Nicole Mary Kidman , (born June 20, 1967) is an Australian and American actress and producer. She is a recipient of several awards, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and a Silver Bear for Best Actress.
Kidman started her acting career in Australia with the 1983 movie Bush Bush. His breakthrough came in 1989 with the thriller movie Dead Calm and the Bangkok Hilton miniseries . In 1990, he made his Hollywood debut in the Days of Thunder racing movie, in front of Tom Cruise. He went on to gain widespread acknowledgment with a leading role in the romantic drama Far and Away (1992), the Batman Forever (1995) superhero movie, the crime comedy drama To Die For (1995), in which she won the Golden Globe Award, and the erotic film Eyes Wide Shut (1999). He received two Academy Awards in a row for Best Actress nomination for playing prostitutes in the musical of Moulin Rouge! (2001) and writer Virginia Woolf in the drama The Hours (2002)); she won the award for the latter, and received the Golden Globes for both films.
Kidman continues to star in commercially successful films, including the horror-thriller The Others (2001) and the epic drama war film Cold Mountain (2003), when he reaches praise critical for the role in independent films, including Dogville drama (2003), Born (2004), Rabbit Hole (2010), which he received nominations Oscar Best Third Actress, and Thriller The Paperboy (2012). After a period of critical and commercial failure, Kidman won a fourth Oscar nomination for playing troubled mother in the biopic of Lion (2016). She returned to television in 2017 with a performance recognized as a victim of domestic violence in the HBO series Big Little Lies, where she won the Emmy Primetime Award for Best Actress in Limited Serial.
Kidman has been Goodwill's ambassador to UNICEF since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006. In 2006, Kidman became a Companion in the Order of Australia and became the highest paid actress in the film industry for that year. As a result of the birth of Australian parents in Hawaii, Kidman has dual citizenship in Australia and the United States. Kidman founded and owns the production company Blossom Films. After his divorce with actor Tom Cruise, Kidman has been married to singer Keith Urban since 2006.
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Kidman was born June 20, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her parents in Australia are temporarily in the United States on a student visa. His father was Antony Kidman (1938-2014), a biochemist, clinical psychologist and author, who died of a heart attack in Singapore at the age of 75. His mother, Janelle Ann (nÃÆ' Â © e Glenny), is a nursing instructor who edits her husband's books and becomes a member of the Women's Election Lobby. Kidman's ancestors include the legacy of Ireland, Scotland and England.
Born in Hawaii, he was given the Hawaiian name "H? K? Lani". The inspiration for the name comes from a baby elephant born around the same time at the Honolulu Zoo, but his name is also the Hawaiian name commonly used for girls, Hokulani meaning 'Celestial Star'.
At the time of Kidman's birth, his father was a graduate student at the University of Hawaii? I'm in M? Noa. He became a fellow guest at the National Mental Health Institute of the United States. Opposing war in Vietnam, Kidman's parents participated in anti-war protests while living in Washington, D.C. The family returned to Australia when Kidman was four years old and his mother now lives on Sydney's North Shore. Kidman has a younger sister, Antonia Kidman, a journalist and TV presenter.
Kidman attends Lane Cove Public School and North Sydney Girls' High School. She enrolled in ballet at three and showed her natural talent for acting in her elementary and high school years. She said that she was first inspired to become an actress after seeing Margaret Hamilton's appearance as Wicked Witch of the West at The Wizard of Oz. Kidman has revealed that she is a coward as a child, saying, "I am very shy - really shy - I even have a stutter like a child, which I gradually get, but I still retreat to the shame. like walking into a busy restaurant alone, I do not like going to parties alone. "
He initially studied at the Phillip Street Theater in Sydney. At Philip Street, Kidman studied with Naomi Watts who had studied in the same high school. He also attended the Australian Theater for Youth. Here he takes drama, pantomime and performs in his teenage years, looking for acting to be a sanctuary. Because of her beautiful skin and natural red hair, the Australian sun forces young Kidman to practice in the theater hall. At Phillip Street Theater, he received encouragement and praise to pursue full-time acting.
