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Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman
The graceful, red-haired and tall Nicole Mary Kidman, who was named E! Celebrity of the year 2001, was born in Honolulu in Hawaii on the 20th June 1967. Nicole Kidman was the oldest of two children born to Janelle and Anthony Kidman. Her family lived for three years in Washington D.C., USA, but she and her sister Antonia was raised in Sydney, Australia.
She began dancing ballet at the age of three, and trained in dance, mime (8) and drama (10) throughout her childhood. At the age of 14 she was already tall. She was educated as a teen at the St. Martin's Youth Theatre, the Australian Theatre for Young People, and Philip Street Theatre, and she received the first professional compliments and ovations for her talents as an actress.
At the age of 16 she starred in her first film role as Helen in the Australian TV movie Bush Christmas (1983) which still airs in Australia each year. She later starred in several other Australian TV movies: BMX Bandits (1983), Five Mile Creek (TV series) (1984), Windrider (1985), Vietnam (TV-series) (1986) and Bangkok Hilton (TV-Series) (1989) which earned her Best Actress awards from the Australian Film Institute.
Nicole Kidman was already a popular star in Australia when she made her film debut in the USA with the thriller Dead Calm (1989). Nicole Kidman does the most excellent work as Rae Ingram who must snap out of her melancholy distraction to outwit her vile captor. Nicole Kidman convincingly transform from a vulnerable, distraught housewife into a ferious battler. Indeed, it is an electrifying metamorphosis.
She became a famous and popular actress in the USA because of her personality, talents and professionality as an actress. She starred as Dr. Claire Lewichi in her first Hollywood film Days of Thunder (1990) alongside Tom Cruise. The next year she starred in Flirting (1991), and she was awarded a Golden Globe for her performance. The same year Nicole Kidman appeared in Billy Bathgate (1991). Nicole Kidman acts the beauty Drew Preston for whom men are willing to die. Two years later she starred as Tracy Kennsinger in Malice (1993) and My Life (1993).
On 24th December 1990 Nicole Kidman married Tom Cruise in Telluride, Colorado, USA. Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise have adopted two children, Isabella Jane who is born in 1993, and Connor Anthony who is born in 1995. In addition to Days of Thunder she has acted with Tom Cruise in two other films, Far And Away (1992) as Shannon Christie and the erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut (1999) as Alice Harford. On 5th February 2001, Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise finally made the split. The reasons for their split were different career interests. According to Nicole Kidman, wisdom, Australian go-ahead spirit and support from her family helped her through a difficult time. There had been times when Nicole Kidman only was identified as Mrs. Tom Cruise. But she has got a character part (Far And Away,My Life, Batman Forever, and To Die For), and several stars have filmed with her.
Nicole Kidman receives her Golden Globe
for Best Actress in 2002.
She proved her star stature as Suzanne Stone Maretto in the black comedy To Die For (1995) for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in 1996. The same year she as Isabel Arden wore a corset while filming Henry James' novel Portrait of a Lady to take her waist down to 19". After filming Portrait of a Lady she spent two weeks in bed because she was suffering from emotional stress. In 1995 she appeared in Batman Forever as Dr. Chase Meridian. In the last years she has lead roles in many movies. She has acted in The Peacemaker (1997) as Julia Kelly, Practical Magic (1998), The Others (2001), and The Birthday Girl (2001). Her most famous lead role of her recent film projects has been as Satine in Moulin Rouge (2001).
Nicole Kidman and Robbie Williams sings duet the song Somethin' Stupid on his latest album Sing When You're Swinging. Originally, this song was performed by Nancy and Frank Sinatra.
In March 2002 Nicole Kidman and the children moved to London, obviously because Los Angeles was too busy. At the same time Nicole became an Oscar nominee in the category Best Actress for her role as Satin in Moulin Rouge (2002). Unfortunately, she did not win this Oscar for her performance. She was, however, at the top of the magazine People's prestigious, annual list of the 50 most beautiful women.
In June Nicole Kidman and Evan MacGregor won the MTV Movie Awards 2002 in the category Best Music for their musical sequence in Moulin Rouge (2002). In December 2002 Nicole Kidman starred as Virginia Woolf in The Hours (2002). The Hours is based on Michael Cunningham's novel (1988), which was inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway (1925). She was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Actress in 2002 for her role as Virginia Woolf in The hours (2002). She was awarded the Oscar for Best Actress in 2002 for her role as Virginia Woolf in The Hours (2002).
Nicole Kidman's future projects are her roles as Grace in Dogville (2003), Joanna Eberhardt in Stepford Days, Ada in Cold Mountain (2003), Faunia Farley in Human Stain (2003), and ? in Birth (2003).
Nicole Kidman and her sister Antonia
at the Academy Award 2002 on Sunday 24th March.
Nicole Kidman receives her 1st Oscar Award
for Best Actress
on Sunday 23rd March, 2003.
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