Tom Cruise‘s love life has been intently adopted for many years, ever since making his breakthrough within the 1983 basic Dangerous Enterprise. His romantic historical past consists of three well-known marriages (all of which ended, coincidentally, when his wives have been 33 years previous) and a string of different high-profile romances. However between 2012-2020, Tom seemingly pumped the brakes on public romances.
Nonetheless, there was renewed curiosity within the love lifetime of one among Hollywood’s most well-known bachelors after a brand new report surfaced in December 2020. It claimed that Tom was courting his co-star Hayley Atwell from Mission: Not possible 7. In June 2022, one other report got here out that the pair broke up. In 2023, Tom reportedly moved on with mannequin Elsina Khayrova. However by 2025, it appeared that Ana de Armas captured Tom’s coronary heart.
We have now extra info on Tom’s many different romances because the ’80s under.
Melissa Gilbert
Melissa Gilbert, who performed Laura Ingalls on the NBC sequence Little Home on the Prairie, claimed that she dated Tom within the early 1980’s. This was on the very starting of his profession! “Truly, once I dated him he was Tom Mapother nonetheless. It was when he first moved to Los Angeles and I feel I used to be 16, perhaps, or 17?,” Melissa mentioned on Watch What Occurs Dwell with Andy Cohen in 2017.
“I didn’t have intercourse with him,” Laura added. “We made out, however, actually, there was no intercourse. He was a very good kisser. However, , he was, like, a struggling, ravenous actor. I truly purchased him his first set of dishes.” Melissa even reminisced on her friendship/previous relationship along with her fellow “Brat Pack” pal, Tom, in a throwback Instagram put up shared in October 2019.
Heather Locklear
Heather Locklear was by no means Tom’s girlfriend, however she did go on one (form of) date with him. It didn’t go nicely, in accordance with her recollection. The Melrose Place star defined in a 2013 interview on Chelsea Recently that that they had each “auditioned for one thing” collectively, again when Tom “didn’t have mates” in Hollywood within the early ’80s. So, they went dancing.
“You recognize in ‘Dangerous Enterprise’ the place he does that dance in his underwear and does the splits? We have been dancing at a membership and he went into that. He beginning doing the splits,” Heather mentioned. “You simply form of stand there and don’t know what to do. Do you dance round him? So, I used to be like, ‘I’ll simply sit down and you may.’”
“And that was the one date you had?,” Chelsea Handler then requested Heather, to which the actress mentioned, “I feel so.” Tom and Heather are pictured above collectively in 1981.
Rebecca De Mornay
Rebecca de Mornay and Tom performed lovers in Tom’s breakthrough movie, Dangerous Enterprise, which got here out in 1983. Their on-screen chemistry turned out to be actual! Though Rebecca joked that Tom was “extraordinarily annoying” at first, she admitted, “He got here to develop on me as a result of we wound up collectively for 2 and a half years after that movie” in a 2018 interview with Movie star Web page.
Cher
Tom famously made Cher‘s “Prime 5” lovers record, which she revealed on Watch What Occurs Dwell with Andy Cohen in 2013. “I had simply the best lovers ever. Not a protracted record. It’s only a good record,” the singer had mentioned.
Cher defined how she and Tom related in a separate interview. “A bunch of people that have been dyslexic have been invited to the White Home, and Tom and I are each dyslexic. We didn’t exit until manner later, however there undoubtedly was a connection there,” Cher advised the Mail on Sunday in 2018. She added, “Although I don’t get what he does, that entire Scientology factor. I can’t perceive it so I simply… don’t.”
Mimi Rogers
It was throughout this relationship that Tom infamously joined the Church of Scientology, which he’s a distinguished determine in to today. When Tom met actress Mimi Rogers, she had been a number of years divorced from Scientologist Jim Rogers. “I met her at a cocktail party a couple of yr in the past, once I was growing Prime Gun. She was courting a pal, and, uh, I believed she was extraordinarily vibrant,” Tom recalled in a 1986 interview with Rolling Stone.
Nonetheless, Mimi had a conflicting story. “I wasn’t seeing anyone, he wasn’t seeing anyone, and so they thought, ‘These individuals must be going out with someone — let’s see in the event that they wish to exit with one another.’ And we mentioned, ‘Aw, what the heck. OK’,” Mimi advised the Solar Sentinel in 1987.
Tom sounded smitten in one other Rolling Stone interview, which was revealed mere days earlier than his break up from Mimi was introduced in 1990. “I’d by no means been in love earlier than. Since I’ve been along with her, it’s opened me up quite a bit. I feel it’s helped me be a greater actor. We dwell quite a lot of life collectively. We share every thing,” he gushed, later including, “I care about my spouse greater than something on the planet. She’s my finest pal. I simply actually like being along with her, ? I like her.” The divorce was finalized in February 1990, three years after they bought married.