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Careers
1983-1994: Beginning of career
In 1983, aged 16, Kidman made his film debut in a remake of his favorite holiday season in Australia's Bush Christmas. By the end of 1983, he had a supporting role in the television series Five Mile Creek. In 1984, her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, which caused Kidman to stop her acting job while she was studying massage so she could help her mother with physical therapy. He began gaining popularity in the mid-1980s after appearing in several film roles, including BMX Bandits (1983), Watch Shadows Dance (1987 aka Nightmaster i>), and the romantic comedy Windrider (1986), which received Kidman's attention due to his obscene scene. Also during this decade, it appeared in several Australian productions, including soap opera A Country Practice and miniseries Vietnam (1986). He also made guest appearances on Australian television programs and TV movies.
In 1988, Kidman appeared in Emerald City, based on a game of the same name. Australian films make it an Australian Film Institute for Best Supporting Actress. Kidman next starred in Sam Neill in Dead Calm (1989) as Rae Ingram, playing the wife of a naval officer. The thriller brings Kidman to international recognition; Variety commented: "Throughout the movie, Kidman is very good, giving Ruc's resilience and energy." Meanwhile, critic Roger Ebert noted excellent chemistry among the leads, stating, "Kidman and Zane did generate a real and lucid hatred in their shared scenes." He followed him with an Australian miniseries Bangkok Hilton . She then moved on to star alongside her boyfriend and future husband, Tom Cruise, in the 1990 race car racing movie Days of Thunder, as a young doctor who fell in love with NASCAR drivers. This is the debut of Kidman America and is one of the best-selling films of the year.
In 1991, he starred alongside Thandie Newton and former Naomi Watts classmate in the independent Australian film Flirting. They portray high school girls in this old age story, who won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film. That same year, his work in the movie Billy Bathgate earned Kidman his first Golden Globe Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actress. The New York Times , in his film reviews, calls it "beauty with, apparently, a sense of humor". The following year, he and Cruise worked together again for the Irish epic of Ron Howard Far and Away (1992), which is a simple commercial and critical success. In 1993, she starred in the thriller movie Malice just across from Alec Baldwin and drama My Life in front of Michael Keaton.
1995-2003: Worldwide recognition
In 1995, Kidman appeared in his best-selling live action movie (in 2018), playing Dr. Chase Meridian, the girl in distress, in the superhero movie Batman Forever , across from Val Kilmer as the movie title character. The same year Kidman starred in the highly acclaimed actress Gus Van Sant in To Die For, where she played the killer announcer Suzanne Stone. The award-winning Kidman Golden Globe performer, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, says "[he] brings to the meaning role layers, intentions and impulses.His story in close-up - as he does throughout the movie - Kidman lets you seeing calculations, spinning wheels, transparent attempts to captivate charm all the same. "Kidman next appeared in The Portrait of a Lady (1996), based on a novel of the same name, along with Barbara Hershey, John Malkovich , and Mary-Louise Parker. The following year, he starred in the action-thriller The Peacemaker (1997) as a White House nuclear expert. Julia Kelly, in front of George Clooney. The film grossed $ 110 million worldwide. In 1998, he played with Sandra Bullock in a fantasy that badly accepted Practical Magic as a modern wizard. Kidman returned to her work on stage the same year in the drama David Hare The Blue Room , which opened in London.
In 1999, Kidman reunited with then her husband, Tom Cruise, to portray a couple in Eyes Wide Shut , the latest film director Stanley Kubrick. The film is subject to censorship of controversy due to the explicit nature of the sex scene. The film received further attention after Kubrick's death shortly before it was released. After a brief hiatus and a massive publicized divorce from Cruise, Kidman returned to the screen to play the bride's order in the British-American drama Birthday Girl. In 2001, Kidman played the cabaret actress and the satin slut in the musical Baz Luhrmann Moulin Rouge! , in the presence of Ewan McGregor. Her performance and her singing received positive reviews; Paul Clinton of CNN.com called it his best work since To Die For, and wrote "[he] smoldering and mesmerizing as Satine." He moves with full confidence throughout the film. Kidman seems to specialize in the character of "ice queen", but with Satine she lets herself melt, just a little. "Subsequently, Kidman received the second Golden Globe Award, for Best Actress in Musical or Comedy, as well as numerous acting and nomination awards others. She also received her first Academy Award nomination, for Best Actress.
