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Tom Cruise Relationships 

Heartthrob and action film icon Tom Cruise has had his fair share of bumps when it comes to relationships. Well, with a score of more than 100% in the looks department, he’s sure to break a few hearts.

Diane Cox

Among his long list of girlfriends is Diane Cox whom he dated for a year and 4 months way back 1979. Diane was 17 at the time she met Tom who was then 18 during their high school prom in their hometown of Glen Ridge, New Jersey.

When asked about the encounter, Diane recalled, “We both blew off our dates and hooked up at the after-party. I already had a feeling we both liked each other. I came out of the bathroom and he was waiting there with a bottle of booze and a huge grin, and we kissed right there outside the bathroom.” She recalls not having gone beyond just kissing then. But that was the start of their relationship.

Their relationship started in May of 1979 but ended just over a year later.

Heather Locklear

Apparently, Tom was quick to move on from Melissa because by March of 1982 (the same year he had been reportedly dating Gilberts), he went out with Heather Locklear.

However, just like the brief dating experience he had with Melissa, Tom and Heather’s relationship only lasted for 6 months.

When asked about their relationship, Heather recalled, “I don’t think we kissed. It was more friends.”

Oops! Have we got a friend-zoned lady in here?

Rebecca De Mornay

It’s a given that when you’re young and still full of vigor, on-screen matchups are guaranteed to end up in a real-life relationship.

Sure enough, Rebecca and Tom worked together in Risky Business in 1983.

Being the typical secretive guy that he is, not one to overshare details about his dating life, he took on a different route when he opened up to Rolling Stone Mag about a girlfriend that he was in love with. Apparently, that girlfriend was Rebecca De Mornay.

In the Rolling Stone article, it was written, “Despite their incendiary love scenes, they didn’t start dating until after the film’s release in the late summer of 1983.”

Their short-lived romance ended just two years after his declaration. Apparently, they were in a long-distance relationship and it only got harder once Tom started working in London for the film Legend and before he filmed the cult classic Top Gun.

Tom recalled in an interview, “Relationships are hard. You have to know when you’re going to be in a different place from someone else, you have to have the strength to separate.”

Patti Scialfa

The now-66-year-old American vocalist Patti Scialfa also dated Tom Cruise. She’s famous for the E street band.

The two dated briefly for 10 months and 4 days and were spotted in New York together with many well-known studio musicians.

Cher

Music icon Cher and Tom Cruise dated for a year (1985). The relationship was kept a secret until 2008.

If it’s not yet too obvious, Tom’s not one to skip a whole year without a hook-up.

Mimi Rogers

The American actress known for the movies Someone to Watch Over Me, The Loop, and The X-Files, Mimi Rogers started dating Tom Cruise in January of 1986 until the 9th of May in 1987 when they were married for 2 years and 8 months.

Rogers was reportedly the one who introduced Tom to the Church of Scientology and eventually claimed that she divorced Tom due to lack of physical intimacy between them.

Nicole Kidman

Ahhh, Nicole Kidman. 

Who doesn’t know Nicole? 

I mean, with an ethereal beauty like hers, men are pretty likely to be interested.

Going back to on-screen matchups, Nicole and Tom met on the set of the movie Days of Thunder way back 1990. With only a year of dating, they decided to tie the knot in Telluride, Colorado on Christmas Eve.

The two have two adopted children together – Isabella (born in 1992) and Connor (born in 1995).

After more than 10 years of marriage, on the 5th of February in 2001, the couple’s spokesperson announced that the two would be separated. It was a high-profile relationship which would naturally mean that the breakup would be high-profile too.

Two days after the announcement, Cruise filed for divorce, and their marriage was nullified in August of that same year. Cruise cited that the reason for their divorce was irreconcilable differences.

Nicole noted in an interview with Marie Claire in 2007 that reports of her having had an ectopic pregnancy were incorrect. She recalled, “It was wrongly reported [as miscarriage], by everyone who picked up the story.”

In the June 2006 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, she gushed over the fact that she still loved Cruise saying, “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.”

The two had starred in 3 films together: Days of Thunder (1990), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), and Far and Away (1992).

Penelope Cruz

They say that Latinas are innately hot and sensual. Well, I guess Penelope is no exception to that notion. Perhaps that’s how she had Tom Cruise under her spell.

The Latina bombshell co-starred with Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky while the latter was in the middle of a divorce battle with Nicole Kidman.

Cruz and Cruise dated from June of 2001 until January of 2004 and have since remained “good friends.”

In an interview with Perez Hilton, it was revealed, “Tom was head over heels in love with Penelope and could see them spending the rest of their lives together, and she felt the same way. However, Penelope pulled the plug on the relationship because she felt that the Church of Scientology was the third wheel in their relationship.”

Nazanin Boniadi

Apparently, Tom Cruise wants to explore the dating world so much he jumps from one race to another.

