Tom Cruise filmography

Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor role in the 1981 romantic drama Endless Love. His breakthrough role was in the coming-of-age comedy Risky Business (1983), which garnered Cruise his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In 1986, Cruise played a Naval Aviator in the Tony Scott-directed action drama Top Gun (the highest-grossing film that year), and also appeared with Paul Newman in the Martin Scorsese-directed drama The Color of Money. Two years later, he starred with Dustin Hoffman in the Academy Award for Best Picture-winning drama Rain Man (1988), and also appeared in the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture-winning romantic drama Cocktail (1988). In doing so Cruise became the first and only person as of 2014 to star in a Best Picture Oscar winner and a Worst Picture Razzie winner in the same year. His next role was as anti-war activist Ron Kovic in the film adaptation of Kovic’s memoir of the same name, Born on the Fourth of July (1989), for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.

In 1992, he starred opposite Jack Nicholson in the legal drama A Few Good Men, an adaptation of the Broadway play of the same name also written by Aaron Sorkin. Cruise next appeared in The Firm (1993), a film adaptation of the John Grisham legal thriller of the same name, and in the same year also made his directorial debut by directing an episode of the anthology television series Fallen Angels. Cruise starred as spy Ethan Hunt in the action film Mission: Impossible (1996), the first project of his production company Cruise/Wagner Productions, which he had co-founded with Paula Wagner in 1993. As of 2018, Cruise has appeared in five more films in the Mission: Impossible franchise: Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), and Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018).

He played the title role in the Cameron Crowe-directed comedy-drama Jerry Maguire (1996), which garnered Cruise the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In 1999, Cruise starred in the Stanley Kubrick-directed erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut opposite his then wife Nicole Kidman, and also appeared in the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed drama Magnolia. For the latter he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Cruise reteamed with Crowe on the science fiction thriller Vanilla Sky (2001), which earned him a Saturn Award for Best Actor. The following year he starred in the Steven Spielberg-directed Minority Report (2002). In 2005, he collaborated again with Spielberg on War of the Worlds, and received the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film from BAFTA Los Angeles. Three years later he appeared in the satirical action comedy Tropic Thunder and played German army officer Claus von Stauffenberg in the historical thriller Valkyrie (both in 2008). Cruise played the title role in action thriller Jack Reacher (2012) and in its sequel Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016). He starred in Oblivion (2013), and Edge of Tomorrow (2014) which saw him return to the science fiction genre. Three years later, he played drug smuggler Barry Seal in the action comedy American Made (2017).

Film

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes	Ref(s)
		Actor	Producer	Role
1981	Endless Love	Yes	No	Billy
	Taps	Yes	No	David Shawn
1983	The Outsiders	Yes	No	Steve Randle
	Losin’ It	Yes	No	Woody
	Risky Business	Yes	No	Joel Goodson
	All the Right Moves	Yes	No	Stefan Djordjevic
1985	Legend	Yes	No	Jack
1986	Top Gun	Yes	No	Lt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell
	The Color of Money	Yes	No	Vincent Lauria
1988	Cocktail	Yes	No	Brian Flanagan
	Rain Man	Yes	No	Charlie Babbitt
1989	Born on the Fourth of July	Yes	No	Ron Kovic
1990	Days of Thunder	Yes	No	Cole Trickle	Also writer (story)
1992	Far and Away	Yes	No	Joseph Donelly
	A Few Good Men	Yes	No	Lt. Daniel Kaffee
1993	The Firm	Yes	No	Mitch McDeere
1994	Interview with the Vampire	Yes	No	Lestat de Lioncourt
1996	Mission: Impossible	Yes	Yes	Ethan Hunt
	Jerry Maguire	Yes	No	Jerry Maguire
1998	Without Limits	No	Yes	N/A
1999	Eyes Wide Shut	Yes	No	Bill Harford
	Magnolia	Yes	No	Frank T. J. Mackey
2000	Mission: Impossible 2	Yes	Yes	Ethan Hunt
2001	Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures	Yes	No	Himself	Also narrator
	The Others	No	Yes	N/A	Executive producer
	Vanilla Sky	Yes	Yes	David Aames
2002	Space Station 3D	Yes	No	Narrator
	Minority Report	Yes	No	John Anderton
	Austin Powers in Goldmember	Yes	No	Himself as Austin Powers	Cameo
	Narc	No	Yes	N/A	Executive producer
2003	Shattered Glass	No	Yes	N/A	Executive producer
	The Last Samurai	Yes	Yes	Nathan Algren
2004	Collateral	Yes	No	Vincent
2005	War of the Worlds	Yes	No	Ray Ferrier
	Elizabethtown	No	Yes	N/A
2006	Ask the Dust	No	Yes	N/A
	Mission: Impossible III	Yes	Yes	Ethan Hunt
2007	Lions for Lambs	Yes	No	Senator Jasper Irving
2008	Tropic Thunder	Yes	No	Les Grossman
	Valkyrie	Yes	No	Claus von Stauffenberg
2010	Knight and Day	Yes	No	Roy Miller/Matthew Knight
2011	Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol	Yes	Yes	Ethan Hunt
2012	Rock of Ages	Yes	No	Stacee Jaxx	Also credited as singer on the film’s soundtrack
	Jack Reacher	Yes	Yes	Jack Reacher
2013	Oblivion	Yes	No	Jack Harper
2014	Edge of Tomorrow	Yes	No	Maj. William Cage
2015	Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation	Yes	Yes	Ethan Hunt
2016	Jack Reacher: Never Go Back	Yes	Yes	Jack Reacher
2017	The Mummy	Yes	No	Nick Morton
	American Made	Yes	No	Barry Seal
2018	Mission: Impossible – Fallout	Yes	Yes	Ethan Hunt
2021	Top Gun: Maverick	Yes	Yes	Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell	Post-production
	Mission: Impossible 7	Yes	Yes	Ethan Hunt	Filming

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
1993	Fallen Angels	—	Episode: “The Frightening Frammis” (director)
2010	Top Gear	Himself	Guest