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His first leading role was 1983's Risky Business.<ref name="imdb">Modèle:Imdb name</ref> After that, he starred in many top films and became a Hollywood celebrity, perhaps the most notable of these being the hugely successful 1986 film Top Gun.
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Family and early life
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</ref> Cruise has German and Colonial English ancestry from his paternal great-grandparents, William Reibert and Charlotte Louise Voelker; and purportedly Welsh ancestry from his paternal great-great-grandfather, Dylan Henry Mapother, who emigrated from Flint, Wales to Louisville, Kentucky in 1850.<ref> Ancestry of Tom Cruise: Fourth Generation
.</ref><ref>Icons Of Wales - Tom Cruise</ref> His great-great-grandmother Mary Cruise married twice. Her first husband was Dillon Henry Mapother, by whom she had six children. She remarried after Dillon's death, to Thomas O'Mara. Their son Thomas O'Mara, enumerated as such in the 1880 Census, was later known as "Thomas Cruise Mapother". The reason(s) for him changing his name are not entirely clear. Thus, from his and his wife Anna Stewart Bateman, he has Irish and Colonial English ancestry, respectively. His maternal ancestry is half Irish and half German (including Alsatian).<ref>Dreyfous-Kahrs-Thomas-Hamilton Family</ref> Anna Stewart Bateman's great-grandfather was a third cousin of President George Washington and descended seven times from King Jean de Brienne of Jerusalem, once from King Louis VIII of France, once from King Henry III of England, twice from King Edward I of England and three times from King Edward III of England.<ref name="ancestry"> Ancestry of Tom Cruise
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. Retrieved on 2007-10-17.
</ref> Cruise has German and Colonial English ancestry from his paternal great-grandparents, William Reibert and Charlotte Louise Voelker; and purportedly Welsh ancestry from his paternal great-great-grandfather, Dylan Henry Mapother, who emigrated from Flint, Wales to Louisville, Kentucky in 1850.<ref> Ancestry of Tom Cruise: Fourth Generation
.</ref><ref>Icons Of Wales - Tom Cruise</ref> His great-great-grandmother Mary Cruise married twice. Her first husband was Dillon Henry Mapother, by whom she had six children. She remarried after Dillon's death, to Thomas O'Mara. Their son Thomas O'Mara, enumerated as such in the 1880 Census, was later known as "Thomas Cruise Mapother". The reason(s) for him changing his name are not entirely clear. Thus, from his and his wife Anna Stewart Bateman, he has Irish and Colonial English ancestry, respectively. His maternal ancestry is half Irish and half German (including Alsatian).<ref>Dreyfous-Kahrs-Thomas-Hamilton Family</ref> Anna Stewart Bateman's great-grandfather was a third cousin of President George Washington and descended seven times from King Jean de Brienne of Jerusalem, once from King Louis VIII of France, once from King Henry III of England, twice from King Edward I of England and three times from King Edward III of England.<ref name="ancestry"> Ancestry of Tom Cruise
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</ref><ref name="geneall"> Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
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www.parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_04-09-2006/Tom_Cruise_cover|title="I Can Create Who I Am"|accessdate=2007-10-17|date=2006-04-09}}</ref> Cities in which Tom lived included Ottawa, Ontario (where he attended Colonel By Secondary School), Louisville, Kentucky, Winnetka, Illinois and Wayne, New Jersey. In all, Cruise attended eight elementary schools and three high schools. He briefly attended a Franciscan seminary in Cincinnati and aspired to become a Catholic priest. He eventually graduated from Glen Ridge High School in New Jersey in 1980.//www.parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_04-09-2006/Tom_Cruise_cover|title="I Can Create Who I Am"|accessdate=2007-10-17|date=2006-04-09}}</ref> Cities in which Tom lived included Ottawa, Ontario (where he attended Colonel By Secondary School), Louisville, Kentucky, Winnetka, Illinois and Wayne, New Jersey. In all, Cruise attended eight elementary schools and three high schools. He briefly attended a Franciscan seminary in Cincinnati and aspired to become a Catholic priest. He eventually graduated from Glen Ridge High School in New Jersey in 1980.
www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/06/people.cruise.ap/index.html CNN report about Parade Magazine article]</ref> Having gone through fifteen schools in twelve years, Cruise, who dropped his father's name at age twelve, was also a victim of bullying at school.//www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/06/people.cruise.ap/index.html CNN report about Parade Magazine article]</ref> Having gone through fifteen schools in twelve years, Cruise, who dropped his father's name at age twelve, was also a victim of bullying at school.
