Tom Cruise made a strong impression in his first leading role,
in the teen comedy Risky Business (1983), and had his
first taste of box office success as the star of Top Gun
(1986). Cruise was propelled onto the A-list of movie stars,
thanks to a string of successful movies, including Rain Man
(1988, with Dustin Hoffman), The Color of Money (1986,
with Paul Newman), A Few Good Men (1992, with Jack
Nicholson) and Jerry Maguire (1996, with Renee
Zellweger). He met his wife, actress Nicole Kidman, while
filming one of his few duds, Days of Thunder (1990), and
together they appeared in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut
(1999). Cruise is one of Hollywood's busiest actors, taking on
blockbuster franchises such as Mission: Impossible
(1996-2004) as well as more diverse dramas such as Magnolia
(1999), Vanilla Sky (2001) and the Steven Spielberg
movies Minority Report (2002, co-starring Samantha
Morton) and War of the Worlds (2005). In June of 2005,
Cruise announced that he was engaged to be married to actress
Katie Holmes.