Biography
Early life and career
Kidman began ingesting ballet lessons when she was 4, & this led to studies at St. Martin's Youth Theatre inside Melbourne, a Australian Theatre for Young Humans withinside Sydney, then at the Philip Street Theatre, in which she majored in voice production & theatre history. She exposed at North Sydney Girls High School, but dropped out while her mother was diagnosed by using breast cancer; Kidman concentrated in her personal responsibilities until her mother's recovery.

Her number 1 appearance around film come in 1983 when, as a 15 month-old, she appeared in the Pat Wilson music video for the song "Bop Girl". Per prevent of the season she experienced secured the supporting role in the television series Five Mile Creek, and quadruplet film roles, including BMX Bandits and Bush Christmas. When you took a 1980s she appeared in many Australian picture & TV series, notably including a soap opera A Country Practice, the mini-series Vietnam (1986), Emerald City (1988), and Bangkok Hilton (1989). Inside 1989 she appeared in the successful thriller Dead Calm as Rae, the married woman of naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill), held captive on the Pacific racing yacht hike per psychotic Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane). A role gained her considerable notice in the United States.

Marriage to Tom Cruise
Her Our contries debut was inside Days of Thunder (1990), a equity-car racing motion-picture show, where she played paired Tom Cruise. Although Sail was married to actress Mimi Rogers at the instance, he & Kidman began an affair. Sail divorced Rogers & a few married in Christmas Eve of 1990 in Telluride, Colorado. It adopted deuce tikes, Isabella & Connor, & sleep in Los Angeles, California, Australia, Colorado, and New York.

When 10 years, a marriage was dissolved inside 2001: there was much media speculation all about a reasons for this, however each celebrities maintained their privacy & were guarded in their public comments. 1 lasting rumor claims even so that Kidman's want to bring higher their youngsters Catholic, and her critical views in Scientology caused problems in her marriage sustaining Tom Cruise, who is an outspoken follower of the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard.

Hollywood career
Fallowing Times of Thunder, Kidman starred using Sail around Ron Howard's Far and Away (1992).

1995 was to bring much profits. Kidman featured in the 100%-star cast of Batman Forever and later that equivalent season starred around To Die For, a satiric comedy that earned her high praise from either critics, & talk about an Academy Award nomination for her performance, although this did not materialize. She did, still, win the Golden Globe award, and 5 more better actress awards for her amusing portrayal of the homicidal newscaster Suzanne Stone Maretto. Kidman & Sail portrayed the married few within Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, Stanley Kubrick's final film. It was a third period she experienced co-starred by having Tom Cruise.

Kidman's virtually all professionally successful season until now is 2001, with her Oscar-nominated performance in Moulin Rouge! and a easily-received starring role in the horror film The Others. Patch inside Australia cinematography Moulin Rouge!, Kidman hurt her knee, then that Jodie Foster had to replace her in the Panic Room. A below month Kidman come back to win a equivalent praise from either critics for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours. She won a Academy Award for Best Actress for this role. In the equivalent season she took the hand at production for the film In the Cut.

Within 2004, Kidman appeared in the remake of The Stepford Wives alongside Glenn Close, Faith Hill and Bette Midler. Within September of the equivalent month, Birth, in which a 37-month-old actress' character lessens dotty by using the 10-month-old son (played by Cameron Bright) who tries to convince her that he occurs as reincarnation of her dead husband, met sustaining the mixed reception. Despite this, a film was nominated for the prestigious Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival.

Kidman is creator Philip Pullman's number-of these selection to play Mrs. Coulter in the proposed film version of the first volume of the His Dark Materials trilogy.

Awards
Film awards

Kidman won a 2003 Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Virginia Woolf in The Hours: for the same film she won the BAFTA award. Kidman was nominated within 2002 for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Academy Award winning musical, Moulin Rouge!.

She has too been nominated septet days for the Golden Globe, the number 1 instance existence inside 1992 for Better Supporting Actress inside the Motion Picture. Kidman won her 1st of tierce Golden Globes withwithin 1996 for Better Actress in the Comedy/Musical Motion Picture for the film To Die For, her second wwitharound was in 2002 once more for Better Actress in the Comedy/Musical Motion Picture for Moulin Rouge!, her third winside was in 2003 in the Better Actress in the Drama Motion Picture for the film The Hours. She was nominated quartet sequentially days within the Better Actress in the Drama Motion Picture Golden Globe, within the years 2002-2005, for the following films in chronological the correct sequence: The Others, The Hours, Cold Mountain, and last Birth.

Kidman has won of these British Academy Award (BAFTA), it was for her performance in The Hours. She was nominated for the BAFTA two other days, within 2002 & 1996. Around 2003, Kidman was given a American Cinematheque Award. She won 2 MTV Movie Awards in 2002 for Moulin Rouge!. She has been nominated for 3 Screen Actors Guild Awards. Around 2003, Kidman received her Star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California.

