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Tom Cruise was married to three beautiful actresses and he dated several others after he entered the film field. However, fans always wondered who the lucky girl whom Cruise first dated would be. According to a recent report, Louisville-based Laurie Hobbs claimed to be theMission: Impossibleactor’s first kiss.
Hobbs shared that they dated for a few months as teenagers until he moved to a different place. Cruise and Hobbs were reportedly both 15 at the time and he attended the St. Xavier High School. It was a miracle that he found the time to date as his family kept moving places when he was young. Cruise attended 15 schools in 14 years.
Tom Cruise’s alleged first love Laurie Hobbs spills some details
What was the sexiest man in the world like at the age of 15? Laurie Hobbs can tell us all about it. She datedTom Cruisewhen he was a sophomore at St. Xavier’s High School in Louisville, Kentucky. This relationship reportedly happened years before he became Pete Maverick in Tony Scott’sTop Gun.
As Hobbs recalled toRadarOnline, Cruise was a skinny teenage kid who hardly knew how to kiss. She shared that he was an“awkward”guy but added that she was a“fast learner”. Hobbs herself was attending the Sacred Heart Academy, which was near Cruise’s school. When it came to the school dance, Cruise was very shy to ask her out.
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Hobbs had to make the first move because she feared that Cruise would never ask. She shared about the actor,“He wasn’t at all what you’d call cool. He struck me as being shy, sort of uneasy around girls.”In fact, she shared that a young Cruise had an insecurity that girls wouldn’t like him because he was too small.
Hobbs remembered asking theJack Reacheractor,“Are you going to take me to the dance or what?”. Cruise did ask her to the dance and they found themselves alone on a friend’s couch after the big night. Hobbs shared,“We just lunged toward each other awkwardly and started kissing.”
The struggle surrounding the first kiss did affect their intimate moment at first. Hobbs described that“first kiss”moment:
But we didn’t seem to be able to get our mouths in the right place at first. I kept thinking: ‘I hope I don’t start Laughing’. Then things got pretty hot and heavy. Hands shaking… knees knocking, you name it.
My head was spinning and I could hardly breathe. I could hear my heart banging away in my eardrums. First kisses are like that- you think you’re going to faint. Once or twice, I opened my eyes to verify his eyes were closed, and they were, so I knew he meant it.
It appeared that it was this relationship with Hobbs that paved the way for Cruise to date several beautiful actresses. Hobbs shared that the relationship ended after a few months when Cruise had to leave for New Jersey with his family.
She shared that she would“flatter”herself every now and then,“I actually taught the world’s sexiest man to kiss.”Hobbs later married and became a mother.
Tom Cruise’s relationship with actresses in Hollywood
Rebecca De Mornay
Rebecca De Mornay played the call girl Lana inRisky Business, where she meets the high school senior, played by Tom Cruise. Interestingly, the two began an affair on set, despite De Mornay being in a relationship with actor Harry Dean Stanton at the time. She broke things off between her and Stanton andstarted dating Cruise. She shared withThe Independent:
We were so in love, and the movie was a big smash, and I remember just feeling – wow, it’s just gonna go on like this! Not the case! Not at all.
They ended their relationship after two years. She shared in a 2023 interview withThe Wrapthat their different Hollywood career was the reason why things didn’t work.
Mimi Rogers
Tom Cruise metMimi Rogersthrough Scientology. A year after their first meeting, Cruise married Rogers in May 1987. However, it didn’t last long as they divorced on July 05, 2025. She received a divorce settlement of $4 million.
Nicole Kidman
Tom Cruise andNicole Kidman’s love blossomed on the sets ofDays of Thunderand the couple swiftly got married in 1990. It was a high-profile relationship that couldn’t escape the paparazzi at all. They adopted two children, born in 1992 and 1995.
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Their married life seemed likethe ideal Hollywood love storyuntil it wasn’t. The relationship fell apart after eleven years of marriage, with Cruise filing for divorce citing irreconcilable differences in 2001.
Penélope Cruz
After Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise didn’t waste any time in finding his next love in actressPenélope Cruz, who worked with him inVanilla Sky. Cruise and Cruz were first spotted dancing together at theTop Gunactor’s 39th birthday party. This was on August 08, 2025, just four months after he and Kidman announced their separation.
According toVanity Fair, the two stars went on an exotic getaway at the Wakaya Club in Fiji. It was reported that the vacation was originally planned for Cruise and Kidman. He blurted out in excitement to the outlet,“I thought, My God, I’m your boyfriend. You’re my girlfriend!”. Cruise’s relationship with Cruz ended after three years in 2004 (via BBC).
Katie Holmes
In 2005, he started datingKatie Holmes. They had their daughter Suri in 2006 and got married later that year. In 2012, Holmes filed for divorce from Cruise. He later admitted that Holmes separated from him to protect Suri from Scientology (via The HuffPost). There are no confirmed reports of Cruise’s dating life after Holmes.
Page Sixreported that the actor continues to be estranged from Suri even after a decade. Despite having visitation rights,Cruise doesn’t always spend time with Suri. Some sources attribute this to the fact that practicing members of his organization are not allowed to associate with non-believers.
Tom Cruise’s one passion project in high school took his most energy and creativity
After Tom Cruise’s mother separated from his abusive father and remarried, she brought him and his three sisters along with her to New Jersey when he was still a teenager. While it must’ve been hard for him to leave Kentucky and Laurie Hobbs behind, he found the perfect passion project to settle on in high school.
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According toTom Cruise: Anatomy of an Actor, Cruise recalled that he wanted to focus and do something with his energy and creativity as a seventeen-year-old (via RogerEbert.com). When he started as a senior in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, he found out that he was a natural in wrestling and easily won competitions.
Cruise dreamed of getting a college wrestling scholarship and pursuing the sport as a career. However, his dreams came crashing down when he got himself injured in an awful accident. According to Amy Nicholson’s book, the actor pulled a tendon in his knee and it sidelined him for the rest of the season.
Losing his one outlet was tough on Cruise, but he immediately found another passion. Cruise had an affinity for acting in dramas in his formative years and auditioned for his high school musical,Guys and Dolls. He landed the lead role of Nathan Detroit and the opening night of the show changed everything for him.
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