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Mini biography:
Listed in "People Weekly"s "Most Intriguing People" list. (December 25 1995/January 1 1996 issue)
She and her husband Tom Cruise donated to Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate representing New York state. [2000]
Suffered a broken rib while rehearsing a dance routine for the movie Moulin Rouge! (2001). Production was halted while she recovered.
Chosen by People Magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World [1999]
Chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world [1996]
Wore a corset while filming The Portrait of a Lady (1996) to take her waist down to 19"
Spent two weeks in bed after filming of The Portrait of a Lady (1996) - diagnosed as suffering from "emotional stress".
Her father is renowned Sydney psychologist Dr. Antony Kidman, famous in his own right for work done with breast cancer patients, among other things.
Family: sister, Antonia Kidman, brother-in-law, Angus Hawley, father, Dr. Anthony David Kidman, mother, Janelle Ann MacNeille Kidman, son, Connor Antony, daughter, Isabella Jane.
Crusader against child abuse. "Children should be allowed to grow up without fear of cruelty." [October 1999]
Separated from husband Tom Cruise. [5 February 2001]
In Moulin Rouge! (2001) Kidman sang alongside Ewan McGregor.
Conor Antony (adopted son) born January 17, 1995.
Isabella Jane (adopted daughter) born December 22, 1992.
Sang alongside Robbie Williams in a remake of the duet "Something Stupid", originally sang by Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra.
Scared of butterflies
Named one of People Magazine's '25 Most Intriguing People of 2001'.
Named E!'s Celebrity of the Year 2001.
Named Entertainment Weekly's Entertainer of The Year for 2001.
Played a young girl named Grace on a sketch on "Saturday Night Live" (1975) with Mike Myers, the next time she played a character named Grace was her 2001 movie, The Others (2001). She played a character named Grace for the third time in Dogville (2003).
She was supposed to be the star of Panic Room (2002), but she hurt herself in a stunt for Moulin Rouge! (2001). So, she played the voice of Jodie Foster's divorced husband's wife.
Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.
Sister of Australian television personality Antonia Kidman.
Although naturally left-handed, she taught herself to write right- handed for her role in The Hours (2002), where she played the right-handed author Virginia Woolf.
Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (13 January 2003)
Found out about her first Academy Award nomination, for Moulin Rouge! (2001), while shooting Dogville (2003) in Sweden.
Ranked #31 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List. Had ranked #83 in 2002.
First Australian actress to win the Best Actress Academy Award.
Voted the 5th Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine - September 2002.
Measurements: 34B-23-36 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
In recent polls, she was elected alongside fellow Aussie Hugh Jackman as one of the favorite upcoming romantic couples on screen.
Originally cast as Mrs. Smith in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005).
Has appeared in My Life (1993/I) with Michael Keaton, Batman Forever (1995) with Val Kilmer, The Peacemaker (1997) with George Clooney and The Portrait of a Lady (1996) with Christian Bale. All four actors have played Batman in a movie.
She was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1999 (1998 season) for Best Actress for her performance in The Blue Room.
Best friends with Naomi Watts.
She was awarded the 1998 Special Award at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her special and significant contributions to London Theatre for her performance in The Blue Room.
A very tall woman at nearly 5' 11", she actually stood about 4 inches taller than ex-husband Tom Cruise, and rarely wore heels when seen publicly with him so that they could appear similar in height. Since their divorce, she is rarely seen on the red carpet without high heels, and she often meets 6' 4" actors in the eye.
Scored an IQ of 132+
While she usually commands $10 million+ for a movie, she is willing to receive only $500,000 for her role in Eucalyptus (2006). Produced by Fox Searchlight, its financing guideline shows that each actor signed on to its project can receive no more than $500,000 to keep the cost low. This movie will be produced in Australia which is another reason why Kidman decided to accept it.
Frequently does her own nude scenes, declining to use body doubles.
Replaced Rene Russo as Dr. Chase Meridian in Batman Forever (1995) when Val Kilmer replaced Michael Keaton.
