Tom Cruise (born July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York, USA) is a major Hollywood star who has appeared in two movies covered by RiffTrax to date.
Cruise has appeared in hit films such as Taps, The Outsiders (with Patrick Swayze), Legend, A Few Good Men (with Jack Nicholson), the Mission: Impossible movie franchise, Jerry Maguire, Interview with the Vampire (with Christian Slater), Magnolia, the Steven Spielberg films Minority Report and War of the Worlds, Jack Reacher, and Edge of Tomorrow.
On MST3K, he was referenced as resembling the secondary villain Torgo in Manos: The Hands of Fate. In the RiffTrax Live! event Sharknado, Michael J. Nelson references the actor by noting how the protagonist in the film is running frantically while holding a cellphone by remarking: "He's Tom Cruising it!".