Pertany a la generació llançada per F.F.Coppola al film The Outsiders (1983). Ha actuat a Risky Business (P.Breickman, 1983), Top Gunn (T.Scott, 1986), The Color of Money (M.Scorsese, 1986), Rain Man (B.Levinson, 1988), Born on the 4th of July (O.Stone, 1989), The Firm (S.Pollack, 1993), Interview with the Vampire (N.Jordan, 1994), Mission Impossible (B.de Palma, 1996), film que també produí, Jerry Maguire (C.Crowe, 1996), Eyes Wide Shut (S.Kubrick, 1999), Magnolia (P.Th.Anderson, 1999), Mission Impossible II (J.Woo, 2000), Vanilla Sky (C.Crowe, 2001), Minority Report (S.Spielberg, 2002), The Last Samurai (E.Zwick, 2003), Collateral (M.Mann, 2004), i War of the Worlds (S.Spielberg, 2005), Mission: Impossible III (J.J. Abrams, 2006), Lions for Lambs (R. Redford 2007), Tropic Thunder (B. Stiller, 2008) i Valkyrie (B. Singer 2008) . Ha produït The Others (2001), d’A.Amenábar.