Also in 2001, she had a lead role in the horror film Alejandro AmenÃÆ'¡bar The Others as Grace Stewart, a mother who lived on the Channel Islands during World War II who suspected her haunted home. Exceeding more than $ 210,947,037 worldwide, the film also won several Goya Awards nominations, including Best Actress nomination for Kidman. He received his second BAFTA and a fifth Golden Globe nomination. Roger Ebert commented that "Alejandro AmenÃÆ'¡bar has the patience to create a calm and dreamy atmosphere, and Nicole Kidman manages to convince us that she is a normal person in an annoying situation and not just a horrorist horror film of standard edition. Kidman was named the Most Beautiful Person in the World by People magazine
In 2002, Kidman won critical acclaim for his role as Virginia Woolf at Stephen Daldry's The Hours , starring Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. The famous kidman wearing prosthetics applied to her nose made it almost unrecognizable to play the author during her time in the British 1920s, and her attacks with depression and mental illness while trying to write her novel, Mistress. Dalloway . The film received positive notices and several nominations, including for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The New York Times wrote it, â € Nn. Kidman, in a surprisingly bold appearance, awakens a fierce inner warfare launched by a brilliant mind against a faulty cabling system that transmits static burning into his brain. "Kidman won many critics awards, including his first BAFTA, the third Golden Globe, and Academy Award for Best Actress As the first Australian actress to win an Academy Award, Kidman made a fiery acceptance speech about the importance of art even during wartime, saying, "Why did 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 respect it, and that is a tradition that needs to be upheld. "
After the Oscar win, Kidman appeared in three very different films in 2003. First, the lead role on Dogville, by Danish director Lars von Trier, is an experimental film mounted on a bare sound stage. Although film critics are shared in the United States, Kidman still earns praise for his performance. Peter Travers of the Rolling Stones magazine states "Kidman gave the most emotional appearance of his career in Dogville, a film that never met a cliché not stepped on." The second is the adaptation of Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain , in contrast to Anthony Hopkins. His third film is the war drama Anthony Minghella Cold Mountain . Kidman appears across from Jude Law and Renà ©  © Zellweger, playing Southerner Ada Monroe, who falls in love with Law's character and is separated by the Civil War. The TIME Magazine writes, "Kidman takes power from the state of Ada and grows up, really luminous, his pale carving gives way to the warm glow in a camp fire". The film garnered several award nominations and won for the actors; Kidman received her sixth nomination at the Golden Globe at the 61st Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
2004-2009: Advanced success
In 2004 she appeared in the movie Birth, which got controversy over a scene in which Kidman shared a bath with her 10-year-old Cameron Bright. At a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, Kidman spoke of the controversy that says, "It's not like I want to make a movie where I kiss a 10 year old boy I want to make a movie where you understand love". Kidman won the seventh Golden Globe nomination, for Best Actress - Moving Movie Drama. That same year he appeared in the black science fiction comedy The Stepford Wives, a remake of the 1975 film of the same name. Kidman appeared in the lead role as Joanna Eberhart, a successful producer. The film, directed by Frank Oz, is critically highlighted and a commercial failure. The following year, Kidman appeared to Sean Penn in the Sydney Pollack thriller The Interpreter, playing UN translator Silvia Broome. Also that year, he starred in Bewitched , based on the 1960 TV sitcom of the same name, opposite Will Ferrell. Both Kidman and Ferrell won the Razzie award that year for the "Worst Screen Couple". Both films fared well in the United States, with box office sales falling far short of production costs, but both films performed well internationally.