Likes the poetry of Anne Carson and the writing of Phillip Larkin.
Writes short stories in her free time and hopes to publish them one day.
Is in the 50th anniversary edition of the Guinness Book Of Records as the highest paid actress in a commercial. She netted $3.71 million for her part in a 4-minute Baz Luhrmann-directed Chanel No.5 movie ad. The ad,costing $11 million a minute, is a short-film titled "No 5: The Film". Guinness book editors noted the actress earned $928,800-per-minute. Costumes designed by Karl Lagerfeld and score by Debussy.
Good friends with Russell Crowe.
Was considered for the role of Catwoman (2004).
Had played a witch twice. Once in Practical Magic (1998) and again in Bewitched (2005).
Premiere Magazine ranked her as #48 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005).
One People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" for most wanted skin (2004)
Friends with Renée Zellweger
Is a pianist, and did her own piano-playing in Cold Mountain (2003).
Is highly conscious of avoiding excessive sun exposure, and is rarely seen during her downtime without a hat, sunglasses and wearing sunscreen. In fact, best friend Naomi Watts has said that "Nicole won't cross the street without a hat."
In addition to having worked with all four of the most recent Batmans, she has also worked with both of the most recent actors to play Alfred Pennyworth. In Batman Forever (1995), she appears with Michael Gough. In Bewitched (2005), her father is played by Michael Caine.
Shares her birthday with Brian Wilson, Josh Lucas, Tina Sinatra, Lionel Richie, Olympia Dukakis, Martin Landauand Errol Flynn.
Has one niece: Lucia (b. 1999) and two nephews: Hamish (b. 2001), James (b. 2003).
In August 2004, Australian business magazine Business Review Weekly listed Kidman as the richest Australian woman under age 40, estimated at a worth of 155 million Australian dollars.
Is a childhood friend of Peter Overton, a reporter for the Australian "60 Minutes" (1979) program. Both lived in the same suburb of Sydney when they were children.
Has Irish ancestry.
She and ex-husband Tom Cruise made 3 movies together: Days of Thunder (1990), Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and Far and Away (1992). They met on the set of Days of Thunder (1990).
Attended the same high school attended by Catherine Martin (two time Oscar winner for costume design and direction on Moulin Rouge! (2001) and wife of Baz Luhrmann) and legendary Australian actress Ruth Cracknell.
Godmother of Harry (b. 19 September 2001), the son of Simon Baker and Rebecca Riggs. Riggs and Kidman are close friends.
Named goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Development Fund for Women.
Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2006 Razzie Award nominating ballot. She was suggested in the Worst Actress category for her performance in the film Bewitched (2005), however, she failed to receive a nomination.
Her performance as Suzanne Stone Maretto in To Die For (1995) is ranked #40 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
Accompanied her boyfriend Keith Urban to the Grammy Awards in 2006. It was their first public appearance together.
Ranked as #69 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)
Engaged to country musician Keith Urban (17 May 2006).
Is allergic to strawberries.
Wore a wedding gown at her wedding to Keith Urban by the label Balenciaga
Married Keith Urban in the St. Patrick's church in Manly, a suburb of Sydney
230 guests attended her wedding to Keith Urban. Among them were her best friend Naomi Watts, Russell Crowe, Baz Luhrmann, Hugh Jackman and Nicole's two children Isabella and Conor. Jim Carrey was invited and greatly wanted to come, in fact he booked plane tickets to Australia, but last minute scheduling conflicts stopped him from going.
She asked her wedding guests not to buy any presents for her and Keith Urban but to donate the money instead to some humanitarian organization.
Her sister Antonia was a bridesmaid at her wedding to Keith Urban
She and Keith Urban honeymooned in Tahiti - more precisely the St Regis in Bora Bora. Eva Longoria and her boyfriend Tony Parker were also coincidentally staying there at the time. (So much for 'getting away from it all'.).
Her second wedding ceremony lasted 35 minutes
Four Oscar winners were at her wedding to Keith Urban: Russell Crowe, Jane Campion, Catherine Martin and Kidman, herself.
