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Nicole Mary Kidman (born June 20, 1967) is an
Academy Award winning Australia|Australian
actress, film producer|producer, and singer.
She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Dr. Antony
David Kidman and Janelle Ann (nee MacNeille).  At
the time, her father was a cancer research
specialist in Washington, D.C. 
The family returned to Australia when Nicole was
four years old, when Tony Kidman took on a
lectureship at the University of Technology,
Sydney. 

==Biography==
===Early life and career===
Nicole started taking ballet lessons when she was
three, and this led to studies at St. Martin's
Youth Theatre in Melbourne,  the Australian
Theatre for Young People in Sydney, and then to
the Philip Street Theatre, where she majored in
voice production and theatre history. She studied
at North Sydney Girls High School, but dropped out
when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer,
as Kidman concentrated on her family
responsibilities until her mother's recovery.

Her first appearance on film came in 1983 when, as
a 15 year-old, she appeared in the  Pat Wilson
music video for the song "Bop Girl".  By the end
of the year she had secured a supporting role in
the television series Five Mile Creek, and four
film roles, including BMX Bandits (film)|BMX
Bandits and Bush Christmas.  During the 1980s  she
appeared in several Australian movies and TV
series, notably including the soap opera A Country
Practice, the mini-series Vietnam
(miniseries)|Vietnam (1986), Emerald City (1988),
and Bangkok Hilton (1989). In 1989 she appeared in
Dead Calm which gained her notice in the United
States.

===Marriage to Cruise===
Her American debut was in Days of Thunder (1990),
a stock-car racing movie opposite Tom Cruise.
Although Cruise was married to actress Mimi Rogers
at the time, he and Kidman became “an item“.
Cruise divorced Rogers and the couple married on
Christmas Eve of 1990 in Telluride, Colorado. The
couple adopted two children, Isabella and Connor,
and lived in Los Angeles, California, Australia,
Colorado, and New York. 

After ten years, the marriage was dissolved in
2001: there was much media speculation about the
reasons for this, but both celebrities maintained
their privacy and were guarded in their public
comments.  One persistent rumour claims however
that Kidman's desire to bring up their children
Catholicism|Catholic, and her critical views on
Scientology caused the problems in her marriage
with Tom Cruise, who is known to be an outspoken
follower of the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard.

===Hollywood career===

After “Days of Thunder“ she starred with
Cruise in Ron Howard (American director)|Ron
Howard's Far and Away (1992).

1995 was to bring much success. She was featured
in the all-star cast of Batman Forever and later
that same year she starred in To Die For,  earning
high praise from critics. Although media
speculation thought that she would earn an Academy
Award nomination for her performance, it was not
to be. She did however win a Golden Globe award. 

Kidman and Cruise portrayed a married couple in
Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, Stanley Kubrick's final
film. It was the third time she had co-starred
with Tom Cruise.

Kidman's most professionally successful year was
2001, with her Academy Award|Oscar-nominated
performance in Moulin Rouge! and well-received
star turn in a horror film, The Others (2001
film)|The Others.  While in Australia filming
Moulin Rouge!, Kidman injured her knee, so Jodie
Foster had to replace her in Panic Room. The
following year Kidman came back to win the same
praise from critics for her portrayal of Virginia
Woolf in The Hours. She won the Academy Award for
Best Actress for this role.
In the same year she took a hand at production for
the film In the Cut.

In 2004, Kidman appeared in the remake of The
Stepford Wives (2004)|The Stepford Wives alongside
Glenn Close, Faith Hill and Bette Midler.  In
September of the same year, Kidman's film Birth
(movie)|Birth in which the 37 year-old actress'
character falls in love with a 10 year-old boy
(played by Cameron Bright), who attempts to
convince her that he is a reincarnation of her
dead husband, met with a mixed reception. Despite
this, the film was nominated for the prestigious
Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival.
Kidman is author Philip Pullman  's number-one
choice to play Mrs. Coulter   in the upcoming film
version of the first volume in his His Dark
Materials  trilogy, His Dark Materials: The Golden
Compass  , and the subsquent two films, in 2007.

==Awards==
===Film awards===

Kidman won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Actress
for her performance as Virginia Woolf in The
Hours: for the same film she won a BAFTA award.
Kidman was nominated in 2002 for the Academy Award
for Best Actress for her performance in the
Academy Award winning musical, Moulin Rouge!. 

She has also been nominated seven times for a
Golden Globe, the first time being in 1992 for
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture.
Kidman won her first of three Golden Globes in
1996 for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Motion
Picture for the film To Die For, her second win
was in 2002 again for Best Actress in a
Comedy/Musical Motion Picture for Moulin Rouge!,
her third win was in 2003 in the Best Actress in a
Drama Motion Picture for the film The Hours. She
was nominated four consecutive times in the Best
Actress in a Drama Motion Picture Golden Globe, in
the years 2002-2005, for the following films in
chronological order: The Others, The Hours, Cold
Mountain, and most recently Birth. 

Kidman has won one British Academy Award(BAFTA),
it was for her performance in The Hours. She was
nominated for the BAFTA two other times, in 2002
and 1996.
In 2003, Kidman was given the American
Cinematheque Award.
She won two MTV_Movie_Awards|MTV Movie Awards in
2002 for Moulin Rouge!.
She has been nominated for three Screen Actors
Guild Awards.
In 2003, Kidman received her Star on the Walk of
Fame in Hollywood, California.

