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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.
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 (nee 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]
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
.
Kidman was married to Tom Cruise until 2001.
[
source?
]
She is currently married to
Keith Urban
and she has two daughters.
[
source?
]
- ↑
"Monitor"
.
Entertainment Weekly
. No. 1264. 21 June 2013. p. 26.
- ↑
Dickerson, James L. Nicole Kidman, Citadel Press, 2003, p.1
- ↑
Keneally, Tom
(24 May 1992).
"Film; Nicole Kidman, From Down Under to 'Far and Away'
"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
10 January
2014
.
- ↑
Thomson, David
(2006).
Nicole Kidman
. Knopf.
ISBN
978-1-4000-4273-9
.
- ↑
"Nicole Kidman Biography"
. Biography.com. Archived from
the original
on 7 May 2011
. Retrieved
10 January
2014
.
- ↑
Dickerson, James L. Nicole Kidman, Citadel Press, 2003, p. 2
- ↑
"Antonia Kidman"
.
ninemsn.com
. Retrieved
10 January
2014
.
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