The Anatomy of an Actor series takes ten roles by a single actor, each studied in a dedicated chapter, and identifies the key elements that made the performances exceptional – carefully examining the actor’s craft for both a professional audience and movie fans alike. This title looks at Hollywood icon Tom Cruise. First cast by Francis Ford Coppola in
The Outsiders (1983), he gained international notoriety in the mid-1980s thanks to Tony Scott’s
Top Gun (1986). One of the most sought-after actors, Cruise has oriented his career to blockbusters, with a predilection for action and science fiction, starring in such movies as Michael Mann’s
Collateral (2004), Steven Spielberg’s
War of the Worlds (2005), the
Mission: Impossible series (1996, 2000, 2006, 2011) and Joseph Kosinski’s
Oblivion (2013).
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