In relation to his success in the film industry, Kidman became the face of the perfume brand Chanel No. 5 . She starred in television campaigns and print ads with Rodrigo Santoro, directed by Moulin Rouge! director of Baz Luhrmann, to promote fragrances during the 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008 holiday seasons. All three-commercial grade produced for Chanel No. 5 made Kidman the record holder for the most money per minute to an actor after he reportedly earned US $ 12 million for three-minute advertising. During this time, Kidman was also listed as the 45th Most Strong Celebrity on 2005 Celebrity 100 List Celebrity 100 List. He reported US $ 14.5 million in 2004-2005. In 2005's top actress magazine list, People , Kidman was second behind Julia Roberts, for US $ 16-17 million per-movie. Nintendo in 2007 announced that Kidman will be the new face of Nintendo's advertising campaign for the Nintendo DS More Brain Training game on the European market.
Kidman photographed photographer Diane Arbus in the biography of Fur (2006), in the presence of Robert Downey, Jr. Both Kidman and Downey Jr. received praise for their performance. He also lent his voice to the animated film Happy Feet (2006), which earned more than US $ 384 million worldwide. In 2007, he starred in the science-fiction movie The Invasion directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, a remake of the 1956 Invasion of the Body Guard that proves critical and commercial failure. She also plays Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black in the Noah Baumbach comedy drama Margot at the Wedding, which earned Kidman the nomination of Satellite Award for Best Actress - Musical or Comedy. She then starred in the fantasy adventure, The Golden Compass (2007), playing the evil Marisa Coulter.
In 2008, she reunited with Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann in the Australian period film Australia , arranged in the remote Northern Territory during the Japanese attack on Darwin during World War II. Kidman played against Hugh Jackman as a British woman who was overwhelmed by the continent. His acting was praised and the film was a success at box office worldwide. Kidman was originally set to star in the post-World War II German drama, The Reader , worked with previous collaborators Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella, but because of her pregnancy before filming she had to retreat. Her role was for Kate Winslet, who eventually won an Oscar for Best Actress, which Kidman gave her during the 81st Academy Awards. Kidman appeared in the musical Rob Marshall 2009 Nine , describing a character muse like Federico Fellini, Claudia Jenssen. He performed with Oscar-winning companions Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Marion Cotillard, PenÃÆ' © lope Cruz and Sophia Loren. Kidman, whose short film time compared to other actresses, features the music number "Unusual Way" with Day-Lewis. The film received several Golden Globe nominations and an Academy Award, and received a Kidman nomination for the fourth Screen Actors Guild Award, as part of an Extraordinary Actor.
2010-2015: Independent and biopic film
In 2010, Kidman starred with Aaron Eckhart in the film adaptation of the Rabbit Hole Prize-winning Pulitzer game, where he empties his role in Woody Allen's image You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Her work at Rabbit Hole earned her critical acclaim, and received nominations for the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Kidman also produced the film. He lent his voice to a promotional video used by Australia to support his bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. TV Guide reported in 2008 that Kidman will star in The Danish Girl adapted from a novel of the same name, playing Lili Elbe, the world's first post-operative transsexual. The Screen Daily reported that filming will start in Germany in July 2011. But the project has been postponed after the director's release, Lasse Hallstrom and Kidman co-star Rachel Weisz. In 2009, Variety said that she will produce and star in an adaptation of Chris Cleave's Little Bee, in collaboration with BBC Films.
In June 2010, TV Guide announced that Kidman and Clive Owen will star in the HBO movie about Ernest Hemingway and its relationship with Martha Gellhorn. titled Hemingway & amp; Gellhorn . The film, directed by Philip Kaufman, began filming in March 2011, with an air date scheduled for 2012. He also starred alongside Nicolas Cage in action thriller director Joel Schumacher Trespass, with stars playing married couples taken hostage. On September 17th, 2010, ContactMusic. com says Kidman will return to Broadway to portray Alexandra Del Lago in the revival of David Cromer of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, with the production of Scott Rudin. On August 30, 2011, Cromer spoke to The New York Times and explained that production would not meet the original 2011 resurgence date but remains an active project.
