Tom Cruise Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Tom Cruise filmography covers 59 movie titles and 5 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Tom Cruise movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Endless Love (1981) as Billy
• Taps (1981) as Cadet Captain David Shawn
• All the Right Moves (1983) as Stefen Djordjevic
• Losin' It (1983) as Woody
• Risky Business (1983) as Joel Goodson
• The Outsiders (1983) as Steve Randle
• Legend (1985) as Jack
• The Color of Money (1986) as Vincent Lauria
• Top Gun (1986) as Maverick
• Cocktail (1988) as Brian Flanagan
• Rain Man (1988) as Charlie Babbitt
• Young Guns (1988) as Henchman Shot off of Roof (uncredited)
• Born on the Fourth of July (1989) as Ron Kovic
• Days of Thunder (1990) as Cole Trickle
• A Few Good Men (1992) as Lt. Daniel Kaffee
• Far and Away (1992) as Joseph Donnelly
• The Firm (1993) as Mitch McDeere
• Interview with the Vampire (1994) as Lestat
• Jerry Maguire (1996) as Jerry Maguire
• Mission: Impossible (1996) as Ethan Hunt
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999) as Dr. William Harford
• Magnolia (1999) as Frank T.J. Mackey
• Mission: Impossible II (2000) as Ethan Hunt
• Mission: Improbable (2001) as Tom Cruise
• Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) as Self - Actor & Film Producer / Narrator
• Vanilla Sky (2001) as David Aames
• Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) as Tom Cruise / Famous Austin ('Austinpussy')
• Minority Report (2002) as Chief John Anderton
• Space Station 3D (2002) as Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Last Samurai (2003) as Nathan Algren
• Collateral (2004) as Vincent
• War of the Worlds (2005) as Ray
• Mission: Impossible III (2006) as Ethan Hunt
• Lions for Lambs (2007) as Senator Jasper Irving
• Rain of Madness (2008) as Les Grossman
• Tropic Thunder (2008) as Les Grossman
• Valkyrie (2008) as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
• Knight and Day (2010) as Roy Miller
• Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) as Ethan Hunt
• Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) as (archive footage)
• Jack Reacher (2012) as Jack Reacher
• Rock of Ages (2012) as Stacee Jaxx
• Oblivion (2013) as Jack
• Edge of Tomorrow (2014) as Cage
• Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) as Ethan Hunt
• Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman (2015) as Self (archive footage)
• Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) as Jack Reacher
• My Scientology Movie (2016) as Self (Archive Footage)
• American Made (2017) as Barry Seal
• Spielberg (2017) as Self - Segment "War of the Worlds"
• The Mummy (2017) as Nick Morton
• Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) as Ethan Hunt
• Kubrick by Kubrick (2020) as Self (archive footage)
• Tom Cruise: An Eternal Youth (2020) as Self (archive footage)
• Top Gun: Maverick (2022) as Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell
• Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) as Ethan Hunt
• BRATS (2024) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Final: Attack on Wembley (2024) as Self (archive footage)
• Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) as Ethan Hunt

Tom Cruise television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Tom Cruise; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• American Idol as Self
• Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields as Self (archive footage)
• Running Man
• Simone Biles Rising as Self
• The Oscars as Self

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Tom Cruise's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.