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Tom Cruise

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Tom Cruise is an American film actor and producer whose career began in the early 1980s and whose breakthrough came with leading roles in Risky Business and Top Gun. He went on to appear in dramas such as The Color of Money, Rain Man and Born on the Fourth of July, the last of which won him a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. From the 1990s he became one of the most commercially successful leads in Hollywood, and he later built a reputation in science fiction and action cinema, often performing his own stunts, most visibly as agent Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible series. His honours include an Academy Honorary Award, three Golden Globe Awards and the British Film Institute Fellowship, and he holds a Guinness World Record for consecutive films grossing over one hundred million dollars. In the atlas he is recorded as a film actor and producer, born in 1962.

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1962 1
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Producer 1
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Academy Honorary Award 1
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Golden Globe Award 1
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an American actor and film producer
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1. Tom Cruise (Wikipedia)
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    born July 3, 1962
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    an Academy Honorary Award, and three Golden Globe Awards
  • Lead sentence
    an American actor and film producer
  • Lead sentence, role
    Thomas Cruise Mapother IV ( ; born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and film producer.
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