbna7968809|access-date=May 11, 2008|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041507/https://www.today.com/popculture/cruise-credits-scientology-his-success-wbna7968809|url-status=live}} Cruise has been a close friend of Scientology leader David Miscavige since the 1980s.{{Cite web |last= |date=December 18, 2005 |title=Tom Cruise and Scientology |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/la-fi-scientology18dec18-story.html |access-date=March 17, 2023 |website=Los Angeles Times |archive-date=September 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904074131/https://www.latimes.com/news/la-fi-scientology18dec18-story.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite book|last=Wright|first=Lawrence|title=Going clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief|date=2013|isbn=978-0-307-70066-7|location=New York|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|oclc=818318033}}

Several years after Cruise started studying Scientology, the organization's leaders promised to share some Scientology secrets with him, including information about the extraterrestrial ruler Xenu. According to Janet Reitman's book Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion (2011), Cruise "freaked out" and took a step back from the Church to work on the film Eyes Wide Shut.{{Cite web |title=How The Scientologists Recruited Tom Cruise |url=https://news.yahoo.com/news/church-scientology-landed-biggest-megastar-164734456.html |access-date=June 18, 2022 |website=news.yahoo.com |date=July 9, 2012 |archive-date=August 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831015036/https://news.yahoo.com/news/church-scientology-landed-biggest-megastar-164734456.html |url-status=live }} In 1999, Marty Rathbun was sent by David Miscavige to convince Cruise to return to the Church and continue his studies. Cruise later sparked controversy in the 2000s with his efforts to promote Scientology.

In the aftermath of 9/11, Cruise co-founded and raised donations for Downtown Medical to offer New York City rescue workers "detoxification therapy", drawing criticism from medical professionals and firefighters.{{cite news| last= O'Donnell| first= Michelle| date= October 4, 2003| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/nyregion/04DETO.html| title= Scientologist's Treatments Lure Firefighters| work= The New York Times| access-date= February 20, 2017| archive-date= May 7, 2016| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160507054436/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/nyregion/04DETO.html| url-status= live}}{{cite news|first=Roger |last=Friedman |title=Tom Cruise Can't Put Out These Fires |url= http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,238238,00.html#2 |publisher=Fox News |date=December 22, 2006 |access-date=December 30, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070109070250/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C238238%2C00.html |archive-date=January 9, 2007 }} In late 2004, David Miscavige created the Scientology Freedom Medal of Valor and awarded it to Cruise for this work.{{cite web |title= What Katie Didn't Know |work= Vanity Fair |date= October 2012 |first= Maureen |last= Orth |url= https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2012/10/katie-holmes-divorce-scientology |access-date= February 18, 2020 |archive-date= September 26, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200926225602/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2012/10/katie-holmes-divorce-scientology |url-status= live }} Former Scientologist Paul Haggis has claimed that Cruise attempted to convert several celebrities to Scientology, including James Packer, Victoria and David Beckham, Jada Pinkett, Will Smith, and Steven Spielberg. Since 2008, Cruise has restricted interviewers from asking him about Scientology.{{multiref2

| 1 = {{cite web |url=https://www.today.com/news/cruise-under-control-actor-says-i-learned-lesson-wbna28162646 |title=Cruise under control: Actor says 'I learned a lesson' |date=December 15, 2008 |first=Mike |last=Celizic |publisher=Today |access-date=May 12, 2023 |quote=Three years ago, he openly discussed his membership in the religion with Lauer. But in recent interviews, he's said he prefers not to discuss it and has directed questioners to the religion's Web site. |archive-date=February 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207011613/https://www.today.com/news/cruise-under-control-actor-says-i-learned-lesson-wbna28162646 |url-status=live }}

| 2 = {{cite web |url=https://www.vox.com/culture/23178527/tom-cruise-top-gun-maverick-movie-star-smile-scientology |title=The hollowness of Tom Cruise |date=July 28, 2022 |first=Constance |last=Grady |publisher=Vox |quote=He heavily restricts the questions journalists are allowed to ask him before he agrees to an interview, and both his religion and his family life tend to be off-limits. |access-date=May 13, 2023 |archive-date=August 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831015039/https://www.vox.com/culture/23178527/tom-cruise-top-gun-maverick-movie-star-smile-scientology |url-status=live }}

