Editing Tom Cruise (section)

==Early life==
Cruise was born on July 3, 1962, in [[Syracuse, New York]],<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Cruise |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopaedia Britannica]] |title=Tom Cruise |access-date=July 2, 2020 |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041456/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Cruise |url-status=live }}</ref> to electrical engineer Thomas Cruise Mapother III (1934–1984) and [[special education]] teacher Mary Lee (née Pfeiffer; 1936–2017).<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=June 24, 2002 |title=About Tom |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1002716,00.html |url-status=dead |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130824141456/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1002716,00.html |archive-date=August 24, 2013 |access-date=February 3, 2013}}</ref> His parents were both from [[Louisville, Kentucky]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=If truth be told, Tom Cruise Mapother IV has always been something of a ladies' man |url=http://www.gloucesterhistory.com/tom_cruise_excerpt.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041358/http://www.gloucesterhistory.com/tom_cruise_excerpt.pdf |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |access-date=October 7, 2017 |website=Gloucester Historical Society}}</ref> and had English, German, and Irish ancestry.<ref name="Tom Cruise's Irish Ancestry">{{cite web|title=Tom Cruise's Irish Ancestry|url=http://www.eneclann.ie/exhibitions/tomcruise/|date=March 28, 2013|website=Eneclann.ie|access-date=April 4, 2013|archive-date=April 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407022504/http://www.eneclann.ie/exhibitions/tomcruise/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wargs.com/other/mapother.html |title=Ancestry of Tom Cruise |work=Wargs.com |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-date=October 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027132928/http://wargs.com/other/mapother.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Cruise has three sisters named Lee Anne, Marian, and Cass. One of his cousins, [[William Mapother]], is also an [[actor]] who has appeared alongside Cruise in five films.<ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.ew.com/gallery/stars-you-didnt-know-were-related/2266243_tom-cruise-and-william-mapother| title= Stars you didn't know were related| work= EW.com| access-date= February 18, 2020| archive-date= December 29, 2020| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041425/https://www.ew.com/gallery/stars-you-didnt-know-were-related/2266243_tom-cruise-and-william-mapother| url-status= live}}</ref>

Cruise grew up in near poverty and had a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] upbringing. He later described his father as "a merchant of chaos",<ref name= parade>{{cite web|url=http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_04-09-2006/Tom_Cruise_cover|title=I Can Create Who I Am|work=[[Parade (magazine)|Parade]]|date=April 9, 2006|access-date=February 18, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110412060632/http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_04-09-2006/Tom_Cruise_cover|archive-date=April 12, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> a "bully", and a "coward" who beat his children. He elaborated, "[My father] was the kind of person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you. It was a great lesson in my life—how he'd lull you in, make you feel safe and then, bang! For me, it was like, 'There's something wrong with this guy. Don't trust him. Be careful around him.{{' "}}<ref name= parade /> Cruise's biological father died of cancer in 1984.<ref>{{cite web| url= https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/tom-cruise-katie-holmes-upbringings-torn/story?id=16742057| title= Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes: Very Different Upbringings| publisher= [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]| first= Luchina| last= Fisher| website= ABCNews.go.com| date= July 10, 2012| access-date= October 13, 2016| archive-date= December 29, 2020| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041517/https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/tom-cruise-katie-holmes-upbringings-torn/story?id=16742057| url-status= live}}</ref>

