Tom Cruise's Net Worth is a Mission Impossible
Tom Cruise's net worth tops the list of the world's wealthiest celebrities. His career is blessed. He flew up to the top of the pile of the highest-paid actors and stayed there. Not only does he get a huge salary as his payday for the shooting of a film he also gets profit participation that can give him a huge amount of the profits of a blockbuster film, which adds tens of millions to Tom Cruise's net worth.
Unbelievable Good Luck
Cruise has, so far, led a charmed life. He is always in the right place at the right time and lands some of the juiciest roles. In 1981, he was paid $30,000 for a supporting role in his first film called Endless Love. He got his first multi-million-dollar payday in 1986 when he was paid $2 million for Top Gun.
His birth date is July 3, 1962. Could that be why he was chosen to star in the film Born on the Fourth of July? He was born in Syracuse, New York. The film is about a veteran of the Vietnam War. Because of the time difference, Vietnam is one day ahead of America so July 3rd in New York is July 4th in Vietnam. It a weird piece of trivia but more evidence of Cruise's good luck. In total, the box office for all of his films combined is over $6.6 billion.
Tom Cruise’s net worth is around $620 million. He owns luxury mansions on massive estates and a $3 million apartment in New York City. His real estate holdings are worth more than $50 million in total. His Telluride, Colorado estate is 300 acres. In May 2016, he sold his Beverly Hills estate for $40 million.
He has two private jets and a beautiful sports car collection that includes a custom Porsche 911 and a Bugatti Veyron worth $2.4 million.
Is Tom Cruise’s Net Worth a “Rags to Riches” Story?
Tom Cruise was never really poor. He was raised by a middle-class family. As a teen, he wanted to become a Catholic priest. However, before he could finish high school, the acting bug got a hold of him. He dropped out of school to try his luck at acting. It was the "right move." It would only take about a year to get his first role in a movie.
Cruise got his first acting break along with an amazing $30k payday for his first film Endless Love. He was only 19 years old. His great looks and boyish charm got him attention right away. You can see a clip of the young Tom Cruise in Endless Love and his sex appeal is quite apparent.
After Endless Love, Cruise got roles in The Outsiders and All the Right Moves. Then, there is the unforgettable lip-syncing scene in the film Risky Business. Cruise jumps around in the living room, wearing only a long -sleeve shirt, socks, and his underwear while mimicking the performance of a rock star. It is the kind of thing that many people might do when alone but would be too embarrassed to do in front of others. The audience feels some titillation because it has a voyeur-like quality, especially when the director zooms back from the home's front window.
This dance scene from Risky Business is very memorable and instantly made Tom Cruise into a celebrity sex symbol. Guys wanted to be like him and girls wanted to be with him. One might say that the Cruise story is a “tightie-whities” to riches story.
All about Cruise and Scientology
Is Cruise Being Blackmailed by the Church of Scientology?
Cruise joined the Church of Scientology in 1990 at the suggestion of his first wife Mimi Rogers. He is an avid supporter of the church to this day. The Church of Scientology was founded by science fiction writer, L. Ron Hubbard (now deceased), who wrote the best-selling self-help book called Dianetics.
There have been rumors, not proven, that Cruise is secretly gay and still "in the closet" about it. Another famous actor who is a Scientologist, John Travolta, has the same rumor about him.
Hypothetically, if this was, or is, true there is no reason for either of them to hide it because it does not carry any stigma to be gay as it did decades ago. Perhaps, there is more hidden about them. It would not be fair to speculate.
Cruise and Travolta both seem happy but I have no idea if they are gay. "Gay" in the 1920s used to mean carefree until it became slang for male homosexual orientation. Disclaimer: The Church of Scientology is so litigious I am not saying any definitive at all, just having fun.
The Scientology Process to Become Clear
One thing is certain, there is a record that someone might use against someone that is kept by the Church of Scientology on each of its members. As part of the Scientology practice, there is a process called "auditing" where the members confess their darkest secrets to an auditor while holding two metal cylinders connected to a simple lie detector machine. The goal of these auditing sessions is to get rid of the "charge" of the bad memories that they call "engrams" so that they have no further influence on the person.
The practitioners eventually become "clear" after they pay a small fortune for enough of these sessions. They become free from any psychological influences from past experiences in this life and even from previous lives because they believe in reincarnation.
The auditor documents everything said during an auditing session by writing it down. The audited person gets to read these notes after a session and sign them to attest to their accuracy. This is how they did this when I tried it and I refused to sign the paper and then quit. They hassled me to come back for months after that. I kept telling them that "Momma did not raise a fool" to make them go away.
