The Height of Tom Cruise
The World’s Biggest Star
For reasons that are somewhat unfathomable to me, Tom Cruise, perhaps the last of the major movie stars, has become a byword synonymous with short stature.
He remains, at sixty, remarkably handsome and charismatic, his talent undiminished, and while he continues to perform his own stunts with grace and athleticism, the adjective that pops from many people’s mouths when they hear his name is “short”.
I have stood beside Tom on several occasions and can testify that his stature is close to middling range. I am 5’9, which is the height of the average American man, so I am therefore a rather good gauge of male altitude. I maybe have a half-inch on him, but no more.
He is roughly the same height as some other leading men including Robert Downey Jr, Jamie Foxx, Joaquin Phoenix, Tom Holland, Robert DeNiro, Michael Keaton, Steven Yeun, Taron Egerton, Donald Glover, Jack Nicholson, Kiefer Sutherland, Johnny Depp, Jackie Chan, Mel Gibson, Casey Affleck, Jared Leto, John Boyega, Antonio Banderas, Mark Wahlberg, Daniel Kaluuya, Mark Ruffalo, Sean Penn, Ben Foster, Zac Efron, Kit Harington, Anthony Ramos, Don Cheadle, Kurt Russell, Willem Dafoe, Gary Oldman, Oscar Isaac, Jeremy Renner, Eddie Murphy, Shia LaBeouf, and Tom Hardy.