Mission: Impossible III
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- discussed in biography
- In J.J. Abrams
…actor Tom Cruise to direct Mission: Impossible III (2006). Although the film was not as large a box-office hit as the franchise’s first two installments, many reviewers praised Abrams’s direction.
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- Crudup
- In Billy Crudup: Screen roles from the late 2000s and the ’10s
…in Trust the Man (2005), Mission: Impossible III (2006), The Good Shepherd (2006), Public Enemies (2009), and Watchmen (2009). In 2006 he appeared in the first two parts of Stoppard’s trilogy The Coast of Utopia at Lincoln Center, New York City, and won the Tony Award for best featured actor…
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- In Billy Crudup: Screen roles from the late 2000s and the ’10s
- Cruise
- In Tom Cruise
…led to sequels in 2000, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2018, and 2023. His performance as a sports agent in Jerry Maguire (1996) earned Cruise a second Oscar nomination. In 1999 he starred with his then-wife, Nicole Kidman, in the highly anticipated final film of director
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- In Tom Cruise
- Pegg
- In Simon Pegg: Career
…tech whiz Benji Dunn in Mission: Impossible III (2006), Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol (2011), Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation (2015), Mission: Impossible—Fallout (2018), and Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). He also played the role of Montgomery “Scotty” Scott in the rebooted series of Star Trek films,
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- In Simon Pegg: Career
- Russell
- In Keri Russell: Acting career: Felicity
… in the popular action film Mission: Impossible III. The following year she starred in Waitress, a charming dramedy about a pregnant woman in an unhappy marriage who starts a relationship with her doctor. Her other credits from 2007 include August Rush, in which she played the mother of a musical…
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- In Keri Russell: Acting career: Felicity