About the Picture Slideshow/Slide Show: Tom Cruise has been in the movie world for such a long time and still is so famous. He was born on 1962, so he is in his fourties. From being a actor he has become a producer. He has produced Vanilla Sky(2001), The Last Samurai(2003), Mission: Impossible III (2006). He gets paid around $75,000,000 for his films.