The actor, 61, and his family are currently in New York amid the relentless press tour for his new Mission Impossible film.
Connor is the youngest of Tom’s two children who he shares with his ex-wife Nicole Kidman, 56.
The actor shares his eldest two children with his ex-wife Nicole. They adopted Bella Kidman Cruise, now 30, and son Connor during their marriage from 1990 to around 2001.
Top Gun star Tom later married Katie Holmes, 44, who he shares daughter Suri, now 17, with. They split in 2012.
They were photographed separately in the city as they headed to an AMC theatre.
Connor dressed casually in a grey T-shirt and light blue trousers as he stepped out in the city with Tom’s older sister Lee Ann Mapother, 63.
Lee walked beside Connor and looked bright in a pink top and white jeans.
It comes as patrons at two American cinemas were given more than they bargained for as the settled down to watch for summer blockbuster Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One on Tuesday.
Fans of the action franchise piled into Atlanta’s Regal Atlantic Station and Miami’s AMC Sunset Place, where they were treated to a guest appearance by none other than Mr. Ethan Hunt himself – otherwise known as Hollywood star Tom.
The actor flashed his famous grin as he welcomed guests before introducing the film, the seventh instalment in a seemingly endless franchise that once again sees Cruise, 61, perform all of his daredevil stunts himself.
Dressed in a casual short-sleeved polo shirt – pink for Miami, blue for Atlanta – he posed for selfies, shook hands and even fist bumped star-struck fans at the events, presented by Paramount Pictures and Skydance.
The hard-working actor, accompanied by Mission: Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie, travelled from one cinema to the other while promoting the film, which officially opens on July 12.
Cruise is seen coming off the motorbike and free-falling for several seconds before pulling a parachute cord in one thrilling action sequence from the new film.
And in a new interview he detailed just what it took to pull that death-defying move, with Tom explaining that there was a ‘no-go point’ on the ramp during filming.
Cruise revealed that after reaching a certain point on the ramp, he couldn’t ‘slow down’ and had to keep going, even if other factors in the stunt were not correct – with the star admitting that at one point he was thrown ‘a little off’ course due to ‘crosswinds.’
Speaking to Sian Welby on Capital Breakfast, he said: ‘There’s a lot going on, there’s a lot of preparation to figure that out. The amount of knowledge that goes into something like that, it’s very exciting.
‘I enjoy learning, you know I enjoy pushing cinema in that way, but even just as I’m going, the helicopter that’s going over, I had to be in sync with that helicopter, because if he’s in the wrong position, he’s going to blow me off the ramp.
‘If I can do these things, but if we don’t get the shot, we don’t get the shot, and also you can see in the electronic press kit, that I’m jumping out of a helicopter just before I do it because I have to test the wind currents in the bowl.’
He added: ‘They change very quickly so as soon as I do that jump, you can see that when I opened, I was a little off because I had a crosswind and as I, my shoulder was a little up and the parachute opened and the second it opens it was pulling me into the side of the mountain, so I had to quickly, once you pull you have to be quickly ready to adjust the direction of the parachute.’
The film star went on to say that it’s not only safety he considers when jumping but also his acting skills too and how it delivers on screen.
While he also explained timing, position and speed is so important, with him explaining that once he gets past a certain point on the ramp, there’s no going back – even if everything else isn’t perfect.
He said: ”And there’s also performance that I’m thinking of, you have to feel and see you know, have the audience see that that is acting, plus I have to know the speed of the bike, the helicopter, if he’s in the wrong position.
‘I have a go and a no-go point, where there is a point on that ramp where I know I’m committed and I can slow down, but I can’t come off the throttle at that point. If I’m going to stop, I really have to, there’s a go, no-go point, it’s like right at this point, you’re in.
‘And even if the helicopter, the drones are in the wrong position, once I pass that point, no matter what I’m committed, and I can’t slow down. I have to go as fast as I can off the edge of that ramp.’
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is officially released across cinemas on July 12.