Tom Cruise Net Worth

Net Worth	600 million USD
Salary	50 million USD Yearly
Birth Date	3rd of July 1962
Age	60 Years Old
Gender	Male
Height	5 ft 7 Inch (1.71 m)
Profession	Actor, Film Producer, TV Director, Screen Writer
Nationality	United States of America

Tom Cruise Net Worth

600 million USD

Tom Cruise Salary

50 million USD Yearly

What is the Net Worth, Career Earnings, and Salary of Tom Cruise?

Tom Cruise is a well-known American actor and producer as well. He has a net worth of 600 million USD. It is not a hidden fact that Tom Cruise has been cast in tons of films. He has a huge fan following globally therefore the movies always turn out to be blockbusters. He is renowned as one of the popular, biggest megastars in Hollywood. That’s why it won’t be wrong to state that Tom cruise is one of the highest-paid and wealthiest celebrities in the world. 

As of this writing, Tom Cruise films have earned almost 9.5 billion USD at the global box office. 

Did you know that Tom Cruise movies never earned up to 1 billion USD almost throughout his career?

Tom Cruise’s movie “Mission Impossible- Fallout” released in the year 2018 was one of the highest-grossed movies of his career. The movie earned up to 800 million USD throughout the globe. However, it all changed with the release of his latest movie aka “Top Gun: Maverick.” The movie crossed all the records and did business up to billion dollars. The movie was launched on June 25/26, 2022. 

Tom Cruise’s film “Top Gun: Maverick” even broke the record of an evergreen movie aka “Titanic”. The movie hit the jackpot and won the title of the best-ever movie created by Paramount Network. 

The Early Life of Tom Cruise:

The original name of Tom Cruise is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV. He was born in Syracuse, New York on July 3, 1962. Tom’s mother used to teach as a special ed teacher and his father worked as an electrical engineer. Tom has three siblings in total. He grew up with his three sisters. William Mapother (first cousin) also followed in his footsteps and became an actor. He has been cast in various movies with Tom as well. 

Tom Cruise didn’t stay in a place in his childhood days. He used to move around a lot within the country in his early days of life. However, they did stay in Canada for quite a while. It happened as Tom’s father got a job with the Canadian Armed Forces. 

Did you know Tom’s father was toxic as he bullied him and his siblings? 

Yes, that’s true! As Tom verified the news and claimed it to be true. Maybe that’s why e attended fifteen schools approximately in 14 years of his life. Tom wasn’t passionate about pursuing acting as a career. But Tom joined the drama classes during middle school. He was well-known as a young mal athlete aka jock in middle school. 

Let’s share a fun fact:

Tom Cruise got fell in love with acting in high school after injuring himself (a knee injury) that forced him to quit wrestling! 

In that course of time, Cruise dedicated himself completely to the drama club. He led his first-ever lead role in Guys and Dolls production quickly. 

He got encouraged and praised by the masses even in his high school days due to his incredible acting skills. However, he never seemed interesting enough to pursue acting as a career. 

Do you know he invested his time in becoming a Franciscan priest at the St. Francis Seminary?

He did this adventure in Cincinnati and was dismissed from school due to drinking. He graduated in the year 1980 from Glen Ridge High School in New Jersey. 

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The Career Beginning of Tom Cruise:

When he graduated from high school and then shifted to New York City. He wanted to pursue acting to become an actor. However, he shifted to Los Angeles after not long to act on the television. 

Tom finally starred in his first-ever movie aka “Endless Love”. He was cast in a small role in 1981. In the later part of 1981, he starred in the movie “Taps”. The critics loved his acting skills in that movie. Due to that, he was signed by the great agency aka CAA. A CAA agent managing partner, Michael Ovitz. Tom Cruise became a lifetime CAA client for the production company in the 90s. Besides, Paula & Tom ended up being in a production corporation aka Cruise/Wagner Productions. 

The Success of Tom Cruise:

In the year 1983, Tom performed incredibly in the comedy-drama movie known as “Risky Business.’’ The movie hit the jackpot and earned up to 64 million USD. 

Wait, there’s more! The movie was made within a budget of 6 million USD. The movie was immensely successful and spawned various typical touchstones. It won’t be wrong to state that the film proved to be a breakthrough for Tom Cruise. 

Did you know Tom received his first-ever Golden Globe nomination due to his acting in Risky Business?

Not after long, Tom Cruise was recognized globally because of the huge success of 1986’s ”Top Gun”.  After the enormous success of the movie, he became one of the ever-green and famous actors. The movie did impeccable business and earned up to 360 million dollars throughout the world. It was known as one of the highest-grossing movies of the year.

During that year, he was also cast along with Paul Newman in the movie “The Color of Money”. 

Then, the list of hit movies was never-ending! He kept on giving power-packed performances in all the movies such as Cocktail & Rainman. The movies were released in the year 1988. The movie “Rain Man” received 4 Academy Awards. Tom Cruise was nominated for Oscar after a year because of his acting in “Born on the Fourth of July.’’