By recounting the worst things from memory, the emotional stress of those incidents lowers over time. This does work and the person experiences relief from these traumatic memories. The same thing can be achieved by using a biofeedback machine and costs much less.
The church says these auditing notes are confidential and files them away. However, they are ripe for misuse and essentially are written confessions of things that are very private, potentially damaging to someone's reputation, and could even be crimes.
When Cruise Neglected Scientology
After divorcing Mimi Rogers, Cruise married Nicole Kidman. Kidman had no interest in Scientology and pulled Cruise away from it while they both were on location filming Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut for a year. They adopted two children together.
Business Insider reports that in the documentary called Going Clear, it says that because of his importance to the church there were active efforts by the church to break up the marriage of Kidman and Cruise. They did get divorced.
After divorcing Kidman, Cruise married Katie Holmes. They had a biological daughter of their own. Cruise became more active in the church again and he divorced - again. Whatever one thinks about Scientology, it does not appear to have any negative impact on Tom Cruise's net worth, which just keeps going up.
Filmography Of Tom Cruise
The Tom Cruise filmography is ripe with successes one after another. He was the star in six films in a row that made more than $100 million box office.
It is easy to see from his film career why he is one of the highest-earning actors of all time.
Here is Tom Cruise's filmography (most recent film first):
· 2000 — Mission: Impossible II
· 1999 — Magnolia
· 1999 — Eyes Wide Shut
· 1996 — Jerry Maguire
· 1996 — Mission: Impossible
· 1994 — Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
· 1993 — The Firm
· 1992 — A Few Good Men
· 1992 — Far and Away
· 1990 — Days of Thunder
· 1989 — Born on the Fourth of July
· 1988 — Rain Man
· 1988 — Cocktail
· 1986 — The Color of Money
· 1986 — Top Gun
· 1985 — Legend
· 1983 — All the Right Moves
· 1983 — Risky Business
· 1983 — Losin' It
· 1983 — The Outsiders
· 1981 — Taps
· 1981 — Endless Love
· 2022 - Top Gun: Maverick
· 2018 — Mission: Impossible — Fallout
· 2017 — American Made
· 2017 — The Mummy
· 2016 — Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
· 2015 — Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation
· 2014 — Edge of Tomorrow
· 2013 — Oblivion
· 2012 — Jack Reacher
· 2012 — Rock of Ages
· 2011 — Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol
· 2010 — Knight and Day
· 2008 — Valkyrie
· 2008 — Tropic Thunder
· 2007 — Lions for Lambs
· 2006 — Mission: Impossible III
· 2005 — War of the Worlds
· 2004 — Collateral
· 2003 — The Last Samurai
· 2002 — Austin Powers in Goldmember (hilarious bit part)
· 2002 — Minority Report
· 2001 — Vanilla Sky
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The Mandela Effect
Before watching a clip of the Risky Business dance scene (link below) try to remember if the shirt Cruise wore in the scene was:
a) white,
or
b) pink-striped..
The Mandela Effect is the name given to a shared memory that so many people have, which is not correct. People swear that they remember things that are different somehow than they are now.
There are two explanations for this effect. The first is that the masses misremember things fairly easily and subsequent cultural trends support the wrong memories. The other explanation is that we live in a universe with multiple parallel universes that are very similar. According to that theory, the Mandela Effect is evidence of a slight spacetime quantum shift that changes history but only slightly.
What color of a shirt did you remember Cruise wearing in the Risky Business dance scene?
Most answer the shirt was white. The correct answer is pink-striped.
Watch the scene and stop it on a frame when it is zoomed in on his hands touching the stereo system. His shirt is definitely pink-striped, which is an unusual color for a guy to wear in those days. Perhaps, the whiteness of his underwear is the cause of the persistent false memory held by so many. Or maybe Cruise was trying to tell us something? Tom Cruise's real name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV. "Cruising" was driving down the main street in the 1950s but later it became slang for gay men out in the streets looking for a hookup. Just saying, is this a clue?
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Conclusion
Just reading Tom Cruise's filmography is breathtaking. He has been in so many great films, it is mind-boggling. Catchphrases from some of these films are still in common use such as "Show me the money!" from Jerry Maguire and "You can't handle the truth!" that Cruise forced out of the character played by Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. The Mission Impossible franchise is one of the longest-running series of hugely-profitable blockbuster films.
No matter what, it seems like the audience will never get tired of Tom Cruise, especially in Mission Impossible films, and his net worth will continue to go up. Just remember, it all came about because he wore the right kind of clean, white underwear, and he is a good actor too.