Nicole Kidman was born on the 20th of July in Honolulu, Hawaii in the United States Of America.
Known as being an Australian actress she was born in America, her parents are Australian and they moved back to Australia while Nicole was still young.
During her school years she enjoyed acting and would often take part in school productions.
Nicole turned down the main role in The Brave One, Jodie Foster replaced her, this is interesting because Miss Kidman was originally cast in Panic Room but hurt herself while filming Moulin Rouge! and Jodie Foster also replaced her in that film role.
Tom Cruise saw her in Dead Calm and cast her in Days Of Thunder, they fell in love and went on to make two more movies together and adopted two children before divorcing in 2001, after the divorce Nicole was relieved she could wear high heels again.
Nicole is naturally left handed but taught herself to use her right hand while filming The Hours for which her fantastic acting performance won her an Oscar.
She is also a talented singer and sang opposite Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge! and she also had a number one hit duetting with Robbie Williams on Something Stupid.
Miss Kidman has been in movies featuring actors who have all played Batman, she played opposite Michael Keaton in My Life, Val Kilmer in Batman Forever, Portrait Of A Woman with Christian Bale and The Peacemaker with George Clooney.
Had a lucky escape when she lost out for the part of Catwoman to Halle Berry, that movie could have been a career killer and if you have saw it you will know how disappointing it is.
Nicole played a witch in Practical Magic and again when she made the big screen version of the sixties tv show Bewitched. Both different films but sharing the witch theme in common.
She can play the piano and did so for scenes in the movie Cold Mountain, her complexion is pale and she tends to avoid sun exposure and often wears a hat and sunglasses.
Nicole is currently married to country singer Keith Urban and they have one child together.
Her middle name is Mary and some television shows you may have seen her in are A Country Practice, Five Mile Creek, Archer, Room To Move, Vietnam and Bangkok Hilton.
Nicole has made many films dating back to the early eighties, some of these not already mentioned above are BMX Bandits, Wills & Burke, Emerald City, Flirting, Billy Bathgate, Far and Away, Malice, To Die For, Eyes Wide Shut, The Others, Birthday Girl, Dogville, The Human Stain, The Stepford Wives, Birth, The Interpreter, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, Happy Feet, The Invasion, The Golden Compass, Margot At The Wedding, Australia and Nine.
You can look forward to Rabbit Hole, Just Go With It, Trespass, The Eighth Wonder, The Danish Girl, The Wedding Doctor, Need, The Rivals and a film based on the singer Dusty Springfield.
Read some Nicole Kidman quotes below.
(Commenting on her break up with Tom Cruise) Now I can wear heels.
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!
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.
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.
(Talking about the film Eyes Wide Shut) 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.
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.
Regrets are ridiculous, so I don't regret, no.
I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.
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