The 2002 Academy Awards
Cruise was chosen to open the Academy Awards in 2002. He did his job well enough, but after he was finished, he left. Why? Cruise, like any other father, needed to be with his children. It turns out that the day of the Academy Awards was also Tom’s turn to look after the kids. He, like the rest of us, watched the rest of the event on TV.
The 2002 Academy Awards
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All About His Parents
With such a brilliant career and three actor cousins, you’d assume Cruise was pushed to become an actor by something in his DNA. But his parents’ jobs were as remote from that as one could imagine. His father, Thomas Mapother III, was an electrical engineer who was born in 1934. His mother, Mary Lee Pfeiffer, was a special education teacher who was born in 1936.
All About His Parents
