Nicole Kidman

Birth Date:
June 20, 1967

Height:
5 ft 10 in

Measurements:
34-23-36

Occupation:
Actress

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Nicole Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Dr Antony David Kidman and Janelle Ann Kidman (née MacNeille), who were of Scottish and Irish descent respectively, and were both born in Australia. At the time, her father was a cancer research specialist in Washington, D.C. The family returned to Australia when Kidman was four years old, when her father took on a lectureship at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Kidman started taking ballet lessons when she was four. This led to studies at Sydney's Australian Theatre for Young People, where she is now Patron, then at the Philip Street Theatre, where she majored in voice production and theatre history. Living in Longueville, New South Wales, she studied at North Sydney Girls High School, but dropped out when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer; 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 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 (1986), Emerald City (1988), and Bangkok Hilton (1989). In 1989 she appeared in the successful thriller Dead Calm as Rae, the wife of naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill), held captive on a Pacific Ocean yacht trip by the psychotic Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane). The role gained her considerable notice in the United States.

Her American debut was in Days of Thunder (1990), a stock car racing movie, in which she played opposite Tom Cruise. After this, Kidman starred with Cruise in Ron Howard's Far and Away (1992). In 1995 Kidman featured in the all-star cast of Batman Forever and later that year starred in To Die For, a satirical comedy that earned her high praise from critics, and talk of an Academy Award nomination for her performance, although this did not materialize. She did, however, win a Golden Globe Award, and five other best actress awards for her comic portrayal of the murderous newscaster Suzanne Stone Maretto. Kidman and Cruise portrayed a married couple in Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, Stanley Kubrick's final film.

Kidman's most professionally successful year thus far is 2001, with her Academy Award-nominated performance in Moulin Rouge!, in which she played the beautiful courtesan Satine opposite Ewan McGregor, and a well-received starring role in the horror film The Others. While in Australia filming Moulin Rouge!, Kidman injured her knee, so that Jodie Foster had to replace her in the film Panic Room. The following year Kidman won praise from critics for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for this role, along with a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and numerous critics awards. In the same year she took a hand at film production for the film In the Cut. In 2003, Kidman starred in three very different films. Dogville, by Danish director Lars von Trier, an experimental film set on a bare soundstage, and hinges almost entirely on Kidman's performance. The film, and especially Kidman, achieved critical praise, although the film was never successful commercially. Secondly, she co-starred alongside Anthony Hopkins in the film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain. This film was rather less accepted by critics, many of whom felt that both Kidman and Hopkins were miscast. Cold Mountain, an epic love story of two Southerners separated by the Civil War, was her final release that year, and garnered her a Golden Globe Award nomination.

In 2004, Kidman appeared in the remake of The Stepford Wives alongside Glenn Close, Faith Hill and Bette Midler. In September of the same year, Birth, in which the 37-year-old actress' character has an encounter with a 10-year-old boy (played by Cameron Bright) who attempts to convince her that he is a reincarnation of her dead husband, was met with a mixed reception. Many viewers were disturbed by a scene where the boy strips and joins Kidman in the bathtub. Despite this, the film was nominated for the prestigious Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, and Kidman was nominated for yet another Golden Globe Award. Kidman's two movies in 2005 received drastically different receptions. The Interpreter, directed by Sydney Pollack, was one of the most popular movies worldwide that year and started a reemergence of the political thriller films such as Syriana. Conversely Bewitched, co-starring Will Ferrell, based on the 1960s TV sitcom of the same name, fared abysmally with critics and at the box office.