In addition to those accolades, Kidman has
received Best Actress awards from the folowing
critics' groups or award giving organizations:
Australian Film Institute, Berlin International
Film Festival, Blockbuster Entertainment Awards,
Boston Society of Film Critics, Broadcast Film
Critics Association, Empire Awards, Golden
Satellite Awards, Hollywood Film Festival, Kansas
City Film Critics Circle, Las Vegas Film Critics
Society, London Critics Circle, Prestige Academy
of Motion Pictures & Television, Russian Guild of
Film Critics, Seattle International Film Festival,
and the Southeastern Film Critics Association.

===Other awards===
Kidman publicly supports a variety of charities
and causes. She has been a high profile Goodwill
Ambassador for UNICEF Australia since 1994. She
has worked to help raise money for and draw
attention to the plight of and the most
disadvantaged children in Australia and around the
world. In (2004) she was honoured as a "Citizen of
the World" by the United Nations.
Kidman was selected as the New South Wales
Australian of the Year 2005. In 2005 she visited
the tsunami-hit regions of SE Asia.

==Singing==

Not known as a singer prior to Moulin Rouge!,
Kidman had several well received vocal
performances in the film. Her collaboration with
Ewan McGregor on the song "Come What May", from
the film's soundtrack debuted and peaked at #27 on
the UK Singles Chart. Later, she collaborated with
Robbie Williams on the song "Somethin' Stupid", a
cover of the old swing song on Williams' swing
covers album "Swing When You're Winning" (debuting
and peaking at #8 in the Australian ARIAnet
Singles Chart, and at #1 for three weeks in the
UK, also becoming the UK Christmas #1 Single for
2001). She was reportedly offered a recording
contract from a very high-profile record company
following the success of "Moulin," but turned it
down, believing that a full-time singing career
was not her destined path.

==Movies in production== 
Emma's War, Fur, American Darlings, Wedding
Season, and the animated musical Happy Feet are
future movies for Kidman. Kidman was cast in The
Producers but had to pull out due to scheduling
conflicts. She was replaced by Uma Thurman. 
Eucalpytus would have been Kidman's first native
film since Moulin Rouge! but filming was halted
after producer Russell Crowe determined that the
script needed to be re-written. The current movie
starring Kidman out in 2005 is Bewitched, a
revamped version of the classic sitcom. She is
currently filming the Diane Arbus bio-pic Fur.
There is a rumour that Kidman may star in an
upcoming yet to be titled Baz Luhrmann Australian
period film.

==Other notes==
*As Kidman was born in Hawaii, she is an American
citizen by birth.  She has dual nationality and
carries both Australian and U.S. passports.
*Kidman's sister Antonia Kidman|Antonia is an
entertainment reporter for an Australian
television program, and also has her own very
successful parenting program title 'The Little
Things' set to be syndicated around the world.
*Kidman is also a well renowned fashion paradigm
and a frequent "Best Dressed" staple.
*In August 2004, the Australian magazine BRW
listed Kidman as the richest Australian woman
under the age of 40, with an estimated worth of
155 million A$ (Australian dollars), or $107
million in United States dollars.
* In January 2005, Kidman won interim restraining
orders against two Sydney-based paparazzi
photographers.
* Listed 45th Most Powerful Celebrity on the 2005
Forbes Celebrity 100 List. She made a reported
$14.5 million in 2004-2005.
* Is known as one of the few A-list actresses who
take risks on smaller indie/art films, doing both
Dogville and Birth within the last year.

==Filmography==

*BMX Bandits (film)|BMX Bandits (1983)
*Bush Christmas (1983)
*Wills & Burke (1985)
*Archer's Adventure (1985)
*Windrider (1986)
*Watch the Shadows Dance (1987)
*The Bit Part (1987)
*Emerald City (1988)
*Dead Calm (1989)
*Days of Thunder (1990)
*Flirting (movie)|Flirting (1991)
*Billy Bathgate (1991)
*Far and Away (1992)
*Malice (1993)
*My Life (1993)
*To Die For (1995)
*Batman Forever (1995)
*The Leading Man (1996)
*The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
*The Peacemaker (movie)|The Peacemaker (1997)
*Practical Magic (1998)
*Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
*Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)
(documentary)
*Moulin Rouge! (2001)
*The Others (2001 film)|The Others (2001)
*Birthday Girl (2001)
*Panic Room (2002) (voice only)
*The Hours (movie)|The Hours (2002)
*Dogville (2003)
*Dogville Confessions (2003) (documentary)
*The Human Stain (2003)
*Cold Mountain (2003)
*The Stepford Wives (2004)
*Birth_%28movie%29|Birth (2004)
*The Interpreter (2005)
*Bewitched_%28movie%29|Bewitched (2005)
*Fur (2006) (currently in post-production)
*Happy Feet (2006) (voice) (currently filming)
*Invasion of the Body Snatchers (2006) (currently
in pre-production)
*The Lady from Shanghai (2006) (currently in
pre-production)
*Emma's War (2006) (currently in pre-production)
*American Darlings (2006) (currently in
pre-production) (also as executive producer)
*Wedding Season (2006) (announced)
*The Land of The Setting Sun (2007) (announced)

==TV Work==
*Skin Deep (1983)
*Chase Through the Night (1983)
*Five Mile Creek (1983-1985)
*Matthew and Son (1984)
*Winners (1985) (miniseries)
*Room to Move (1987)
*An Australian in Rome (1987)
*Vietnam (1987) (miniseries)
*Bangkok Hilton (1989) (miniseries)

==Discography==
* Come What May Single (Duet with Ewan McGregor -
October 2001) UK #27
* Somethin' Stupid Single (Duet with Robbie
Williams - December 2001) UK #1

==External links==

*imdb name | id=0000173 | name=Nicole Kidman