Baz Luhrmann read a love Psalm by New Zealand writer Joy Cowley (a nod to Urban's birth place) at her wedding to Keith Urban.
Three star performers sang at her wedding reception to Keith Urban. Hugh Jackman sang "Tenterfield Saddler", a favorite of Urbans's. Keith Urban sang his hit song "Making Memories of Us" to her. Neil Finn sang "Fall At Your Feet".
Dropped out of the role of Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator (2004) due to scheduling conflicts.
She is good friends with Jim Carrey
Currently lives in an apartment in Sydney, with her Australian husband country music singer, Keith Urban. (2006).
Author Philip Pullman requested her specifically to play the role of Marisa Coulter in the movie adaptation of his book 'His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass'
Studied ballet and drama in Australia.
Keith Urban's brother Marlon Holden was best man at their wedding.
Keith Urban gifted Nicole a first edition of Emily Brontë's novel, "Wuthering Heights", purchased from Sotherby's for $200,000 as a wedding present.
Keith Urban's brother Marlon Holden was best man at their wedding.
Stepmother of her children Isabella and Connor is Katie Holmes.
Wrote the introduction to the book "Truth: Personas, Needs, and Flaws in the Art of Building Actors and Creating Characters" by her friend and acting consultant Susan Batson.
Topped The Hollywood Reporter's list of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood in 2006.
September 2001: Attended the Royal Premiere of Moulin Rouge! (2001) alongside Kylie Minogue, Prince Charles and Ewan McGregor.
Was considered for the lead role in The Painted Veil (2006), which eventually went to her best friend Naomi Watts.
Is a fan of actress Aishwarya Rai, and her film Bride & Prejudice (2004). Nicole got to meet Aishwarya for the first time at the 2005 Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world dinner held in New York City.
Was cast as Ulla in The Producers (2005), but backed out due to scheduling conflicts.
Personal quotes
"Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it. Sometimes I try to downplay it a bit because people are like, 'God you guys.' I just feel so fortunate that I have found someone who will put up with me and stay with me." - on her marriage to Tom Cruise - August 2000
[On husband Tom Cruise] "I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily he does."
"Now I can wear heels." [commenting on her break-up with Tom Cruise - August 2001]
"It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!"
"And I am standing in front of my mother, And my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud." [On winning the Academy Award for The Hours (2002)]
"When I heard about the Suzanne role in To Die For (1995), I thought, I'll never get it - it'll be offered to someone else. So I called Gus [Gus Van Sant] at home, and he took my call, thank God. I told him I'd seen Drugstore Cowboy (1989), and I really wanted to work with him. I said I was destined to work with him".
"I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine."
"These different people that I play become the loves of my life."
"The split [from Tom Cruise] left me very fragile but I'd love to marry again."
"I would love to have boobs and a butt like Jennifer Lopez but I'm not having surgery so there it is."
"I've never been so excited to have people walk all over me for the rest of my life." [On receiving her star on the Walk of Fame]
"You want to take some responsibility in your choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses - so for me working with Lars von Trier, I would hope that says to another generation: 'go and seek out those directors, it's ok'."
On Dogville (2003): "One day it would be a fairytale, the next it was a nightmare. Lars (Lars von Trier) was gentle with me - he was gentle and soft, then he would beat me up emotionally when he felt he needed that. I did not always register what was happening until afterwards but you shouldn't have too much awareness as an actor, I don't think."
"I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's [Jennifer Lopez] body than mine."
"As a backdrop for a thriller, it's fantastic, but also since I'm Australian and I've always worked internationally and this is an international place in New York, I really like the kind of communication it represents. I know I sound very much like my character now, but I do believe in this place." [on filming The Interpreter (2005) at UN headquarters in New York]
"It's weird because they're all coming out at once. But I made them over 2-1/2 years". [on Cold Mountain (2003), The Human Stain (2003) and Dogville (2003) being released within months of each other.]