From Americans to Latinas, this time, he dated Iranian actress Nazanin Boniadi. Boniadi was famous for General Hospital and Hotel Mumbai.

However, Tom dating Nazani goes way beyond just attraction and him wanting to “explore” deeper into the dating world.

Nazanin was a Scientologist just like Tom was. She was reportedly “selected” to date the actor, which she did from November of 2004 until January of 2005. The actress was initially selected for “a very important mission.” The preparation took a month where she was audited every day by a high-ranking official of Scientology. In that audit, she recalled having to divulge her innermost secrets, including every minute detail of her sex life.

Boniadi recalled having been forced to lose her red highlights, her braces, and even her boyfriend. One source says that she was told about confidential files of her boyfriend to further expedite their breakup. This claim has since been denied by the Church of Scientology. Nazanin was made to sign a confidentiality agreement that, when violated, would force her to be declared a “Suppressive Person” or an enemy of Scientology.

Nazanin was reportedly flown to New York to meet Cruise when she sensed that an arranged marriage was bound to happen.

Their first date was spent at Nobu with an entourage of Scientology aides. After their dinner, they went to the Rockefeller Center skating rink where the place was made exclusive for only the two of them.

The actress was in love with Tom Cruise but he was reportedly too keen on public displays of affection and it overwhelmed her. Tom complained, “I get more love from an extra than I get from you.”

Sofia Vergara

Another Latina in the roster, Sofia Vergara is a Colombian actress who is famous for her role in Modern Family.

Tom and Sofia reportedly met in a party thrown by the actor’s dear friend, Will Smith. Their relationship only lasted for a month and 29 days from January of 2005 until March of the same year.

Katie Holmes

Dawson’s Creek actress Katie Holmes had a very public relationship with Tom Cruise for more than 5 years.

Their relationship started in April of 2005 when the two were seen together in Rome after Cruise received a lifetime achievement David di Donatello Award. The two were reportedly already dating for weeks by then though.

A month later, Cruise gushed about Holmes when he appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, jumping up and down the couch saying, “I’m in love. I’m in love and it’s one of those things where you want to be cool, like, ‘Yeah, I like her’…that’s not how I feel. I wanted to meet this person and I met her and she’s extraordinary.”

In June of that year, Katie declared her intent to convert to Scientology, and the two announced their publicized engagement. Three months later and they were already expecting.

A month after having given birth to their first daughter, Suri, in October of 2006, the two had a star-studded wedding ceremony at an Italian castle.

6 years later and Cruise promoted his movie Rock of Ages sans Katie Holmes. Later that month, Holmes filed for divorce. The two have settled arrangements with their only daughter.

A year later, in an interview with German TV Network ProSieben, Cruise reportedly said he hadn’t expected the divorce.

He would later call his life a “tragicomedy” saying, “To be 50 and to have experiences and to think you have a grip on everything…and then it hits you: This is it, what life can do to you.”

Cynthia Jorge

After his publicized relationship with Katie Holmes, Tom was linked to Cynthia Jorge, a restaurant owner. They were spotted in Manhattan after she reportedly gave the actor her contact information when Tom ate in one of her restaurants.

The two were allegedly seen dancing together. However, that was as far as details of their rumored relationship go.

Olga Kurylenko

It was in 2013 when Tom Cruise and Quantum of Solace star Olga Kurylenko were spotted kissing in public. However, it was later revealed that the female star was in a relationship with actor Max Benitz.

Apparently, it was just a fling.

Laura Prepon

That same year, Tom Cruise found a likely match for him. That match was Laura Prepon. Why a match, you ask? 

Well, they’re also both Scientologists.

But, as it turns out, those were just rumors – neither the Orange is the New Black star nor Tom Cruise ever confirmed them as true.

Michelle Dockery

When Tom Cruise sat next to Michelle Dockery at The Fashion Awards in London in December of 2019, it was rumored that Tom had plans of pursuing her.

However, it seems that the heartthrob’s killer smile didn’t work with the Downton Abbey actress. 

Apparently, Dockey was already in a relationship with Jasper Waller-Bridge, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s brother.

Elizabeth Moss

Fellow Scientologist Elizabeth Moss also fell under Tom’s spell. The two became an item for a short while and shared their love for their faith. Moss and Cruise were devout Scientologists and are very clear and public about their faith.

In one of her interviews, Moss confirmed to Marie Claire that she had a new beau but didn’t name the guy. Fans were left to assume it was Tom she was talking about.

In March of 2020, she finally came forward about her alleged romance with the actor.

“I actually was confused. [I] mainly got texts from people being like, ‘I didn’t know. Why didn’t you tell me?’ And just confusion from my friends, but mainly poking fun at it ‘cause obviously they knew it wasn’t true.”

Tom Cruise has remained quiet about his romantic life after his very public relationships and high-profile divorces from co-stars Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman, and Katie Holmes.