Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, popularly known as Tom Cruise, an American actor churned record breaking hit films over the years is a successful film producer as well. Cruise was ranked as the "world's most powerful celebrity" by the Forbes magazine in 2006. Tom has been nominated for Academy Awards thrice and has won three Golden Globe Awards. Top was noticed and several heads turned, for his role of a desperate naval pilot in the popular 1986 film 'Top Gun'. Cruise carried on with his same zeal portraying his maverick image forward, playing a secret agent in a series of Mission: Impossible action films in the 1990s and 2000s. Tom Cruise is the Superstar of Hollywood..