"representatives at Hastings House urged Fields to have his client meet with the author so as to ensure the veracity of the statement in the book, Fields and Cruise did not reply to the publisher's offer. Tom Cruise: Unauthorized Tom Cruise: Unauthorized is a non-fiction biographical book about Tom Cruise, written by Wensley Clarkson. The book was published by Hastings House in 1998. The book discusses Tom Cruise's early life, his rise as an actor, involvement with Scientology, and past relationships with Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman. The book ended during the filming of ""Eyes Wide Shut"". In 2003, Wensley"
"[Cruise's] break-up with Nicole Kidman"". Cruise's auditor further claimed Kidman had been wiretapped on Cruise's suggestion. Prior to marrying Cruise, Kidman had been involved in relationships with Australian actor Marcus Graham and ""Windrider"" (1986) co-star Tom Burlinson. She was also said to be involved with Adrien Brody. The film ""Cold Mountain"" brought rumours that an affair between Kidman and co-star Jude Law was responsible for the break-up of his marriage. Both denied the allegations, and Kidman won an undisclosed sum from the British tabloids that published the story. She met musician Lenny Kravitz in 2003, and dated him into 2004."
"divorce from actor Tom Cruise, Kidman has been married to singer Keith Urban since 2006. Kidman was born 20 June 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were temporarily in the United States on student visas. Her mother, Janelle Ann (née Glenny), is a nursing instructor who edited her husband's books and was a member of the Women's Electoral Lobby. Her father was Antony Kidman (1938–2014), a biochemist, clinical psychologist and author, who died of a heart attack in Singapore aged 75. Kidman's ancestry includes Irish, Scottish and English heritage. Being born in Hawaii, she was given the Hawaiian"
"has included the Royal Hospital for Women Foundation’s Mother’s Day Appeal, Randwick Mothers’ Hospital, the National Breast Cancer Foundation and Taronga Zoo Foundation in Sydney. Kidman married Angus Hawley in February 1996. Their wedding took place in the Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College chapel with her sister Nicole Kidman and her then-husband Tom Cruise present. Together, Kidman and Hawley had four children: two daughters, Lucia (born 1998) and Sybella (born 2007) and two sons, Hamish ""Hamey"" (born 2001) and James (born 2003). In May 2007, Hawley and Kidman's 11-year marriage ended. Kidman remained with the children in the family home"
"Fair"" of ""shoddy journalism"" and ""religious bigotry."" Journalist Roger Friedman later reported that he received an email from director and ex-Scientologist Paul Haggis confirming the story. In April 2005, Cruise began dating actress Katie Holmes. On April 27 that year, Cruise and Holmes – dubbed ""TomKat"" by the media – made their first public appearance together in Rome. A month later, Cruise publicly declared his love for Holmes on ""The Oprah Winfrey Show"", famously jumping up and down on Winfrey's couch during the show. On October 6, 2005, Cruise and Holmes announced they were expecting a child. In April 2006"
"adopted son and daughter with Cruise as well as two biological daughters with Urban. Kidman met Cruise in November 1989, while filming ""Days of Thunder"", they were married on Christmas Eve 1990 in Telluride, Colorado. The couple adopted a daughter, Isabella Jane (born 1992), and a son, Connor Anthony (born 1995). On 5 February 2001, the couple's spokesperson announced their separation. Cruise filed for divorce two days later, and the marriage was dissolved in August of that year, with Cruise citing irreconcilable differences. In a 2007 interview with ""Marie Claire"", Kidman noted the incorrect reporting of the ectopic pregnancy early"
"2003 and finished in the money in her first major tournament at the World Poker Tour's 240 player Shooting Stars' main event No-Limit Texas hold 'em tournament in San Jose, California, on March 4, 2004. She is on the board of directors of the World Poker Tour. In July 2006, she finished in the money (33rd place) at the $1000 Ladies' No-Limit Hold 'em World Series of Poker event. She has been married three times. She married James Rogers in 1976, adopting his surname. They divorced in 1980. On May 9, 1987 she married actor Tom Cruise in a New"
"Awards, British Academy Film Awards, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Nicole Kidman filmography Australian actress Nicole Kidman made her film debut in the drama remake ""Bush Christmas"" in 1983. Four years later, she starred in the television miniseries ""Vietnam"", for which she received the Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini Series award from the Australian Film Institute. Kidman's breakthrough role was in the 1989 thriller ""Dead Calm""; her performance as a married woman trapped on a yacht with a psychopathic murderer earned critical acclaim and international recognition. She followed this with her Hollywood debut opposite Tom Cruise in"
