Cruise and ex-wife Nicole Kidman adopted Connor and his older sister, Bella, when they were still married.
It seems the bond between Tom Cruise and his children, Connor and Isabella 'Bella' Cruise, is going strong. In a photo shared last December, the 61-year-old Top Gun star is seen posing in a group alongside Connor, 29, and Bella, 31.
Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker, Derrick Brooks, shared the photo on Dec. 28, 2023, right before a hockey game between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers.
"Good Evening, Wow, look who stopped by my office before our @tblightninggame tonight! @tomcruise," Brooks captioned the shot. "I was a little star-struck but played it cool and He said he was too."
It's a particularly noteworthy photo for the father-daughter-son trio, as it's the first public photo of the three since they were spotted in 2009, attending a soccer game in Los Angeles.
Tom and his ex-wife, Nicole Kidman, adopted Connor and Bella when they were still married. The pair were married in 1990 before splitting in 2001.
While public appearances from Connor are few and far between, he has been photographed alongside his famous father on multiple occasions over the years, including an appearance at an AMC theater in Times Square for a promotion of Tom's film, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, last summer.
Before that, Connor and Tom were spotted at a 2021 October Los Angeles Dodgers game in San Francisco. The pair were photographed sitting side-by-side in the stands as Tom took photos with fans. Tom and Connor were also photographed together in October 2019 in London before boarding a private helicopter.
In addition to Connor and Bella, Tom shares 18-year-old daughter Suri with his ex-wife, Katie Holmes. Nicole, meanwhile, is also mom to daughters Sunday, 15, and Faith, 13, with husband Keith Urban.
In 2018, Nicole shared why she's so private when it comes to her children with Tom and how she feels about them choosing to be Scientologists like their father.
"I have to protect all those relationships," she told Australia's Who magazine. "I know 150 percent that I would give up my life for my children because it’s what my purpose is."
"They are adults," she added. "They are able to make their own decisions. They have made choices to be Scientologists and, as a mother, it’s my job to love them. And I am an example of that tolerance and that’s what I believe -- that no matter what your child does, the child has love and the child has to know there is available love and I’m open here."
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