• The 90’s Successful Movies of Tom Cruise:

He was cast in the ”Days of Thunder” in the year the 1990s. Then, he gave another super-hit performance in ”Far and Away” in the year 1992. The next year, in 1993, he starred in ”A Few Good Men”& ”The Firm”. 

The masses loved his acting in 1994’s ‘’Interview with the Vampire.’’ Besides, he also won a Golden Globe nominee for A Few Good Men. 

Who can forget about the ever-popular action-thriller movie aka “Mission: Impossible.” The movie was one of the best-ever films of its time! The movie generated up to 457 million USD across the globe. 

Due to the success of Mission: Impossible (Part 1) the other parts were also highly appreciated by the masses. Therefore, the movie produced few sequels. 

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During the same duration, Cruise performed in another blockbuster movie aka ”Jerry Maguire”. This movie also did wonderful business. Thus, it produced up to 275 million USD! Do you know what’s the best part?

The movie was made on a budget of 50 million USD. However, it earned up to 275 million USD! This movie led him to the Oscar nominee under the category of Best Actor Oscar nomination. The co-star Cuba Gooding, Jr received the award for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar as well. 

He didn’t stop there as he kept on giving back-to-back megahits over the next decade+. We have made a list of his famous & well-deserved Cruise projects over time below:

• Eyes Wide Shut
• Vanilla Sky
• Minority Report
• The Last Samurai
• Collateral
• War of the Worlds
• Valkyrie
• Jack Reacher
• Oblivion
• Edge of Tomorrow
• American Made 

Tom Cruise Six Top-Grossing Movies: 

#6: The Last Samurai (2003) – $456 million ($716 million with inflation)

#5: War of the Worlds (2005) – $606 million ($890 million with inflation)

#4: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) – $690 million

#3: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) – $700 million

#2: Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) – $800 million

#1: Top Gun: Maverick (2022) – $1 billion+

Several Other Remarkable Movies by Tom Cruise:

Discover the list of globally top-grossed movies of Cruise below:

• Top Gun (1986) – $360 million ($445 million with inflation) 
• The Firm (1993) – $158 million ($350 million with inflation)
• Rain Man (1988) – $354 million ($865 million with inflation)
• Mission: Impossible II (2000) – $550 million ($923 million with inflation)
• Mission: Impossible (1996) – $460 million ($850 million with inflation)

As of this writing, Tom Cruise’s top movies have grossed approximately 100M USD throughout the world. The movies have earned up to 9.5 billion Dollars without any stress of inflation. 

The Earning & Salary of Tom Cruise:

• The outcome from the movie Taps was up to 50,000 Dollars.
• The movie Risky Business generated almost 75,000 USD.
• The salary for the 1985’s Legend movie was 500,000 USD.
• Tom Cruise received 2 million USD for his acting in Top Gun. Top Gun was a breakthrough for his career.
• Tom Cruise received approximately 3 million USD for his movie in ‘’ Cocktail.’’
• He got 9 million USD for his incredible acting in Days of Thunder.
• He earned up to 13 million USD for the movie Far and Away.
• The movie ‘’A Few Good Me’’ earned up to 12 million USD.
•  The Firm generated up to 12 million dollars.
• Tom’s movie Interview with the Vampire generated up to 15 million USD.

Well, Tom Cruise received up to Seventy Million USD for his wonderful acting in the first part of Mission Impossible. He received up to 75 million USD for Mission Impossible 3. 

The top-two highest-grosses films of the Cruise till this day are part two of Mission Impossible (2000’s) as well as War of the Worlds (2005’s). He received 100M USD from the movies. The credit goes to the lucrative backend points.

If you take a look at the top-10 largest paychecks of all time then you will know Cruise ranks at the 3^rd rank. Cruise earned almost 445M USD between 1983 till 2011. He made up to 300M USD between the years 2011 and 2019. So, the sum of his entire career outcome or earnings, bonuses and salary would be 745 million USD from the year 1983-2019. 

The Movie Top Gun Earnings/Salary of Tom Cruise:

As we all know, he received up to 2M USD in the year 1986’s for the movie. After all the inflation, he made up to $5.4 M today! The 2 M was only 13% of the generated revenue of the movie. 

When he was busy shooting for Top Gun, then another film aka “Legend” went super hit at the box office. Hence, the producers (Jerry Bruckheimer) and (Don Simpson) were a bit afraid!

However, the movie TOP GUN was one of the most successful of its time! It proved to be a smash-hit and won the trophy for the highest-grossing movie of 1986. The movie generated up to 360M USD in total.

Finally, the fan dreams came true when producer David Ellison announced officially that sequel of TOP GUN will be produced! The producer is the son of LARRY ELLISON (Inventor of Skydance). David’s dream was to create a movie like Top Gun. After the alignment of the actors, Skydance committed almost 25% of the movie’s budget up to 200M USD. 

The movie was meant to launch in the year 2020. However, it was not possible due to the pandemic situation throughout the globe. Therefore, the classic Top Gun: Maverick was launched after two years of its original release year. 

