Date of
Birth: 20 June 1967 , Honolulu , Hawaii , USA
Birth Name:
Nicole Mary Kidman
Nicknames: Nic
Height: 5' 11"
(1.8 m)
Elegant
redhead Nicole Kidman, well-known as one of Hollywood 's top Australian imports, was in
fact born in Honolulu , Hawaii , to Australian parents Anthony (a
biochemist and scientific psychologist) and Janelle (a nursing instructor) Kidman.
The families enthused almost right away to Washington , D.C. , where Nicole’s father pursued his
investigate on breast cancer, and then, three years later, made the pilgrimage
to her parents' inhabitant Sydney. Young Nicole's primary love was ballet, but
she finally took up mime and drama as well (her first stage role was a bleating
sheep in a basic school Christmas pageant). In her teenager years, acting edged
out the other arts and became a kind of refuge -- as her classmates sought out
fun in the sun, the fair-skinned Kidman retreated to shadowy preparation halls
to put into put into practice her craft. She worked frequently at the Philip
Street Theater, where she once conventional a individual letter of admire and
encouragement from spectators member Jane Campion (then a film student). Kidman
finally dropped out of high school to follow acting full-time. She broke into
cinema at age 16; landing a role in the Australian holiday preferred Bush
Christmas (1983). That look touched off a flurry of film and television offers,
counting a lead in BMX Bandits (1983) and a turn as a schoolgirl-turned-protester
in the miniseries Vietnam (1987) (for which she won her first Australian Film
organization Award). With the help of an American agent, she finally made her US debut conflicting Sam Neill in the
at-sea thriller Dead Calm (1989).
Kidman's
next casting coup scored her additional than contact. While starring as Tom
Cruise's doctor/love attention in the racetrack story Days of Thunder (1990),
she won over the Hollywood hunk hook, line and sinker. After a whirlwind courtship (and decent box
office returns), the pair wed on December 24, 1990 . Determined not to let her new
wedded status outshine her fledgling career, the actress pushed on. She
appeared as a catty high school senior in the Australian film Flirting (1991),
then asDustin Hoffman's moll in the criminal flick Billy Bathgate (1991). She
reunited by means of Cruise for Far and Away (1992), the story of young Irish
lovers who flee to America in the late 1800s, and starred conflicting
Michael Keaton in the tear-tugger My Life (1993). Despite her stable service,
critics and moviegoers still had not quite warmed to Kidman as a most important
lady. She tried to interest up her picture by seducing Val Kilmer in Batman
Forever (1995), but achieved her genuine breakthrough with Gus Van Sant's To
Die For (1995). As a fame-crazed housewife strong-minded to get rid of any
obstacle in her path, Kidman proved that she had an imposing variety and lethal
comic timing. She took house a Golden Globe and more than a few critics' awards
for the presentation. In 1996, Kidman stepped into a corset to work with her
countrywoman and once admirer, Jane Campion, on the version of Henry James's
The Portrait of a Lady (1996). A few months later, she tore across the screen
as a nuclear arms expert in The Peacemaker (1997), adding "action star"
to her expert range.
She and
Cruise then left into a disreputably long, enigmatic shoot for Stanley
Kubrick's sexual thriller Eyes Wide Shut (1999). The couple's on-screen
mischief encouraged an increase in public conjecture about their sex life (rumors
had long been circulating that their wedding was a cover-up for Cruise's
homosexuality); tired of denying tabloid attacks, they productively sued The
Star for a story alleging that they wanted a sex therapist to trainer them
through love scenes. Family life has always been a main concern for Kidman. Born
to communal activists (mother was a feminist; father, a labor advocate), Nicole
and her little sister, Antonia Kidman, discussed current proceedings
approximately the banquet table and participated in their parents' campaigns by
transitory out pamphlets on road corners. When her mother was diagnosed with
breast cancer, 17-year-old Nicole congested operational and took a manipulate
course so that she could give physical therapy (her mother eventually beat the
cancer). She and Cruise adopt two children: Isabella Jane (born 1993) and
Connor Antony (born 1995). In spite of their rock-solid image, the pair
announced in early 2001 that they were unraveling due to career conflicts. Her
wedding to Cruise ended mid-summer of 2001.
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