Nicole Kidman Biography

Nicole Kidman(Nicole Mary Kidman) is an oscar – award winning Australian actress, producer and singer born on 20th June 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States while her Australian parents were temporarily in the United States on student visas.

Nicole Kidman Age

Nicole was born 20th June 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States (51 years as of 2018)

Nicole Kidman Height

Nicole stands at 1.8m/ 5ft 11 inches

Nicole Kidman Education

Nicole Kidman attended Lane Cove Public School and North Sydney Girls’ High School. She was enrolled in ballet at three and showed her natural talent for acting in her primary and high school years. She says that she was first inspired to become an actress upon seeing Margaret Hamilton’s performance as the ‘Wicked Witch of the West’ in ‘The Wizard of Oz’.

Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban

Nicole Kidman initially studied at the Philip Street Theatre in Sydney. At Philip Street, Kidman studied alongside Naomi Watts who had attended the same high school. She also attended the Australian Theatre for Young People. Here she took up drama, mime and performing in her teens finding acting to be a refuge. Owing to her fair skin and naturally red hair, the Australian sun forced the young Kidman to rehearse in halls of the theatre.

Nicole Kidman Family

Nicole was born to Antony Kidman (1938–2014), a biochemist, clinical psychologist and author, who died of a heart attack in Singapore aged 75 and Janelle Ann (née Glenny) a nursing instructor who edited her husband’s books and was a member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby.

At the time of Kidman’s birth, her father was a graduate student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He became a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health of the United States. Opposed to the war in Vietnam, Kidman’s parents participated in anti-war protests while living in Washington, D.C. The family returned to Australia when Kidman was four and her mother now lives on Sydney’s North Shore.

Nicole Kidman Sister

Nicole has a younger sister Antonia Kidman who is an Australian journalist, TV presenter and author. She began her career as a researcher with the Nine Network’s Today program. She has a long long professional involvement with Foxtel, and in 2002 presented her own series, The Little Things, an instructional series about raising children on the W. Channel.

Nicole Kidman Husband/ Tom Cruise Nicole kidman

Nicole Kidman married Tom Cruise on Christmas Eve 1990 in Telluride, Colorado at the time she was 22 years. The two first met in November 1989 when Nicole was auditioning for Tom’s 1990 race-car film “Days of Thunder.” In a previous interview Nicole has said that she immediately felt the electricity when she shook his hand.The couple adopted a daughter, Isabella Jane (born 1992), and a son, Connor Anthony (born 1995).

On 5 February 2001, the couple’s spokesperson announced their separation. Cruise filed for divorce two days later, and the marriage was dissolved in August of that year, with Cruise citing irreconcilable differences.

They never addressed the reason for their split publicly but it was rumored that Cruise’s faith and increasingly prominent role in the Church of Scientology played a role. Nicole never became a Scientologist, which supposedly made her what’s known in Scientology parlance as a “suppressive person,” or “SP.”

Their children Isabella and Connor were raised as Scientologists and decided to live with their father and remain devoted to the organization.

In October 2018 in an essay she published in New York magazine she revealed that her marriage to Tom Cruise shielded her from sexual harassment.

“I married for love, but being married to an extremely powerful man kept me from being sexually harassed. I would work, but I was still very much cocooned,” Kidman wrote. “So when I came out of it at 32, 33, it’s almost like I had to grow up.That said, I got married very young, but it definitely wasn’t power for me — it was protection.

I married for love, but being married to an extremely powerful man kept me from being sexually harassed. I would work, but I was still very much cocooned,” Kidman wrote. “So when I came out of it at 32, 33, it’s almost like I had to grow up.”

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban

Nicole Kidman married  Keith Urban on 25th June 2006 at Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel in the grounds of St Patrick’s Estate, Manly in Sydney. The two first met in January 2005  at the G’Day USA gala, which honors Australians in Los Angeles.

During a 2013 interview with Ellen DeGeneres Nicole said she didn’t think Urban liked her when they first met. “I’m like, ‘You didn’t love me at first sight, you didn’t notice me,’ and he’s like, ‘Yes, I did but I just didn’t let on,’ but we kind of met and then about four months later he called me.”

Nicole Kidman Children/ Nicole Kidman Kids/ Nicole Kidman Daughters

Nicole Kidman has two adopted children, with Tom Cruise, daughter, Isabella Jane (born 1992), and a son, Connor Anthony (born 1995). She has two biological children from her marriage to Keith Urban:  Sunday Rose Kidman Urban born in 2008 and Faith Margaret Kidman Urban born via surrogacy in 2010.

During an interview with Marie Claire magazine in 2007 Nicole revealed that when she got married to Tom Cruise she wanted to have children. She suffered an ectopic pregnancy and lost the pregnancy and it was traumatic. They opted to adopt and adopted their two children.

According to reports she managed to get pregnant with Tom for the second time but she had a miscarriage around the same time they divorced.

