Suri Cruise No More: CMU Student Drops Famous Father Tom Cruise's Surname

PITTSBURGH, PA — Suri Cruise, the daughter of Hollywood acting icons and former married couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, has dropped her famous father's last name.

Suri Cruise, who is musical theater major at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, is now known Suri Noelle, according to Allegheny County voting registration records. The news first was reported in Page Six.

In Pennsylvania, a person's legal name is the one they must use when registering to vote.

Noelle is Holmes' middle name.

Noelle has long been estranged from her father, 64, a movie star for decades perhaps best known for his role in the "Mission Impossible" series.

Holmes, best known for her role on the teen TV series "Dawson's Creek," filed for divorce from Cruise in 2012, when Noelle was six years old.

According to Page Six, Noelle in March portrayed the character Angel in “Cosmic Microwave Background,” a one-night-only staged reading at Pittsburgh’s New Hazlett Theater.

This week, she will star in “Midsummer!” — a modern take on William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” — alongside fellow CMU students at the Trust Arts Education Center’s Peirce Studio in Pittsburgh.