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Tom is not only represented as the main lead actor in the sequel but he is also the primary producer of the sequel. The fundamental salary for the Top Gun was up to Thirteen Million USD. Besides, Cruise is qualified to earn up to 10—20% of the movie aka “first-dollar” gross revenue. So, you see it is once in a lifetime deal that no other Hollywood star has been able to make! 

But wait, what is first-dollar gross revenue, right?

It is the amount paid by exhibitors approximately 40%, after the movie theaters. The production or marketing costs are paid later! 

For instance, if the movie Top Gun: Maverick grosses 1 billion USD at the box office then Tom will earn up to 10% of the generated revenue. Accordingly, first dollar gross, he will get 60 M USD!

Now, you can do the math of 20% and so on! Even if the movie is not able to produce the expected revenue, Tom would still receive 100x more than his original Top Gun salary!

The Height of Tom Cruise:

It is one of the most common questions asked by fans, what is the height of Tom Cruise?

Tom Cruise is 5 foot 7 inches tall. 

Do you know that Cruise is almost 3 inches shorter than his ex-wife (Nicole Kidman-5 ft 10)?

He is also short in height from his second ex-wife (Katies Holmes). She is 5 foot 9!

The Private Life of Tom Cruise:

Tom has fallen in love and married a couple of times. First, he got married to the well-known actress Mimi Rogers. The couple remained happily married from 1987-1990! The actress Mimi was the one who introduced Scientology to Cruise while they were married. 

He then got married to Nicole Kidman from the year 1990 to 2001.

In 2006, Cruise got married to KATIE HOLMES and remained in the marriage till 2012. 

The Divorce Agreement of Katie Holmes:

The couple has one daughter named Suri. In accordance with the reports, when the couple filed for divorce, Tom married Katie with a Net worth of up to 250 M USD. Meanwhile, Katie’s net worth (at the time of marriage) was less than 10M USD. 

Therefore, Cruise stressed a solid prenuptial deal between the two. The child support (up to 12 years) approximately was 400,000 USD which Tom had to pay. He has to pay for the child support until their daughter (Suri) isn’t 12 years old. She will turn 12 in 2024. So, Cruise has to pay the amount until then!

The exact numbers are $33,000 monthly. The yearly amount would be up to 4.8M USD. Tom is also bound to pay for all the education, medical, and insurance as well as for other outdoor, non-academic activities.  

His ex-wife (Katie) possesses full custody of their daughter (Suri). She has made the decision to not raise her daughter with Scientology. However, Katie never wanted a penny in terms of Spousal Support. Thus, she hasn’t gotten any form of payment on this subject. Accordingly distinctive reports, she wanted full control and complete custody of their daughter. Therefore, she opted for the No Spousal Support option.

The Real Estate Investments of Tom Cruise:

Cruise owns a number of various wonderful properties across the United States. 

Cruise sold out a tenth-floor condo the New York City’s East Village. He sold the property for up to 3M Dollars in the year 2013.

He also sold one of his properties in the Hollywood Hills (a multi-residence property) in the year 2015. The property was sold for up to 11.4 M Dollars. Eva Longoria purchased the property. Tom sold his lifelong property in Beverly Hills to a billionaire financier called Leon Black. The property generated up to 30.5 million USD in the year 2006. During this time, he was happily married to Katie Holmes. 

Tom also created a big mansion in Telluride, Colorado. He built the lavish mansion in the year 1990s during Nicole Kidman. The property is located on an area of 320 acres. Their main household is 10,000 square feet. It has nine bathrooms, horse stables, seven bedrooms, and also a reserved helipad. He invested quality time in expanding the runway. So, the bigger private jets could arrive hassle-free. 

The runway wish of Cruise was fulfilled in the year 2010. He valued his household for 59M USD. However, he couldn’t find anyone to sell his property. In 2018, he put the home again on the list. But he successfully sells the property in May 2021. The revenue generated via the property was about 39.5 million USD.  

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You can view the video below which was sold in May 2021:

He spent 11.8 Million USD and bought various condo complexes in Clearwater, Florida. It is located near the Church of Scientology. 

The Production aka Cruise/Wagner:

Have you ever wondered why Tom is one of the richest wealthy actors comparatively his fellow actors?

It is because he is not only an actor but a producer as well. Tom has produced half of his films. Paula Wagner founded& Tom Cruise invented the Cruise/Wagner production in the year 1993. Therefore, their films have generated a revenue of 3 billion dollars worldwide! 

The corporation had teamed up with the Paramount Network for quite some time. Cruise/Warner production had done an exclusive deal with Paramount! However, the deal with the corporation was dismissed in the year 2006! It happened due to the controversial statements given by Tom on the subject of psychiatry & anti-depressants. The statement went viral in no-time flat. The outcome of the statement was the deal was broken. 

Therefore, the Washington Redskins founder Dan Synder provides all the funds via hedge funds. Paula and Tom were drafted by United Artists to revive the in the year 2006. In 2008, Paula left the United States of America. However, she still owns 30% of the studio with Tom Cruise.