TOM CRUISE ROLES

15 FAN FAVOURITE

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Tom Cruise, now 60, is still the biggest movie star in the world. Ahead, 15 of his most popular roles in chronological order

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Joel – 'Risky Business'

In his breakout film, Tom played a high-schooler embarking on some very risqué business

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Maverick – 'Top Gun'

Tom took our breath away as Navy pilot Lt Pete ‘Maverick' Mitchell, first in the original 1986 film and then in the 2022 sequel

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Brian – 'Cocktail'

Tom mixed cocktails and dreams as a business student/bartender in a film that was reviled by critics but loved by fans

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Charlie – 'Rain Man'

Charlie Babbitt finds his soul after discovering his autistic older brother of whose existence he was previously unaware

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Ron Kovic – 'Born On The Fourth Of July'

In his first Oscar-nominated role, Tom played a paralyzed Vietnam veteran who becomes an anti-war activist

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Lt Daniel Kaffee – 'A Few Good Men'

As a Navy lawyer in a court martial case, Tom famously demanded the truth of Jack Nicholson and was told he couldn't handle it

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Mitch McDeere – 'The Firm'

Tom plays a brash young Harvard law graduate who discovers tax fraud and money laundering

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Lestat – 'Interview With The Vampire'

Lestat de Lioncourt is the vampire to die for, literally

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Ethan Hunt – 'Mission: Impossible'

As it turns out, no mission is actually impossible for Agent Hunt and he's not done yet

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'Jerry Maguire'

Tom had us at hello as the titular sports agent who is left with a football star as his sole remaining client

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John Anderton – 'Minority Report'

‘Precrime' police chief prevents crimes of the future only to go on the run as a prospective murderer himself

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Nathan Algren – 'The Last Samurai'

In 1876, a former US soldier begins training the Japanese Imperial Army but joins the samurai

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Vincent – 'Collateral'

A lethal Tom, complete with a new look hair colour, plays a contract killer who takes a taxi around town on his killing spree

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Les Grossman – 'Tropic Thunder'

If you didn't know that it was Tom under the fat suit of the repulsive studio boss, then here's where you thank us

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Roy – 'Knight And Day'

Tom Cruise made being a CIA agent look both cool and fun while on the run with Cameron Diaz

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