Cruise started acting after being sidelined from his high school's wrestling team due to a knee injury. While injured, he successfully auditioned for a lead role in his high school's production of Guys and Dolls and decided to become an actor after his success in the role. His cousin William Mapother is also an actor most known for playing Ethan Rom on Lost.
Hollywood
Acting career
1980s
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Cruise's next film was the 1985 fantasy film Legend directed by Ridley Scott.
Cruise was then selected as the first choice by producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson for an upcoming American fighter pilot film. Cruise at first apparently turned down the project, but helped to alter the script he was given and developed the film. After being taken for a flight with the Blue Angels, Cruise changed his mind and signed on with the project. The project was titled Top Gun and opened in May 1986, becoming the highest grossing film of the year, taking in US$353,816,701 in worldwide figures.
He also starred in Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money along with Paul Newman that same year, which earned Paul a Best Actor academy award.
In 1988, he starred in the light hearted drama Cocktail. The film received mixed reviews and Cruise was subsequently nominated for a Razzie award in 1989. Later that year, Rain Man was released, which also starred Dustin Hoffman and was directed by Barry Levinson. The film was praised by critics and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, and won four, including Best Picture and Best Actor.
1990s
Cruise was welcomed with similar success the following year when he received Academy Award nominations for Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July, which was based on the best selling autobiography of Anti-Vietnam War hero Ron Kovic; for the first time the audience knew Tom could play complicated roles other than handsome boys. In 1990, Cruise starred as hot-shot race car driver "Cole Trickle" in Tony Scott's Days of Thunder. While filming Days of Thunder Cruise first met Australian actress Nicole Kidman, who was his co-star. Cruise's next film was Ron Howard's Far and Away where he again was starring with Nicole Kidman. After Days of Thunder he starred in the military thriller A Few Good Men with Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore. This film was very well received and earned Cruise a Golden Globe and MTV nominations. The following year he starred in Sydney Pollack's The Firm along with Gene Hackman and Ed Harris. It was based on the best selling novel by John Grisham, and won Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture at the People's Choice Awards.
In 1994, Cruise starred along with Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas and Christian Slater in Neil Jordan's Interview with the Vampire, a gothic drama/horror film that was based on Anne Rice's best selling novel which was also very well received, although Rice was outspoken in her criticism of Cruise having been cast in the film. In 1996, Cruise starred in (as well as produced) Brian de Palma's Mission: Impossible. The film, a remake of the 1960s TV series, grossed US$456,494,803 worldwide, making it the third highest grossing film that year. That same year he played the title role in the comedy-drama Jerry Maguire. The film earned him an Academy Award Best Actor nomination as well as winning co-star Cuba Gooding, Jr. an Academy Award; the film was nominated for five Academy Awards in total. The film also included the line "Show Me the Money!" which became part of popular culture. Jerry Maguire saw Tom Cruise become the first actor in history to star in five consecutive films that grossed at least $100 million in domestic release. In 1999 he starred in the erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut which took two years to complete and was director Stanley Kubrick's last film. It was also the last film in which he starred alongside then spouse Nicole Kidman. But the film, which had a straightforward description of sex and a recondite story-telling style, raised great controversies. Cruise also played a misogynistic male guru in Magnolia (1999), which netted him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination. He was originally intended to play as Jericho Cane in the action horror flim End of Days before Arnold Schwarzenegger assumed the lead role.
2000s
In 2000, Cruise returned as Ethan Hunt in the second installment of the Mission Impossible films, releasing Mission: Impossible II. The film was directed by Hong Kong director John Woo and branded with his Gun fu Style, but it continued the series' blockbuster success at the box office, taking in almost US$546 M in worldwide figures, like its predecessor, being the third highest grossing film of the year. The following year Cruise starred in the remake of the 1997 film Abre Los Ojos, Vanilla Sky. In 2002, Cruise starred in the dystopian science fiction thriller, Minority Report which was directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the science fiction short story by Philip Dick; as well as The Last Samurai.
In the 2004 Michael Mann's crime-thriller film Collateral, Cruise took a turn against his generic "good guy" role by playing the role of a sociopathic hitman. In 2005, Cruise starred in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds. The film earned US$234 M and ultimately earned US$591.4 M worldwide . The film also earned three Razzie nominations including one for Cruise.
In 2006, he reprised his role as Ethan Hunt in the third installment of the Mission Impossible film series Mission: Impossible III which was also a box office success and was more positively received by critics than its predecessor. He appeared in the 2007 drama Lions for Lambs and will star in the 2008 thriller Valkyrie.