| 3 = {{cite web |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/30/to-become-a-superstar-again-tom-cruise-downplayed-scientology-as-his-driving-force-report-says/ |title=To be a superstar again, Tom Cruise downplayed Scientology as his 'driving force,' report says |date=July 30, 2022 |first=Martha |last=Ross |publisher=The Mercury News |access-date=May 13, 2023 |quote=He rarely gives interviews and only talks to journalists if they agree not to ask him questions about his religion and family, Vox said. |archive-date=August 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831015037/https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/30/to-become-a-superstar-again-tom-cruise-downplayed-scientology-as-his-driving-force-report-says/ |url-status=live }}

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As well as promoting various programs to introduce people to Scientology, Cruise campaigned for Scientology to be recognized as a religion in Europe. In 2005, the Council of Paris revealed that Cruise had lobbied French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and Senate President Jean-Claude Gaudin; they described Cruise as a militant spokesman for Scientology and barred any further dealings with him.{{cite web |url=http://www.examiner.ie/breaking/story.asp?j=182470131&p=y8z47x994&n=182471074&x= |title=Paris snubs Scientology 'militant' Cruise |work=Irish Examiner |date=July 13, 2005 |access-date=October 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107045926/http://www.examiner.ie:80/breaking/index.aspx?c=ireland&jp=cwkfkfeymhql |archive-date=January 7, 2009 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web| url= http://www.prgparis.org/node/57 |language= fr| title= Tom Cruise ne sera pas citoyen d'honneur de Paris| place= Paris| agency= AFP| trans-title= Tom Cruise will not be an honorary citizen of Paris| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120425091546/http://www.prgparis.org/node/57 |archive-date=April 25, 2012 |date= July 12, 2005}}

{{see also|Anti-psychiatry}}

In January 2004, Cruise said, "I think psychiatry should be outlawed."{{cite journal |last=Desai|first=Nimesh|title=Antipsychiatry: Meeting the challenge|journal=Indian Journal of Psychiatry |date=October–December 2005|volume=47|issue=4|pages=185–187|doi=10.4103/0019-5545.43048|pmid=20711302|pmc=2921130 |doi-access=free |issn = 0019-5545 }} In 2005, he criticized actress Brooke Shields for using the drug Paxil (paroxetine), an antidepressant which she used to recover from postpartum depression after the birth of her first daughter in 2003. Cruise asserted that there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance and that psychiatry is a form of pseudoscience. In response, Shields argued that Cruise "should stick to saving the world from aliens and let women who are experiencing postpartum depression decide what treatment options are best for them."{{Cite news|title=Brooke Shields Lashes Out at Tom Cruise|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1067822,00.html|date=June 2, 2005|work=People|location=New York City|access-date=July 8, 2018|archive-date=November 13, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151113165647/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1067822,00.html|url-status=dead}} This led to a heated argument between Cruise and Matt Lauer on NBC's Today on June 24, 2005.{{cite web | url= https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8344309 | title= In tense moment, Cruise calls Lauer 'glib' | website= NBC News | date= June 28, 2005 | access-date= July 25, 2019 | archive-date= February 17, 2020 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200217213724/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8344309/ | url-status= live }}{{Citation |title=Tom Cruise's Heated Interview With Matt Lauer {{!}} Archives {{!}} TODAY |date=June 2, 2014 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFgF1JPNR5E |access-date=July 25, 2023 |archive-date=August 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831015135/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFgF1JPNR5E |url-status=live }}