"Tom Cruise, she stated that she did not want their children raised as Scientologists. She has been reluctant to discuss Scientology since her divorce. In 2014, Kidman said she had been practising Transcendental Meditation since her early twenties. Kidman has donated to U.S. Democratic party candidates. In 2002, Kidman first appeared on the Australian rich list published annually in the ""Business Review Weekly"" with an estimated net worth of A$122 million. In the 2011 published list, Kidman's wealth was estimated at A$304 million, down from A$329 million in 2010. Kidman has raised money for, and drawn attention to, disadvantaged children"
"They were also both in the 2013 film ""The Counselor"". Cruz began dating Bardem in 2007 and they married in early July 2010 in a private ceremony at a friend's home in the Bahamas. They have a son born in 2011 in Los Angeles, and a daughter born in 2013. She has become a public advocate of breastfeeding since the birth of her children. Both Cruz and Bardem are the only Spanish actors to win an Academy Award, obtaining Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor respectively. Cruz had a three-year relationship with Tom Cruise after they appeared together in"
"Nicole Kidman filmography Australian actress Nicole Kidman made her film debut in the drama remake ""Bush Christmas"" in 1983. Four years later, she starred in the television miniseries ""Vietnam"", for which she received the Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini Series award from the Australian Film Institute. Kidman's breakthrough role was in the 1989 thriller ""Dead Calm""; her performance as a married woman trapped on a yacht with a psychopathic murderer earned critical acclaim and international recognition. She followed this with her Hollywood debut opposite Tom Cruise in Tony Scott's auto-racing film ""Days of Thunder"" (1990). Her role"
"through the Church's Purification Rundown program. After the end of the Cruise-Cruz relationship, Miscavige was reported to have led a Church program to find a new girlfriend for Tom Cruise, which led to him marrying Katie Holmes. Around a hundred young Scientologist actresses were interviewed, though they were not told why. An actress named Nazanin Boniadi was introduced to Cruise and dated him for a few months before he broke off the relationship in January 2005. The search resumed, with more actresses invited to audition for what they thought was a role in a forthcoming ""Mission: Impossible"" film, and eventually"
"level of OT VI, in 2000. She received film credits as Production Associate on movies starring Tom Cruise's then-wife Nicole Kidman, including ""Eyes Wide Shut"", ""Portrait of a Lady"" and ""Practical Magic"". Cruise included Doven in family outings, often taking him along for trips with his son Connor Cruise. Doven was the only individual from Cruise's entourage to accompany the actor on a 2002 trip to NASA to meet with astronauts on the Space Shuttle program. Doven had an acting film role in Cruise's ""Eyes Wide Shut"", directed by Stanley Kubrick, in addition to serving in a film production capacity"
"In February 2001, Cruise filed for divorce from Kidman while she was unknowingly pregnant. The pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. In 2007, Kidman clarified rumors of a miscarriage early in her marriage to Cruise, saying in an interview, ""It was wrongly reported,"" and explaining that she had actually had an ectopic pregnancy. Before Kidman's next marriage to Keith Urban, she spoke of how much she still loved Cruise, saying in 2006: ""He was huge; still is. To me, he was just Tom, but to everybody else, he is huge. But he was lovely to me. And I loved him. I"
"""Aquaman"". She has finished filming her supporting role as Mrs. Barbour in John Crowley's ""The Goldfinch"", an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Donna Tartt, starring Ansel Elgort. Kidman has filmed a second season of ""Big Little Lies"", will star in another HBO miniseries, ""The Undoing"", based on the novel ""You Should Have Known"" by Jean Hanff Korelitz, and will portray Gretchen Carlson in ""Fair and Balanced"", a drama about sexual harassment at Fox News. Kidman has been married twice: previously to actor Tom Cruise, and now to country singer Keith Urban. She has four children: an"
"Tom Cruise and Clint Eastwood. His daughter Sophie married the Hon. Edward John Hugh Tollemache in February 2007. Edward is the heir apparent of Timothy Tollemache, 5th Baron Tollemache. Sophie Johnstone had a bit part in ""A Fish Called Wanda"" at the age of six and presently works in television as a researcher. His son, , is currently a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing as Iachimo in Cymbeline and Edgar in King Lear in 2016. He has appeared in supporting roles in numerous UK films in recent years. Iain Johnstone Iain Johnstone (born 8 April 1943 in Reading,"
