

Tom Cruise has also shown lots of interest in producing, with his biggest producer credits being the Mission Impossible franchise. Tom Cruise's biggest franchise, Mission Impossible, has also earned a total of 3 billion dollars worldwide. By the 1990s he was one of the highest-paid actors in the world earning an average 15 million dollars a picture in such blockbuster hits as Інтерв'ю з вампіром: Хроніка життя вампіра (1994), Місія неможлива (1996) and Джері Магуайер (1996), for which he received an Academy Award Nomination for best actor. He made his film debut with a small part in Endless Love (1981) and from the outset exhibited an undeniable box office appeal to both male and female audiences. The next 15 years of his life are the stuff of legends. While in high school, Tom wanted to become a priest but pretty soon he developed an interest in acting and abandoned his plans of becoming a priest, dropped out of school, and at age 18 headed for New York and a possible acting career. He finally settled in Glen Ridge, New Jersey with his mother and her new husband.

Young Tom spent his boyhood always on the move, and by the time he was 14 he had attended 15 different schools in the U.S. His parents were both from Louisville, Kentucky, and he has German, Irish, and English ancestry. Tom is the only son (among four children) of nomadic parents, Mary Lee (Pfeiffer), a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer.

Nonetheless, this sensitive, deeply religious youngster who was born in 1962 in Syracuse, New York, was destined to become one of the highest paid and most sought after actors in screen history.
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In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood.
