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Nicole Kidman Biography Filmography Discography Awards
Nicole Mary Kidman was born June 20, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii to Dr. Anthony David Kidman and Janelle Ann, who were of Scottish and Irish descent, and were both born in Australia. Nicole started taking ballet lessons when she was four, and this led to studies at St. Martin's Youth Theatre in Melbourne, the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney, and then at the Philip Street Theatre, where she majored in voice production and theatre history. 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 video apperance was in 1983, when she first appear on film 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 yacht trip by the psychotic Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane). The role gained her considerable notice in the United States. Her American career started on the film Days of Thunder (1990), a stock-car racing movie, in which she played opposite Tom Cruise. Although Cruise was married to actress Mimi Rogers at the time, he and Kidman began an affair. Cruise divorced Rogers and the couple married on Christmas Eve of 1990 in Telluride, Colorado. They adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, and lived in Los Angeles, California, Australia, Colorado, and New York. Living ten years of marriage with Tom Cruise, the marriage was dissolved in 2001: there was much media speculation about the reasons for this, but both celebrities maintained their privacy and were guarded in their public comments. One persistent rumour claims however that Kidman's desire to bring up their children Catholic, and her critical views on Scientology caused problems in her marriage with Tom Cruise, who is an outspoken follower of the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard. It is rumoured that Kidman never believed in Scientology, but accepted it to keep her husband happy. She is now a practising Catholic. Since then after divorcing Cruise, Nicole has been linked, officially, with singers Lenny Kravitz and New Zealand born Keith Urban. The tabloids have linked her with countless others. Rumored to have met Kravitz when she sublet his New York City apartment in 2003, and then dated him into 2004. An engagement was never confirmed or denied, but Nicole was seen wearing a diamond ring on her right and left ring fingers during the later stages of their relationship. Infidelity on his part is speculated to be among the reasons for the breakup. When She met Keith Urban at a Hollywood event in January 2005, the pair are said to have began dating in the spring of 2005. In late October 2005, the pair was spotted together for the first time, walking hand in hand in Boston. Here, the diamond ring that has been on her left ring finger since made its debut. Paparazzi photographers snapped Kidman, Urban, and both sets of their parents together over Thanksgiving 2005, and Kidman with the Urban family over Christmas 2005. Filmography BMX Bandits (1983)
Awards Academy Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Broadcast Film Critics Association
BAFTA
Golden Globe Awards
Kansas City Film Critics Circle
Las Vegas Film Critics Society
MTV Movie Awards
Prestige Academy of Motion Pictures
Seattle International Film Festival
ShoWest Convention
Screen Actors Guild Awards
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