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Nicole Kidman Biography
- Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii
- Best Known As: Elegant Australian who won an Oscar for The Hours
Nicole Kidman won the Academy Award as best actress for her portrayal of writer Virginia Woolf in the film The Hours (2002). Kidman was born in Hawaii but grew up in Australia, where she began acting in her teens. She married screen heartthrob Tom Cruise after they met while filming the race-car soap opera Days of Thunder (1990), and they were one of Hollywood's most talked-about couples throughout the '90s. Her films during that era included Gus Van Sant's To Die For (1995, based on the Pamela Smart case) and Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut
(1999), in which she starred with Cruise. After a decade of marriage,
Cruise and Kidman divorced, but her career soared as she continued to
star in both mainstream Hollywood films and smaller, independent
features. In 2001 she turned in an Oscar-nominated performance in Moulin Rouge and appeared in two other highly-acclaimed movies, Birthday Girl and The Others. Her other films include Far and Away (1992, with Cruise); Dogville (2003); Cold Mountain (2003, with Renee Zellweger); The Interpreter (2005, starring Sean Penn); Bewitched (2005, co-starring Will Ferrell); Fur (2006, about photographer Diane Arbus); and The Golden Compass (2007, based on the book by Philip Pullman).
Kidman married country singer Keith Urban
on 25 June 2006... She had a daughter, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, on 7
July 2008... Kidman and Cruise adopted two children while they were
married: Isabella (in 1993) and Connor (in 1995).
- Born: Jun 20, 1967 in Hawaii
- Occupation: Actor
- Active: '80s-2000s
- Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
- Career Highlights: Dead Calm, Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut
- First Major Screen Credit: BMX Bandits (1983)
Biography
Once relegated to decorative parts for years and long acknowledged as the wife of Tom Cruise,
Nicole Kidman spent the latter half of the 1990s and the first decade
of the new millennium earning much-deserved critical respect. Standing a
willowy 5'11" and sporting one of Hollywood's most distinctive heads of
frizzy red hair, the Australian actress first entered the American
mindset with her role opposite Cruise in Days of Thunder (1990), but it wasn't until she starred as a homicidal weather girl in Gus Van Sant's 1995 To Die For that she achieved recognition as a thespian of considerable range and talent.
Though many assume that the heavily-accented Kidman hails from down
under, she was actually born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on June 20, 1967, to
Australian parents. Her family, who lived on the island because of a
research project that employed Kidman's biochemist father, then moved to
Washington, D.C. for the next three years. After her father's project
reached completion, Nicole and her family -- which also included her RN
mother and a younger sister -- harkened back to Aussie country.
Raised in the upper-middle-class Sydney suburb of Longueville for the
remainder of the 1970s and well into the eighties, Kidman grew up
infused with a love of the arts, particularly dance and theatre. Trained
in ballet from the age of three, she made her acting debut in a
nativity play at six. By the age of ten, she was studying acting in
drama school, and she subsequently trained at the St. Martin's Youth
Theatre in Melbourne and at Sydney's Phillip Street Theatre.
An awkward, gawky teenager, teased relentlessly because of her height,
Kidman took refuge in the theater, and landed her first professional
role at the age of 14, when she starred in Bush Christmas
(1983), a TV movie about a group of kids who band together with an
Aborigine to find their stolen horse. Brian Trenchard-Smith's BMX Bandits
(1983) -- an adventure film/teen movie -- followed , with Kidman as the
lead character, Judy; it opened to solid reviews. Kidman then worked
for the gifted John Duigan (The Winter of Our Dreams, Romero) twice, first as one of the two adolescent leads of the Duigan-directed "Room to Move" episode of the Australian TV series Winners (1985) and, more prestigiously, as the star of Duigan's acclaimed miniseries Vietnam (1987), produced by Kennedy-Miller
In the latter, the actress won positive notices for her portrayal of an
awkward 1960s schoolgirl who matures into an idealistic 24-year-old
Vietnam war protester.
Kidman also secured Hollywood representation at about this time, which
opened quite a few doors of opportunity. In 1988, Kidman got another
major break when she was tapped to star in Phillip Noyce's Dead Calm (1989). A psychological thriller about a couple (Kidman and Sam Neill) who are terrorized by a young man they rescue from a sinking ship (Billy Zane),
the film helped to establish the then-21-year-old Kidman as an actress
of considerable mettle. That same year, her starring performance in the
made-for-TV Bangkok Hilton
(which cast her as a young woman incarcerated in a Thai prison on false
drug smuggling charges) further bolstered her reputation.
By now a rising star in Australia, Kidman began to earn recognition across the Pacific. In 1989,Tom Cruise picked her for a starring role in her first American feature, Tony Scott's Days of Thunder
(1990). The film, a testosterone-saturated drama about a racecar driver
(Cruise), cast Kidman as the neurologist who falls in love with him. A
sizable hit, it had the added advantage of introducing Kidman to Cruise,
whom she married in December of 1990.
Following a role as Dustin Hoffman's moll in Robert Benton's Billy Bathgate (1991), and a supporting turn as a snotty boarding school senior in the masterful Flirting (1991), which teamed her with Duigan a third time, Kidman collaborated with Cruise on their second film together, Far and Away (1992). Despite their joint star quality, gorgeous cinematography, and adequate direction by Ron Howard, critics quite rightly panned the lackluster film.
Kidman's subsequent projects, My Life and Malice ( both 1993), were similarly disappointing, despite scattered favorable reviews. Batman Forever
(1995), in which she played the hero's love interest, Dr. Chase
Meridian, fared somewhat better, but did little in the way of
establishing Kidman as a serious actress even as it raked in mile-high
returns at the summer box office.