Producing career
Cruise partnered with producer Paula Wagner to form Cruise/Wagner Productions which has co-produced several of Cruise's films,<ref>Modèle:Imdb company</ref> the first being Mission: Impossible in 1996 which was also Cruise's first project as a producer. He won a Nova Award (shared with Paula Wagner) for Most Promising Producer in Theatrical Motion Pictures at the PGA Golden Laurel Awards in 1997 for his work as a producer for the film Mission: Impossible.
His next project as a producer was the 1998 film Without Limits about famous American runner Steve Prefontaine. Cruise returned to work as a producer in 2000, continuing work on the Mission Impossible sequel. He then served as an executive producer for The Others which starred Nicole Kidman, also that year, he again worked as actor/producer in Vanilla Sky. He subsequently worked on (but did not star in) Narc, Hitting It Hard and Shattered Glass. His next project, which he also starred in, was The Last Samurai, he was jointly nominated for the Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award at the 2004 PGA Golden Laurel Awards. He then worked on Suspect Zero, Elizabethtown and Ask the Dust.
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Breakup with Paramount
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. Retrieved on 2006-09-24. </ref>//money.cnn.com/2006/08/22/news/newsmakers/cruise_paramount/index.htm?cnn=yes CNN: Paramount Pictures cuts ties with Tom Cruise]</ref><ref>National Ledger: Sumner Redstone Rebuke of Tom Cruise: Now What?</ref> Cruise/Wagner Productions responded that Paramount's announcement was a face-saving move after the production company had successfully sought alternative financing from private equity firms.<ref>USA Today: Cruise seeks financial backing from hedge funds</ref> Industry analysts such as Edward Jay Epstein commented that the real reason for the split was most likely Paramount's discontent over Cruise/Wagner's exceptionally large share of DVD sales from the Mission: Impossible franchise.<ref>The Financial Times: Paramount vs. Cruise: all down the killer cut by Edward Jay Epstein</ref><ref>The Hollywood Reporter: Biz eyeing economics of Cruise-Par breakup: DVD slowdown forcing restraint</ref> However, Radar has claimed that the "personal conduct" complained of by Redstone was an allegedly Cruise-inspired attempt to intimidate Brad Grey, CEO of Paramount. According to Radar, when Grey was walking to his car one night after tense negotiations with Cruise over Mission: Impossible 3, he was "surrounded by more than a dozen Scientologists, who pressured him to ease up on the actor ... Following a terse exchange, the visitors allowed Grey to get into his car and leave, but the message was clear." Grey reportedly stood his ground and convinced Cruise to accept a lower fee than the actor had initially demanded.<ref> Bercovici , Jeff
(2006-09-15) . Brad Grey's Scientology Scare . Radar Online . Radar magazine
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Management of United Artists
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Popularity
In 1990, 1991 and 1997, People magazine rated him among the 50 most beautiful people in the world.<ref name="imdb" /> In 1995, Empire magazine ranked him among the 100 sexiest stars in film history.<ref name="imdb"/> Two years later, it ranked him among the top 5 movie stars of all time.<ref name="imdb" /> In 2002 and 2003, he was rated by Premiere among the top 20 in its annual Power 100 list.<ref name="imdb" /> .
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On 16 June, 2006, Forbes magazine published 'The Celebrity 100', a list of the most powerful celebrities, which Cruise topped. The list was generated using a combination of income (between June 2005 and June 2006), web references by Google, press clips compiled by LexisNexis, television and radio mentions (by Factiva), and the number of times a celebrity appeared on the cover of 26 major consumer magazines.
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Relationships and personal life
Mimi Rogers
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Nicole Kidman
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Penélope Cruz
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Katie Holmes
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www.accesshollywood.com/movies/ah43.shtml</ref> Cruise stated that the name derives from the Hebrew word for "princess" or the Persian word meaning red rose.<ref>http://www.gawker.com/news/births/on-the-matter-of-baby-suri-168181.php</ref> (See also Sarah.) She is the first child for Holmes and third for Cruise, who (as previously mentioned) has two adopted children with Nicole Kidman.<ref>Katie Holmes & Tom Cruise Have a Girl! People.com. April 18, 2006.</ref> Katie and Tom are fans of club Real Madrid C.F. They were on the stands in last match of La Liga 2006-07 between Real Madrid and RCD Mallorca which Real Madrid won 3-1 and the La Liga trophy.//www.accesshollywood.com/movies/ah43.shtml</ref> Cruise stated that the name derives from the Hebrew word for "princess" or the Persian word meaning red rose.<ref>http://www.gawker.com/news/births/on-the-matter-of-baby-suri-168181.php</ref> (See also Sarah.) She is the first child for Holmes and third for Cruise, who (as previously mentioned) has two adopted children with Nicole Kidman.<ref>Katie Holmes & Tom Cruise Have a Girl! People.com. April 18, 2006.</ref> Katie and Tom are fans of club Real Madrid C.F. They were on the stands in last match of La Liga 2006-07 between Real Madrid and RCD Mallorca which Real Madrid won 3-1 and the La Liga trophy.
