Tom Cruise is changing in his face: The 61-year-old Hollywood actor is unrecognizable

Tom Cruise gave his image a Hollywood glow at a charity event in London on Wednesday night. During his latest outing, the movie star was photographed with the Prince of Wales wearing long flowing curls. The career of Tom, one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors, has been seen in front of the camera for over four decades. Having broken through in movies thanks to roles in Risky Business (1983) and Top Gun (1986), he became a leading actor in the nineties thanks to roles in The Firm (199) and Jerry Maguire (1996). As he enters the fifth decade of his career, MailOnline has analyzed how Tom's look has changed. THE 1980S - THE EARLY YEARS Tom was still a young man, 24 when he starred in one of his most famous films, Top Gun. He played the lead role of Pete Maverick Mitchell in the action thriller, which became the highest-grossing domestic movie of the year, grossing $357 million. Talking about his rise to fame during that period, Tom noted that it was strange when he was suddenly recognized on the street. In an interview with Interview magazine, he said: "I'm very reserved, living in my world. But suddenly, I was on the street, and people started looking at me, and I thought, "Oh my God, do I have something sticking out of my nose?". At the time, Tom was already firmly established as one of the biggest stars in the industry, and he had a correspondingly chiseled look. A few months before the dissolution of his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman, Tom began wearing a longer hairstyle. It was also the year the Mission: Impossible franchise kicked off with the release of the first sequel, which grossed over $500 million at the box office. MID-NOUGHTIES - CONTINUED SUCCESS A few years later, Tom began to look more daring with a much shorter haircut, which he kept for several years. This decade was one of Tom's busiest as he starred in several successful films, including The Last Samurai, Accessory, and War of the Worlds. Tom soon embarked on one of his most high-profile romances when he began dating actress Katie Holmes in 2005. A few months later, in October, the couple announced they were expecting their firstborn, Suri, born in April 2006. They married in November of the same year, and five and a half years later, Katie filed for divorce. 2021 - TOM'S CHUBBY APPEARANCE CAUSED BEWILDERMENT In October 2021, Tom raised eyebrows when he showed up to a baseball game in San Francisco with a noticeably puffy face. After he appeared to have a fuller face during a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the father-of-three assumed he'd had fillers. However, Tom was soon back to his old self - in May 2022, he hit the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival with a slimmer figure. TODAY. Tom returns to the spotlight in 2022, starring in his first film in four years, Top Gun: Maverick." The movie grossed over $1 billion at the box office, becoming the highest-grossing film of his career, and many critics considered it an improvement over the original. Tom has been wearing long curls again for the past two years and working on the Mission: Impossible franchise.