Actress and producer, born June 20, 1967, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Though
American-born (her father Anthony, a biochemist and psychologist, was
studying in Hawaii), Kidman grew up in Longueville, a suburb of Sydney,
Australia, from the time she was four years old. Early on, Anthony and his
wife, Janelle, a nursing teacher and devoted feminist, introduced Nicole and
her younger sister, Antonia, to the culture of social and political activism.

     Kidman's first experience with acting came when she was six years old
and she appeared in her school's Christmas pageant. She trained in dance,
drama, and mime through her teen years, developing a particularly strong
passion for ballet. She became a regular performer at Sydney's Philip Street
Theater and in 1983 made her television debut in Bush Christmas, which still
airs in Australia each December. In 1985, when she was only 17, members of
the Australian Film Institute voted Kidman Actress of the Year for her work
in the TV miniseries Vietnam. That same year, Janelle Kidman was diagnosed
with breast cancer, and her eldest daughter dropped out of North Sydney High
School to concentrate on her family and her acting career.

     By the time she made her first American film, 1989's Dead Calm, Kidman
was already a popular star in Australia. Her performance alongside fellow
Australian actor Sam Neill won the actress rave reviews and led to a lead
role in her next movie, the race-car drama Days of Thunder. Her costar was
Tom Cruise, then most famous for his role as a cocky naval fighter pilot in
1986's Top Gun. The movie was pure formula, but the chemistry was real: on
Christmas Eve, 1990, in Telluride, Colorado, Kidman and Cruise were married
after a whirlwind courtship.

     Over the next few years, Kidman struggled to prove herself in the media
and with the critics as not only “Mrs. Tom Cruise,” but as an actress in
her own right. The most striking evidence that she had succeeded in these
efforts came in 1995 with her chilling portrayal of the murderous TV reporter
Suzanne Maretto in To Die For, directed by Gus van Sant. With starring roles
in high-profile movies such as Batman Returns, The Peacemaker, costarring
George Clooney, and Practical Magic, costarring Sandra Bullock, Kidman
cemented her own A-list status.

     In the fall of 1998, Kidman took to the London stage in the playwright
David Hare's The Blue Room, a role which she reprised on Broadway in 1999.
Her performance—complete with a brief, highly publicized nude scene—earned
high praise from critics. Kidman and Cruise spent much of 1997 and 1998
shooting Eyes Wide Shut for the director Stanley Kubrick, who died shortly
before finishing the film, which was released in the summer of 1999. The two
actors starred in the long-awaited film as a married couple who explores
their psychosexual fantasies with strange and potentially devastating results.

     Over the years, Kidman and Cruise fiercely and publicly defended the
happiness and legitimacy of their marriage and have filed two different
lawsuits against tabloid publications for stories they considered libelous.
In each case the couple received a large monetary settlement—which they
donated to charity—and a published retraction.

     On February 5, 2001, Kidman and Cruise announced through a spokesman
that they were amicably separating after 11 years of marriage. The couple
cited the difficulties involved with two acting careers and the amount of
time spent apart while both are working. Cruise filed for divorce shortly
thereafter, prompting media reports that Kidman was confused and devastated
by the breakup. In late March, Kidman's publicist confirmed rumors that the
actress suffered a miscarriage roughly one month after the separation was
announced. The Kidman-Cruise divorce was finalized in August 2001. They have
two children by adoption, Isabella and Conner.

     Just as her private turmoil became public knowledge, Kidman was vaulting
to the next level professionally, with critically lauded performances in two
major released in 2001. She headlined the the long-awaited musical Moulin
Rouge (2001), helmed by the outrageous Australian director Baz Luhrmann,
playing a spectacularly beautiful cabaret performer. In the chilling suspense
film The Others, executive produced by Cruise, Kidman impressed both critics
and audiences (the low budget film was the sleeper hit of the summer) with
her graceful performance as a young mother alone with her children in a
decidedly spooky house. For the two dramatically different roles, Kidman
earned twin Golden Globe nods for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy and
Best Actress in a Drama, respectively. Though she was forced to drop out of
another film, the thriller The Panic Room, citing a knee injury sustained
during the filming of Moulin Rouge (she was replaced in that film by Jodie
Foster), Kidman had no lack of prime roles. In 2002, she appears as part of
the celebrated cast of Stephen Daldry's The Hours, starring as the doomed
author Virginia Woolf alongside Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Ed Harris.

     Upcoming projects include Jonathan Glazer's Birth, Frank Oz's remake of
the 1975 thriller The Stepford Wives and the Dogville trilogy from Danish
filmmaker Lars von Trier.


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