Controversy
Scientology
www.answers.com/topic/tom-cruise?cat=entertainment</ref> He became involved with Scientology in 1990 through his first wife, Mimi Rogers.<ref>Cruise lobbies over Scientology BBC News</ref> Cruise has publicly said that Scientology, specifically the L. Ron Hubbard Scientology Study Tech, helped him overcome his dyslexia.<ref>Cruise credits Scientology for his success MSNBC</ref>//www.answers.com/topic/tom-cruise?cat=entertainment</ref> He became involved with Scientology in 1990 through his first wife, Mimi Rogers.<ref>Cruise lobbies over Scientology BBC News</ref> Cruise has publicly said that Scientology, specifically the L. Ron Hubbard Scientology Study Tech, helped him overcome his dyslexia.<ref>Cruise credits Scientology for his success MSNBC</ref>
www.examiner.ie/breaking/story.asp?j=182470131&p=y8z47x994&n=182471074&x= Paris snubs Scientology 'militant' Cruise] Irish Examiner</ref><ref>Tom Cruise ne sera pas citoyen d'honneur de Paris (In French)</ref> Cruise co-founded and raised donations for Downtown Medical to offer New York 9/11 rescue workers detoxification therapy based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard. This has drawn criticism from the medical profession,<ref>Scientologist's Treatments Lure Firefighters, Michelle O'Donnell, NY Times, 4 October, 2003</ref> as well as firefighters.<ref> Friedman , Roger
. " Tom Cruise Can't Put Out These Fires " , FOX 411 , Fox News Channel , 2006-12-22 . Retrieved on 2006-12-30 . </ref> For these activities and others, David Miscavige awarded Scientology's Freedom Medal of Valor to Cruise in late 2004.//www.examiner.ie/breaking/story.asp?j=182470131&p=y8z47x994&n=182471074&x= Paris snubs Scientology 'militant' Cruise] Irish Examiner</ref><ref>Tom Cruise ne sera pas citoyen d'honneur de Paris (In French)</ref> Cruise co-founded and raised donations for Downtown Medical to offer New York 9/11 rescue workers detoxification therapy based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard. This has drawn criticism from the medical profession,<ref>Scientologist's Treatments Lure Firefighters, Michelle O'Donnell, NY Times, 4 October, 2003</ref> as well as firefighters.<ref> Friedman , Roger . " Tom Cruise Can't Put Out These Fires " , FOX 411 , Fox News Channel , 2006-12-22 . Retrieved on 2006-12-30 . </ref> For these activities and others, David Miscavige awarded Scientology's Freedom Medal of Valor to Cruise in late 2004.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8344309/ "In tense moment, Cruise calls Lauer 'glib'"] MSNBC.COM. (June 28 2005)</ref>//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8344309/ "In tense moment, Cruise calls Lauer 'glib'"] MSNBC.COM. (June 28 2005)</ref> www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,16683,00.html Brooke & Tom's War of the Words] E online.</ref> In late August of 2006, Cruise apologized in person to Shields for his comments; Shields said that she was "impressed with how heartfelt [the apology] was [...] I didn't feel at any time that I had to defend myself, nor did I feel that he was trying to convince me of anything other than the fact that he was deeply sorry. And I accepted it."<ref name="Apology">Shields: Cruise Gave 'Heartfelt Apology'</ref> Cruise's spokesman confirmed that Cruise and Shields had made up but said that Cruise's position on anti-depressants had not changed.<ref name="Apology" /> Shields was a guest at Cruise's and Holmes's wedding.//www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,16683,00.html Brooke & Tom's War of the Words] E online.</ref> In late August of 2006, Cruise apologized in person to Shields for his comments; Shields said that she was "impressed with how heartfelt [the apology] was [...] I didn't feel at any time that I had to defend myself, nor did I feel that he was trying to convince me of anything other than the fact that he was deeply sorry. And I accepted it."<ref name="Apology">Shields: Cruise Gave 'Heartfelt Apology'</ref> Cruise's spokesman confirmed that Cruise and Shields had made up but said that Cruise's position on anti-depressants had not changed.<ref name="Apology" /> Shields was a guest at Cruise's and Holmes's wedding.
