Birth Name:  Thomas Cruise Mapother IV Born On: July, 3, 1962 Born At Thomas Cruise Mapother IV Height: 5'9'' Weight  170 lbs. Sign  Cancer Wife  Nicole Kidman(Divorced),Mimi Rogers (Divorced) Siblins  Lee Anne Mapother, Marian Mapother, Cass Mapother. Occupation  Actor, Director, Producer   Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is an A-list, Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer.

Tom Cruise was born on July 3, 1962 as Thomas Cruise Mapother IV. At his young age he became one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, although his ambition was to become a priest. This sensitive, deeply religious youngster Tom, was destined to become Tom Cruise, the highest paid and most sought after actor in the screen history.

He is the only son (among four children) of nomadic parents. Tom spent his childhood continuously moving and in that he was 14 bt had to attended 15 different schools in the US and Canada. Then he finally settled in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, with his mother and her new husband. When he was in high school, he developed an interest in acting and abandoned his plans of becoming a priest, dropped out of school, and when he was 18 started for his acting career. Tom Cruise has to spend hard for the next 15 years. Then he made his film debut with a small part in Endless Love (1981), from the outset exhibited an undeniable box office appeal for allowing it to both male and female audiences.

He is below average height and not so particularly handsome in the traditional sense, but only within 5 years Tom Cruise was seen in some of the top grossing films of the 1980s, which include - Top Gun (1986), The Color of Money (1986), Rain Man (1988) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). In 1990s he was one of the highest paid actors in the world and for "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)", "Mission: Impossible (1996)" and "Jerry Maguire (1996)" movies he was earning an average 15 million dollars a picture.