Few Hollywood stars can boast as impressive and impactful a career as Tom Cruise. With a brand new Top Gun sequel on the way and work for the next Mission Impossible instalment well underway, the star’s on screen career at the forefront of the action genre is far from over.

What you may be unaware of, however, is Tom’s connection to Kent, and to one part of humble county in particular. The legendary actor is in fact rubbing shoulders with the people of Biggin Hill.

While the area is known for its key role during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War – this superstar resident might just put it back on the map. The 59-year-old recently bought a plush pad in the small district which is home to less than 10,000 people (according to the 2011 Census).

His property is believed to be situated in a prestigious gated community which extends over 140 acres of land. Biggin Hill Airport is also close by and serves private flights – handy for when the star jets across the world.

Cruise enjoyed plenty of time in Bromley in recent years while filming two back-to-back Mission: Impossible films — the seventh and eighth instalments of the franchise. Although it wasn’t his first time in the area – the action film superstar is more than familiar with the South East.

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Cruise previously owned a sprawling £3million mansion in East Grinstead in nearby Sussex. He sold the property in 2016 but there’s something that has kept drawing him back to the county ever since.

Cruise is believed to have spent lockdown at Saint Hill Manor in the town, which is also the British headquarters of the Church of Scientology. He is understood to be an active member of the organisation and has formed a close relationship with Scientology leader.

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According to an insider close to Cruise, the actor very much enjoys living in the rural south of England. The source said: “Tom has only recently moved to this new home, which feels like it’s practically in the countryside.

“He sees it as his rural bolt-hole, away from the hustle and bustle of London where he had been before.”

But while Cruise’s glamorous life in Britain is well documented, his daughters very ordinary life in Croydon is much less known about. Isabella Kidman Cruise, 29, daughter of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, has been living in South London in recent years with her British husband Max Parker and their pet reptile, My London reports.

According to The Mirror, in 2020 Cruise’s low-profile daughter Bella refused to live at her father’s £342,000-a-month penthouse in London. Tom and Nicole’s adopted daughter turned her back on the spotlight, preferring life in south London over Hollywood.

Cruise reportedly owns a place at the historic Corinthia Residences in London with four-bedrooms, an indoor pool and amazing views of the cityscape. Located just down the road from 10 Downing Street, it’s in the heart of the city. Bella and her husband Max allegedly made the move to Croydon in October 2017 to be closer to Max’s parents.

The couple had married two years earlier in 2015, a year after meeting through mutual friends. According to The Sun, neighbour, Emma, said of Bella: “I wouldn’t have known her if she’d come up and smacked me in the face. I don’t keep up with celebrity culture.

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“They have a reptile of some kind — we can see the red light of the tank. That’s all anybody seems to know. She’s very mysterious. I suppose she’s decided to live out of the spotlight. I don’t know why she’s chosen Croydon, poor child!”

Tom and Nicole adopted Bella in 1992, and then three years later they adopted her biological younger brother, Connor Cruise.