In MI: Ghost Protocol (2011), Cruise scaled the world's tallest building with no stunt double. He suspended himself from the building's exterior, showcasing his fearlessness.
Climbing the Burj Khalifa
In MI: Rogue Nation (2015), Cruise performed a jaw-dropping stunt by hanging to the side of a plane during takeoff. With the aircraft reaching 140 mph speed, Cruise risked his life to deliver this incredible scene.
Hanging mid-air from a plane
In The Mummy (2017), Cruise finds himself in a cargo plane as it crashes down from 25,000 feet and free falls for 22 seconds. The actor took four high-altitude flights to pull off the scene.
Zero gravity plane crash
The actor pulled off a high-altitude low opening (HALO) jump in MI: Fallout (2018). He jumped off a plane at an altitude of 25,000 feet to perform this extreme action scene.
HALO jump
In the new MI: Dead Reckoning Part I, Cruise jumps off a cliff while on a motorbike in a free fall before opening a parachute. This has been described as the most dangerous stunt of Cruise's career.
Jumping with a motorbike off a cliff
In MI: Fallout (2018), Cruise jumps from one high-rising building to another. During this stunt, he broke his ankle and was hospitalised for six weeks.
Jumping between two buildings
In MI: Rogue Nation (2015), Cruise dives into an underwater safe to retrieve a computer chip. In this scene, he held his breath for six minutes straight in a 20-foot deep-water tank.
Underwater breath-hold