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                                                     Tom Cruise
                                     Born in Syracuse, New York on 3rd July 1962, Tom
                              Cruise had a difficult childhood. His parents divorced when
                              he was twelve, and in the first eleven years of his life his
                              family moved a total of seven times. He had problems at
                              school, partly because he never stayed in one place long
                              enough to make friends and partly because he suffered from
                              dyslexia and found reading very hard. As a teenager he
                              couldn’t decide whether to become a priest or a wrestler, but
         at the age of eighteen he chose acting as a career.
                His first film Endless love, in 1981, was followed quickly in the same
         year by Taps in which he had a strong supporting role as an angry young cadet.
         Over the next few years he made a name for himself in a series of fairy
         successful films often playing attractive types. His big break came in 1986 in the
         hit Top Gun, where he played a rebellious fighter pilot with a killer smile.
                By the late 1980s magazines were calling him “easily the most powerful
         star of his generation” because of his more serious roles in Rain Man, in 1988,
         opposite Dustin Hoffman, and Born on the fourth of July, which was made in
         the following year. For this film he received his first Oscar nomination for Best
         Actor for his powerful performance as the anti-war hero Ron Covic. People who
         have worked with him say he’s a perfectionist, preparing carefully for each role,
         and focusing 100 per cent whilst in the studio. Success continued in the 90s with
         films such as Mission Impossible and Eyes Wide Shut. He is now on of the few
         actors who receives more than 20 million dollars a picture.
                Cruise is a very private man, who rarely gives interviews. His personal
         life has had its ups and downs. In 1987 he married actress Mimi Rogers who
         was several years older than him, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1990. In
         the same year he married his co-star from Days of Thunder, red-headed actress
         Nicole Kidman.
                Whatever happens in his private life, people will remember him as one of
         the most charismatic actors of modern cinema and many will probably agree
         with People magazine in 1997 when they chose him as one of the fifty most
         beautiful people in the world.
                a. Tom Cruise was very successful at school.
                b. He always wanted to become an actor.
                c. He played the star part in Taps.
                d. Top Gun was his most successful early film.
                e. He was nominated for an Oscar for Born on the Fourth of July.
                f. He is a very hard worker.
                g. He hardly ever gives interviews.
                h. He got married to Nicole Kidman in 1991.
                ¨ Grammar snack: Complete the text using the correct forms of the
         verbs.


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