During an interview with Tatler while talking about becoming a mother after the heartbreak of losing her pregnancies she said:

“There’s an enormous amount of pain and an enormous amount of joy on the other side of it, the flipside of going through so much yearning and pain to get there is the feeling of “Ahhhh!” when you have the child.”

She also revealed that she had no issues with adoption as her mother also had an adopted sister: “It’s been part of our family, and I knew it would probably play out somewhere in mine. I didn’t think it would happen so early but it did.”

Nicole Kidman Career

In 1983, aged 16, Nicole Kidman made her film debut in a remake of the Australian holiday season favourite ‘Bush Christmas’. By the end of 1983, she had a supporting role in the television series Five Mile Creek. She began gaining popularity in the mid-1980s after appearing in several film roles, including BMX Bandits in the same year, ‘Watch the Shadows Dance’ in 1987 and the romantic comedy ‘Windrider’ in 1986, which earned Nicole Kidman attention due to her racy scenes. She also appeared in several Australian productions, including the soap opera ‘A Country Practice’ and the miniseries Vietnam.

In 1988, Kidman appeared in ‘Emerald City’, based on the play of the same name. The Australian film earned her an Australian Film Institute for Best Supporting Actress. Nicole Kidman next starred with Sam Neill in ‘Dead Calm’ in 1989 as Rae Ingram, playing the wife of a naval officer. The thriller brought Kidman to international recognition

In 1991, she co-starred with former classmate and friend Naomi Watts and Thandie Newton in the Australian independent film ‘Flirting’. Nicole Kidman and Watts portrayed two high school girls in this coming of age story, which won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film. That same year, her work in the film Billy Bathgate earned Nicole Kidman her first Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

In 1995, Kidman appeared in her highest-grossing live-action film, playing Dr. Chase Meridian, the damsel in distress, in the superhero film Batman Forever, opposite Val Kilmer as the film’s title character. The same year Nicole Kidman starred in Gus Van Sant’s critically acclaimed dark comedy ‘To Die For’, in which she played the murderous newcaster Suzanne Stone.

The following year, she starred in the action-thriller The Peacemaker as White House nuclear expert Dr. Julia Kelly, opposite George Clooney. The film grossed $110,000,000 worldwide. In 1998, she co-starred with Sandra Bullock in the poorly received fantasy Practical Magic as a modern-day witch.[ Kidman returned to her work on stage the same year in the David Hare play The Blue Room, which opened in London.

In 1999, Nicole Kidman reunited with then husband, Tom Cruise, to portray a married couple in Eyes Wide Shut, the final film of director Stanley Kubrick. The film was subject to censorship controversies due to the explicit nature of its sex scenes. The film received further attention following Kubrick’s death shortly before its release. After brief hiatus and a highly publicized divorce, Kidman returned to the screen to play a mail-order bride in the British-American drama Birthday Girl.

In 2001, Nicole Kidman played the cabaret actress and courtesan Satine in Baz Luhrmann’s musical Moulin Rouge!, opposite Ewan McGregor. Her performance and her singing received positive reviews; Paul Clinton of CNN.com called it her best work since To Die For. Subsequently, Nicole Kidman received her second Golden Globe Award, for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, as well as many other acting awards and nominations. She also received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

In 2002, Nicole Kidman won critical praise for her portrayal of ‘Virginia Woolf’ in Stephen Daldry’s ‘The Hours’, which stars Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. Nicole Kidman famously wore prosthetics that were applied to her nose making her almost unrecognizable playing the author during her time in 1920s England,she bouts with depression and mental illness while trying to write her novel, Mrs. Dalloway. The film earned positive notices and several nominations, including for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Following her Oscar win, Nicole Kidman appeared in three very different films in 2003. The first, a leading role in Dogville, by Danish director Lars von Trier, was an experimental film set on a bare soundstage. Though the film divided critics in the United States, Nicole Kidman still earned praise for her performance. The second was an adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel The Human Stain, opposite Anthony Hopkins. Nicole Kidman third film was Anthony Minghella’s war drama ‘Cold Mountain’.

Nicole Kidman appeared opposite Jude Law and Renée Zellweger, playing Southerner Ada Monroe, who is in love with Law’s character and separated by the Civil War.  The film garnered several award nominations and wins for its actors; Nicole Kidman received her sixth Golden Globe nomination at the 61st Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress.

In 2004, Nicole Kidman appeared in the film, ‘Birth’ which received controversy over a scene in which Nicole Kidman shares a bath with her co-star, 10-year-old Cameron Bright. Nicole Kidman earned her seventh Golden Globe nomination, for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama.

In 2010, Nicole Kidman starred with Aaron Eckhart in the film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Rabbit Hole, for which she vacated her role in the Woody Allen picture You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. Her work on Rabbit Hole earned her critical acclaim, received nominations for the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards and produced the film.