Nicole Kidman
Tom Cruise moved on to his subsequent marriage, which was with Moulin Rouge! star Nicole Kidman. They met on the set of their film Days of Thunder, during which they performed lovers, in 1990. By the top of the yr, they have been husband and spouse. Tom and Nicole adopted two kids amid their 11-year marriage: Isabella in 1992, and Connor in 1994.
In the course of the marriage, Tom and Nicole additionally filmed one other film collectively, Eyes Extensive Shut, in 1999. Nicole even appeared again at their time filming collectively in a uncommon interview in Oct. 2020, telling the New York Instances, “We have been fortunately married via that. We might go go-kart racing after these scenes. We’d lease out a spot and go racing at three within the morning. I don’t know what else to say. Perhaps I don’t have the power to look again and dissect it. Or I’m not prepared to.”
Nicole famously by no means joined Tom’s Church of Scientology, which even their kids went on to be lively members in. Tom and Nicole’s break up was introduced in Feb. 2001, and Tom filed for divorce two days later. To today, the exes have minimal interactions with each other. “Tom has had little to no contact with Nicole within the 18 years since being married and that’s nice by him,” a supply near Tom solely advised HollywoodLife. “He actually doesn’t miss her a lot in any respect.”
Penélope Cruz
Tom took a break from the married life and began courting Penélope Cruz, whom he met on the set of the film Vanilla Sky in 2000. They loved a three-year relationship, which the previous couple’s reps confirmed led to 2004. “They continue to be good mates and nonetheless speak typically. There isn’t any different individual concerned,” Penelope’s spokesperson advised Folks on the time.
Katie Holmes
Enter Katie Holmes, who so far stays one among Tom’s most well-known exes. Paradoxically, Katie as soon as advised Seventeen Journal in 2004 that she “used to suppose that [she] was going to marry Tom Cruise,” which didn’t end up to simply be wishful considering. The 2 got here collectively the very subsequent yr.
Katie and Tom’s first public look as lovers occurred in April of 2005. Tom was with the Dawson’s Creek star in Rome, the place he was visiting to gather his David di Donatello Award for lifetime achievement. The very subsequent month, Tom was leaping on Oprah Winfrey‘s sofa and proclaiming that he’s “in love” (to which Oprah mentioned, “The boy is gone”).
The connection shortly superior. When Katie stepped onto the Batman Begins premiere in June of 2005, the actress revealed that she’s changing to Scientology (Tom’s faith) and her engagement to Tom was introduced that exact same month. By October, the couple was anticipating, and in April of 2006 they welcomed their first little one collectively, a daughter named Suri.
Katie and Tom tied the knot in Italy in Nov. 2006, and all appeared completely happy till June of 2012, when Katie filed for divorce. A settlement for custody of Suri was selected a month later. A yr afterwards, Tom admitted that he “didn’t count on” that divorce in an interview with German tv community ProSieben.
Katie mirrored on the time after the divorce in an April 2020 interview with InStyle. “That point was intense. It was quite a lot of consideration, and I had a little bit little one on prime of it. We had some humorous moments out and about in public. So many individuals I didn’t know grew to become my mates and helped us out, and that’s what I like in regards to the metropolis,” she mentioned.
Hayley Atwell
Tom reportedly began courting Hayley Atwell — whom you will have seen taking part in Peggy Carter within the Captain America films — in 2020, in accordance with a report from The Solar that surfaced in December of that yr. Hayley and Tom filmed Mission 7: Not possible collectively amid the pandemic.
“Tom and Hayley hit it off from day one,” a supply advised The Solar, who added, “Lockdown, and all of the difficulties that got here with it, introduced them even nearer and so they’ve turn out to be pretty inseparable.” Tom and Hayley didn’t verify this report, however he hasn’t confirmed any romances since his marriage to Katie, and on June 12, 2022, it was reported he and Hayley had break up. It was the second reported break up since again in September 2021, they reportedly additionally referred to as it quits however reconciled a short while later.
“Tom and Hayley’s relationship was real,” a supply advised The Solar. “Despite some rumours on the contrary, it was by no means only for the cameras. Sadly it hasn’t labored out for them. They get on very well, and have improbable chemistry, which is why they determined to quietly give the connection one other attempt earlier this yr.”
Elsina Khayrova
In mid-2023, a number of retailers reported that Tom had quietly began courting the mannequin and socialite.
“They’re very completely happy,” a supply advised Us Weekly in December 2023. “And Tom’s extraordinarily assured about it understanding for the long run. Tom goes into 2024 completely energized, excited and feeling more healthy and happier than he has in years. This can be a very particular time for him, and having a severe relationship in his life that he can construct on is the icing on the cake.”
Ana de Armas
In early 2025, Tom and Ana sparked courting rumors after they have been seen on a wide range of seemingly amicable outings collectively. Lastly, in July 2025, TMZ revealed pictures of the duo holding fingers whereas on a low-key getaway in Vermont. Neither of them has publicly confirmed their romance.