Medical authorities view Cruise's comments as furthering the social stigma of mental illness.{{cite journal| title= Psychotropic drugs: unhelpful and helpful comments| journal=The Lancet | publisher=Elsevier|location=London |volume=366| issue=9480| page=96| date= July 9, 2005 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66841-9 | pmid= 16010708| last1=The Lancet | s2cid=39293746 }} From The Lancet, "He may be right that psychotropic drugs are overused, sometimes misused; and that lifestyle changes (and exercise for depression) can be helpful. But he is wrong, as a celebrity, to add to the burden of those with a mental illness, who often fear seeking or continuing treatment because of the stigma still attached to their condition." Shields called Cruise's comments "a disservice to mothers everywhere".{{cite news |last=Shields |first=Brooke |author-link=Brooke Shields |work=The New York Times |title=War of Words |date=July 1, 2005 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/opinion/01shields.html |access-date=January 20, 2009 |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041546/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/opinion/war-of-words.html |url-status=live }} In late August 2006, Cruise apologized in person to Shields for his comments.{{Cite news|title=Shields: Cruise apology was 'heartfelt'|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-09-02-shields-cruise_x.htm|date=September 2, 2006|work=USA Today|agency=Associated Press|access-date=June 20, 2011|archive-date=April 16, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110416235909/http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-09-02-shields-cruise_x.htm|url-status=live}}

Scientology is well known for its opposition to mainstream psychiatry and psychoactive drugs that are routinely prescribed for treatment. It was reported that Cruise's anti-psychiatry actions led to a rift with director Steven Spielberg.{{cite web|url=http://entertainment.myway.com/celebgossip/pgsix/id/09_21_2005_1.html| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20050930235723/http://entertainment.myway.com/celebgossip/pgsix/id/09_21_2005_1.html| title=Spielberg in Cruise Meltdown|archive-date=September 30, 2005|work=myway.com}} Spielberg had reportedly mentioned in Cruise's presence the name of a doctor friend who prescribed psychiatric medication. Shortly thereafter, the doctor's office was picketed by Scientologists, reportedly angering Spielberg.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/24/hollywood-ending|title=Hollywood Ending|first=Ken|last=Auletta|date=July 24, 2006|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=February 18, 2020|archive-date=February 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217213737/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/24/hollywood-ending|url-status=live}}

{{main|Project Chanology#Tom Cruise video}}

On January 15, 2008, a video produced by the Church of Scientology featuring an interview with Cruise was posted on YouTube by the Anonymous-linked group Project Chanology, showing Cruise discussing what being a Scientologist means to him.{{cite news | last =Warne | first =Dan | title ='Anonymous' threatens to 'dismantle' Church of Scientology via internet | work=APC Magazine | publisher=National Nine News | date =January 24, 2008 }}{{cite news | title =Hacker Group Declares War On Scientology: Group Upset Over Church's Handling Of Tom Cruise Video | publisher =KNBC | location =Los Angeles | date =January 24, 2008 | url =http://www.knbc.com/news/15132759/detail.html | access-date =January 25, 2008 | archive-date =August 21, 2008 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20080821132355/http://www.knbc.com/news/15132759/detail.html | url-status =live }} The Church of Scientology said the video had been "pirated and edited", and was taken from a three-hour video produced for members of Scientology.{{cite news | title =Report: Church of Scientology Slams German Tabloid for Publishing Comments Comparing Tom Cruise to Nazi Minister | publisher =Fox News | date =January 23, 2008 | url = https://www.foxnews.com/story/report-church-of-scientology-slams-german-tabloid-for-publishing-comments-comparing-tom-cruise-to-nazi-minister | access-date =January 25, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090605211418/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,324885,00.html | archive-date =June 5, 2009 | url-status=live | df =mdy-all }} YouTube removed the Cruise video from their site under threat of litigation.{{cite news | last =Vamosi | first =Robert | title =Anonymous hackers take on the Church of Scientology | work =CNET News | publisher =CNET Networks, Inc. | date =January 24, 2008 | url =http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9857666-57.html | access-date =January 25, 2008 | archive-date =January 27, 2012 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120127212752/http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-9857666-57.html | url-status =live }} It was subsequently reinstated on the site, and as of June 2020, the video has achieved over 15 million views.{{cite web | url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBZ_uAbxS0 | title= Tom Cruise Scientology Video – (Original UNCUT) | via= YouTube | date= January 17, 2008 | access-date= July 1, 2020 | archive-date= December 29, 2020 | archive-url= https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/UFBZ_uAbxS0?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBZ_uAbxS0 | url-status= live }}{{cbignore}}

