Tom Cruise is the stage name of Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, an American actor and producer who was born on July 3, 1962.
He is one of the highest-paid performers in the world and has won several honours, including three Golden Globe Awards, an Honorary Palme d’Or, and three Golden Globe Awards.
Tom has also been nominated for three Academy Awards. He is one of the highest-earning movie actors of all time with over $4 billion in North America and over $11.1 billion globally in box office receipts for his films.
Where did Tom Cruise go to college and high school? Did Tom Cruise go to film school?
Tom Cruise attended Northern Vermont University and Saint Xavier High School. According to sources, Tom Cruise did not attend a film school.
Early in the 1980s, Cruise started acting, and his breakthrough came with the comedy Risky Business (1983) and the action movie Top Gun (1986).
His performances in the dramas The Color of Money (1986), Rain Man (1988), and Born on the Fourth of July brought him critical recognition (1989).
He was nominated for an Academy Award and got a Golden Globe for his performance as Ron Kovic in the latter. He appeared in numerous financially lucrative movies as a prominent Hollywood actor in the 1990s, including the drama A Few Good Men (1992), the thriller The Firm (1993), the horror movie Interview with the Vampire (1994), and the romance Jerry Maguire (1996).