www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/cruise%20tripped%20up%20by%20magazine%20over%20scientology%20claims CRUISE TRIPPED UP BY MAGAZINE OVER SCIENTOLOGY CLAIMS] contactmusic.com</ref> In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine, Cruise said that "In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It's called Narconon... It's a statistically proven fact that there is only one successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. Period". While Narconon claims to have a success rate over 70%,<ref>Actor Tom Cruise Opens Up about his Beliefs in the Church of Scientology</ref><ref>NARCONON: A NEW LIFE FOR DRUG ADDICTS Scientology web site</ref> the accuracy of this figure has been widely disputed.<ref>Narconon's success rates Operation Clambake</ref> Scientology is well-known for its opposition to mainstream psychiatry.//www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/cruise%20tripped%20up%20by%20magazine%20over%20scientology%20claims CRUISE TRIPPED UP BY MAGAZINE OVER SCIENTOLOGY CLAIMS] contactmusic.com</ref> In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine, Cruise said that "In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It's called Narconon... It's a statistically proven fact that there is only one successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. Period". While Narconon claims to have a success rate over 70%,<ref>Actor Tom Cruise Opens Up about his Beliefs in the Church of Scientology</ref><ref>NARCONON: A NEW LIFE FOR DRUG ADDICTS Scientology web site</ref> the accuracy of this figure has been widely disputed.<ref>Narconon's success rates Operation Clambake</ref> Scientology is well-known for its opposition to mainstream psychiatry.
Jumping the couch
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.</ref> and by the nonprofit group Global Language Monitor as one of its top phrases for the year.<ref> Language Monitor The Top Ten Phrases of 2005
.</ref>//www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/movies/02crui.html?ex=1275364800&en=5bee0745ec59eea3&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss |date = 2005-06-02 | accessdate = 2006-08-26}}</ref> The phrase "jumping the couch," fashioned after "jumping the shark," is used to describe someone "going off the deep end" in public in a manner extreme enough to tarnish his or her reputation. It enjoyed a short-lived popularity, being chosen by the editors of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang as the "slang term of the year" in 2005<ref> 'Jump the couch' is top gun of slang in '05
.</ref> and by the nonprofit group Global Language Monitor as one of its top phrases for the year.<ref> Language Monitor The Top Ten Phrases of 2005
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South Park episode
In 2005, the television show South Park provoked controversy with "Trapped in the Closet", an episode that satirized Scientology and the long-standing rumors regarding Cruise being a closeted homosexual. In the episode, Cruise becomes depressed and locks himself in a closet, after Stan Marsh (one of the main child characters in the series) tells Cruise (who has been told that Stan is the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard) that he considers Jon Heder to be a better actor than Cruise. As Cruise hides in the closet, depressed at the thought that L. Ron Hubbard doesn't like his work as an actor, several characters make numerous "come out of the closet" jokes. The show also has Nicole Kidman (Cruise's ex-wife) attempt to get Tom to "come out of the closet", telling him that Katie Holmes won't think any less of him and that she doesn't think any worse of him either. Meanwhile John Travolta (also the subject of rumors regarding possible homosexuality) and R. Kelly (who had just recorded a series of music videos called "Trapped in the Closet", regarding a man hiding in the closet of a woman he had a one-night stand with) also join Cruise in the closet, to hide after Cruise tells the two how comfortable a hiding spot Stan's closet is.
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"Trapped in the Closet" was nominated for an Emmy, but did not win one, and was re-aired July 19, 2006 and afterwards. A reference to the episode was also made at the Emmy Awards. In the opening segment, host Conan O'Brien is trying to make his way to the awards show. However, he ends up in Stan's room (in animated form). O'Brien runs into the closet, leading Stan to ask him to come out of the closet. O'Brien immediately runs out saying somebody else is in there. A moment later, an irritated Tom Cruise steps out and shuts the door.
Litigation related to gay rumors
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Other litigation
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Publicist
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Miscellaneous
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See also
- Brat Pack
- Church of Scientology
- Citizens Commission on Human Rights
- Flint, Wales
- List of Louisvillians
- List of Welsh-Americans
- List of Scientologists
- Supercouple
- Tom Cruise: Unauthorized (1998)
- Tom Cruise: All the World's a Stage (2006)
- Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography (2008)
- TomKat
