Nicole Kidman
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Nicole Kidman at 2013 Cannes Film Festival
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| Born | Nicole Mary Kidman 20 June 1967 [1] Honolulu, Hawaii, United States |
| Residence | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Citizenship | Australian and American (dual) |
| Occupation | Actress, singer, producer[2] |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Spouse(s) | Tom Cruise (m. 1990; div. 2001) Keith Urban (m. 2006) |
| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | Antonia Kidman (sister) |
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| www.nicolekidmanofficial.com | |
Kidman's other notable films include To Die For (1995), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), The Others (2001), Cold Mountain (2003), Dogville (2003), The Interpreter (2005) and Australia (2008). Her performances in Birth (2004) and The Paperboy (2012) earned her Golden Globe nominations for best actress and supporting actress, respectively. Her performance in 2010's Rabbit Hole (which she also produced) earned Kidman further accolades, including a third Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 2012, she earned her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in Hemingway & Gellhorn. Kidman has been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 1994[3] and for UNIFEM since 2006.[4] In 2006, Kidman was made a Companion of the Order of Australia,[5] and was also the highest-paid actress in the motion picture industry.[6] As a result of being born to Australian parents in Hawaii, Kidman has dual citizenship in Australia and the United States.[7] Kidman founded and owns the production company Blossom Films.
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Early life
Nicole Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were temporarily in the United States on educational visas. Kidman can therefore claim citizenship in Australia and the United States.[8] Her father, Antony David Kidman, is a biochemist, clinical psychologist, and author.[9][10] Her mother, Janelle Ann (née Glenny), is a nursing instructor who edits her husband's books and was a member of the Women's Electoral Lobby. Kidman's ancestry includes Scottish and Irish.[11] 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, D.C.[12] The family returned to Australia when Kidman was four and her parents now live on Sydney's North Shore. Kidman has a younger sister, Antonia Kidman, a journalist and TV presenter.[13]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.[14] Kidman revealed she was timid as a child, saying, "I am very shy – really shy – I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness. So I don't like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself; I don't like going to a party by myself."[15] In 1984, her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, which caused Kidman to temporarily halt her education and help provide for the family by working as a massage therapist at age seventeen.[14] She studied at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Victoria, and at the Phillip Street Theatre in Sydney, with actress and friend Naomi Watts who had attended the same high school.[14] This was followed by attending the Australian Theatre for Young People.[14] Here she took up drama, mime and performing in her teens, finding acting to be a refuge. Due to her fair skin and naturally red hair, the Australian sun forced the young Kidman to rehearse in halls of the theatre. A regular at the Phillip Street Theatre, she received both encouragement and praise to pursue acting full-time.[16]
Career
1983–1994
In 1983, aged 16, Kidman made her film debut in a remake of the Australian holiday season favourite Bush Christmas.[16] By the end of 1983, she had a supporting role in the television series Five Mile Creek and began gaining popularity in the mid-1980s after appearing in several film roles, including BMX Bandits, Watch the Shadows Dance, and the romantic comedy Windrider (1986), which earned Kidman attention due to her racy scenes. Also during the decade, she appeared in several Australian productions, including the soap opera A Country Practice[17] and the miniseries Vietnam (1986).[18] She also made guest appearances on Australian television programs and TV movies. She also appeared in Sesame Street.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. Kidman next starred in Dead Calm (1989) as Rae Ingram, playing the wife of a naval officer. The thriller garnered strong reviews and brought Kidman to international recognition; Variety commented: "Throughout the film, Kidman is excellent. She gives the character of Rae real tenacity and energy."[19] Meanwhile, critic Roger Ebert noted the excellent chemistry between the leads, stating, "Kidman and Zane do generate real, palpable hatred in their scenes together."[20] She followed that up with the Australian miniseries Bangkok Hilton. She next moved on to star alongside her then-boyfriend and future husband, Tom Cruise, in the 1990 auto racing film Days of Thunder, playing a young doctor who falls in love with a NASCAR driver. This was Kidman's American debut and was among the highest-grossing films of the year.[21]
In 1991, she co-starred with former classmate and friend Naomi Watts and Thandie Newton in the Australian independent film Flirting. Kidman and Watts portrayed two high school girls in this coming of age story, which won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film.[22] That same year, her work in the film Billy Bathgate earned Kidman her first Golden Globe Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actress. The New York Times, in its film review, called her "a beauty with, it seems, a sense of humor".[23] The following year, she and Cruise re-teamed for Ron Howard's Irish epic Far and Away (1992), which was a modest critical[24][25] and commercial[26] success. In 1993, she starred in My Life opposite Michael Keaton[27] and the thriller, Malice opposite Alec Baldwin.[28]
1995–2003
