Tom Cruise Turns 61: Inside His $10 Billion Career and Being 'Hollywood's Last Real Movie Star'
etonline.comTom Cruise turns 61 on Monday, marking more than four decades since he broke on to the Hollywood scene and started his ascension to the mega-famous movie star we know today.Born on July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, New York, Cruise got his start in bit movie parts before a breakout year in 1983, in which he starred in and his breakthrough hit, But it was in the 1990s when Cruise began to hit his stride as box office magic.
From 1992-96, he made history when he starred in five consecutive movies that grossed $100 million or more in the United States: and .His starring role as Ethan Hunt in has also been a blockbuster boon.
So far, the franchise's six films have grossed over $3 billion worldwide, with the seventh — -- coming to theaters July 12.«It's unbelievable,» Cruise told ET while premiering in Rome last month. «I do pinch myself every day… It's something that I've never taken for granted… I just feel very privileged.»And then, of course, there's Theiconic original flyboy flick was the highest-grossing domestic film in 1986, and when Cruise returned to the role of Capt.
Pete «Maverick» Mitchell last year for it was a triumph in more ways than one. The film became Cruise's first to earn over a billion dollars worldwide and was a major success for movie theaters just starting to dig their way out of COVID shutdown difficulties.«I make movies for audiences,» the actor told ET.
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