In June 2011, Kidman was instrumental in Lee Daniels' adaptation of Pete Dexter's novel, The Paperboy ; he began filming on the thriller on August 1, 2011, and The Paperboy was released in 2012. In the film, he plays a death group group called Charlotte Bless, and performs a sex scene that he claims is not remembered until seeing the movie done. "I'm just fine, so that's what I did," he said. The film competed at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and Kidman's performance received critical acclaim and among the nominations for SAG and Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress gave Kidman a second Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress and 10th overall nomination. In 2012, Kidman's audiobook recordings from Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse were released at Audible.com. Kidman also starred in Park Chan-wook's Stoker (2013) for a positive critical response and a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In April 2013 he was elected to the main competition jury at the Cannes Film Festival 2013.
In 2014, Kidman starred in the biography film, Monaco Grace in the title role that tells of the 1962 crisis, where Charles de Gaulle blockaded the small kingdom, angered by Monaco's status as a tax haven for the rich French subjects and Kelly contemplating back to Hollywood stars in Alfred Hitchcock Marnie . After leaving the competition at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, the film received a very negative review. Kidman also starred in two films with Colin Firth, the first, the British-Australian historical drama, The Railway Man where Kidman acts as the wife of officer Patti Lomax received a positive critical review. Katherine Monk of the Montreal Gazette said of Kidman's performance: "This is a really good acting part that transcends the fraction purchased at Teplitzky, but Kidman gives the biggest surprise: For the first time since his eyebrows turn into a solid marble arch, Australian Oscar Winner really great ". Secondly, the British thriller Before I Go To Sleep earned a positive critical response from Kidman's performance, such as Christine Lucas, a car accident victim with brain damage. Kidman also appeared in the family film Paddington (2014) as a villain.
On January 23, he starred in the Australian-Irish Strangerland drama-thriller, which opens at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival for the "raptur" audience response to Kidman's performance. Kidman also starred in Jason Bateman-directed The Family Fang, produced by Kidman production company Blossom Films, which aired on the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Other projects include the Queen of the Desert biography drama , with Kidman describing the major roles of the traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer and political officer Gertrude Bell and Genius with Colin Firth and Guy Pearce. Kidman plays a leading role in the 2015 thriller Secret in Their Eyes , directed by Billy Ray and starring Julia Roberts and Chiwetel Ejiofor. After more than 15 years, Kidman returned to West End at the British premiere of Photo 51 at the Noa Coward Theater. He starred as British scientist Rosalind Franklin in production from 5 September to 21 November 2015, directed by Michael Grandage. The drama focuses on Franklin's role in the discovery of DNA structures. Kidman and the drama get "stunning reviews." His comeback to West End has been greeted successfully, especially after winning acting awards for his role at Photos 51 .
2016-present: Awakening
In 2016, Kidman's performance at Lion received a warm welcome, as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, her fourth overall nomination, Selected Critics for Best Supporting Actress, Screen Actors Guild for Outstanding Performances by Female Actor in Supporting Roles, BAFTA Awards for Best Actress in Supporting Roles, wins in the same category at the Hollywood Film Awards and a third Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and her eleventh overall nomination. Kidman describes Sue Brierly, the adopted mother of Saroo, an Indian boy separated from her biological family, a role she feels connected because she herself is the mother of adopted children. Richard Roeper of The Chicago Sun-Times feels that "Kidman delivers strong performance and moves as the adoptive mother of Saroo, who loves his son with every molecule of his existence but comes to understand his quest. It's just as good as anything he do in the last decade. "
In 2017, Kidman returned to television in a seven-part miniseries adaptation of Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies bestselling book, which aired on HBO. He produced a miniseries with his co-star, Reese Witherspoon, and the show's director, Jean-Marc Vallé © ©. She plays the role of Celeste Wright, a former lawyer and housewife, who conceals her abusive relationship with her younger husband, played by Alexander SkarsgÃÆ' ¥ rd. Kidman has garnered critical acclaim for his performance, with Matthew Jacobs from The Huffington Post stating that he "delivers a decisive career appearance." Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post writes that "Kidman is included in the ranks of the great actress." She has received nominations from the Television Critics Association and won the Emmy Primetime Award for Outstanding Actress in Serial or Limited Movies for her performance, as well as winning the Emmy Primetime Award for the Limited Special Series as a producer. He then won the Golden Globe and SAG Award for his role.