"evolved into something that ""for all its darkness had a really romantic heart"". Conrad Hall was not the first choice for director of photography; Mendes believed he was ""too old and too experienced"" to want the job, and he had been told that Hall was difficult to work with. Instead, Mendes asked Fred Elmes, who turned the job down because he did not like the script. Hall was recommended to Mendes by Tom Cruise, because of Hall's work on ""Without Limits"" (1998), which Cruise had executive produced. Mendes was directing Cruise's then-wife Nicole Kidman in the play ""The Blue Room"""
"Rathbun claims that wife Nicole Kidman was wiretapped on Tom Cruise's suggestion (which Cruise's lawyer denies). In 2006, ""Premiere"" ranked Cruise as Hollywood's most powerful actor, as Cruise came in at number 13 on the magazine's 2006 Power List, being the highest ranked actor. The same year, ""Forbes"" magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity. The founder of CinemaScore in 2016 cited Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio as the ""two stars, it doesn't matter how bad the film is, they can pull [the box office] up"". In August 2006, Paramount cited Cruise's ""recent conduct"" as the reason they did"
"and Away"" (1992), both of which co-starred then-wife Nicole Kidman as his love interest. In 1994, Cruise starred along with Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas and Christian Slater in Neil Jordan's ""Interview with the Vampire"", a gothic drama/horror film that was based on Anne Rice's best-selling novel. The film was well received, although Rice was initially quite outspoken in her criticism of Cruise having been cast in the film, as Julian Sands was her first choice. Upon seeing the film however, she paid $7,740 for a two-page ad in ""Daily Variety"" praising his performance and apologizing for her previous doubts about"
"In July 2015, the couple had their third child. Koyuki , better known by her stage name , is a Japanese model and actress. Koyuki appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 film ""Pulse"". Her first international film was ""The Last Samurai"" where she played Taka, wife of a Samurai slain by the character Nathan Algren, portrayed by Tom Cruise. She also appeared in """" live-action film starring Jun Ji-hyun, where she plays Onigen, the arch-villain. In 2011, Koyuki married actor Kenichi Matsuyama, who co-starred with her in ""Kamui Gaiden"". The couple's first child was born in January 2012, and their second"
"girlfriend, Erin Finn, assisted the FBI lead agent Stanley Ornellas in the investigation of Pfeifer and Pellicano. On April 3, 2006, film director John McTiernan was charged with lying to the FBI about his relationship with Pellicano. On April 17, 2006, McTiernan pleaded guilty to the charge. On September 24, 2007, he was sentenced to four months in prison. The sentence was later increased to twelve months, and ultimately he was incarcerated in federal prison from April 2013 to February 2014. Dennis Wasser represented Tom Cruise in his divorce proceedings against Nicole Kidman. Wasser retained Pellicano. Tapes of telephone conversations"
"Kidman next starred with Sam Neill in ""Dead Calm"" (1989) as Rae Ingram, playing the wife of a naval officer. The thriller brought Kidman to international recognition; ""Variety"" commented: ""Throughout the film, Kidman is excellent. She gives the character of Rae real tenacity and energy."" Meanwhile, critic Roger Ebert noted the excellent chemistry between the leads, stating, ""Kidman and Zane do generate real, palpable hatred in their scenes together."" She followed that up with the Australian miniseries ""Bangkok Hilton"". She next moved on to star alongside her then-boyfriend and future husband, Tom Cruise, in the 1990 auto racing film ""Days"
"by the older girls."" Jim Dincalci, one of her shipmates, says that she was ""a sweet, innocent thing thrown into chaos."" At the age of 21, in December 1982, she married a fellow CMO member, 22-year-old David Miscavige. She subsequently joined her husband's group as ""COB Assistant,"" the official assistant to her husband, the Chairman of the Board (COB) of Scientology's Religious Technology Center. According to author Lawrence Wright, she was closely involved in the Church's liaison with its most famous member, Tom Cruise. When Cruise started a three-year relationship with Penélope Cruz, Miscavige supervised Cruz's auditing and helped her"
"first marriage, to the set designer Robin Wagner, brought her into the industry’s A-list circles; she was at Robin’s side when the director Michael Bennett shared ideas for ""A Chorus Line"""". Wagner was a talent agent at Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles, spending 15 years representing some of the top Hollywood actors, including Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Oliver Stone, Val Kilmer, Demi Moore, Liam Neeson, Robert Towne, and Kathryn Bigelow. In 1993, she launched Cruise/Wagner Productions (C/W) with her former CAA client Tom Cruise. For the next 13 years, Cruise and she produced a wide range of films that"
"Far and Away Far and Away is a 1992 American epic romantic adventure drama film directed by Ron Howard from a script by Howard and Bob Dolman. It stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. This was the last cinematography credit for Mikael Salomon before he moved onto a directing career, and the music score was done by John Williams. It was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. Cruise and Kidman play Irish immigrants seeking their fortune in 1890s America, eventually taking part in the Land Run of 1893. This was Cyril Cusack's final film before his"
