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Nicole Mary Kidman (born June 20, 1967) is a famous American and Australian actress and also singer.
Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. She lived in the United States until she was four, when her family moved to Australia. Her father, Tony Kidman, was researching breast cancer in Washington, D.C. and at one
stage, a lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney. She started taking ballet
lessons when she was three and studied at St. Martin's Youth Theater, Australian theater for Young People, and Philip Street
Theater. Nicole's father had her and her younger sister do push ups and jumping jacks in the morning, to keep
them fit.
As an actress, she started her career at 14, when she starred in Bush Christmas. The movie is still often played at
Christmas time. Nicole dropped out of North Sydney High School when her mother got breast cancer. When her mother recovered,
Nicole continued with her acting career. Throughout the 1980s she appeared in many
Australian movies and TV series, notably including BMX Bandits, and the
miniseries Bangkok
Hilton.
Nicole starred in Dead Calm in 1989 and later with Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder, a
stock-car racing movie. She married Tom Cruise on Christmas Eve of 1990 in Telluride, Colorado. The wedding was a secret at the time. She was
in Billy Bathgate with Bruce Willis and Dustin Hoffman and in 1992 she was in
Ron Howard's Far and Away. She starred in Batman Forever, and
then in The Portrait of a Lady.
She and Tom adopted two children and lived in Los
Angeles, California, Australia, Colorado, and New York. She and Tom starred in Eyes Wide
Shut in 1999—the last film by Stanley Kubrick—and in 1998
Nicole was one of the three witches in Practical Magic. In late 2002 Nicole and
Tom divorced, though the divorce was amiable. Celebrity gossip commented frequently that the primary cause of the divorce may
have been Nicole's refusal to allow their children to be raised in Scientology, which had been heavily promoted by Tom; she wanted them to be raised Catholic instead.
Nicole Kidman's most professionally successful year was 2001, with her Oscar-nominated performance in Moulin Rouge and well-received star turn
in a horror film, The Others. However, her personal life received more tabloid interest when she and Cruise divorced.
She had a knee injury from Moulin Rouge, so Jodie Foster had to
fill in for her in Panic Room. She won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress for her
performance as Virginia Woolf in The Hours.
As a singer, she began her career in 2001 by collaborating with Ewan McGregor on the song Come What May, on the
Moulin Rouge Soundtrack (the song debuted and peaked at #27 on the UK Singles Chart). Then she collaborated with Robbie Williams on the song Somethin' Stupid, a cover of the old
swing song on Williams' swing covers album Swing When You're Winning (debuting and peaking at #8 in the Australian
ARIAnet Singles Chart, and at #1 for three weeks in the UK, also becoming the UK Christmas #1 Single for 2001).
Emma's War, Alexander The Great, The Interpreter, The Stepford Wives and
Bewitched are future movies for Kidman.
Kidman's sister Antonia is
an entertainment reporter for an Australian television program.
Filmography
Discography
- Come What May
Single (Duet with Ewan McGregor - 2001)
- Somethin'
Stupid Single (Duet with Robbie Williams - 2001)
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