Tom Cruise (b. 1962) is an actor whose films have made him one of the highest-grossing box-office stars of all time.
He appeared in three movies with his wife of eleven years, Nicole Kidman: Days of Thunder, Far and Away, and Eyes Wide Shut. His other movies include Risky Business (with Joe Pantoliano), Legend (with Mia Sara and Tim Curry), The Color of Money (with Paul Newman), Cocktail (with Paul Benedict), Young Guns (with Lou Diamond Phillips), Born on the Fourth of July (with Kyra Sedgwick), The Firm (with Gary Busey), Interview with the Vampire (with Brad Pitt), Vanilla Sky (with Cameron Diaz), Minority Report (directed by Steven Spielberg), Austin Powers in Goldmember, The Last Samurai (with Billy Connolly), War of the Worlds, Tropic Thunder (with Ben Stiller), Valkyrie (with Kenneth Branagh), Rock of Ages (with Paul Giamatti), Edge of Tomorrow (with Emily Blunt), and The Mummy.
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Several of his films have been parodied by the Muppets, including Top Gun, Rain Man, A Few Good Men, Mission: Impossible, and Jerry Maguire.
- Cruise was one of several celebrities suggested to be paired with Miss Piggy during The Pig of the Nineties marketing campaign.
- According to Rizzo the Rat during the audio commentary for Muppets from Space, Cruise and his then-wife Nicole Kidman were meant to play the film's Cosmic Fish, but they couldn't find fish costumes in their sizes.
- A Tom Cruise Muppet appears in an episode of From the Balcony. In the same episode, Loni Dunne attempts to interview the "real" Tom Cruise, who is excitedly jumping up and down on a sofa (referencing his infamous 2005 appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show).
- Kermit the Frog says he'd like to work with Cruise in a March 2012 interview with Entertainment Tonight because "he and I are about the same size."
- Cruise is listed among a number of leading men that the writers of Up Late with Miss Piggy attempt to couple with Piggy in The Muppets episode "Hostile Makeover."
- A reader-submitted interview for The Guardian in December 2022 asks if Fozzie Bear is, like Tom Cruise, a very small bear. Fozzie responds, "Tom Cruise is a bear? I didn’t know that. I’ve got to go see his movies again. You’d think I’d notice something like that."