"former Scientologists. To support its thesis, the film utilises footage of ex-Scientologists harassed and surveilled (per Hubbard's dictum that the church's critics were all criminals whose crimes needed to be exposed), and describes the imprisonment of senior Scientology executives in a facility known as ""The Hole""; one Scientologist was said to have been forced to clean a bathroom with his tongue. According to the film, actress Nicole Kidman was targeted for wiretapping by Scientology in an effort to break her marriage to Tom Cruise after she was labeled a ""potential trouble source"" by the church; whereas Travolta has been forced"
"Nicole Kidman Nicole Mary Kidman (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian actress and producer. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and the Silver Bear for Best Actress. Kidman began her acting career in Australia with the 1983 film ""Bush Christmas"". In the same year, she starred in ""BMX Bandits,"" also filmed in Australia. Her breakthrough came in 1989 with the thriller ""Dead Calm"" and the television miniseries ""Bangkok Hilton"". In 1990, she made her Hollywood debut in the racing film ""Days of Thunder"", opposite Tom Cruise."
"Tom Cruise filmography Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor role in the 1981 romantic drama ""Endless Love"". Two years later he made his breakthrough by starring in the romantic comedy ""Risky Business"" (1983), which garnered Cruise his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In 1986, Cruise played a fighter pilot in the Tony Scott-directed action drama ""Top Gun"" (the highest-grossing film that year), and also starred opposite Paul Newman in the Martin Scorsese-directed drama ""The Color of Money"". Two years"
"July 5, 2012, Pellicano's bail hearing was postponed due to poor health. The following day Tom Cruise was accused of conspiring with Pellicano to create a wiretap during Cruise's divorce from Nicole Kidman. On August 29, 2008, Pellicano was found guilty of conspiracy to commit wiretapping. Specifically, Pellicano had recorded phone conversations of Kirk Kerkorian's ex-wife, Lisa Kerkorian, in an effort to disprove her claims that Kerkorian was the father of her daughter. Sentencing was scheduled for November, 2008 then deferred to December 15, 2008. Pellicano was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of"
"first weekend at the box office and made a total of $58 million domestically (it also fared solidly abroad, with almost $79 million) and $137 million worldwide. The film altogether made $166,694,840 from worldwide and home video rentals. Far and Away Far and Away is a 1992 American epic romantic adventure drama film directed by Ron Howard from a script by Howard and Bob Dolman. It stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. This was the last cinematography credit for Mikael Salomon before he moved onto a directing career, and the music score was done by John Williams. It was screened"
"in her marriage. ""It was wrongly reported as miscarriage, by everyone who picked up the story."" ""So it's huge news, and it didn't happen."" In the June 2006 issue of ""Ladies' Home Journal"", she said she still loved Cruise: ""He was huge; still is. To me, he was just Tom, but to everybody else, he is huge. But he was lovely to me and I loved him. I still love him."" In addition, she has expressed shock about their divorce. In 2015, former Church of Scientology executive Mark Rathbun claimed in a documentary film that he was instructed to ""facilitate"
"misinterpreted. In 1990, Rogers began living with Chris Ciaffa. They have two children. The couple married in 2003. Rogers has made campaign contributions to the Democratic Party. Rogers' father became interested in Dianetics in 1952 and later became a prominent Mission Holder with the Church of Scientology and friend of founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Rogers also reportedly became a highly trained auditor with the church. Prior to her acting career, she opened a ""field auditing"" practice, the Enhancement Center, with her first husband, Jim Rogers. She was a church auditor for Sonny Bono. Tom Cruise was also a client before"
"adopted during his marriage to Kidman and the other a biological daughter with Holmes. Cruise is an outspoken advocate for the Church of Scientology and its associated social programs, and credits it with helping him overcome dyslexia. In the 2000s, he sparked controversy with his Church-affiliated criticisms of psychiatry and anti-depressant drugs (particularly for 9/11 rescue workers), his efforts to promote Scientology as a religion in Europe, and a leaked video interview of him promoting Scientology. Cruise was born in Syracuse, New York, the son of Mary Lee (""née"" Pfeiffer), a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an"