--- title: Tom Cruise and Jimmy Fallon Lip Sync Battle on The Tonight Show description: The 53-year-old actor still has the moves canonical: https://time.com/3974456/tom-cruise-lip-sync-tonight-show/ author: Tara John article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-28T10:56:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:13.178Z og:title: See Tom Cruise Relive His Greatest Hits in a Lip Sync Battle on The Tonight Show og:description: The 53-year-old actor still has the moves og:url: https://time.com/3974456/tom-cruise-lip-sync-tonight-show/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcf38aff2ead8e18/69885cb82dce01012c9e4cff/tom-cruise.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Tom Cruise og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See Tom Cruise Relive His Greatest Hits in a Lip Sync Battle on The Tonight Show twitter:description: The 53-year-old actor still has the moves twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcf38aff2ead8e18/69885cb82dce01012c9e4cff/tom-cruise.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See Tom Cruise Relive His Greatest Hits in a Lip Sync Battle on _The Tonight Show_ by [Tara John](https://time.com/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Jul 28, 2015 10:56 AM UTC  Tom Cruise attends the premiere of "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" in Times Square on July 27, 2015, in New York. Tom Cruise attends the premiere of "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" in Times Square on July 27, 2015, in New York.Evan Agostini—Invision/AP by [Tara John](https://time.com/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Jul 28, 2015 10:56 AM UTC Tom Cruise wooed the crowd on _The Tonight Show_ by lip syncing ballads from two of his hit movies, _Top Gun_ and _Risky Business_. During a lip sync battle with Jimmy Fallon, Cruise effortlessly relived the opening chords of Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll,” a song he famously danced to in his underwear during _Risky Business_. Fallon and Cruise, who was on the show promoting his new _Mission Impossible_ movie, proceeded to serenade a lucky audience member to “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin,” harking back to what Cruise’s character Maverick did to Charlie in the 1986 film, _Top Gun_. Watch the full battle below. ### Biopic Actors and Their Real-Life Counterparts  Meryl Streep plays Emmeline Pankhurst in Suffragette Focus; Topical Press Agency/Getty Images  Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs in Steve Jobs Universal; Bob Riha Jr—Getty Images  Ellen Page plays Stacie Andree in Freeheld Lionsgate; Tom Spader—AP  Joseph Gordon Levitt plays Philippe Petit in The Walk Sony Pictures; Dave Pickoff—AP  Johnny Depp plays James 'Whitey' Bulger in Black Mass Warner Brothers; AP  André Benjamin plays Jimi Hendrix in All Is By My Side Patrick Redmond—XLrator Media; Photoshot/Getty Images  Adrien Brody plays Harry Houdini in Houdini. History Channel; Hulton Archive/Getty Images  Chadwick Boseman plays James Brown in Get On Up. Universal Pictures; Gilles Petard—Redferns/Getty Images  Ashton Kutcher plays Steven Jobs in Jobs. Open Road Films; Tom Munnecke/Getty Images  Cate Blanchett plays Bob Dylan in I'm Not There. Weinstein Co.; Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images  James Franco plays James Dean in James Dean. Getty Images (2)  Meryl Streep plays Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. Weinstein Co.; Hulton Archive/Getty Images  Benedict Cumberbatch plays Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate. Disney; Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images  Anthony Hopkins plays Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock. Fox Searchlight; NBC/Getty Images  Salma Hayek plays Frida Kahlo in Frida. Miramax; Popperfoto/Getty Images  Gary Oldman plays Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy. MGM; Richard E. Aaron—Redferns/Getty Images  Denzel Washington plays Malcolm X in Malcolm X. Warner Bros.; Truman Moore—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images  Leonardo DiCaprio plays J. Edgar Hoover in J. Edgar. Warner Bros.; Bachrach/Getty Images  Ben Kingsley plays Gandhi in Gandhi. Columbia; Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images  Michelle Williams plays Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn. Weinstein Co.; NBC/Getty Images  Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny Cash in Walk the Line. 20th Century Fox; David Gahr/Getty Images  Daniel Day-Lewis plays President Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln. 20th Century Fox; Culture Club/Getty Images  Don Cheadle plays Miles Davis in Miles Ahead. Brian Douglas, Ton Pouw—AP  Demetrius Shipp Jr. plays Tupac Shakur in All Eyez on Me. 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