In June 2011, Nicole Kidman was cast in Lee Daniels’ adaptation of the Pete Dexter novel, The Paperboy. Nicole Kidman began filming on the thriller on 1 August 2011 and The Paperboy was released in 2012. In the film, she portrayed death row groupie Charlotte Bless, and performed sex scenes that she claims not to have remembered until seeing the finished film. The film competed in the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and Kidman’s performance drew critical acclaim and among nominations for the SAG.

In 2016, Nicole Kidman performance in ‘Lion’ earned rave reviews, as well as nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, her fourth nomination overall, the Critics Choice for Best Supporting Actress, the Screen Actors Guild for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, a win in the same category at the Hollywood Film Awards as well as her third Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress and her eleventh nomination overall.

In 2017, Nicole Kidman returned to television in the seven-part miniseries adaptation of the Liane Moriarty bestseller ‘Big Little Lies’, which premiered on HBO. She produced the miniseries along with her co-star, Reese Witherspoon and the show’s director, Jean-Marc Vallée.

Nicole Kidman Big Little Lies

Nicole plays the role of Celeste Wright in the tv series Big Little Lies on HBO. The series is an adoption of the novel of the same name ny Liane Moriarty. The series tells the story of three motionally troubled women in Monterey, California, who become embroiled in a murder investigation.

Nicole Kidman Destroyer

Nicole plays the role of Erin Bell, an LAPD detective, in the 2018 film Destroyer. The movie follows Erin who as a young cop was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past.

Nicole Kidman Aquaman

In the film Aquaman Nicole plays the role of Atlanna, Tthe Queen of Atlantis, mother of Arthur Curry and Orm. Nicole was criticized for playing Arthur Curry’s mother considering in real life she is 51 years and Jason Momoa, who plays Arthur is 39 years old. Nicole defended herself saying:

“In the context of the superhero world, it all evens out. Atlanna doesn’t really age.”

During an interview Nicole said she was convinced to join because of Wan.

“I knew James Wan was going to do something really interesting and really fun and I’ve wanted to work with him since he started out in Australia in low-budget horror, and I’ve followed his career.

Nicole Kidman Net worth

Nicole has an estimated net worth of 183 million (as of 2015)

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Nicole Kidman Awards

granting organisations: the Hollywood Foreign Press (Golden Globes), the Australian Film Institute, Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, Empire Awards, Golden Satellite Awards, Hollywood Film Festival, London Critics Circle, Russian Guild of Film Critics and the Southeastern Film Critics Association. In 2003, Nicole Kidman was given the American Cinematheque Award. She also received recognition from the National Association of Theatre Owners at the ShoWest Convention in 1992 as the Female Star of Tomorrow and in 2002 for a Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film.

Nicole Kidman Singing

Nicole Kidman is also a musician and has collaborated with Ewan McGregor on “Come What May” which peaked at No. 27 in the UK Singles Chart. Later she collaborated with Robbie Williams on “Somethin’ Stupid”, a cover version for Williams’ swing covers album Swing When You’re Winning; the song peaked at No. 8 in the Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart and at No. 1, for three weeks, in the UK.

In 2006, while voicing a role in the animated movie Happy Feet, she provided vocals for Norma Jean’s “heartsong”, a slightly altered version of “Kiss” by Prince. Nicole Kidman sang in Rob Marshall’s movie musical Nine.

Nicole Kidman Clapping

In March 2017 during the 89th Academy Awards Nicole was captured clapping in an odd way. During an interview with presenter Kyle Sandilands on KIIS1065 she revealed her reason for the absurb clapping.

Kylie told her that he told everyone that she was clapping like that because she had rings and didn’t want to damage them to which she replied

“You are so right Kyle, It was really difficult because I had a huge ring on which was not my own, but was absolutely gorgeous and I was terrified of damaging it. It’s so true, I’m so glad you clarified that. It was really awkward and I was like gosh, I want to clap. I don’t want to not be clapping, which is worse, right – ‘why isn’t Nicole clapping?’”

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Nicole Kidman Said That Her Kids Called Her Granny After They Saw Her Destroyer Makeover.

Nicole Kidman‘s daughters didn’t beat around the bush when they saw her movie makeover for Destroyer.

When her kids with husband Keith Urban — Faith Margaret, 8 this month, and Sunday Rose, 10 — witnessed Kidman’s cinematic transformation into a world-weary LAPD detective, they offered her a new nickname.

“They called me ‘granny,’ ” the 51-year-old actress told the Los Angeles Times in a new profile. “They’re like, ‘You’re our granny now.’ “

Kidman embraced the joke by telling her daughters that she would be open to attending a grandparents’ day at their school in her makeup. “I thought it’d be kind of quirky and funny and make for a good story for when they were older,” Kidman told the newspaper, quipping that she would say, ” ‘Oh … hello Sunday! I’m here!’ ” as if she were Sunday’s grandmother.

“And she’s just like, ‘Whatever you do, never, ever do that,’ ” Kidman continued. “So I won’t be dressing up as their granny — even though that’s what they called me!”

Source: people.com