Biography
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer. Regarded as a Hollywood icon, he has received various accolades, including an Honorary Palme d'Or, three Golden Globe Awards, and nominations for four Academy Awards. His films have grossed over $12 billion worldwide, placing him among the highest-grossing actors ever. He is one of Hollywood's most bankable stars and consistently one of the world's highest-paid actors. Cruise began acting in the early 1980s and mad...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Judy
2026
The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everythi...

Judy
2026
Producer
The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everythi...

Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special
2025
as Self
10 News First takes you behind the scenes on the making of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Angela Bishop chats with Tom Cruise for all the ...

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
as Ethan Hunt
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe —...

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
Producer
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe —...

Tom Cruise: Hollywood’s Last Legend
2025
Tom Cruise is one of the last remaining superstars of world cinema. A portrait of one of the most powerful, but also most secretive, men in Hollywood.

Paris 2024 Olympic Closing Ceremony
2024
as Self
Like an indelible memory, this Olympic closing ceremony will be marked by audacity, fraternity and emotion. In the heart of the Stade de France, athle...

BRATS
2024
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
In the 1980s, Andrew McCarthy was part of a young generation of actors who were set to take over Hollywood after a string of successful teen movies. H...

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 10th Anniversary Special
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Fallon celebrates 10 years as host of The Tonight Show in a two-hour primetime special, featuring highlights from monologues, sketches, guest in...

The Final: Attack on Wembley
2024
as Self (archive footage)
As England reach the final of the Euros at last, 6,000 ticketless football fans storm Wembley stadium, leaving destruction in their wake.

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Over the years, Nicole Kidman, Oscar and two-time Emmy Award winner, became both a pop culture icon & a complex dramatic actress. Her career is a uniq...

Tom Cruise: The Last Movie Star
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Tom Cruise - actor, producer, daredevil. The face of Hollywood in the 1980s, after a mid-career meltdown, his future looked in doubt. But through a si...

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023
as Ethan Hunt
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it...

Tom Cruise: Impossible Missions
2023
as Self
The stories behind the most memorable stunts from the film franchise, from the genre-defining Langley Heist to the jaw-dropping Plane Hang

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023
Producer
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it...

Scientology: an Archival Shitdoc
2023
as Self (archival footage)
A chaotic, crude crash course in Scientology, Frankensteined together and shitposting its way to the truth.

James Corden's Top Gun Training with Tom Cruise
2022
as Self
When "Top Gun: Maverick" star Tom Cruise calls you up to hang out for the day, you say yes. And for James Corden, that meant having Tom pilot you in t...

Top Gun: Maverick
2022
as Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” ...

Top Gun: Maverick
2022
Producer
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” ...

Tom Cruise: Lights, Camera, Action
2022
as Self
Having just turned 60, Tom Cruise is still one of the leading names in Hollywood. A prolific actor with a career spanning over 40 years, he is continu...
The Adventures of Meatboy and Boot Convict
2021
as Bob Dylan
Meatboy and Boot Convict go on adventures!

Val
2021
as Self (archive footage)
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film a...

Au Revoir, Chris Hemsworth
2020
as Team Member
In Venice, a city full of beauty, love, music, and brutal trash talk, Pom Klementieff and her team say "Au Revoir, Chris Hemsworth" with a French song...

Kubrick by Kubrick
2020
as Self (archive footage)
A rare and transcendent journey into the life and films of the legendary Stanley Kubrick like we've never seen before, featuring a treasure trove of u...

Tom Cruise: An Eternal Youth
2020
as Self (archive footage)
After 40 years, Tom Cruise continues to push the envelope in film. Exposing one's heart to the world through their work is not only risky business, as...

Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2018
as Ethan Hunt
When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the C...

Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2018
Producer
When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the C...

Spielberg
2017
as Self - Segment "War of the Worlds"
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.

American Made
2017
as Barry Seal
The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.

The Mummy
2017
as Nick Morton
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our c...

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016
as Jack Reacher
Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when...

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016
Producer
Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when...