In 1995, Kidman appeared in her highest-grossing live-action film (as of 2011),[29] playing Dr. Chase Meridian, the damsel in distress, in the superhero film Batman Forever, opposite Val Kilmer as the film's title character. That same year Kidman appeared in Gus Van Sant's critically acclaimed To Die For, earning praise, including winning her first Golden Globe for her portrayal of murderous newscaster Suzanne Stone Maretto.[30][31] Kidman next appeared in The Portrait of a Lady (1996), based on the novel the same name, alongside, Barbara Hershey, John Malkovich and Mary-Louise Parker. The following year she appeared in the action-thriller The Peacemaker (1997) as White House nuclear expert Dr. Julia Kelly, opposite George Clooney. The film received mixed reviews but grossed some $110,000,000 worldwide.[32][33] That same year she appeared opposite Sandra Bullock in the poorly received fantasy Practical Magic as a modern-day witch.[34] Kidman returned to her work on stage the same year in the David Hare play The Blue Room, which opened in London.[35]
In 2003, Kidman won critical praise for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry's The Hours, which also featured Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. Kidman wore prosthetics that were applied to her nose making her almost unrecognisable playing the author during her time in 1920s England, and her 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. The New York Times wrote that, "Kidman tunnels like a ferret into the soul of a woman besieged by excruciating bouts of mental illness. As you watch her wrestle with the demon of depression, it is as if its torment has never been shown on the screen before. Directing her desperate, furious stare into the void, her eyes not really focusing, Ms. Kidman, in a performance of astounding bravery, evokes the savage inner war waged by a brilliant mind against a system of faulty wiring that transmits a searing, crazy static into her brain".[40]
Kidman won numerous critics' awards, including her first BAFTA, third Golden Globe, and the Academy Award for Best Actress. As the first Australian actress to win an Academy Award, Kidman made a teary acceptance speech about the importance of art, even during times of war, saying, "Why do you come to the Academy Awards when the world is in such turmoil? Because art is important. And because you believe in what you do and you want to honour that, and it is a tradition that needs to be upheld."[41] Following her Oscar win, 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. The second was an adaptation of Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain, opposite Anthony Hopkins. Her third film, Anthony Minghella's war drama Cold Mountain, was a critical and commercial success. 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. TIME magazine wrote, "Kidman takes strength from Ada's plight and grows steadily, literally luminous. Her sculptural pallor gives way to warm radiance in the firelight".[42] The film garnered several award nominations and wins for its actors; Kidman received her sixth Golden Globe nomination at the 61st Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress.[43]
2004–2009
In conjunction with her success in the film industry, Kidman became the face of the Chanel No. 5 perfume brand. She starred in a campaign of television and print ads with Rodrigo Santoro, directed by Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann, to promote the fragrance during the holiday seasons of 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008. The three-minute commercial produced for Chanel No. 5 made Kidman the record holder for the most money paid per minute to an actor after she reportedly earned US$12million for the three-minute advert.[47] During this time, Kidman was also listed as the 45th Most Powerful Celebrity on the 2005 Forbes Celebrity 100 List. She made a reported US$14.5 million in 2004–2005. On People magazine's list of 2005's highest paid actresses, Kidman was second behind Julia Roberts, with US$16–17 million per-film price tag.[48] Nintendo in 2007 announced that Kidman would be the new face of Nintendo's advertising campaign for the Nintendo DS game More Brain Training in its European market.[49]
Kidman portrayed photographer Diane Arbus in the biography Fur (2006), opposite Robert Downey, Jr.. Though the film was released to mixed reviews, both Kidman and Downey Jr. received praise for their performances. She also lent her voice to the animated film Happy Feet (2006), which grossed over US$384 million worldwide. In 2007, she starred in the science-fiction movie The Invasion directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, a remake of the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers that proved a critical and commercial failure. She also played opposite Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black in Noah Baumbach's comedy-drama Margot at the Wedding, released to positive reviews and earning Kidman a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actress – Musical or Comedy. She then starred in the commercially successful fantasy-adventure, The Golden Compass (2007), playing the villainous Marisa Coulter.
In 2008, she reunited with Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann in the Australian period film Australia, set in the remote Northern Territory during the Japanese attack on Darwin during World War II. Kidman played opposite Hugh Jackman as an Englishwoman feeling overwhelmed by the continent. Despite the film's mixed reviews, the acting was praised and the movie was a box office success worldwide.[50] Kidman was originally set to star in the post-World War II German drama, The Reader, working with previous collaborators Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella, but due to her pregnancy prior to filming she had to back out.[51] The role went to Kate Winslet, who ultimately won the Oscar for Best Actress, which Kidman presented to her during the 81st Academy Awards.[52] Kidman appeared in the 2009 Rob Marshall musical Nine, portraying the Federico Fellini-like character's muse, Claudia Jenssen. She was featured alongside fellow Oscar winners Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz and Sophia Loren. Kidman's, whose screen time was brief compared to the other actresses, performed the musical number "Unusual Way" alongside Day-Lewis. Although the film was released to mixed reviews, it received several Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations, and earned Kidman a fourth Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, as part of the Outstanding Cast.
