Tom Cruise is one of the most famous and highest paid actors in the world.
The second installment of "Top Gun" exploded at the box office and is preparing for the premiere of a new story with "Mission: Impossible." He currently has a lush fortune in addition to being one of the most coveted men.
However, his alleged attempts to seduce Shakira were in vain. After sending her flowers and after the version circulated that he was very interested in conquering the Colombian woman, she opted to take a yacht ride with the English pilot Lewis Hamilton, as captured by the paparazzi. Apparently the Barranquilla woman likes athletes, since Gerard Piqué was a prominent Catalan defender.
But returning to Tom Cruise, it must be said that although today he has a very successful present, he had to battle very hard in his childhood to get ahead. One of the people who marked him the most was his father, for which reason he was always very distrustful of people, he has said that he repeated to himself that all the people he knew had something strange.
Together with his mother and his sisters, he started a new life in Kentucky but he had to take care of his family and his education. He even remembers living in poverty and not having money to cover his basic needs such as food. Tom Cruise highlighted the role of his mother years later. "She was always there doing the impossible so that her children did not lack anything," said the actor. At the age of 7 he was diagnosed with dyslexia and that led him to change schools many times, even he did not finish high school.
Tom Cruise spent several months in a monastery and could have been a priest, but he changed his plans although there he discovered a passion for acting. At the age of 19, the actor moved to Los Angeles to pursue the dream of being an actor, something he achieved with a few roles until he became the star he is today.
