{"id":842157,"date":"2026-08-03T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842157\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:14:10","slug":"tom-cruise-and-katie-holmes-daughter-suri-legally-drops-dads-surname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842157\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes\u2019 daughter Suri legally drops dad&#8217;s surname"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes\u2019 daughter, Suri, has officially dropped her father\u2019s last name, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Per Pennsylvania voting records obtained by TMZ, Suri legally changed her last name from Cruise to Noelle shortly after heading off to college.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old, who attends Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, used her new name to register to vote in Allegheny County during her freshman year, back in October 2024. The moniker also appeared in the programme for her high school graduation from LaGuardia High School of Music &amp; Art and Performing Arts some five months prior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud of my daughter,\u201d Holmes\u2019 told Town &amp; Country, gushing over her Suri\u2019s latest milestone and her moving onto college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, I will miss the close proximity, but I\u2019m really proud of her and I\u2019m happy,\u201d she continued. \u201cI remember being this age, this time of beginnings. It\u2019s exciting to learn about yourself, and I loved that time, so it makes me happy to think about it like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, Holmes publicly denied reports suggesting Suri had inherited a trust fund from her father.<\/p>\n<p>The actress married Cruise in November 2006, after welcoming Suri months earlier in April 2006. Cruise also shares adopted kids Bella and Connor with his ex-wife Nicole Kidman.<\/p>\n<p>Holmes and Cruise eventually split in 2012, and according to TMZ, Suri has reportedly been estranged from her father since she was seven\u00a0years old.<\/p>\n<p>Now in her sophomore year at Carnegie Mellon, Suri is studying musical theatre\u00a0and gearing up to participate in a student production called Midsummer!,\u00a0a modern-day retelling of William Shakespeare\u2019s A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream. \u2013 New York Daily News\/TNS<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes\u2019 daughter, Suri, has officially dropped her father\u2019s last name, according to reports. Per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,6675],"class_list":["post-842157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-na"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}