2010–present
In June 2011, Kidman was cast in Lee Daniels' adaptation of the Pete Dexter novel, The Paperboy;[64] she 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. "I was like okay, so that's what I did," she said.[65] Kidman co-starred in Park Chan-wook's Stoker (2013).[66] In April 2012, various sources, including Variety, announced that Kidman was in talks to star in upcoming Grace Kelly biopic Grace of Monaco. The film will focus on the 1962 crisis, in which Charles de Gaulle blockaded the tiny principality, angered by Monaco's status as a tax haven for wealthy French subjects.[67] In 2012, Kidman's audiobook recording of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was released at Audible.com.[68] In April 2013 she was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[69]
Singing
Her collaboration with Ewan McGregor on "Come What May" peaked at No.27 in the UK Singles Chart.[70] Later she collaborated with Robbie Williams on "Somethin' Stupid", a cover version for Williams' swing covers album Swing When You're Winning. It peaked at No.8 in the Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart, and at No.1 for three weeks in the UK.[71] 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.[72] Kidman sang in Rob Marshall's movie musical Nine.[73]Personal life
Relationships and children
Prior to marrying Cruise, Kidman lived with Australian stage actor Marcus Graham in the late 1980s.[79] In the mid-1980s, she dated her Windrider co-star Tom Burlinson,[80][81] whom she lived with on and off for three years, according to biographer Andrew Morton.[82] Robbie Williams stated that he had a short romance with Kidman on her yacht in 2004. Kidman met her second husband, Australian country singer Keith Urban, at G'Day LA, an event honouring Australians, in January 2005. They married on 25 June 2006, at Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel in the grounds of St Patrick's Estate, Manly in Sydney.[83][84] They maintain homes in Sydney, Sutton Forest (New South Wales, Australia), Los Angeles,[85] and Nashville (Tennessee, USA).[86] The couple's first daughter, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, was born in 2008, in Nashville.[87] Kidman's father said the daughter's middle name was after Urban's late grandmother, Rose.[88] In 2010, Kidman and Urban had their second daughter, Faith Margaret Kidman Urban, via surrogacy[89] at Nashville's Centennial Women's Hospital. Faith's middle name is after Kidman's late grandmother.[90][91]
Religious and political views
Kidman is a Roman Catholic.[92] She attended Mary Mackillop Chapel in North Sydney. Following criticism of The Golden Compass by Catholic leaders[93] as anti-Catholic,[94] Kidman told Entertainment Weekly that "the Catholic Church is part of her 'essence'", and that her religious beliefs would prevent her from taking a role in a film she perceived was anti-Catholic.[95] During her divorce from Tom Cruise, she stated that she did not want their children raised as Scientologists.[96] She has been reluctant to discuss Scientology since her divorce.[97] Kidman's name was in an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times in August 2006 that condemned Hamas and Hezbollah and supported Israel in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war.[98] Kidman has donated to U.S. Democratic party candidates.[99]Wealth, philanthropy and honours
In the 2006 Australia Day Honours, Kidman was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) 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."[105] However, due to film commitments and her wedding to Urban, it was 13 April 2007 that she was presented with the honour.[106] It was presented by the Governor-General of Australia, Major General Michael Jeffery, in a ceremony at Government House, Canberra.[107] Kidman was appointed goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in 2006.[3] In this capacity, Kidman has addressed international audiences at UN events, raised awareness through the media and testified before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs to support the International Violence against Women Act. Kidman visited Kosovo in 2006 to learn about women's experiences of conflict and UNIFEM's support efforts. She is the international spokesperson for UNIFEM's Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women initiative.[108] Kidman and the UNIFEM executive director presented over five million signatures collected during the first phase of this to the UN Secretary-General on 25 November 2008.[109]
