Nicole Mary Kidman AC is an Australian-American actress, singer, and producer. She has received an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. Time magazine twice named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2004 and 2018. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her fifth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century.
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Nicole Mary Kidman AC is an Australian-American actress, singer, and producer. She has received an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. Time magazine twice named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2004 and 2018. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her fifth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century. Kidman was born to Australian parents in Hawaii, and holds dual citizenship of Australia and the United States. She was married to actor Tom Cruise from 1990 to 2001, and has been married to country music singer Keith Urban since 2006. She currently stars in and serves as executive producer on the HBO psychological thriller miniseries The Undoing. She says that she was first inspired to become an actress upon seeing Margaret Hamilton’s performance as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. She is a Goodwill ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006, and was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia in 2006. Her father, Antony Kidman, was a biochemist, clinical psychologist and author. Her mother, Janelle Ann, is a nursing instructor who edited her husband’s books and was a member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby. Her ancestry includes Irish and Scottish heritage. She attended Lane Cove Public School and North Sydney Girls’ High School. She first studied at the Phillip Street Theatre in Sydney, alongside Naomi Watts who had the same high school.
She made her film debut in 1983, aged 16, in a remake of the Australian favourite Bush Christmas. She had a supporting role in the series Five Mile Creek by the end of the 1983 season. Her breakthrough came in 1989 with the thriller film Dead Calm. In 1990, she made her Hollywood debut in the racing film Days of Thunder, opposite Tom Cruise. She went on to achieve wider recognition with lead roles in Far and Away, Batman Forever, To Die For and Eyes Wide Shut. Kidman won the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying the writer Virginia Woolf in the drama The Hours. Her other film credits include The Others, Cold Mountain, Dogville, Birth, Australia, The Paperboy, Paddington, Destroyer, Aquaman and Bombshell. She has also starred in the HBO biopic television film Hemingway & Gellhorn, the HBO drama series Big Little Lies and the BBC Two drama series Top of the Lake: China Girl. In 2010, she founded the production company Blossom Films, and in 2012, she became a director of the hit HBO series The Handmaid’s Tale. Her younger sister Antonia Kidman is a journalist and TV presenter. She also has a younger sister, AntoniaKidman, who lives on Sydney’s North Shore. Her parents were temporarily in the U.S. on student visas. Her Australian parents participated in anti-war protests while living in Washington, D. C. The family returned to Australia when she was four and her mother now lives in Sydney.
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