He then played Martha Farnsworth, principal of the girls' special school during the Civil War, in the Sofia Coppola drama The Beguiled, an adaptation of the novel written by Thomas P. Cullinan, which aired in the 2017 Cannes Film Festival , competing for the Palme d'Or. The film received positive reviews, as did Kidman's performance, with Katie Walsh from the Tribune News Agency who noted "Nicole Kidman is very, very not surprisingly in her appearance as Miss Martha, she is controlled and in control, unshakable. polite and feminine lives side by side with ease with his toughness. "Kidman has two other premiere films at the festival, the science-fiction romantic comedy How to Talk to Girls in Party, bringing him together with director John Cameron Mitchell , and the psychological thriller The Death of a Holy Deer , directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, who also competed for the Palme d'Or. Also in 2017, Kidman plays a supporting role in the Top of the Lake TV series: China Girl .
Upcoming projects
Kidman is set to portray Queen Atlanna, the mother of the title character, in the movie Warner Bros. i Aquaman. He will also star alongside Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart on The Upside, re-make from the 2011 French comedy The Intouchables . She will also star in the upcoming animated film, The Guardian Brothers , with Meryl Streep, Mel Brooks, Edward Norton, and Dan Fogler. She will be guest on the fifth season of the VH1 Hopeless Fountain Kingdom action television series, with Michael Fassbender and Bryce Dallas Howard.
Personal life
Relationships and children
Kidman has been married twice: previously to actor Tom Cruise, and currently to country singer Keith Urban. He has adopted sons and daughters with Cruise and two biological daughters with Urban. Kidman met Cruise in November 1989, during the filming of Days of Thunder, they were married on Christmas Eve 1990 in Telluride, Colorado. The couple adopted a daughter, Isabella Jane (born 1992), and a son, Connor Anthony (born 1995). On February 5, 2001, the couple's spokesperson announced their separation. Cruise filed for divorce two days later, and the marriage was dissolved in August of that year, with Cruise citing irreconcilable differences. In a 2007 interview with Marie Claire, Kidman recorded an incorrect reporting of ectopic pregnancy early in her marriage. "It was wrongly reported as a miscarriage, by everyone who took the story." "So this is great news, and it's not happening."
In the June 2006 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, he said he still loves Cruise: "He's so big, still, he's Tom, but for everyone he's so big, but he's beautiful for me and I love him, I still love him. "In addition, he expressed surprise about their divorce. In 2015, former Church Scientology executive Mark Rathbun claimed in a documentary that he was ordered to "facilitate the [Cruise] split with Nicole Kidman". Cruise auditors further claim Kidman has been tapped on Cruise's suggestion.
Before marrying Cruise, Kidman has been involved in relationships with Australian actor Marcus Graham and Windrider (1986) co-star Tom Burlinson. He is also said to be involved with Adrien Brody. The Cold Mountain film brought rumors that the affair between Kidman and Jude Law's co-star was responsible for the breakup of her marriage. Both denied the allegations, and Kidman won an undisclosed amount from the British tabloid that published the story. He met musician Lenny Kravitz in 2003 and dated him to 2004. Robbie Williams confirmed he had a brief love affair with Kidman on a cruise ship in the summer of 2004.
