1. Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born on July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, N.Y., to Thomas Cruise Mapother III, {an electrical} engineer, and Mary Lee Pfeiffer, each of Louisville, Ky. (His grandfather and great-grandfather have been each Thomas Cruise Mapother, as effectively.)
2. He has two older sisters, Lee Anne and Marian, and one youthful sister, Catherine, nicknamed Cass.
3. Cruise needed to behave from across the time he was 4 and began doing impressions of everybody from Donald Duck to Humphrey Bogart and Elvis Presley.
4. In 1974, when the household was dwelling in Ottawa, Mary Lee packed up and took the children again to Louisville. She formally divorced Tom III in August 1975 and, six weeks later, he remarried, briefly. Joan Lebendiger, lately widowed, had 4 children, one in all whom later advised biographer Andrew Morton that they by no means noticed their stepbrother Tom once more after the marriage.
“As a child, I had plenty of hidden anger about that. I would get hit, and I did not perceive it,” Cruise recalled to Self-importance Truthful in 1994.
“He was the sort of man who actually acquired picked on loads at college himself when he was rising up,” he mentioned of his father. “He had additionally been small, although he ended up being six foot two. Individuals had been fairly brutal to him. Inside, I consider he was a extremely delicate particular person.” Tom III may additionally “truly be fairly loving.”
However in 2006 he advised Parade that his dad was “a bully and a coward—the individual the place, if one thing goes mistaken, they kick you. It was a terrific lesson in my life, how he’d lull you in, make you are feeling secure after which, bang!”
Cruise visited his father within the hospital earlier than he died of most cancers in 1984 and Tom III mentioned he’d get higher and they might “‘discuss the entire thing,'” the actor advised VF, however that by no means got here to move.
