Nicole Kidman, an actress and producer, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on June 20, 1967. Although she was born on American soil, she moved to her parents’ homeland, Sydney, Australia, at the tender age of four.
Age, height, and personal biography:
Nicole Kidman has a notable family background. Her parents are Antony David Kidman, a writer, biochemist, and psychologist, and Janelle Ann Glenny, an educator descended from one of Australia’s wealthiest families and a member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby. Kidman has a younger sister, Antonia, a journalist and renowned TV host in her country.
Raised in a Catholic household with Irish, Scottish, and English ancestry, Kidman stands tall at 5 ft 11 inches tall. From a young age, she knew her future would lie in the performing arts. She began ballet classes at three and, despite being a bright student academically, decided to pivot towards acting.
She studied at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and the Phillip Street Theatre in Sydney, alongside her friend and also successful actress, Naomi Watts, whom she also met in high school. Her film debut came with a remake of an Australian classic: Bush Christmas, which led to her garnering a supporting role in the television series Five Mile Creek, which was distributed on the Disney channel.
Nicole Kidman’s partners and children:
Kidman married Tom Cruise in 1990, her co-star from ‘Days of Thunder’ that same year. The couple adopted two children, Isabella Jane and Anthony Connor. They divorced in 2001. In 2006, Kidman married country music singer Keith Urban, with whom she has two daughters, Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret.
Filmography and Awards
After Kidman’s film debut in the movie ‘Bush Christmas’ in 1983, she went on to star in the TV miniseries ‘Bangkok Hilton,’ earning the AACTA award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama.
Her breakthrough role came in 1989 with ‘Dead Calm,’ and she soared to stardom in 1990 alongside Tom Cruise in Tony Scott’s ‘Days of Thunder.’
Her role in Gus Van Sant’s ‘To Die For’ earned her a Golden Globe for Best Actress (Comedy or Musical) in 1996. She worked with Cruise, her then-partner, in Stanley Kubrick’s last film, the erotic thriller ‘Eyes Wide Shut,’ in 1999.
Entering the new millennium, she played a courtesan in Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Moulin Rouge!,’ for which she received her second Golden Globe (Comedy or Musical) and her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress in 2001. That same year, she starred in Alejandro Amenábar’s ‘The Others,’ earning a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress.
Despite having to turn down the lead role in ‘Panic Room’ due to a fracture incurred during the ‘Moulin Rouge!’ filming, she successfully portrayed writer Virginia Woolf in ‘The Hours,’ winning the Oscar for Best Actress in 2002 and the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama.
Her success continued with ‘Dogville’ by Lars von Trier, ‘The Human Stain,’ and ‘Cold Mountain’ in 2003, followed by roles in ‘The Stepford Wives’ and ‘Birth’ in 2004. In 2010, she starred in ‘Rabbit Hole,’ earning another Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
In 2012, Kidman played novelist Martha Gellhorn in HBO’s ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn,’ receiving an Emmy nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Miniseries. She continued to achieve cinematic success, portraying iconic Grace Kelly in ‘Grace of Monaco’ and a villainous taxidermist in ‘Paddington,’ both in 2014. In 2016, she received her fourth Oscar nomination for ‘Lion.’
Kidman has also found success on the small screen, winning an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries for producing and starring in HBO’s ‘Big Little Lies’ (2017-2019). She has remained closely tied to television, with roles in ‘The Undoing’ in 2020 and ‘Special Ops: Lioness’ in 2023.
Her latest Oscar nomination came in 2022 for ‘Being Ricardos,‘ for which she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama.
Other notable films in her extensive acting career include ‘Batman Forever’ (1995), ‘The Peacemaker’ (1997), ‘The Invasion’ (2007), ‘Nine’ (2009), ‘Aquaman’ (2018), and ‘Bombshell’ (2019).
Currently, she stars in (and also serves as executive producer of) ‘Expats,’ the new Prime Video hit
