Tom Cruise filmography

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A photograph of Cruise attending the London film premiere of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation in 2015
Cruise attending the Japan premiere of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back in 2016

Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor role in the 1981 romantic drama Endless Love.[1][2] Two years later he made his breakthrough by starring in the romantic comedy Risky Business (1983),[3][4] which garnered his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.[5] In 1986, Cruise played a naval aviator in the Tony Scott-directed action drama Top Gun which was the highest-grossing film of the year,[6][7] and also appeared with Paul Newman in the Martin Scorsese-directed drama The Color of Money. Two years later, he starred with Dustin Hoffman in the Academy Award for Best Picture-winning drama Rain Man (1988), and also appeared in the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture-winning romantic drama Cocktail (1988). In doing so Cruise became the first and only person to star in a Best Picture Oscar winner and a Worst Picture Razzie winner in the same year.[8] His next role was as anti-war activist Ron Kovic in the film adaptation of Kovic's memoir of the same name, Born on the Fourth of July (1989), for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.[5]

In 1992, he starred opposite Jack Nicholson in the legal drama A Few Good Men,[9] an adaptation of the Broadway play of the same name also written by Aaron Sorkin.[10] Cruise next appeared in The Firm (1993), a film adaptation of the John Grisham legal thriller of the same name,[11] and in the same year also made his directorial debut by directing an episode of the anthology television series Fallen Angels.[12][13] Cruise starred as spy Ethan Hunt in the action film Mission: Impossible (1996), the first project of his production company Cruise/Wagner Productions,[14] which he had co-founded with Paula Wagner in 1993.[15][16] As of 2023, Cruise has appeared in six more films in the Mission: Impossible franchise: Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (2023).

He played the title role in the Cameron Crowe-directed comedy-drama Jerry Maguire (1996), which garnered Cruise the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.[5] In 1999, Cruise starred in the Stanley Kubrick-directed erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut opposite his then wife Nicole Kidman,[17] and also appeared in the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed drama Magnolia. For the latter he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.[5][18] Cruise reteamed with Crowe on the science fiction thriller Vanilla Sky (2001), which earned him a Saturn Award for Best Actor.[19] The following year he starred in the Steven Spielberg-directed Minority Report (2002). In 2005, he collaborated again with Spielberg on War of the Worlds, and received the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film from BAFTA Los Angeles.[20] Three years later he appeared in the satirical action comedy Tropic Thunder and played German army officer Claus von Stauffenberg in the historical thriller Valkyrie (both in 2008). In 2010, Cruise reunited with his Vanilla Sky co-star Cameron Diaz in the action comedy Knight and Day, followed by the action thriller Jack Reacher (2012), in which he starred in the title role and in its sequel Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016). He starred in Oblivion (2013), and Edge of Tomorrow (2014), both of which saw his return to the science fiction genre.[21][22] He then played drug smuggler Barry Seal in the action comedy American Made (2017) and then in 2022, starred in and produced the action film sequel Top Gun: Maverick, which grossed over $1.4 billion at the box-office and became his highest-grossing film.[23][24]

Film[edit]

Year Title Role Notes Ref(s)
1981 Endless Love Billy [1]
Taps Capt. David Shawn [25]
1983 The Outsiders Steve Randle [26]
Losin' It Woody [27]
Risky Business Joel [28]
All the Right Moves Stefen Djordjevic [29]
1985 Legend Jack [30]
1986 Top Gun Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell [6]
The Color of Money Vincent Lauria [31]
1988 Cocktail Brian Flanagan [32]
Rain Man Charlie Babbitt [33]
1989 Born on the Fourth of July Ron Kovic [34]
1990 Days of Thunder Cole Trickle Also story co-writer [35][36]
1992 Far and Away Joseph Donelly [37]
A Few Good Men Lt. Daniel Kaffee [9]
1993 The Firm Mitch McDeere [11]
1994 Interview with the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt [38]
1996 Mission: Impossible Ethan Hunt Also producer [39]
Jerry Maguire Jerry Maguire [40]
1998 Without Limits Producer only [41]
1999 Eyes Wide Shut Dr. William Harford [42]
Magnolia Frank T.J. Mackey [43]
2000 Mission: Impossible 2 Ethan Hunt Also producer [44][45]
2001 Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures Narrator Documentary [46]
The Others Executive producer only [47]
Vanilla Sky David Aames Also producer [48]
2002 Space Station 3D Narrator Documentary [49]
Minority Report Chief John Anderton [50]
Austin Powers in Goldmember Himself as Austin Powers Cameo [51]
Narc Executive producer only [52]
2003 Shattered Glass Executive producer only [53]
The Last Samurai Nathan Algren Also producer [54][55]
2004 Collateral Vincent [56]
2005 War of the Worlds Ray Ferrier [57]
Elizabethtown Producer only [58]
2006 Ask the Dust Producer only [59]
Mission: Impossible III Ethan Hunt Also producer [60]
2007 Lions for Lambs Senator Jasper Irving [61]
2008 Tropic Thunder Les Grossman [62]
Valkyrie Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg [63]
2010 Knight and Day Roy Miller / Matthew Knight [64]
2011 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Ethan Hunt Also producer [65]
2012 Rock of Ages Stacee Jaxx [66][67]
Jack Reacher Jack Reacher Also producer [68]
2013 Oblivion Jack [69]
2014 Edge of Tomorrow Major William "Bill" Cage [70]
2015 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Ethan Hunt Also producer [71]
2016 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Jack Reacher Also producer [72]
2017 The Mummy Sgt. Nick Morton [73]
American Made Barry Seal [74]
2018 Mission: Impossible – Fallout Ethan Hunt Also producer [75][76]
2022 Top Gun: Maverick Capt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell [77]
2023 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Ethan Hunt [78]
2025 Untitled eighth Mission: Impossible film Filming [79][80]
Key
Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television[edit]

Year Title Role Notes Ref(s)
1993 Fallen Angels Director
Episode: "The Frightening Frammis"
[12]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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