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Do people in Britain really need to know about Tom Cruise?
By Shelley Emling | Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 09:26 AM
The London Times celebrated Tom Cruise’s 25 years of movie-making this week with a list of “25 things you may not know” about the Hollywood actor.
Here are a few of the paper’s Tomfacts:
Each of Cruise’s three wives (Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes) has been 11 years younger than the last.
TomKat were married by a Scientology minister at Odescalchi Castle in Italy in front of friends including Will Smith, Jennifer Lopez, and David and Victoria Beckham. The Scientology leader David Miscavige was the best man.
With his Oscar-nominated turn as a sports agent in Jerry Maguire (1996), Cruise became the first actor to star in five consecutive films that grossed $100 million in the United States.
Cruise briefly attended a Franciscan seminary intending to become a Catholic priest, but left after a year.
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born on July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, New York, but the family moved around and he attended 15 different schools in 12 years. “I had no close friend,” he told The Sunday Times in 2006. “I was always the new kid with the wrong shoes, the wrong accent.”

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