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My Take
My take on Tom Cruise is simple: he is the last true believer in the theatrical experience. While his peers settled into prestige television, Cruise kept strapping himself to airplanes and motorcycles well past sixty, treating every stunt as a personal promise to the audience. The honorary Palme d'Or in 2022 felt less like an award and more like the film industry thanking him for keeping cinemas alive. I do not always understand the man, but I never doubt the professional. That obsessive, almost monastic devotion to entertaining strangers is something I genuinely respect, and modern Hollywood would be poorer without it.
Overview
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and film producer. Regarded as a Hollywood icon, he has received various accolades, including an Honorary Palme d'Or, an Academy Honorary Award, and three Golden Globes, in addition to nominations for four competitive Academy Awards.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Tom Cruise
- Name (Japanese)
- トム・クルーズ
- Reading
- とむ・くるーず
- Born
- July 3, 1962 (age 63)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Tiger
- Origin
- Syracuse, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 170 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / film producer / film director / screenwriter / aircraft pilot
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Glen Ridge High School
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 1990 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
- 1997 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
- 2000 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
- IAS Freedom Medal
- 1986 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- 2002 Saturn Award for Best Actor
- 2022 Honorary Palme d'Or
- 1997 Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.