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| Birth Name(s) : Nicole Mary Kidman |
Date of Birth: June 20, 1967 |
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One of the top and most powerful actresses in Hollywood today, Nicole Kidman has had spotlights shine on her numerous times, most recently in reference to her divorce with ex-husband Tom Cruise.
Recent movies include Moullin Rouge and The Others. |
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Nicole Mary Kidman (born June 20, 1967), is an Academy Award-winning Australian actress(Born in the United States). In 2006, she became the highest paid actress in the film industry. That same year, Kidman was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), Australia's highest civilian honour.
In 1989, Kidman starred in the thriller Dead Calm as Rae Ingram, the wife of naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill), held captive on a Pacific Ocean yacht trip by the psychotic Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane). The thriller film received generally positive reviews; the staff of Variety.com commented: "Throughout the film, Kidman is excellent. She gives the character of Rae real tenacity and energy." Meanwhile, critic Roger Ebert noted the excellent chemistry between the leads, stating, "...Kidman and Zane do generate real, palpable hatred in their scenes together." In 1990, she appeared opposite Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder, a stock car racing movie. After this, Kidman starred with Cruise in Ron Howard's Far and Away (1992). In 1995, Kidman featured in the ensemble cast of Batman Forever. On November 20, 1993 she hosted Saturday Night Live.
Her second film in 1995, To Die For was a satirical comedy that earned her praise from critics. She won a Golden Globe Award, and five other best actress awards for her portrayal of the murderous newscaster Suzanne Stone Maretto. Kidman and Cruise portrayed a married couple in Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, Stanley Kubrick's final film.
Recently, Kidman appeared in the Diane Arbus bio-pic Fur, director Oliver Hirschbiegel's science fiction movie The Invasion. In Fall 2007, Nicole plays opposite Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black in Noah Baumbach's comedy-drama Margot at the Wedding. She has also provided her voice for the animated movie Happy Feet. She is currently working on the film adaptation of the first part of the His Dark Materials trilogy in which she plays the villainous Mrs. Coulter. She is also set to star in director Wong Kar-wai's next film, The Lady from Shanghai and Baz Luhrmann's Australian period film titled Australia, which is set in the remote Northern Territory during the Japanese attack on Darwin during World War II. Kidman will play an English woman feeling overwhelmed by the continent, opposite Hugh Jackman.
Kidman met Tom Cruise on the set of their 1990 movie, Days of Thunder. Cruise was married to actress Mimi Rogers at the time, and later divorced her. Kidman and Cruise were married on Christmas Eve 1990 in Telluride, Colorado. The couple adopted two children, daughter Isabella Jane Cruise (b. December 22, 1992) and son Connor Anthony Cruise (b. January 17, 1995), and lived in Los Angeles, Australia, Colorado, and New York City. They separated just before their 10th wedding anniversary. At the time she was 3 months pregnant and subsequently had a miscarriage. Tom Cruise filed for divorce in February 2001. The marriage was dissolved in 2001, with Cruise citing irreconcilable differences as the cause of the divorce. The reasons for the dissolution have never been made public. In an interview in the June 2006 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, Kidman reported that she still loved Tom Cruise. Kidman told the magazine: "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.
On January 26 2006 Kidman received Australia's highest civilian honour when she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, for "service to the performing arts as an acclaimed motion picture performer, to health care through contributions to improve medical treatment for women and children and advocacy for cancer research, to youth as a principal supporter of young performing artists, and to humanitarian causes in Australia and internationally." However, due to film commitments and her wedding to Urban, it wasn't until 13 April 2007 that she was presented with the honour. She was also nominated goodwill ambassador for UNIFEM.
Kidman joined the 'Little Tee Campaign' for Breast Cancer Care to design T-shirts or vests to raise money for breast cancer. Kidman's mother, Janelle, is a breast cancer survivor who was diagnosed in 1984.
British Academy of Film and Television Arts:
- 2003 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for The Hours
Prestige Academy of Motion Pictures
- 1995 - Best Actress for To Die For
- 2001 - Best Actress for Moulin Rouge!
- 2001 - Best Musical Sequence for Moulin Rouge!
- 2002 - Best Actress for The Hours
- 2003 - Best Ensemble Cast Performance for Cold Mountain *(shared with the rest of the cast)
- 2003 - Distinguished Decade in Film
- 2004 - Best Ensemble Cast Performance for Dogville *(shared with the rest of the cast)
BAFTA:
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role The Others (2002)
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role To Die For (1996)
Screen Actors Guild:
- Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role The Hours (2003)
- Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture The Hours (2003)
- Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Moulin Rouge! (2002) |
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