Nicole Kidman: Australia's finest export
Nicole Mary Kidman,
AC (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian-American actress, singer and film
producer. Kidman's film career began in 1983. She starred in various
Australian film and television productions until her breakthrough in the 1989
thriller Dead Calm. Following several films over the early 1990s, she came to
worldwide recognition for her performances in Days of Thunder (1990), Far and
Away (1992), and Batman Forever (1995). She followed these with other
successful films in the late 1990s. Her performance in the musical, Moulin
Rouge! (2001) earned her second Golden Globe Award and first Academy Award
nomination for Best Actress. Her performance as Virginia Woolf in the drama
film The Hours (2002) received critical acclaim and earned Kidman the Academy
Award for Best Actress.
Kidman's other
notable films include To Die For (1995), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Cold Mountain
(2003), The Interpreter (2005), and Australia (2008). Her performance in 2010's
Rabbit Hole (which she also produced) earned Kidman further accolades including
a third Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 2012, she earned her
first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a
Miniseries or a Movie for her role in Hemingway & Gellhorn.
Kidman has been a
Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006.[3]
Kidman's work has earned her a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, three Golden
Globe Awards, one BAFTA, and an Academy Award. In 2006, Kidman was made a
Companion of the Order of Australia, and was also the highest-paid actress
in the motion picture industry. As a result of being born to Australian
parents in Hawaii, Kidman has dual citizenship in Australia and the United
States. Nicole Kidman founded and owns the production company Blossom Films.
Kidman has been
married twice: first to actor Tom Cruise, and now to country singer Keith
Urban. She has an adopted son and daughter with Cruise as well as two
biological daughters with Urban.
Kidman met Cruise in
November 1989 on the set of their 1990 movie Days of Thunder. She and Cruise
were married on Christmas Eve 1990 in Telluride, Colorado. The couple adopted a
daughter, Isabella Jane (born 22 December 1992), and a son, Connor Anthony
(born 17 January 1995). On 5 February 2001, the couple's spokesperson
announced their separation. Cruise filed for divorce two days later, and
the marriage was dissolved in August of that year, with Cruise citing
irreconcilable differences. In her 2007 interview with Marie Claire, Kidman
noted the incorrect reporting of her early marriage ectopic pregnancy. "It
was wrongly reported [as miscarriage], by everyone who picked up the
story." "So it's huge news, and it didn't happen." In the
June 2006 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, she said she still loved Cruise:
"He was huge; still is. To me, he was just Tom, but to everybody else, he
is huge. But he was lovely to me and I loved him. I still love him." In addition,
she has expressed shock about their divorce. -Wikipedia
