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STEADY THERE! I DON'T THINK IT'S VERY FAIR...
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| Tom Cruise | |
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| Character information | |
| Birth name | Thomas Cruise Mapother IV |
| Born | July 3, 1962 (age 62) Syracuse, New York, United States |
| Physical description | |
| Hair | Brown |
| Eyes | Green |
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| Rap battle information | |
| Appeared in | TBA |
| Vs | Evel Knievel |
| Release date | TBA |
| Official vote(s) | TBD |
| Location(s) | The Goodsen household The CIA headquarters |
Tom Cruise will appear in an upcoming battle of Epic Rap Battles of History, as revealed in the credits of Henry Ford vs Karl Marx. He will rap against Evel Knievel. It is unknown who he will be portrayed by.
Information on Rapper
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, known professionally as Tom Cruise, was born on July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, New York. He is an American actor, film producer, and Scientology advocate. Widely considered one of the biggest movie stars working in Hollywood today, he is most famous for his roles in movies like the Mission: Impossible series, Risky Business, the Top Gun series, Tropic Thunder, Minority Report, Rain Man, and Edge of Tomorrow. He is well-known for his willingness to perform his own stunts, including scaling the Burj Khalifa for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and fighting with real samurai swords for The Last Samurai. He is one of the highest-grossing box-office stars of all time, with his films earning over $11.5 billion USD worldwide, and has received numerous accolades, including three Golden Globe Awards (for his roles in Born on the Fourth of July, Jerry Maguire, and Magnolia), an Honorary Palme d'Or for Achievement in Film at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
More controversially, Cruise is also one of the most notable advocates for the Church of Scientology, being a close friend of the Church's leader David Miscavige and reportedly a high-ranking member within the organization itself, having been awarded the Scientology Medal of Valor. His association with Scientology has led to him speaking out against psychiatry and lobbying international leaders such as Tony Blair and Nicolas Sarkozy to recognize the Church as a tax-exempt nonprofit in the United Kingdom and France respectively, and has resulted in him being one of the targets of the anti-Scientology internet movement Project Chanology. Cruise's personal life has also received much media attention and scrutiny, particularly his marriages to actresses Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman (with whom he adopted two children), and Katie Holmes (with whom he has one child), the latter of which was notoriously the subject of an interview with Oprah Winfrey, where Cruise infamously jumped on Winfrey's couch. From 1992 to 2008, he was also the head of Cruise/Wagner Productions, a film production company he started and owned with his agent, Paula Wagner.
Trivia
- Two backgrounds for Cruise were shown as teasers at the end of Henry Ford vs Karl Marx, including the Goodsen household from Risky Business and the CIA headquarters from Mission: Impossible. A background for his opponent Evel Knievel was also shown.
- He is the third rapper to be teased for a future battle without being physically revealed, after Pennywise and Indiana Jones.
- He, along with the couch-hopping incident, was referenced in Oprah Winfrey vs Ellen DeGeneres, specifically in DeGeneres' line "I'm jumping over Oprah like I'm Tom Cruise on a sofa!"
- This makes him the nineteenth rapper to appear after being mentioned in a previous battle.
- He has starred in films directed by previous rappers Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick, including Spielberg's 2005 remake of War of the Worlds, his 2002 film Minority Report, and Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut.
- He also appears briefly as a fictionalized version of himself in Austin Powers in Goldmember, where he played Austin Powers in a in-universe movie about the character called Austinpussy, directed by Steven Spielberg (who also made a cameo as himself). This technically makes Cruise one of few rappers to also have a character they've portrayed be a rapper in a separate battle.
- A picture of Tom Cruise as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell from the first Top Gun film can be seen in Nice Peter's first picture song, "Fuck you Man, I Ain't Gay."[1]
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