In a 2007 Vanity Fair interview, Kidman revealed that he had been secretly engaged to someone before his relationship with New Zealand-Australian singer Keith Urban, whom he met in G'Day LA, a show of respect for people Australia, in January 2005. Kidman married Urban on June 25, 2006, at the Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel on the St Patrick Estate yard, Manly in Sydney. In an interview in 2015, Kidman said, "We do not really know each other - we know each other during our marriage." They maintain homes in Sydney, Sutton Forest (New South Wales, Australia), Los Angeles, and Nashville (Tennessee, USA). The couple's first daughter was born in 2008, in Nashville. In 2010, Kidman and Urban had their second daughter through surrogacy at Centennial Women's Nashville Hospital.
In a stage interview by Tina Brown at the 2015 Women in the World (WITW) conference, Kidman stated that she turned her attention to her career after her divorce with Tom Cruise: "From my divorce came the applauded job that was of interest to me, "and took him to the Academy Award in 2002.
Religious and political views
Kidman is a Catholic. She attended Mary Mackillop Chapel in North Sydney. After criticism of the Golden Compass by Catholic leaders as anti-Catholic, Kidman told Entertainment Weekly that the Catholic Church is part of his "essence", and that his religious beliefs will preventing him from taking a role in a film he considers anti-Catholic. During his divorce with Tom Cruise, he stated that he did not want their children raised as Scientologists. She has been reluctant to discuss Scientology since her divorce. In 2014, Kidman says he has been practicing Transcendental Meditation since his early twenties. Kidman has donated to US Democratic candidates.
Wealth, philanthropy and honor
In 2002, Kidman first appeared on the list of rich Australians published annually in the Weekly Business Review with an estimated net worth of A $ 122 million. In a list published in 2011, Kidman's wealth is estimated at A $ 304 million, down from A $ 329 million in 2010. Kidman has raised money for, and attracted, disadvantaged children worldwide. In 1994, he was appointed ambassador to UNICEF, and in 2004, he was honored as a "Citizen of the World" by the United Nations. Kidman joins the Little Tee Campaign for breast cancer treatment to design a T-shirt or a vest to raise money to fight the disease; motivated by his mother's own battle with breast cancer in 1984.
In the 2006 Australian Day Awards, Kidman made the Companion of Order of Australia (AC) to "serve the performing arts as a renowned film performer, for health care through contributions to improve medical care for women and children and advocate for cancer. youth as a major supporter of young artists, and for humanitarian purposes in Australia and internationally. "However, due to his film commitment and his marriage to Urban, it was not until 13 April 2007 that he presented with honor. It was delivered by the Governor-General of Australia, Major General Michael Jeffery, in a ceremony at Government House, Canberra. Kidman was appointed ambassador of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in 2006. In this capacity, Kidman has spoken to an international audience at the UN event, raising awareness through the media and testifying before the United States House of Representatives on Foreign Affairs to support the International Violence against Women Act. Kidman visited Kosovo in 2006 to learn about women's conflict experiences and UNIFEM support efforts. He is the international spokesperson for UNIFEM's Say NOÃ, - UNiTE to end violence against women's initiatives. Kidman and UNIFEM executive director presented more than five million signatures collected during this first phase to the UN Secretary General on November 25, 2008.
In early 2009, Kidman appeared in a series of stamps featuring Australian actors. He, Geoffrey Rush, Russell Crowe, and Cate Blanchett each appear twice in the series: once as themselves and once as their Academy Award nomination character, the second stamp of Kidman shows himself as the Satine of Moulin Rouge !. On January 8, 2010, with Nancy Pelosi, Joan Chen and Joe Torre, Kidman attended a ceremony to assist the Family Prevention Prevention Fund at a new international center located in Presidio San Francisco.
In 2015, Kidman becomes the brand ambassador for Etihad Airways.
Kidman supports the Nashville Predator, seen and photographed almost every night of the season. In addition, he supports the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League, and has served as a club ambassador.
Movieography
By 2017, the Kidman movie has grossed over US $ 3.9 billion in box office worldwide according to Box Office Mojo.
