



Nicole Kidman BiographyNicole  Mary Kidman was born June 20, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii the first of two  daughters, to Anthony and Janelle; Nicole has a younger sister Antonia.  Nicole spent the first three years of her life in Washington D.C where  her father, a a biochemist and clinical psychologist, pursued his  research on breast cancer before returning to their native Sydney,  Australia.
As a child Nicole studied ballet, mime and drama.  Sprouting to 5'10 the naturally curly auburn haired blue eyed Nicole  found herself gawky and didn't have many dates, her first kiss was on  stage. At 16 Nicole dropped out of High School to pursue her love of  acting and in 1983 appeared in the Australian holiday show Bush  Christmas. After her first role, Nicole appeared in more Australian  series such as BMXBandits, also in 1983. When Nicole was seventeen she  was a singer in a four girl three guy band named Divine Madness,it was  also that. In 1986 Nicole appeared in a mini series titled Vietnam in  which she portrayed a Vietnam schoolgirl protester and won an Australian  Film Institute Award.
After finding an American agent, Nicole appeared in her first film Dead Calm with Sam Neil and Billy Zane in 1989.
Nicole  didn't become a household name until she appeared in the film Days Of  Thunder with Tom Cruise. The film opened in July of 1990 and the couple  eventually wed in Telluride,Colorado on December 24, 1990. Nicole then  went on to appear in the Australian film Flirting and the film  adaptation of the E.L Doctorow novel Billy Bathgate in 1991, in Ron  Howard's semi-autographical film Far and Away with her husband in 1992,  the tear jerker My Life with Michael Keaton and the thriller Malice with  Alec Baldwin and Bill Pullman. 1993 was a good year for Nicole, it was  also the year she became a mother to Isabella Rose whom she adopted as a  newborn.
Nicole continued to work steadily dividing her time  between being an actress, wife and mother. In 1995 she appeared in the  blockbuster film Batman Forever in which she played the newest love in  the life of the caped crusader, not to mention his psychiatrist, and the  black comedy To Die For in which she portrayed a maniacal weather girl  who seduces a teenage boy into killing her husband in her own vain  efforts to become famous. "Im so happyto live in a country where life,  liberty and all the rest of that still stand for something." was one of  the best lines in the film. The film received favorable reviews,  especially on Nicole's part showing that she had finally stepped outside  the shadow of her famous husband. The same year Nicole and Tom adopted a  second child, a baby boy they named Connor Anthony.
In January  1996 Nicole took home a Golden Globe Award for her role in To Die For  and then went on to star in the Henry James adaptation of Portrait Of A  Lady directed by Oscar Nominee Jane Champion and costarring John  Malcovich.
The next year she starred along side George Clooney in The Peacemaker which dealt with nuclear war
Nicole  was balancing homelife and her work equally well, making one movie a  year while still  spending plenty of time with her children and husband.  In 1998 she starred with Sandra Bullock in the film Practical Magic in  which they played sisters whom just happened to also be witches
and  that winter made her Broadway debut on December 13, 1998 in The Blue  Room an erotic play that remained nearly sold out for all of its 111  performances.The next year she teamed up with her husband for their  third film together in Stanley Kubricks last film the auto erotic Eyes  Wide Shut.
Unfortunately Nicole didn't make headlines again until  February 2001 where it was made public that she and her husband were  separating. Only going from bad to worse Nicole then suffered a  miscarriage.
As if life is a series of roller coasters, life  picked up again with the June 4, 2001, release of Baz Luhrmanns musical  drama comedy Moulin Rouge where she portrayed a singing and dancing  prostitute who more then anything wanted to be a real actress. The  musical was a roller coaster ride itself, with elaborate dance sequences  and musical numbers of every song from "Like A Virgin" to "We Could Be  Heroes." The film received very mixed reviews; everything from  "EXCELLENT!" to "COMPLETE GARBAGE!" The film slowly became a cult hit  and only a few months later her next film The Others about a mother who  unknowingly moves her sick children to a haunted house. The film  received rave reviews and made over 100 Million dollars in it's box  office run. On July 31, 2001 in seven minutes Nicole and Tom's divorce  became final (with the "who gets what" to be determined later) but she  didn't let heartbreak stop her from touring the world to promote her  films.
The off camera Nicole is just as amazing as the people she  plays on screen. Being a cancer advocate for breast cancer after her  mothers battle with it when Nicole was seventeen, Nicole has worked with  the UCLA Woman's Reproductive Cancer Program since 1995 and for the  past seven years has served as a goodwill ambassador for the United  Nations Children's Fund in Australia.
On December 20, 2001 Nicole  made Golden Globe history for being nominated for both Moulin Rouge  (Best Actress in a Musical Or Comedy) and The Others ( Best Actress in a  Drama). With two more films due to be realeased in 2002 and a certain  Oscar Nomination in her favor, it looks like Nicole really will survive.