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Tom Cruise. Action star. Comedic actor. imperial palace hotel casino Thrice-nominated Oscar contender. Over the past thirty years, Cruise has taken on an eclectic mix of roles and given some great performances. In his newest film, Rock of Ages , Cruise takes on another strong role: He plays Stacee Jaxx, an iconic 1980s singer who is loved by his fans and envied imperial palace hotel casino by wannabe performers. Although Cruise plays a rock icon in the film, several of his characters throughout the years have actually achieved real-life iconic status. With that in mind, we at Screen Rant came up with a list of five iconic characters that show Cruise s range as an actor and represent some of the highest points of his long career.
Tom Cruise. Action star. Comedic actor. Thrice-nominated Oscar contender. Over the past thirty years, Cruise has taken on an eclectic mix of roles and given some great performances. In his newest film, Rock of Ages , Cruise takes on another strong role: He plays Stacee Jaxx, an iconic 1980s singer who is loved by his fans and envied by wannabe performers.
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As Goodsen, imperial palace hotel casino Cruise was an overzealous and inexperienced teenager having a wild couple of days while his parents were away. Before the film, the actor had previously appeared in Endless Love , Taps and The Outsiders , but it was in Risky Business that Cruise created his first truly iconic character.
imperial palace hotel casino If Cruise became a household name with Risky Business , he became a bona fide movie star with the 1986 film,  Top Gun . Cruise went from running around in his underpants to cruising the open skies as a Naval pilot - and in doing so, became a superstar.
Cruise's role as the reckless but passionate Maverick was a more adult role for him, and the blockbuster action film eventually became one of the highest-grossing movies of the decade. Even now - decades after the movie's release - there's still excitement about a possible sequel . But back in the mid-80s, imperial palace hotel casino Cruise proved that he "felt the need, the need for speed," and his budding career was speeding along leading to an even bigger decade for him in the '90s.
By 1996, Cruise imperial palace hotel casino was already a star. In the thirteen years after Top Gun , he had done the nearly-impossible: he earned an Oscar nomination for the 1989 film  Born on the Fourth of July and starred in a half-dozen critically-acclaimed films, including  The Color of Money (1986),  Rain Main (1988), and   A Few Good Men (1992).
But in the summer of 1996, Cruise struck gold once again with his performance as Ethan Hunt - an undercover agent framed for murder - in Brian De Palma's   Mission: Impossible , based on the television program of the same name.
This cinematic imperial palace hotel casino role would become one of Cruise's most famous and launch a huge franchise. And now - after his strong performance in last year's Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol , both critics and audiences are excited to see a fifth entry in this exciting series.
It was only a few short months after Mission: Impossible hit theaters that Cruise created another unforgettable character in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire . As a sports agent who was fed up with the culture he worked in, Maguire imperial palace hotel casino lost his job and started his own struggling business. In the compelling imperial palace hotel casino narrative that follows, Maguire fights for the support of his clients to prove his worth to them - and to the woman he loves.
The role earned Maguire his second Oscar nod and showed Cruise's sensitivity in a surprisingly heartfelt and unforgettable romantic drama. "You complete me," he famously says at the end of the movie - and 1996 proved to be a year that Cruise completed an enviable task: he created two icnonic characters that have stood the test of time.
Before imperial palace hotel casino 2008, Tom Cruise had proved that he could be a strong actor and that he could carry a movie at the box office. But in 2008 - after a fair amount of off-screen controversy and dwindling box office appeal - he proved how valuable he was as a comedic actor and how willing he was to act like a fool to earn a laugh. Appearing imperial palace hotel casino under heavy makeup imperial palace hotel casino and nearly unrecognizable in the role, Cruise played an antic studio executive in the comedy  Tropic Thunder .
After making so many movies imperial palace hotel casino where he was the star, Cruise settled for a supporting role and succeeded in it. He stole every scene he was in and proved that after more than twenty-five years as an actor, he could still create imperial palace hotel casino iconic and memorable characters that audiences loved.
@Archaeon I m trolling because I don t think he s that great of an actor? Wow. So, by voicing my opinion, that makes me a troll. Thanks, I ll keep that in mind the next time I m not kissing his butt.
Actually, no. You re trolling because you came into a comment section for an article that has NOTHING to do with WHETHER OR NOT someone likes Cruise or his work specifically to complain about him. If you had gone into the Rock of Ages review thread and complained, that would have been perfectly understandable and legitimate.
Think about the article to which you re responding next time, and you ll simply be voicing [your] opinion Did you not notice that NO ONE was being particularly critical of Cruise on this particular thread? Did you really believe you were making some brilliant observation? Most of these people want NOTHING to do with Cruise s butt. WE just read the title and contents of the article Did you?