'Top Gun': Where Are They Now?

Catch up with the stars of the 1986 classic on its 30th anniversary

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Tom Cruise (Maverick)

A young Tom Cruise booked one of his first major rules as Maverick in Top Gun in 1986. He played the Navy Lieutenant after earning credits for Endless Love (1981), Taps (1981), The Outsiders (1983), All the Right Moves (1983), and Legend (1985), and starring in Risky Business in 1983 as Joel Goodsen. In the years since his turn as Top Gun’s famed aviator, Cruise only became more of a star. He earned Oscar nominations for his roles in Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Jerry Maguire (1996), and Magnolia (1999), winning Golden Globes for all three films. Cruise picked up additional Globe nominations for Risky Business, A Few Good Men (1992), The Last Samurai (2003), and Tropic Thunder (2008), and ruled the box office with gigs in Rain Man (1988), The Firm (1993), Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), War of the Worlds (2005), and five Mission Impossible films.