Kidman finally broke out of her window-dressing typecasting when Gus Van Sant enlisted her to portray the ruthless protagonist of To Die For (1995). Directed from a Buck Henry
script, this uber-dark comedy casts Kidman as Suzanne Stone, a
television broadcaster ready and eager to commit one homicide after
another to propel herself to the top. Displaying a gift for impeccable
comic timing, she earned Golden Globe and National Broadcast Critics
Circle Awards for Best Actress. Further critical praise greeted Kidman's
performance as Isabel Archer in Jane Campion's 1996 adaptation of Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady.
Now regarded as one of the hottest actresses in Hollywood -- as well as
one half of its most high-profile couple -- Kidman starred opposite George Clooney in the big-budget action extravaganza The Peacemaker (1997) and opposite Sandra Bullock in the frothy Practical Magic
(1998). Both films weren't remotely as interesting or successful as
Kidman's concurrent return to the stage in London's Donmar Warehouse
production of The Blue Room. Cast as several characters, one of
which required her to play a scene in the nude, Kidman inspired a
sensation among both audiences and critics, the latter of whom were
moved to write numerous lines of sweaty praise for the actress'
full-bodied flirtation with nudity. The play enjoyed a sold-out run in
both London and New York, and Kidman earned an Evening Standard Award
and Olivier nomination for her performance.
In 1999, Kidman starred in one of her most controversial films to date, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's Traumnovelle
and cloaked in secrecy from the beginning of its production, the film
also stars Cruise as Kidman's physician husband. During the spring and
summer of 1999, the media unsurprisingly hyped the couple's onscreen
pairing -- and the alleged envelope-pushing sexual content -- as the two
major selling points. However, despite an added measure of intrigue
from Kubrick's death only weeks after shooting wrapped, Eyes Wide Shut repeated the performance of prior Kubrick efforts by opening to a radically mixed reaction.
Meanwhile, as the new millennium arrived, problems began to erupt between Kidman and Tom Cruise;
divorce followed soon after, and the tabloids swirled with talk of new
relationships for the both of them. She concurrently plunged into a
string of daring, eccentric film roles - edgier and chancer than
anything she had done before --and seemed to relish greater and greater
challenges as her career rolled on.
Kidman began this trend with a role in Jez Butterworth's Birthday Girl (2001) as a Russian mail order bride, and Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge
(2001), which cast her, in the lead, as a courtesan in a 19th century
Paris hopped up with late 20th century pop songs. The picture - a
carnivalesque whirligig of color, light, sound and kinesthesia --
dazzled some and alienated others, but once again, journalists flocked
to Kidman's side.
Following this success (the picture gleaned a Best Picture nod but
failed to win), Kidman gained even more positive notice for her turn as
an icy mother after the key to a dark mystery in Alejandro Amenabar's spooky throwback, The Others.
When the 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards finally arrived, Kidman
received nominations for her memorable performances in both films.
Though her emotionally fragile performance in The Others lost out to Sissy Spacek's performace in Todd Field's In the Bedroom (2001), Kidman's upbeat performance in the lively Moulin Rouge
found the versatile actress taking home a Golden Globe for Best Actress
in a Musical or Comedy in addition to the Oscar nomination for Best
Actress.
Though it couldn't have been any further from her flamboyant turn in Moulin Rouge, Kidman's camouflaged role as Virginia Woolf in the following year's The Hours
(2002) (she wears little makeup and a prosthetic nose), for which she
delivered a mesmerizing and haunting performance, kept the Oscar and
Golden Globe nominations steadily flowing in for the acclaimed actress.
The fair-haired beauty finally snagged the Best Actress Oscar that had
been so elusive the year before.
After the elation that followed the Oscar ceremony, Kidman continued to
take on challenging work under the aegis of intensely cerebral
directors. She played the lead, Grace - a woman on the run from
gangsters who holes up in a 1930s western town -- in Lars von Trier's Dogville,
although she declined to continue in Von Trier's planned trilogy of
films about that character. She swung for the Oscar fences again in 2003
as the female lead in Cold Mountain, but it was co-star Renee Zellweger who won the statuette that year. Kidman did solid work for Jonathan Glazer in the Jean-Claude Carriere-penned Birth,
as a woman revisited by the incarnation of her dead husband in a small
child's body, but stumbled with a pair of empty-headed comedies, Frank Oz's The Stepford Wives and Nora Ephron's Bewitched (both 2005), that her skills could not save. She worked with Sean Penn in the political thriller The Interpreter in 2005. In 2006 Kidman's personal life took a turn for the better when she married country singer Keith Urban.
For the most part, Kidman continued to stretch herself with increasingly demanding and arty roles throughout 2006. In Steven Shainberg's Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus,
Kidman plays controversial housewife-cum-photographer Diane Arbus --a
role that plunges the actress into a bizarre, fictionalized romance with
the freakishly hirsute paramour Lionel Sweeney (Robert Downey, Jr.). In Happy Feet, fellow Aussie Dr. George Miller's live action Babe follow-up about a penguin who learns to tap dance to impress a crush, Kidman voices one of several talking Arctic animals.
Meanwhile, Kidman returned to popcorn pictures by playing Mrs. Coulter in Chris Weitz's massive, $150-million fantasy adventure The Golden Compass (2007), adapted from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series of books. She also signed on to headline the sci-fi thriller Invasion for Warner Brothers,
a loose remake of the classic Invasion of hte Body Snatchers directed
by Oliver Hirschbiegel. Kidman plays a psychiatrist who, during a global
epidemic that begins changing human behavior en masse - infers that an
alien invasion is responsible. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
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