Nicole Mary Kidman is an Australian American actress, film producer, singer, as well as spokesmodel. She was born on June 20, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her parents were Janelle Ann who is a nursing instructor; while her father Dr. Antony David Kidman is a biochemist, clinical psychologist, and an author. She has a younger sister named Antonia Kidman, a TV presenter and journalist. She attended Lane Cove Public School, North Sydney Girls’ High School, Victorian College of the Arts, Phillip Street Theatre as well as Australian Theatre for Young People.
She started her acting career in 1983 at the age of 16 through “Bush Christmas”, an Australian holiday season favorite. She also had a supporting role in a television series which was entitled “Five Mile Creek”. When she began appearing in various films such as “BMX Bandits”, “Watch the Shadows Dance”, and “Windrider”, Kidman started to gain popularity. In the year 1988, Kidman gained an Australian Film Institute for Best Supporting Actress in the “Emerald City”. She played the role Rae Ingram in “Dead Calm” in the year 1989. She gained positive reviews from the critics. The film “Days of Thunder” in 1990 was the American debut of Kidman. It also became the highest grossing film of that year. She was paired with Tom Cruise, her boyfriend at that time. The following year, she was co-starred with her former classmate Naomi Watts as well as with Thandie Newton through the independent film “Flirting”. The movie earned the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film. The film “Billy Bathgate” earned Kidman a Golden Globe Award nomination under the category Best Supporting Actress. Kidman and Cruise made another film through “Far and Away” in the year 1992. It became a big success during that time.
In the year 1995, Kidman had her highest grossing film as of the year 2011 in the superhero film “Batman Forever”. She was casted with Val Kilmer where she played the role Dr. Chase Meridian. She united with her then husband Tom Cruise through the film “Eyes Wide Shut”. In the year 2001, Kidman appeared in Baz Luhrmann’s musical “Moulin Rougel” with Ewan McGregor. She received her second Golden Globe Award under the category Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy as well as a nomination in Academy Award under the category for Best Actress. In the same year, she also gained Best Actress nomination in Goya Awards in the Spanish Horror film “The Others”. She played the role of Grace Stewart. The film grossed $210,947,037 worldwide.
Kidman’s relationship became open to the public when she married Tom Cruise on the Christmas Eve on 1990 in Telluride, Colorado. The couple met on December 1989 on the set of their film Days of Thunder. They adopted Isabella Jane and Connor Anthony. Kidman suffered a miscarriage when she had an ectopic pregnancy. Cruise and Kidman parted their ways on May 25, 1998. Kidman’s second husband was Keith Urban, a country singer from New Zealand. They married on June 25, 2006 at Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel in Sydney. Their daughter named Sunday Rose Kidman Urban was born on July 7, 2008 in Nashville.
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