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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