Discography
The discography consists of a spoken word album, an extended game, three singles, three music videos, ten other appearances, a number of unreleased songs and two tribute songs recorded by various artists. Kidman, especially known in acting, entered the music industry in 2000 after recording a number of songs for the soundtrack album to the 2001 film Baz Luhrmann Moulin Rouge! that he starred. His duet with Ewan McGregor's "Come What May" was released as his debut and his second single OST via Interscope on September 24, 2001. The composition became the eighth highest-grossing single by an Australian artist for that year, becoming Gold certified by the Australian Recording Industry Association, reached the UK Singles Chart at number twenty-seven. In addition, the song received a nomination at the 59th Gold World Awards as the Best Original Song and has been listed as eighty five in AFI 100 Years... 100 Songs by the American Film Institute.
"Somethin 'Stupid", cover versions of Frank and Nancy Sinatra soon follow. The song recorded as a common duet with singer-songwriter Robbie Williams was released on December 14, 2001, by Chrysalis as the leader of his fourth studio album Swing When You're Winning. Kidman's second single topped the official charts in Italy, New Zealand, Portugal and the UK, and scored top ten placements across Europe, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Norway and Switzerland. In addition to being awarded Gold or Silver certificates in a number of countries, it is classified as the eleventh best-selling single in 2002 in Italy, thirty in the UK, the 50th in Australia, and ninety-three in France, respectively..
On April 5, 2002, Kidman released via his third single Interscope, a cover of Randy Crawford's "One Day I 'll Fly Away". Remix Tony Philips of the song was promoted as a follow-up single pilot of the original soundtrack of the same name, Moulin Rouge! Vol. 2 . After that, in 2006, he contributed with his vocal for OST Happy Feet on the song Prince "Kiss". While in 2009, she was featured on the soundtrack of Nine ("Unusual Way").
Recently, his name has been credited in a track called "What Is The Procedure", released on March 14, 2013, on the compilation I Know Why They Call It Pop: Volume 2 by Rok Lok Records. Among other things, Kidman was also narrated audiobook in 2012.
His collaboration with Ewan McGregor on "Come What May" peaked at No. 1. 27 on the UK Singles Chart. Then he collaborated with Robbie Williams on "Somethin 'Stupid", a cover version of swing swing When Swing When You're Winning ; the song peaked at No. 8 on the ARIAnet Singles Australia Charts and at No. 1. 1, for three weeks, in the UK. In 2006, while voicing a role in the animated film Happy Feet, she provided vocals for Norma Jean "heartsong", a slightly altered version of "Kiss" by Prince. Kidman sang in the musical Rob Marshall Nine (2009).
In 2017, she and Nicolle Gaylon sang backing vocals to her husband, country country music singer Keith Urban 'Female'.
Awards
In 2003, Kidman received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In addition to the Academy Award 2003 for Best Actress, Kidman has received the Best Actress award from the following critics or award-winning organizations: Hollywood Foreign Press (Golden Globes), Australian Film Institute, Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, Empire Awards, Golden Satellite Awards, Hollywood Film Festival , The London Critical Circle, the Russian Film Critics Society, and the Southeast Film Critics Association. In 2003, Kidman was awarded an American Cinematheque Award. He also received recognition from the National Association of Theater Owners at the ShoWest Convention in 1992 as the Future of Women's Stars and in 2002 for the Decade of Achievement Determined in Film.
References
Further reading
- Dickerson, James (2003). Nicole Kidman . Fortress. ISBN 978-0-8065-2490-0.
- Thomson, David (2006). Nicole Kidman . Knopf. ISBN: 978-1-4000-4273-9.
- Tylski, Alexandre (2016). Nicole Kidman . Phaidon. ISBN: 978-0714868035.
External links
- Nicole Kidman at EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica
- Nicole Kidman on IMDb
- Nicole Kidman in the TCM Movie Database
- Nicole Kidman on Broadway Internet Database
- Nicole Kidman on Curlie (based on DMOZ)
- Nicole Kidman in Box Office Mojo
- Nicole Kidman at AllMovie
- Nicole Kidman on People.com
- Nicole Kidman's charity
- Works by or about Nicole Kidman in the library (WorldCat catalog)
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