Suri Cruise made her way through the bustling streets of New York City on Tuesday, sporting a navy-blue backpack and oversized wireless headphones.
The offspring of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, who reached the legal age of 18 on April 18, opted for a casual look in a red-striped short-sleeved Henley top, grey sweatpants, and off-white Converse ‘Chuck Taylors.’ She also draped a blue jean jacket over her arm.
As she nears the end of her high school journey, Suri recently made a notable change, as reported by Hello! Magazine last Thursday. In the playbill of her school production of The Go-Go’s jukebox musical, Head Over Heels, she adopted a new moniker: ‘Suri Noelle.’ This name choice incorporates her mother’s middle name while omitting her father’s surname, a gesture reflecting her familial dynamics.
In the production, Suri reportedly portrayed Princess Philoclea, a role originated by Alexandra Socha during the Broadway adaptation from 2018 to 2019 at the Hudson Theatre in Manhattan.
This isn’t the first time Suri has showcased her talents. At a young age, she lent her soprano voice to a rendition of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s 1934 classic Blue Moon, featured in Katie Holmes’s second directorial project Alone Together.
Reflecting on her daughter’s involvement, Holmes shared with Yahoo! Entertainment in 2022, “She’s very talented. She said she would do it and she recorded it, and I let her do her thing. That’s the way I direct in general. It’s like, ‘This is what I think we all want and then go do your thing.’”
Despite her parents’ highly publicized divorce in 2012, Suri has continued to thrive. Cruise has financially supported her, including covering her college tuition and additional expenses. However, reports suggest that Suri’s relationship with her father remains distant, with sources indicating that she primarily identifies with her mother as her sole parental figure.
Speculation surrounds the reasons for Tom Cruise’s alleged estrangement from his daughter, with some attributing it to Holmes and Suri’s disassociation from the Church of Scientology, of which Cruise is a prominent member.
Tom Cruise is also a father to two adult children, Isabella Jane Cruise, 31, and Connor Antony Cruise, 29, from his previous marriage to Nicole Kidman, which concluded in 2001.