It’s often said that Tom Cruise is the last true movie star, and to this point, no one’s really challenging him for the title. Now in his sixties, he’s four decades into one of Hollywood’s most bankable names. Sure, there have been ups and downs, in his career and personal life. But every time it seems like his profile is dimming, he goes and scales a skyscraper, jumps out of a plane and saves the movie industry, and he leaps right back into the good graces of both the public and casting directors.
At this point, the guy’s done it all, from big-budget popcorn flicks to intense character studies to prestige dramas and a handful of comedies, though over the last decade plus, he’s mostly become known as a death-defying action star. With the massively popular Mission: Impossible franch