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Tom Cruise is an American film actor and producer. The following is a filmography of his work.
Cruise has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards.[1] He started his career at age 19 in the 1981 film Taps. His first leading role was in Risky Business, released in August 1983. Cruise became a full-fledged movie star after starring in Top Gun (1986). He is well known for his role as secret agent Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible film series between 1996 and 2011.
Cruise has starred in many Hollywood blockbusters that grossed in excess of $200 million worldwide, including Top Gun (1986), Rain Man (1988), A Few Good Men (1992), The Firm (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Jerry Maguire (1996), Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Report (2002), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Collateral (2004), War of the Worlds (2005), Valkyrie (2008), Knight & Day (2010) and Jack Reacher (2012). As of 2012, Cruise is Hollywood's highest-paid actor.[2][3]
Filmography
As actor
As producer
Year | Title | Production role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1996 | Mission Impossible | Producer | Third highest grossing film of 1996.[4] |
1998 | Without Limits | Producer | |
2000 | Mission: Impossible II | Producer | Third highest grossing film of 2000.[5] |
2001 | The Others | Executive producer | |
2001 | Vanilla Sky | Producer | |
2002 | Narc | Executive producer | |
2002 | Hitting It Hard | Producer | Direct-to-video Documentary Short film |
2003 | Shattered Glass | Executive producer | |
2003 | The Last Samurai | Producer | |
2004 | Suspect Zero | Producer | Uncredited |
2005 | Elizabethtown | ||
2005 | Ask the Dust | Producer | |
2006 | Mission: Impossible III | Producer | |
2011 | Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol | Producer | Seventh highest grossing movie of 2011.[6] |
2012 | Jack Reacher | Producer |
See also
References
- General
- "Tom Cruise Official Site Filmography Page". Retrieved September 11, 2008.
- "Tom Cruise Filmography". The New York Times. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
- Specific
- ^ "Awards for Tom Cruise". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
- ^ Pomerantz, Dorothy (2012-04-18). "Tom Cruise Tops Our List Of Hollywood's Highest-Paid Actors". Forbes. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "Newsbeat - Tom Cruise highest paid actor in Hollywood, says Forbes". BBC. 2012-07-04. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "1996 Yearly Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
- ^ "2000 Yearly Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
- ^ "2011 Yearly Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 26, 2012.