Tom Cruise Reveals His Aspen Property To The Public For The First Time And Does This Unexpected Thing
Good Business
When Tom was starting out, it wasn’t necessarily easy for him to land jobs right away. Shortly after finishing high school at Glen Ridge in New Jersey, he moved to New York City and worked as a busboy at some diner when he was only 18 years old.
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He was struggling to land some entry-level acting jobs because, well, New York just has too much competition going on. Because of that, he then decided to fly out to Los Angeles and it was there that he was able to sign with an agency. He got minor roles at first but went on to star in Risky Business in 1983 which made him skyrocket into fame and he was just 21 years old.
At The Top
Cruise’s talent for acting was definitely evident in all of the work he does. Just a few years after his debut as an actor, he rose to be one of the highest-paid actors in the history of Hollywood in the 1990s alone. It was also around the same time he joined the Church of Scientology.
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With regards to Cruise’s personal life, he married Mimi Rogers, his first wife in 1987. Rogers was a Scientology church auditor and was actually the one who introduced him to the new religion. However, their divorce was finalized in 1990 and was thought to be due to the fact that the church no longer allowed the marriage and split the couple up so Cruise could marry Nicole Kidman. It was even said that the church was the one who served Rogers their divorce papers.