Paparazzi: Full Throttle LA
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Paparazzi: Full Throttle L.A. is a 1 hour documentary film that follows the journey of LA's most infamous paparazzo "Dano" as he reports Hollywood's m...

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2015
as Ethan Hunt
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed...

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2015
Producer
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed...

Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
2015
as Self (archive footage)
The world knows Paul Newman as an Academy Award winning actor with a fifty-plus year career as one of the most prolific and revered actors in American...

Edge of Tomorrow
2014
as Cage
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within min...

Oblivion
2013
as Jack
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war wit...

Jack Reacher
2012
as Jack Reacher
One morning in an ordinary town, five people are shot dead in a seemingly random attack. All evidence points to a single suspect: an ex-military snipe...

Jack Reacher
2012
Producer
One morning in an ordinary town, five people are shot dead in a seemingly random attack. All evidence points to a single suspect: an ex-military snipe...

Close Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and ...

Rock of Ages
2012
as Stacee Jaxx
A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.
Ghost Protocol: Mission Accepted
2012
as Self
A documentary that explores the making of 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol'. It focuses on what the film's team went through while shooting in Pr...
Ghost Protocol: Impossible Missions
2012
as Self
A documentary that explores the making of 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol'. It focuses on Brad Bird's transition from directing animation to dir...

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
2011
as Ethan Hunt
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch c...

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
2011
Producer
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch c...

Knight and Day
2010
as Roy Miller
A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting al...

Valkyrie
2008
as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to cre...

Tropic Thunder
2008
as Les Grossman
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the fru...

Lions for Lambs
2007
as Senator Jasper Irving
Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a ...

Mission: Impossible III
2006
as Ethan Hunt
Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, ...

Mission: Impossible III
2006
Producer
Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, ...

Ask the Dust
2006
Producer
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generati...

Elizabethtown
2005
Producer
Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend...

Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
2005
as Self (archive footage)
Join director Francis Coppola and his remarkable cast as they reminisce about their experiences shooting "The Outsiders" in 1982 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

War of the Worlds
2005
as Ray Ferrier
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daugh...

City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
2004
as Self
This documentary chronicles the making of the film Collateral (2004). We get to see Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx training for their roles, as well as Jad...
Biography: Val Kilmer
2004
as Self (archive footage)
A&E's Biography of Val Kilmer.

Suspect Zero
2004
Producer
A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.

Collateral
2004
as Vincent
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.

Danger Zone: The Making of Top Gun
2004
as Self
A comprehensive 6-part documentary on the making of "Top Gun" featuring all-new interviews with the cast and crew. Available on Disc 2 of the "Top Gun...

The Last Samurai
2003
as Nathan Algren
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and th...

The Last Samurai
2003
Producer
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and th...

Shattered Glass
2003
Executive Producer
The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff wr...

101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
2003
From Disturbing Discoveries to Astonishing Arressts, and Tragic Endings. In this tv-special, E! countdowns the greatest moments in the entertainment i...

Austin Powers in Goldmember
2002
as Tom Cruise / Famous Austin ('Austinpussy')
The world's most shagadelic spy continues his fight against Dr. Evil. This time, the diabolical doctor and his clone, Mini-Me, team up with a new foe—...

Minority Report
2002
as Chief John Anderton
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the ...

The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies
2002
as Self
Hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, this in-depth documentary offers viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the history of the martial arts film -- from the gen...

Hitting It Hard
2002
as Self
The press tour to promote the film Vanilla Sky (2001) does quite a number on its stars. We see how tired an actor can get after answering the same que...

Hitting It Hard
2002
Producer
The press tour to promote the film Vanilla Sky (2001) does quite a number on its stars. We see how tired an actor can get after answering the same que...

Space Station 3D
2002
as Narrator (voice)
Some 220 miles above Earth lies the International Space Station, a one-of-a-kind outer space laboratory that 16 nations came together to build. Get a ...

Narc
2002
Executive Producer
When the trail goes cold on a murder investigation of a policeman, an undercover narcotics officer is lured back to the force to help solve the case.

