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    Tom Cruise (1962- ) is an American actor who became famous in the 1980s after starring in Risky Business (1983). He went on to star in several major films in the 1980s focused on adolescent characters. These included Legend (1985), The Color of Money (1986), and Top Gun (1986). Cruise received praise for his roles in Rain Man (1988) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). He starred in many successful films in the late 1980s and early 1990s such as Cocktail (1988), Days of Thunder (1990), Far and Away (1992), A Few Good Men (1992), and The Firm (1993). While his work received mixed reviews, Cruise's popularity

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    Tom Cruise (1962- ) is an American actor who became famous in the 1980s after starring in Risky Business (1983). He went on to star in several major films in the 1980s focused on adolescent characters. These included Legend (1985), The Color of Money (1986), and Top Gun (1986). Cruise received praise for his roles in Rain Man (1988) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). He starred in many successful films in the late 1980s and early 1990s such as Cocktail (1988), Days of Thunder (1990), Far and Away (1992), A Few Good Men (1992), and The Firm (1993). While his work received mixed reviews, Cruise's popularity

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    Tom Cruise (1962- ) is an American actor who became famous in the 1980s after starring in Risky Business (1983). He went on to star in several major films in the 1980s focused on adolescent characters. These included Legend (1985), The Color of Money (1986), and Top Gun (1986). Cruise received praise for his roles in Rain Man (1988) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). He starred in many successful films in the late 1980s and early 1990s such as Cocktail (1988), Days of Thunder (1990), Far and Away (1992), A Few Good Men (1992), and The Firm (1993). While his work received mixed reviews, Cruise's popularity

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    Cruise, Tom (1962- ), American motion-picture actor, who became a

    celebrity in the 1980s after his performance in Risky Business


    (1983), a satire of suburban adolescence. Born Thomas Cruise
    Mapother IV in Syracuse, New York, he appeared in a succession of
    motion pictures in the early 1980s that focused on adolescent
    characters, then moved on to roles in such major productions as
    Legend (1985); The Color of Money (1986), directed by Martin
    Scorsese; and Top Gun (1986), a popular motion picture about
    United States Navy fighter pilots.
    Cruise received praise for his performances in Rain Man (1988), in
    which he played the brother of an autistic man (see Autism), and
    Born on the Fourth of July (1989), in which he portrayed a paraplegic
    veteran of the Vietnam War (1959-1975) who becomes an antiwar
    activist. His other films include Cocktail (1988), about a bartender;
    Days of Thunder (1990), which he cowrote, about a race car driver;
    Far and Away (1992), about Irish immigrants to the United States in
    the late 19th century; A Few Good Men (1992), which concerns the
    murder trial of two marines; and The Firm (1993), about corruption
    in a prestigious law firm. Although his works during this period
    earned a mixed reception from critics, Cruises popularity with
    motion-picture audiences grew dramatically.
    In 1993 Cruise made his directing debut with The Fabulous Frammis, an episode of the
    cable-television miniseries Fallen Angels. In 1994 Cruise appeared in Interview with the
    Vampire, and in 1996 he starred in Mission: Impossible, which he also produced. The following
    year he starred in Jerry Maguire, which concerns the conflicts a sports agent feels between his
    personal and professional life. Cruise has received Academy Award nominations for best actor

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