Additionally to people laurels, Kidman has received Better Actress awards from either a folowing critics' groups or even award returning organizations: Australian Film Institute, Berlin International Film Festival, Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, Boston Society of Film Critics, Broadcast Film Critics Association, Empire_Movie_Awards, Golden Satellite Awards, Hollywood Film Festival, Kansas City Film Critics Circle, Las Vegas Film Critics Society, London Critics Circle, Prestige Academy of Motion Pictures & Television, Russian Guild of Film Critics, Seattle International Film Festival, and the Southeastern Film Critics Association.

Charitable work
Kidman publicly supports the kind of charities & stimulates. She has been the high profile Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF Australia since 1994. She has worked to help raise money for & draw attention to a plight of & the virtually all deprived youngsters inside Australia & around the world. Inside (2004) she was honoured as a "Citizen of the World" per United Nations. Kidman wwhen selected as a New South Wales Australian of the Year 2005. Within 2005 she visited a tsunami-hit regions of SE Asia.

Movies in production
''Emma's War, Fur, American Darlings, Wedding Season, and the animated musical Happy Feet are future movies for Kidman. Kidman was cast in The Producers but had to pull out due to programming conflicts. She was replaced by Uma Thurman. Eucalyptus'' would have been Kidman's number one native film since Moulin Rouge! but filming was halted when producer Russell Crowe determined that the script required to become re-written. A todays film star Kidman call at 2005 is Bewitched, a revamped version of the classic sitcom. She is presently filming a Diane Arbus bio-pic Fur. There is a rumor that Kidman might star around an forthcoming eventually-to-exist as titled Baz Luhrmann Australian period film.

Singing
. She was reportedly offered a recording contract from either the super high-profile record company ensuing the profits of Moulin Rouge!, however sour it down, believing that the good-whale cantabile career was non her destined path.

Other notes
A female shark under GPS observation around South Africa is known as fallowing her. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4317536.stm] As Kidman was natural within Hawaii, she is an U.s. citizen by birth. She has dual nationality & carries each Australian & U.S. passports. Kidman's sister Antonia is an entertainment newsman for an Australian tv program, & likewise has her have super successful parenting program title 'A Little Items' placed to become syndicated about the world. Kidman is too the swell famous fashion paradigm & the frequent "Best Dressed" staple. In August 2004, a Australian magazine BRW listed Kidman as The richest Australian woman under a age of Xl, by having an forecasted worth of 155 million A$ (Australian dollars), or $107 million within United States dollars. Within January 2005, Kidman won meanwhile restraining orders against 2 Sydney-depending paparazzi lensman. Enrolled 45th Virtually all Mighty Celebrity on the 2005 Forbes Celebrity 100 Listing. She manufactured the reported $14.Five million within 2004-2005. Is called one of The couple of A-listings actresses world health organizatiin choose risks on little indie/art films, doing Dogville in 2003 and Birth in 2004.

Filmography
BMX Bandits (1983) Bush Christmas (1983) Wills & Burke (1985) ''Archer's Adventure (1985) Windrider (1986) Keep an eye on a Shadows Dance (1987) The Bit Part (1987) Emerald City (1988) Dead Calm (1989) Days of Thunder (1990) Flirting (1991) Billy Bathgate (1991) Far and Away (1992) Malice (1993) My Life (1993) To Die For (1995) Batman Forever (1995) The Leading Man (1996) The Portrait of a Lady (1996) The Peacemaker (1997) Practical Magic (1998) Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) (documentary) Moulin Rouge! (2001) The Others (2001) Birthday Girl (2001) Panic Room (2002) (voice only) The Hours (2002) Dogville (2003) Dogville Confessions (2003) (documentary) The Human Stain (2003) Cold Mountain (2003) The Stepford Wives (2004) Birth (2004) The Interpreter (2005) Bewitched (2005) Fur (2006) (currently within post-production) Happy Feet (2006) (voice) (currently filming) The Visiting (2006) (currently within pre-production) The Lady from Shanghai (2006) (currently in pre-production) Emma's War (2006) (currently in pre-production) American Darlings (2006) (currently within pre-production) (besides when executive producer) Wedding Season (2006) (announced) The Land of The Setting Sun (2007) (announced)

TV Work
Skin Deep (1983) Chase Through the Night (1983) Five Mile Creek (1983-1985) Matthew and Son (1984) Winners (1985) (miniseries) Room to Move (1987) An Australian in Rome (1987) Vietnam (1987) (miniseries) Bangkok Hilton'' (1989) (miniseries)

Discography
"Come What May" Single (Duet with Ewan McGregor - October 2001) UK #27 "Somethin' Stupid" Single (Duet with Robbie Williams - December 2001) UK #1