Tom Cruise: Life in Pictures
(Reuters)
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Tom Cruise
Rough start
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, seen here with Katie Holmes in 2005, had a difficult upbringing. He moved through 15 schools in 12 years and suffered at the hands of an abusive father.
"I knew from being around my father that not everyone means me well,” Cruise told Parade magazine. At 12, he dropped his father’s name from his own.
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, seen here with Katie Holmes in 2005, had a difficult upbringing. He moved through 15 schools in 12 years and suffered at the hands of an abusive father.
"I knew from being around my father that not everyone means me well,” Cruise told Parade magazine. At 12, he dropped his father’s name from his own.
