Nicole Kidman

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Nicole Kidman AC
Nicole Kidman at 2013 Cannes Film Festival
Born	Nicole Mary Kidman (1967-06-20) June 20, 1967 (age 56)[1] Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Nationality	Australian, American
Occupations	Actress model singer film producer
Years active	1983 - present
Spouse(s)	Tom Cruise (m. 1990; div. 2001) Keith Urban (m. 2006)
Children	4 (2 adopted, 2 biological daughters)
Relatives	Antonia Kidman (sister)
Website	www.nicolekidmanofficial.com

Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian-American actress, model, singer and film producer. She began acting in movies in 1983. She starred in various Australian movies and television shows. Her first major role was in Dead Calm in 1989.

Her performance in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She later won the award in this category for playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours (2002).

Nicole Kidman appeared as Atlanna, Aquaman's mother, in the 2018 DC Comics - Warner Bros. movie Aquaman (2018). She played Lucille Ball in the 2021 biographical drama movie Being the Ricardos. She won a Golden Globe Award and earned an Academy Award nomination in 2022 for her role as Ball.

Early life[change | change source]

Nicole Mary Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to an Australian parents. They were temporarily in the United States on educational visas. Nicole Kidman can therefore claim citizenship in Australia and the United States.^[2] Her father, Antony David Kidman (1938 - 2014) was a biochemist, clinical psychologist, and author.^[3][4] Her mother, Janelle Ann (née Glenny), is a nursing instructor who edits her husband's books and was a member of the Women's Electoral Lobby. Nicole Kidman is of Scottish and Irish ancestry.^[5] At the time of Kidman's birth, her father was a graduate student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He soon became a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health of the United States. Opposed to the war in Vietnam, which was causing social unrest in both Australia and the United States, Kidman's parents participated in anti-war protests while they were living in Washington DC^[6] The family returned to Australia when Nicole Kidman was four and her parents now live on Sydney's North Shore. Nicole Kidman has a younger sister, Antonia Kidman, a journalist and TV presenter.^[7]

Career[change | change source]

Kidman's first movie was in 1983. It was called BMX Bandits. Her first famous movie was Dead Calm in 1989. Her first major movie was called Days of Thunder, which also starred Tom Cruise. They fell in love during the filming of that movie and married. Nicole Kidman was then in more movies like Flirting, Billy Bathgate, Far and Away, Malice, My Life and To Die For. All of these movies were successes.

She was then in movies like Batman Forever and Practical Magic. In 1999 she starred in a movie with Tom Cruise called Eyes Wide Shut. They played a married couple in the movie. It was the last movie directed by director Stanley Kubrick. They separated and divorced after making Eyes Wide Shut.

Since Kidman and Cruise divorced, she has been in movies including: Moulin Rouge!, The Others, Cold Mountain, The Stepford Wives and Bewitched.

Personal life[change | change source]

Kidman was married to Tom Cruise until 2001.^[source?] She is currently married to Keith Urban and she has two daughters.^[source?]

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Other websites[change | change source]

• Nicole Kidman on IMDb