In the beginning of 2009, Kidman appeared in a series of postage stamps featuring Australian actors. She, Geoffrey Rush, Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett each appear twice in the series: once as themselves and once as their Academy Award-winning character.[110] On 8 January 2010, alongside Nancy Pelosi, Joan Chen and Joe Torre, Kidman attended the ceremony to help Family Violence Prevention Fund break ground on a new international center located in the Presidio of San Francisco.[111][112]
Filmography
Film
As of April 2013, Kidman's movies have grossed more than US$3 billion, with 17 movies making more than US$100 million.[113]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1983 | BMX Bandits | Judy | |
| 1983 | Bush Christmas | Helen | |
| 1984 | The Wacky World of Wills & Burke | Julia Matthews | |
| 1986 | Windrider | Jade | |
| 1987 | Watch the Shadows Dance (Nightmaster) | Amy Gabriel | |
| 1987 | The Bit Part | Mary McAllister | |
| 1988 | Emerald City | Helen | |
| 1989 | Dead Calm | Rae Ingram | |
| 1990 | Days of Thunder | Dr. Claire Lewicki | |
| 1991 | Flirting | Nicola | |
| 1991 | Billy Bathgate | Drew Preston | |
| 1992 | Far and Away | Shannon Christie | |
| 1993 | Malice | Tracy Kennsinger | |
| 1993 | My Life | Gail Jones | |
| 1995 | To Die For | Suzanne Stone Maretto | |
| 1995 | Batman Forever | Dr. Chase Meridian | |
| 1996 | The Portrait of a Lady | Isabel Archer | |
| 1997 | The Peacemaker | Dr. Julia Kelly | |
| 1998 | Practical Magic | Gillian Owens | |
| 1999 | Eyes Wide Shut | Alice Harford | |
| 2001 | Moulin Rouge! | Satine | |
| 2001 | The Others | Grace Stewart | |
| 2001 | Birthday Girl | Sophia/Nadia | |
| 2002 | The Hours | Virginia Woolf | |
| 2003 | Dogville | Grace Margaret Mulligan | |
| 2003 | The Human Stain | Faunia Farley | |
| 2003 | Cold Mountain | Ada Monroe | |
| 2004 | The Stepford Wives | Joanna Eberhart | |
| 2004 | Birth | Anna | |
| 2005 | The Interpreter | Silvia Broome | |
| 2005 | Bewitched | Isabel Bigelow/Samantha | |
| 2006 | Fur | Diane Arbus | |
| 2006 | Happy Feet | Norma Jean (voice) | |
| 2007 | The Invasion | Dr. Carol Bennell | |
| 2007 | Margot at the Wedding | Margot | |
| 2007 | The Golden Compass | Marisa Coulter | |
| 2008 | Australia | Lady Sarah Ashley | |
| 2009 | Nine | Claudia Jenssen | |
| 2010 | Rabbit Hole | Becca Corbett | Also producer |
| 2011 | Just Go with It | Devlin Adams | Supporting role |
| 2011 | Trespass | Sarah | |
| 2012 | The Paperboy | Charlotte Bless | |
| 2012 | Hemingway & Gellhorn | Martha Gellhorn | |
| 2013 | Stoker | Evelyn 'Evie' Stoker | |
| 2014 | The Railway Man | Patti Lomax | |
| 2014 | Grace of Monaco | Grace Kelly | |
| 2014 | Before I Go to Sleep | Christine Lucas | |
| 2014 | Paddington | Millicent | Post-production |
| 2015 | Queen of the Desert | Gertrude Bell | Post-production |
| 2015 | Strangerland | Catherine Parker | Filming |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1983 | Bop Girl | Bop Girl | Music video and first screen appearance |
| 1983 | Five Mile Creek | Annie | |
| 1983 | Skin Deep | Sheena Henderson | TV film |
| 1983 | Chase Through the Night | Petra | TV film |
| 1984 | Matthew and Son | Bridget Elliot | TV film |
| 1984 | A Country Practice | Simone Jenkins | 2 episodes |
| 1985 | Archer's Adventure | Catherine | TV film |
| 1985 | Winners | Carol Trig | 1 episode |
| 1987 | Room to Move | Carol Trig | Miniseries |
| 1987 | An Australian in Rome | Jill | TV film |
| 1987 | Vietnam | Megan Goddard | Miniseries (10 episodes) |
| 1989 | Bangkok Hilton | Katrina Stanton | Miniseries (3 parts) |
| 2012 | Hemingway & Gellhorn | Martha Gellhorn | TV film |
Producer
- In the Cut (2003)
- Rabbit Hole (2010)
- Monte Carlo (2011)
Awards
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Nicole Kidman
In 2003, Kidman received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In addition to her 2003 Academy Award for Best Actress, Kidman has
received Best Actress awards from the following critics' groups or
award-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, 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.Discography
- "Come What May" single (Duet with Ewan McGregor – October 2001) AUS No. 10, UK No. 27
- "One Day I'll Fly Away" – October 2001 (Moulin Rouge! soundtrack)
- "Sparkling Diamonds" (with Caroline O'Connor) – October 2001 (Moulin Rouge! soundtrack)
- "Hindi Sad Diamonds" – October 2001 (Moulin Rouge! soundtrack)
- "Somethin' Stupid" single (Duet with Robbie Williams – December 2001) AUS No. 8, UK No. 1
- "Kiss" / "Heartbreak Hotel" – Nicole Kidman / Hugh Jackman – November 2006 (Happy Feet soundtrack)
- "Unusual Way" – December 2009 (Nine soundtrack)
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