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- Tom Cruise as Lt Pete “Maverick” Mitchell
- Kelly Mcgillis as Charlie Blackwood
- Anthony Edwards as LTJG Nick “Goose” Bradshaw
- Val Kilmer as Lt Tom “Iceman” Kazansky
- Tom Skerritt as CDR Mike “Viper” Metcalf
- Meg Ryan as Carole Bradshaw
- Top Gun Supporting Cast & Characters
Tom Cruise leads the Top Gun cast as LT Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, the roguish, charismatic U.S. Navy pilot at the center of the movie. Cruise later reprised the role in the sequel, Top Gun: Maverick. Cruise got his breakout with the classic 1980s comedy Risky Business and went on to impress critics with his dramatic abilities in The Color of Money,...
Maverick’s love interest, Top Gun instructor Charlie Blackwood, is played by Kelly McGillis. Outsider her role in the Top Gun cast, the actress is best known for playing Rachel Lapp, the Amish widow who hides Harrison Ford’s Detective John Book when he’s targeted by crooked cops in the acclaimed thriller Witness, which earned her Golden Globe and B...
Anthony Edwards appears in the Top Gun cast as LTJG Nick “Goose” Bradshaw, Maverick’s radar intercept officer and best friend. Edwards is most renowned for playing the now-deceased Dr. Mark Greene in ER, which earned him a Golden Globe, six SAG Awards, and four consecutive Emmy nominations. He also played Inspector William Armstrong in Zodiac and t...
Top Gun student LT Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, Maverick’s rival and later his wingman, is played by Val Kilmer. The actor reprised the role for a brief but poignant cameo appearance in Top Gun: Maverick. Kilmer has starred in a wide variety of movies, from the absurdist spoof Top Secret! to the action-packed neo-noir epic Heat to the fantasy adventure W...
Tom Skerritt appears in the Top Gun cast as CDR Mike “Viper” Metcalf, Maverick’s commanding officer and instructor at Top Gun. Viper served alongside Maverick’s father, Duke Mitchell, in the Vietnam War. Skerritt was already an established star before taking the role of Viper in Top Gun. He’d played Duke Forrest in Robert Altman’s original movie ve...
Carole Bradshaw, Goose’s loving wife and mother of his son, Bradley, is played by Meg Ryan. The actress got her start on the soap opera As the World Turns before appearing in Top Gun. She rose to fame with her leading role opposite Billy Crystal in the seminal romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally, for which she scored a Golden Globe nomination. She...
Michael Ironside as LCDR Rick “Jester” Heatherly: LCDR Rick “Jester” Heatherly, a Naval aviator and Top Gun instructor, is played by Michael Ironside. The actor is best known for playing villainous roles like Darryl Revok in Scanners and Agent Richter in Total Recall. But he has also played sympathetic roles, like Jester in Top Gun and teacher-turn...
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- Tom Cruise as Capt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. The main character of both Top Gun films is Maverick himself, Pete Mitchell, played by the legendary Tom Cruise.
- Val Kilmer as Adm. Tom "Iceman" Kazansky. Top Gun: Maverick went so far as to make Kilmer’s real-life battle with cancer a part of Iceman’s character. The Iceman graduated Top Gun alongside Maverick.
- Miles Teller as Lt. Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw. Miles Teller stars as Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw. The son of Nick ‘Goose’ Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards) and Carole Bradshaw (Meg Ryan), Rooster and Maverick’s relationship is one of the film's most significant sources of tension.
- Jennifer Connelly as Penny Benjamin. Penny is a character that was referenced in the original Top Gun but didn’t make an appearance until Top Gun Maverick.
- Tom Cruise – Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. Top Gun starred Tom Cruise as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a Naval Aviator whose excellence as a pilot is often undercut by his naïve cockiness.
- Kelly McGillis – Charlotte “Charlie” Blackwood. Kelly McGillis starred in Top Gun as Charlotte “Charlie” Blackwood, an astrophysicist and Top Gun civilian instructor whose interest in Maverick’s hotshot flying abilities leads to a romance with the thrill-seeking aviator.
- Val Kilmer – Tom “Ice Man” Kazansky. Val Kilmer made his mark in Hollywood with his role as Tom ‘Iceman’ Kazansky in the 1986 smash Top Gun. The adversary to Tom Cruise’s Maverick, the cool under fire Iceman views Maverick’s cocky attitude as dangerous and foolish yet would become best friends with Maverick when they fight alongside one another against a hostile enemy.
- Anthony Edwards – Nick “Goose” Bradshaw. Maverick’s Radar Intercept Officer and best friend, Nick ‘Goose’ Bradshaw proved to be the steady hand to Maverick’s cheeky bravado both in and out of the cockpit, only for Maverick’s once unshakeable confidence to dim after Goose died during a dogfight.
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.
Top Gun is a 1986 American action drama film [2] directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, with distribution by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr., and was inspired by an article titled "Top Guns", written by Ehud Yonay and published in California magazine three years earlier. It stars Tom Cruise as Lieutenant Pete ...
May 16, 1986 · With Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards. As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.