In March 2004, Cruise's publicist of 14 years, Pat Kingsley, resigned. Cruise's next publicist was Lee Anne DeVette, his sister, who was herself a Scientologist. She served in that role until November 2005.{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/cruise-will-go-with-pro-1117932447/|title=Cruise will go with pro|work=Variety|first=Chris|last=Gardner|date=November 6, 2005|access-date=October 31, 2008|archive-date=April 27, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060427143555/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117932447?categoryid=13&cs=1|url-status=live}} DeVette was replaced with Paul Bloch from the publicity firm Rogers and Cowan.{{Cite news|url=http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/eo/20051108/113151894008.html|title=Cruise Control Shifts Gears|date=November 8, 2005|work=Yahoo! Entertainment|archive-date=May 21, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060521205326/http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/eo/20051108/113151894008.html}} Such restructuring was seen as a move to curtail publicity of his views on Scientology, as well as the controversy surrounding his relationship with Katie Holmes.{{cite news |url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1499693,00.html |title=What's eating Tom Cruise? |work=The Observer |location=London |first=Edward |last=Helmore |date=June 4, 2005 |access-date=October 31, 2008 |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041550/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/05/usa.film |url-status=live }}

Lawrence Wright's 2013 book Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and Alex Gibney's 2015 documentary adaptation of the book cast a spotlight on Cruise's role in Scientology. The book and the film both state that the Scientology organization groomed romantic partners for Cruise and that Cruise used Sea Org and Rehabilitation Project Force workers as a source of free labor.{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/tom-cruises-secret-scientology-girlfriend-nazanin-boniadi-2015-3|title=Tom Cruise's secret Scientology girlfriend Nazanin Boniadi|date=April 1, 2015|work=Business Insider|access-date=April 4, 2015|archive-date=December 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222081113/http://www.businessinsider.com/tom-cruises-secret-scientology-girlfriend-nazanin-boniadi-2015-3|url-status=live}} In the film, Cruise's former auditor Marty Rathbun says that Cruise's then-wife Nicole Kidman was wiretapped on Cruise's suggestion, which Cruise's lawyer denies.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11370754/Scientology-leaders-ordered-Nicole-Kidman-wiretap-during-Tom-Cruise-marriage.html|title=Scientology leaders 'ordered Nicole Kidman wiretap' during Tom Cruise marriage|date=January 26, 2015|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|access-date=April 2, 2018|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041531/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11370754/Scientology-leaders-ordered-Nicole-Kidman-wiretap-during-Tom-Cruise-marriage.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.eonline.com/news/618897/controversial-scientology-documentary-alleges-tom-cruise-wiretapped-nicole-kidman-s-phone-church-slams-claims|title=Controversial Scientology Documentary Alleges Tom Cruise Wiretapped Nicole Kidman's Phone, Church Slams Claims|work=E! Online|date=January 27, 2015|access-date=April 4, 2015|archive-date=December 13, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151213122621/http://www.eonline.com/news/618897/controversial-scientology-documentary-alleges-tom-cruise-wiretapped-nicole-kidman-s-phone-church-slams-claims|url-status=live}} Cruise's ex-girlfriend Nazanin Boniadi later compared the Scientology organization's auditioning of women to date Cruise and experiences with him to "white slavery".{{Cite web|date=May 10, 2017|title=Nazanin Boniadi's FBI testimony: Cast as Tom Cruise's girlfriend by Scientology|url=http://tonyortega.org/2017/05/10/nazanin-boniadi-fbi-testimony-cast-as-tom-cruises-girlfriend-by-scientology/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510133625/http://tonyortega.org/2017/05/10/nazanin-boniadi-fbi-testimony-cast-as-tom-cruises-girlfriend-by-scientology/|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 10, 2017|access-date=July 13, 2021}}

• Miles Fisher – American actor and notable Cruise impersonator
• Supercouple
• Tom Cruise: Unauthorized (1998)
• Tom Cruise: All the World's a Stage (2006)
• Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography (2008)
• Tom Cruise Purple

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