Name : Nicole Kidman
Full/Alt. name: Nicole Mary Kidman
Date Of Birth : June 20,1967
Place of Birth : Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Sign : Gemini
Nationality: Australian
Height: 1.79 cm
Natural hair color: red
Eyes color: blue
Education : High school dropout
Occupation : Actress
Ex-Husband : Tom Cruise
Kids : Connor, Isabella
Father : Antony (biochemist)
Mother : Janelle (nursing instructor)
Sister : Antonia (TV reporter)
Fan Mail : C/O Creative Artists Agency
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After attending the Australian Theatre for Young People and the Philip Street Theatre, she landed her first job on film in 1983. Although this was only a music video for Bop Girl, Nicole had managed to secure a role in a television series and in four films. She starred in A Country Practice, Emerald City and Dead Clam. Her role in Dead Calm led her to be noticed in the United States.
Nicole’s first big time movie was Days of Thunder where she starred opposite Tom Cruise. Tom was married to Mimi Rogers but this did not stop Cruise and Kidman from having an affair. After Tom divorced Mimi, he and Kidman married on Christmas eve in 1990. They adopted Isabella and Connor and lived in five different places, including: Australia and New York. Tom left Nicole just short of their10 year wedding anniversary. Kidman was three months pregnant at the time but suffered a miscarriage once the marriage fell apart. It was not stated as to why they split, but it is thought it was due to their different beliefs.
In 1992, Nicole starred alongside Tom Cruise in Far and Away. In 1995, she starred in Batman Forever and To Die For. In Eyes Wide Shut she again starred opposite Tom Cruise, where they played a married couple. In 2001, she got an Oscar nomination for her role in Moulin Rouge! She then starred in The Others and The Hours. For the latter she won an Academy award for best actress, and a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. In 2003, Kidman starred in 3 very different films: Dogville, The Human Stain and Cold Mountain.
During the filming of Cold Mountain, it was rumoured Kidman and Jude Law were having an affair and broke up Jude’s marriage. This was denied and Kidman won an undisclosed amount of money which she donated to a Romanian orphanage.
She starred alongside Glenn Close, Faith Hill and Bette Midler in the film The Stepford Wives. Also, in the same year she starred in Birth which received a mixed reception . In 2005, she starred in The Interpreter and Bewitched.
Nicole supports various charities including UNICEF. She was nominated for a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM.
Kidman was made a companion of the Order of Australia for her charitable work and her acting work in 2006. In Moulin Rouge, Nicole had several singing parts. After, she sung a duet with Robbie Williams: Something Stupid.
After Tom Cruise, Kidman dated many people including Lenny Kravitz, but is now married to the musician Keith Urban and they are expecting their first child together.
Russell Crowe and Naomi Watts are two of Kidman’s best friends.
Kidman's first breakthrough came when she was asked to star in Vietnam, a miniseries directed by John Duigan; the actress won positive notices for her portrayal of an awkward 1960s schoolgirl who matures into an idealistic 24-year-old Vietnam war protester. She also won an American agent, something that opened quite a few doors of opportunity. In 1989, Kidman got another major break when she was tapped to star in Phillip Noyce's Dead Calm. A psychological thriller about a couple (Kidman and Sam Neill) who are terrorized by a young man they rescue from a sinking ship (Billy Zane), the film helped to establish the then-19-year-old Kidman as an actress of considerable mettle. That same year her reputation was further boosted by her starring performance in the made-for-TV Bangkok Hilton, which cast her as a young woman incarcerated in a Thai prison on false drug smuggling charges. By now a rising star in Australia, Kidman began earning recognition across the Pacific. In 1989, she was picked by Tom Cruise for a starring role in her first American feature, Tony Scott's Days of Thunder (1990). The film, a testosterone-saturated drama about a racecar driver (Cruise), cast Kidman as the neurologist who falls in love with him. A sizable hit, it had the added advantage of introducing Kidman to Cruise, whom she married in December of 1990. Following a role as Dustin Hoffman's moll in Billy Bathgate (1991), and a supporting turn as a snotty boarding school senior in Flirting (also 1991), John Duigan's wonderful and criminally little-seen coming-of-age drama, Kidman collaborated with Cruise on their second film together, Far and Away (1992).
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