Nicole Kidman – Academy Award-winning actress

Nicole Kidman

Nicole Mary Kidman
(20 June 1967, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA)
Nationality: Australia
Category: Celebrities
Occupation:  Actors
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Comedy
Unique distinction: American and Australian actress, Oscar-winning star as best actress in a Leading Role for The Hours (2002)
Height: 5′ 10½” (1.79 m)
Weights: 122 lbs (55.3 kg)
Measurements: 34B-23-36 (US); 86.4-58-91 ( EU)
Religious: Roman Catholic

Nicole Kidman Quotes:
1. I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It’s important not to focus on yourself too much.
2. I don’t really make decisions, I go with the flow.
3. To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That`s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised-they don`t see you behind closed doors.
4. The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.
5. You don’t have to be naked to be sexy.
6. It’s a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that’s very difficult, really difficult and very brave.
7. I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.
8. I never read reviews at all. I’m proud of the work I did.
9. These different people that I play become the loves of my life.

Achievements and contributions:


Social and professional position: Australian actress, film producer, singer, model, and humanitarian.
The main contribution to (best known for): Nicole Kidman is the first Australian actress to win the Best Actress Academy Award she is known for her talent, considerable range and versatility. Kidman has served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006. In 2010, she founded the production company Blossom Films.

Honours and Awards:

Nicole Kidman won Oscar, five Golden Globe Awards, and one BAFTA.  In 2003, she received her Star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California.
In 2004, she was honoured as a “Citizen of the World” by the United Nations.
In 2006, she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), Australia’s highest civilian honour.
Academy Awards, USA: 1 win and 3 nominations.
Academy Awards (2003): Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of writer Virginia Woolf in the film The Hours (2002).
Her other Oscar-nominated roles were for portraying a courtesan in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001) and emotionally troubled mothers in the dramas Rabbit Hole (2010) and Lion (2016).
Golden Globes, USA:  5 wins, 16 nominations (1996, 2002, 2003, 2018 – twice).
Golden Globe Awards: 1996 – Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for To Die For, 2002 – Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Moulin Rouge, 2003 – Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for The Hours, 2018 – Best Actress for Big Little Lies.
BAFTA:  1 Award from 5 nominations.
Primetime Emmy:  2 Awards from 3 nominations.
Screen Actors Guild Award: 1 from 14 nominations.
Critics’ Choice Awards:
3 from 14 nominations.
Saturn Prize (2002).
Prize “Silver Bear” (2003),
MTV Movie Awards
: 2 wins, 3 nominations.
2002 – Best Female Performance for Moulin Rouge, 2002 – Best Musical Sequence for Moulin Rouge.
In addition to her 2002 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.
She also received recognition from the National Association of Theatre Owners at the ShoWest Convention 1992 as the Female Star of Tomorrow and in 2002 for a Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film.
She was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and 2018 and has been featured multiple times in annual rankings of the world’s highest-paid actresses.
In 2020, The New York Times ranked her among the greatest actors of the 21st century.
First Major Screen Credit: BMX Bandits (1983).
Notable films: To Die For (1995), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Cold Mountain (2003), The Interpreter (2005), Australia (2008), Rabbit Hole (2010).
Producer Credits: In the Cut (2003), Rabbit Hole (2010), Monte Carlo (2011),  The  Family Fang (2015),  Big Little Lies (2017), The Undoing (2020).
Discography: “Come What May” Single (Duet with Ewan McGregor – 2001); One Day I’ll Fly Away” –2001 (Moulin Rouge! soundtrack) “Something Stupid” Single (Duet with Robbie Williams – 2001); Hindi Sad Diamonds” – October 2001 (Moulin Rouge! soundtrack), “Kiss” “Heartbreak Hotel” – (Duet with Hugh Jackman – 2006).
Net worth:  On March 2015 – AUD $183 million. Forbes ranked her as the fourth highest-paid actress in the world in 2019, with an annual income of $34 million.
Creative style: Nicole Kidman often plays cold, emotionally vacant characters.
Major movies: BMX Bandits (1983), Watch the Shadows Dance (1988), Bush Christmas (1983), Prince and the Great Race (1983), The Wills and Burke – The Untold Story (1985), Room To Move (1987), Windrider (1987), The Bit Part (1987), Nightmaster (1988), Practical Magic (1998), Emerald City (1989), Dead Calm (1989), Days of Thunder (1990), Flirting (1992), Billy Bathgate (1991), Far and Away (1992), My Life (1993), Malice (1993), Batman Forever (1995), The Portrait of A Lady (1996), The Peacemaker (1997), Filmmaker’s Journey, A: The Making of Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady (1997),
Live at the Albert (2001), The Others (2001), Moulin Rouge (2001), The Hours (2002), Birthday Girl (2002), The Human Stain (2003), The Stepford Wives (2004), Dogville (2004), Birth (2004), Bewitched (2005), Happy Feet (2006), Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006), The Invasion (2007), The Golden Compass (2007), Margot at the Wedding (2007), God Grew Tired of Us (2007), Australia (2008), Nine (2009),
Just Go With It, Monte Carlo, Trespass, Happy Feet Two(2011), Hemingway & Gellhorn, The Paperboy (2012), The Beguiled (2017), Destroyer (2018), Bombshell (2019), Being the Ricardos (2021).