Vanilla Sky
2001
as David Aames
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribl...

Vanilla Sky
2001
Producer
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribl...

America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001
as Self
A benefit concert and telethon organized by George Clooney and broadcast uninterrupted and commercial-free by the four major television networks just ...

The Others
2001
Executive Producer
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the...

Mission: Improbable
2001
as Tom Cruise
A behind the scenes look at the stunt work of "Mission: Impossible 2", told through one stunt man who looks like a certain superstar, who's got his lo...

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
as Self - Actor & Film Producer / Narrator
With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films....

Mission: Impossible II
2000
as Ethan Hunt
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former...

Mission: Impossible II
2000
Producer
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former...

Magnolia
1999
as Frank T.J. Mackey
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy geniu...

Eyes Wide Shut
1999
as Dr. William Harford
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He ...

Remembering Stanley Kubrick
1999
Thanks
Interviews with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Steven Spielberg about Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut.

Junket Whore
1998
as Self
A documentary film that explores the relationship between publicists and journalists in Hollywood.

Without Limits
1998
Producer
The life of renowned runner Steve Prefontaine and his relationship with legendary coach Bill Bowerman.

Jerry Maguire
1996
as Jerry Maguire
Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plu...

Mission: Impossible
1996
as Ethan Hunt
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated...

Mission: Impossible
1996
Producer
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated...

Interview with the Vampire
1994
as Lestat
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

The Firm
1993
as Mitch McDeere
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't re...

A Few Good Men
1992
as Lt. Daniel Kaffee
When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritua...

Time Out: The Truth About HIV, AIDS and You
1992
as Self
Join stars Paula Abdul, Luke Perry, Sinbad, Pauly Shore, Jaleel White and many, many more as they take an entertaining, music-filled and honest look a...

Far and Away
1992
as Joseph Donnelly
A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they struggle to survive against betrayal and harsh wi...

Days of Thunder
1990
as Cole Trickle
Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hots...

Days of Thunder
1990
Story
Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hots...

Born on the Fourth of July
1989
as Ron Kovic
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought fo...

Rain Man
1988
as Charlie Babbitt
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant olde...

Cocktail
1988
as Brian Flanagan
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine ar...

Young Guns
1988
as Henchman Shot off of Roof (uncredited)
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes t...

The Color of Money
1986
as Vincent Lauria
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and propo...

Top Gun
1986
as Maverick
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pi...

Legend
1985
as Jack
Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story follows a mystical forest dweller, chosen ...

All the Right Moves
1983
as Stefen Djordjevic
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football schol...

Risky Business
1983
as Joel Goodson
Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home ...

Losin' It
1983
as Woody
In 1965, four Los Angeles school friends -- Woody, Dave, Spider and Wendell -- go on a series of misadventures when they head to Tijuana, Mexico, for ...

The Outsiders
1983
as Steve Randle
When two poor Greasers, Johnny and Ponyboy, are assaulted by a vicious gang, the Socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount ...

Taps
1981
as Cadet Captain David Shawn
Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.

Endless Love
1981
as Billy
As their romance unfolds, Jade and David's growing love for one another becomes the scorn of Jade's father. However, when Jade's grades begin to drop,...

Untitled Top Gun 3
N/A
as Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell
The third entry in the franchise. Plot TBA.
Broadsword
N/A
A Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) mission in World War II goes badly and leaves a Royal Marine Captain stranded in France as the sole survivor. ...

Deeper
N/A
A deep-sea dive turns into an unexpected psychological exploration for a former astronaut who signed up for the mission.

Untitled Top Gun 3
N/A
Producer
The third entry in the franchise. Plot TBA.
Broadsword
N/A
Producer
A Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) mission in World War II goes badly and leaves a Royal Marine Captain stranded in France as the sole survivor. ...

Deeper
N/A
Producer
A deep-sea dive turns into an unexpected psychological exploration for a former astronaut who signed up for the mission.