In total, Cruise attended fifteen schools in fourteen years.<ref name="FamousNJ">{{cite web |title=New Jersey Entertainers |url=http://www.famousnewjerseyans.com/entertainers.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041523/http://www.famousnewjerseyans.com/entertainers.htm |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |access-date=October 7, 2014 |website=FamousNewJerseyans.com}}</ref> Cruise spent part of his childhood in Canada; when his father took a job as a defense consultant with the [[Canadian Armed Forces]], his family moved in late 1971 to [[Beacon Hill, Ottawa|Beacon Hill]], Ottawa.<ref name= Unauthorized_ex>{{cite book| url= http://i.usatoday.net/life/books/tom_cruise_excerpt.pdf| title= Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography| first= Andrew| last= Morton| series= Ch. 1| publisher= Macmillan| date= January 15, 2008| access-date= October 13, 2016| isbn= 978-1-4299-3390-2| archive-date= December 29, 2020| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041359/http://i.usatoday.net/life/books/tom_cruise_excerpt.pdf| url-status= live}}</ref> He attended the new [[Robert Hopkins Public School]] for his fourth and fifth grade education.<ref name= Unauthorized_ex /><ref>{{cite web| website= ocdsb.ca| publisher= Ottawa-Carleton District School Board| url= http://www.ocdsb.ca/sch/20102011%20Elementary%20School%20Profile/RHOP.pdf| title= Robert Hopkins School Profile| access-date= September 25, 2012| url-status=dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130117025444/http://www.ocdsb.ca/sch/20102011%20Elementary%20School%20Profile/RHOP.pdf| archive-date= January 17, 2013| df= mdy-all}}</ref> He first became involved in drama in fourth grade, under drama teacher George Steinburg. He and six other boys put on an improvised play to music called ''IT'' at the Carleton Elementary School drama festival.<ref name= Unauthorized_ex /> Drama organizer Val Wright was in the audience and later said that "the movement and improvisation were excellent ... a classic ensemble piece."<ref name= Unauthorized_ex />

In sixth grade, Cruise went to [[Henry Munro Middle School]] in Ottawa. That year, his mother left his father, taking Cruise and his sisters back to the United States.<ref name= Unauthorized_ex /> In 1978, she married Jack South.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2019/04/carolyn-hax-after-acrimony-and-moms-death-how-to-tell-husband-i-dont-want-a-divorce-after-all.html|title = Carolyn Hax: After acrimony, and mom's death, how to tell husband I don't want a divorce after all|date = April 29, 2019|access-date = April 29, 2019|archive-date = December 29, 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041520/https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2019/04/carolyn-hax-after-acrimony-and-moms-death-how-to-tell-husband-i-dont-want-a-divorce-after-all.html|url-status = live}}</ref> Cruise briefly took a Catholic church scholarship and attended the [[St. Francis Seminary (Ohio)|St. Francis Seminary]] in [[Cincinnati]]; he aspired to become a [[Franciscans|Franciscan]] [[Priesthood in the Catholic Church|priest]] before leaving after a year. Priests at the seminary have said Cruise chose to leave the school when his family relocated again; however, a former classmate said that they were both asked to leave after getting caught taking [[liquor]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=WHITE|first=CHRIS|title=EXCLUSIVE: Tom Cruise started religious journey with Catholic Church—until he was booted from seminary for swiping booze, says old friend|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/cruise-considered-catholic-priesthood-kicked-seminary-article-1.1278436|access-date=July 13, 2021|website=New York Daily News|date=March 4, 2013 |archive-date=July 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713191155/https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/cruise-considered-catholic-priesthood-kicked-seminary-article-1.1278436|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name= Unauthorized>{{cite book| title= Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography|title-link=Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography |first=Andrew |last=Morton |publisher= Macmillan| date= January 15, 2008| isbn= 978-1-4299-3390-2}}</ref>{{rp|24–26}} In his senior year of high school, he played [[American football|football]] for the varsity team as a [[linebacker]], but was cut from the squad after getting caught drinking beer before a game.<ref name= Unauthorized/>{{rp|47}} He went on to star in the school's production of ''[[Guys and Dolls]]''.<ref name="cnbc.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/27/mission-impossible--fallout-star-tom-cruises-childhood-jobs.html|title=These were 'Mission: Impossible—Fallout' star Tom Cruise's first jobs as a kid|first=Tom Jr.|last=Huddleston|date=July 27, 2018|website=CNBC|access-date=May 21, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041527/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/27/mission-impossible--fallout-star-tom-cruises-childhood-jobs.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1980, he graduated from [[Glen Ridge High School]] in [[Glen Ridge, New Jersey]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-04-06-0604060155-story.html|title=Cruise tells of pain of bullies, abusive father|first=Chicago|last=Tribune|website=Chicago Tribune|date=April 6, 2006 |access-date=May 21, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041457/https://www.chicagotribune.com/|url-status=live}}</ref>