If you've ever wondered where your favorite star was born, perhaps it was through their slight accent, or a phrase or gesture, that you caught onto the secret of their birthplace.

No matter how hard some of them have tried to change the way they speak through speech lessons, it is possible to pick up an accent. For others, however, the way they talk or act is completely fine with them - and by their actions alone, some rich and famous people are easily figured out.

Hollywood megastar Tom Cruise spent some of his childhood in Canada, but he was born about 200 miles away from in Syracuse, NY.

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born on July 3, 1962, the son of a special ed teacher mom and electrical engineer dad, who Cruise claims was an abusive "merchant of chaos".

He married actress Katie Holmes in 2006 in Italy; they have one daughter, Suri. Read more here