Thomas Cruise is an American actor and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actors.

Cruise began acting in the early 1980s and made his breakthrough with leading roles in the comedy film Risky Business (1983) and action film Top Gun(1986).

Cruise started in a number of action films in the 2000s, including the science fiction thriller Minority Report(2002), The Last Samurai(2003), and the gritty Los Angeles-set Collateral (2004).

Cruise's personal life often attracted as much attention as his acting.