Career and personal life:


Family background: Nicole Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were temporarily in the United States on educational visas. Her father was Antony Kidman (1938–2014), a biochemist, clinical psychologist and her mother, Janelle Ann (née Glenny), is a nursing instructor. Kidman’s ancestry includes Irish, Scottish, and English heritage. Nicole Kidman was born on June 20, 1967, in Honolulu, Hawaii. At age 4 she moved with her parents to Sydney, where she grew up. She is the older sister of Australian television personality Antonia Kidman Hawley (b. 1970).
Education: Kidman attended Lane Cove Public School and North Sydney Girls’ High School. She studied at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, and at the Phillip Street Theatre for Young People in Sydney.

Career highlights:

 In 1983, aged 16, Nicole Kidman made her film debut in a remake of the Australian holiday season favourite Bush Christmas.
By the end of 1983, she had a supporting role in the television series Five Mile Creek.
She 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) and Vietnam (1986), Dead Calm (1989) and Billy Bathgate (1991).
In 1995, Kidman appeared in her highest-grossing live-action film Batman Forever, in 1997  in the action-thriller The Peacemaker, which grossed $110,000,000 worldwide.
In 1998, she co-starred with Sandra Bullock in the poorly received fantasy Practical Magic. This year Kidman made her stage debut in London, playing five different roles in Sir David Hare’s The Blue Room,
In 1999, Kidman reunited with then-husband Tom Cruise for playing in Eyes Wide Shut, the final film of director Stanley Kubrick.
In 2001, Kidman played the cabaret actress and courtesan Satine in Baz Luhrmann’s musical Moulin Rouge!
Also in 2001, she had a starring role in Alejandro Amenábar’s Spanish horror film The Others as Grace Stewart. Grossing over $210,947,037 worldwide.
In 2002, Kidman won critical praise for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry’s The Hours, which stars Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore.
In 2010, she starred with Aaron Eckhart in the film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Rabbit Hole and received nominations for the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Kidman also produced this film.
In 2013 Kidman starred in the psychological horror film Stoker and The Railway Man.
In 2014, Kidman starred in the biopic, Grace of Monaco and in 2015 in the Australian-Irish drama-thriller Strangerland.
In 2015 Kidman returned to the West End theatre in the UK premiere of Photograph 51 at the Noël Coward Theatre.

In 2016, Kidman starred in the drama film Lion, for which she was nominated for an Oscar.
In 2017, Kidman won two Emmy Awards for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film and as a Producer, both for Big Little Lies.
Also in 2017, Kidman played supporting roles in the BBC Two television series Top of the Lake: China Girl and in the comedy-drama The Upside,
In 2018, Kidman starred in two dramas—Destroyer and Boy Erased. That same year, Kidman played Queen Atlanna, the title character’s mother, in the superhero film Aquaman.
Kidman next played Martha Farnsworth, the headmistress of an all-girls school during the American Civil War, in Sofia Coppola’s drama The Beguiled.
In 2019 she took on the supporting part of a wealthy socialite in John Crowley’s drama The Goldfinch. She next co-starred alongside Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie in the drama Bombshell.
In 2020, Kidman played Grace Fraser, a successful New York therapist, in the HBO psychological thriller miniseries The Undoing.  For her performance, Kidman received additional Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations
Kidman’s only film release of 2020 was the musical comedy film The Prom, based on the Broadway musical of the same name, starring alongside Meryl Streep, James Corden and Keegan-Michael Key.
In 2021, Kidman starred in and executive produced the Hulu miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers, based on the novel of the same name by Liane Moriarty.

Personal life:

 She was married to actor Tom Cruise from 1991 to 2001. Kidman met Cruise in November 1989, while filming Days of Thunder. They adopted two children: Isabella Jane Kidman Cruise (born 1992) and Connor Antony Cruise (born 1995).
On 5 February 2001, the couple’s spokesperson announced their separation.
She began dating musician Lenny Kravitz in 2003 before becoming engaged to him, but they ultimately decided to break off their engagement. She was also romantically involved with rapper Q-Tip.
In 2006 she married Keith Urban (Country-Singer, songwriter, m. 2006 – present). Their first daughter, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, was born in 2008, in Nashville. In 2010, Kidman and Urban had their second daughter, Faith Margaret Kidman Urban.
They maintain homes in Sydney, Sutton Forest (New South Wales, Australia), Los Angeles, Nashville (Tennessee, U.S.), and a condominium in Manhattan purchased for US$10 million.
Zest: Nicole Kidman owed fair skin, naturally red and blonde hair, blue eyes and a model-like figure. Kidman is naturally left-handed. She Is a pianist and she Scored an IQ of 132+. Nickname: Nic. She is good friends with Renée Zellweger, Jim Carrey, Russell Crowe and Meryl Streep.
She was the first Australian actress to win the Best Actress Academy Award. She studied ballet and drama in Australia, is a pianist and writes short stories in her free time. She was The iconic face of the Chanel No. 5 perfume brand.
In 2001 Kidman was named the World’s Most Beautiful Person by People magazine.