"You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it. That's far more interesting than anything I could say about where I'm at or who I'm with. It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it."
"It's a comedy. We hope." [on the troubled The Stepford Wives (2004)]
"Even from a very early age I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous."
"...cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too."
"This is a film about love. What is a great love? Is there a love of our life? Do you ever recover from the loss of somebody that was so important to you?" [on Birth (2004)]
"Stanley Kubrick taught me to believe in myself artistically. I spent my 20s raising my children, and wanting to, and being married. That was my driving force. And then he said to me, 'No, you have to respect your talent, and give it some space, and give it some time.' Which was a lovely thing to be given. And my children were a little older then."
"It was by chance that The Hours (2002) came along. Was I in a place where I could say, 'I'm going to go to England and make this'? Yes. Could I do that earlier, when I was married? No, I couldn't travel like that. We had a thing where we couldn't be separated for more than two weeks. So that made a lot of work just not possible. Which was fine by me."
"I have moments where I've said, 'Don't tread on that crack in the pavement, don't have a black cat walk in front of you'. Deep down am I superstitious? No. Do I believe in trying to be as kind as possible and as compassionate as possible because ultimately you're alone with yourself and your own conscience, and you want that to be as clear as possible? That's not superstition. You have to just try and stay pure and know what you value."
"Usually, a young actress can't deliver because she doesn't have the emotional baggage, really, to play those things. That's something that's very beautiful about becoming a woman, and becoming a woman in your 30s. If you've lived your life, and lived it where you've said, 'I want to be a participator and not a voyeur', then you have an enormous amount to pull on."
"I'm still just finding my way through. I don't actually see a path in front of me. I can see not ever doing it again, and I can also see other things pulling me away from this. It's strange, because I know it's in my blood in terms of having to somehow act or express myself creatively, but I'm willing to do it different ways if need be. And I think that's partly because when I went through my divorce I dealt with the idea of never ever working again, and never being here and never able to be an actress, and went through an enormous amount of soul searching, and at that time, I was very ready to give it all up, and dealt with that emotionally. I was going, 'Well, I'll never be able to do this again.' And that was OK. And, strangely, as life is so strange, that was when everything exploded."
"I never feel like I'm in control. There's a certain type of actor that relinquishes control when they act, and then there's another type who ends up being a producer and director and they're more someone that likes to take control. I fall in the first category, where I like to relinquish control, and fit into somebody else's world. And that's just lately, but you never feel like you are making choices. You feel like they're finding you in a strange way. That's why when people say, 'What role do you want to play next?', I say, 'I don't know'. I never know. It's about responding to things rather than planning."
"I think someone said my career defies all logic [laughs]. Because I choose the sort of strange little films, and somehow they're the things that make my career."
"So if you talk about a box-office career, then I'm a disaster. But somehow, you know, I still manage to find my way to work."
"I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not . . . I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character."
"I'm at a time of my life now where . . . for me to want to go back and work, it'd have to be something that I really feel passionately about."
"Regrets are ridiculous, so I don't regret, no."
[Talking about her character from Batman Forever (1995)]: "Chase is attracted to the darker side of life. Batman is very appealing to her".
"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."
"He's a great father, I can call him at three in the morning and he's there for me." [Speaking of her father Antony Kidman]
"By the time I was a teenager, I had developed skills as a writer, and my father encouraged me to think about a career in journalism. I began keeping a diary, which I maintain to this day. I used to fill whole notebooks with my writings."
"My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead."
"It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theatre, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist."
"Do you know I'm always scared that one day I'll look back and say 'God they were the best years of my life and now what?' There are moments when you feel as if you have been blessed for a while, moments when you think this is perfect, moments when you start to believe that even for an hour, even for a year-it might all happen... So I'm determined to keep making it get better and better."
"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."
"I was one of those terrible kids who said everyone's lines" [about her first role at the age of five]
"Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde."
"I'm very close to my sister, Antonia [Antonia Kidman]. Every day we swim together. I love my sister."
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