Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who has received an Honorary Palme d'Or, three Golden Globe Awards, and four Academy Award nominations. His films have grossed over $11.5 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing box-office stars of all time.

Cruise is known for -- duh, as if you didn't know -- Risky Business (1983), Top Gun (1986), The Color of Money (1986), Rain Man (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, A Few Good Men (1992), The Firm (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Jerry Maguire (1996) for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and received his second Academy Award nomination.

Cruise's performance in Magnolia (1999) earned him another Golden Globe Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Cruise has played Ethan Hunt in all six of the Mission: Impossible films from 1996 to 2018. His other notable roles in the genre include Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Collateral (2004), War of the Worlds (2005), Knight and Day (2010), Jack Reacher (2012), Oblivion (2013), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022), with Maverick being his highest-grossing film.