Thomas Crise Mapother IV, known professionally as Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer. Some of his best known roles include Ethan Hunt in the Mission Impossible franchise and the title character in Jerry Maguire.
For Disney, he played Vincent Lauria in the 1986 Touchstone Pictures film The Color of Money and Brian Flanagan in the 1988 Touchstone Pictures film Cocktail. He was mentioned in the Lizzie McGuire episodes "Misadventures in Babysitting" and "In Miranda Lizzie Does Not Trust", The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, and the Hannah Montana episode "Wherever I Go".
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Tom Cruise at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con.
Tom Cruise visits The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon in July 2015.
Trivia
- Cruise was originally going to produce and star in the role of Tony Stark/Iron Man in Iron Man during its early years of development, but at the end, he abandoned the film's production after years of delays and Robert Downey Jr. was cast in the role instead years later when the film was finally made.[1]
- He was considered for the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.