Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are calling it quits.

Five years after Cruise proclaimed his love for the former Dawson's Creek denizen from the top of Oprah Winfrey's couch to a worldwide audience, Holmes has announced that their marriage is over.

"This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family," her attorney Jonathan Wolfe told People, which first announced the news. "Katie's primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter's best interest."

Suri Cruise, 6, is the couple's only child.


There had been no indication of trouble in the marriage, but Holmes has largely been absent while Cruise has been making the media rounds in recent weeks promoting Rock of Ages.

The sad news comes just days before Cruise was set to celebrate his 50th birthday next Tuesday.

This will be Cruise's third marriage to end in divorce; he was previously wed to Nicole Kidman, with whom he has two children, and Mimi Rogers. This was the first union for Holmes, 33.