Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman AC
Nicole Kidman at 2013 Cannes Film Festival
Born	Nicole Mary Kidman (1967-06-20) June 20, 1967 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

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. Her father, Antony David Kidman (1938 - 2014) was a biochemist, clinical psychologist, and author. 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. 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 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.

Career

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

Kidman was married to Tom Cruise until 2001. She is currently married to Keith Urban with whom she has two daughters, born in 2008 and 2010 respectively.

Movie

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	BMX Bandits	Judy
	Bush Christmas	Helen
	Five Mile Creek	Annie	TV series
	Skin Deep	Sheena Henderson	TV movie
	Chase Through the Night	Petra	TV movie
1984	Matthew and Son	Bridget Elliot	TV movie
	Wills & Burke	Julia Matthews
1985	Archer's Adventure	Catherine	TV movie
	Winners	Carol Trig	TV series - episode 1
1986	Windrider	Jade
1987	Watch the Shadows Dance	Amy Gabriel
	The Bit Part	Mary McAllister
	Room to Move	Carol Trig	TV miniseries
	An Australian in Rome	Jill	TV movie
	Vietnam	Megan Goddard	TV miniseries
1988	Emerald City	Helen
1989	Dead Calm	Rae Ingram
	Bangkok Hilton	Katrina Stanton	TV miniseries
1990	Days of Thunder	Dr. Claire Lewicki
1991	Flirting	Nicola
	Billy Bathgate	Drew Preston	Golden Globe nomination - Best Supporting Actress
1992	Far and Away	Shannon Christie
1993	Malice	Tracy Kennsinger
	My Life	Gail Jones
1995	To Die For	Suzanne Stone Maretto	BAFTA Award nomination - Best Actress, Golden Globe win - Best Musical/Comedy Actress
	Batman Forever	Dr. Chase Meridian
1996	The Leading Man	Academy Awards presenter
	The Portrait of a Lady	Isabel Archer
1997	The Peacemaker	Dr. Julia Kelly
1998	Practical Magic	Gillian Owens
1999	Eyes Wide Shut	Alice Harford
2001	Moulin Rouge!	Satine	Academy Award nomination - Best Actress, Golden Globe win - Best Musical/Comedy Actress
	The Others	Grace Stewart	Nominated for BAFTA Award - Best Actress Nominated for Golden Globe - Best Drama Actress
	Birthday Girl	Sophia/Nadia
2002	The Hours	Virginia Woolf	Academy Award win - Best Actress, BAFTA Award win - Best Actress, Golden Globe win - Best Drama Actress
2003	Dogville	Grace Margaret Mulligan
	The Human Stain	Faunia Farley
	Cold Mountain	Ada Monroe	Golden Globe nomination - Best Drama Actress
2004	The Stepford Wives	Joanna Eberhart
	Birth	Anna	Golden Globe nomination - Best Drama Actress
2005	The Interpreter	Silvia Broome
	Bewitched	Isabel Bigelow/Samantha	Worst Screen Couple Razzie
2006	Fur	Diane Arbus
	Happy Feet	Norma Jean	voice
2007	The Invasion	Carol Bennell
	Margot at the Wedding	Margot
	The Golden Compass	Marisa Coulter
2008	Australia	Lady Sarah Ashley	Post-production
2009	Need		Postponed because of her pregnancy
	The Lady from Shanghai

Other websites

• Nicole Kidman on IMDb