The young Cruise attended seminary school for a while and planned to become a Catholic priest, but he was struck by the acting bug and moved to New York to follow his career when he was 18. Cruise got his big break 25 years ago in the teen flick Risky Business in 1983. He played a nerdy teenager who hooks up with a prostitute while his parents are away. Tom dated his co-star on the film, Rebecca De Mornay, for two and a half years.