made in recent years affected his public image and professional advancement . His longstanding company , Paramount Pictures decided to do without it , and to pursue their career Cruise has revived another veteran signing , United Artists , with which it hopes to produce its future projects. Vanity Fair published a list of Top 40 Hollywood celebrities with more income over 2010. Cruise was ranked 35th on the list , earned an estimated $ 14.5 million for his films.
Cruise was born in Syracuse, New York, son of Thomas Cruise Mapother Electronics Engineer III and his wife, Mary Lee, a teacher; brother and sisters Mary Lee, Marian and Cass. The family lived in many cities due to job instability of his father, but eventually settled in Ottawa (Canada). His studies posed a problem since going from one place to another and had dyslexia (difficulty reading and writing). After her parents' divorce, having Tom 12 years, Mary, his mother, left Canada and settled with their four children in Kentucky. As a child excelled in sports, so he was thinking about being a player wrestling, but this sport caused a knee injury so he thought of joining a Franciscan monastery, but in the end decided to be actor.
He married twice before his last marriage with Katie Holmes. The first time in 1987 to actress Mimi Rogers which was removed in 1990 , and then with the Australian Nicole Kidman, whom she met during the filming of Days of Thunder , and also divorced very media form at the end . Kidman 2001 with their marriage lasted nearly eleven years , had no biological children but adopted two : Isabella (born 1992) and Connor Antony (1995) . After Stanley Kubrick film , Eyes Wide Shut, irreconcilably separated . After two stable relationships , he had a romance with Spanish actress Penelope Cruz , with whom she starred in the film Vanilla Sky . This film is a Spanish version of a title called Open Your Eyes , directed by Alejandro Amenábar . He met Katie Holmes during the search for a co-star for his movie Mission Impossible III. His first public appearance was on April 29, 2005 , in Rome, at the David di Donatello Awards , the Italian equivalent of the Oscars . Within months they committed . Cruise declared to have fallen in love actress in the talkshow host Oprah Winfrey The Oprah Winfrey Show, by staging a scene excessive climbing a couch and proclaim their love for the transmission of television show .
Soon after, Cruise proposed to Holmes in the morning of July 17, 2005 , at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris ; she accepted. In the press conference , attended by Holmes 's mother , Cruise announced the news, declaring , "Today is a magnificent day for me. 'm Engaged to a magnificent woman . " . The couple announced Holmes was pregnant. The April 18, 2006 was born the first biological daughter of Cruise , which was called Suri. On 18 November of that year he married Katie Holmes , generating great excitement in Italy, venue for the ceremony. The ceremony was celebrated by the ritual of the Church of Scientology in the Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano , 35 kilometers from Rome. In June 2012 , Katie Holmes filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences Cruise and Suri custody . As noted by TMZ medium, the main reason that led to the actress to take the plunge was the inordinate obsession that showed her husband for Scientology .
