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Since making his big screen debut in little-seen 1981 romantic drama Endless Love, Tom Cruise has become one of the biggest movie stars in history.
It only took him two years to find his breakthrough role in comedy Risky Business, before securing his status as Hollywood royalty in 1986’s Top Gun.
Not only is he one of the highest-paid and most profitable actors of all time (his films have grossed over $12 billion), he’s also critically-acclaimed and laden with prizes, including an Honorary Palme d'Or and three Golden Globe Awards.
Far from being the typical action movie star, he’s made numerous interesting choices during his career, working with the likes of Oliver Stone in Born on the Fourth of July, Stanley Kubrick on Eyes Wide Shut, and Paul Thomas Anderson on Magnolia.
The one award that has eluded him is an Oscar, with acting nominations for Magnolia, Jerry Maguire and Born on the Fourth of July, and a nomination for Best Film as a producer on Top Gun: Maverick.
His Mission: Impossible films, in which he stars as secret agent Ethan Hunt, have been a box office juggernaught.
The final instalment, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, is released next week and is tipped to be one of the biggest films of the year.
We thought that would be a good excuse to look back at the 15 critical highlights of his career so far - according to review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.
5. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
The fourth and final 'Mission: Impossible' film to make this list is 2011's 'Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol', proving once again Cruise's amazing ability to garner great reviews with big budget action films. It sees Ethan Hunt's IMF team (that's the Impossible Missions Force, NOT the International Monetary Fund...) shut down after being framed for a bombing of the Kremlin. Can they clear their names? Yes they can. It also scores 94 per cent on the Tomatometer. | Contributed
6. Risky Business
We're going way back to 1983 for Cruise's sixth most acclaimed film - right at the start of his career. 'Risky Business' is a coming-of-age comedy that sees Cruise play a high school pupil getting up to mischief when his parents leave him home alone. It's a hugely charismatic performance that catapulted him to global fame - well worthy of its 93 per cent 'Certified Fresh' rating. | Contributed
7. Edge of Tomorrow
High concept sci-fi 'Edge of Tomorrow' has received 91 per cent positive reviews since its release in 2014. Cruise stars as an army PR officer who fights an invading force of aliens while being stuck in a time loop - earning the film its tagline of 'Live, Die, Repeat'. | Contributed
8. Minority Report
Based on a Philip K. Dick novella, 'Minority Report. saw Cruise team up with Stephen Spielberg to deliver a thought-provoking sci-fi noir where a specialised police department is tasked with arresting people for crimes they have yet to commit. Cruise stars as the chief of the 'Precrime Unit' making use of the talents of a group of psychics called 'Precogs'. They might have forseen that the film would have a Tomatometer rating of 89 per cent. | Contributed