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Birth Name: Nicole Mary Kidman
Nickname: Nic
Date of Birth: 20th June 1967
Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Height: 5'10½ (1.79m)
Tropical Zodiac Sign: Gemini
Chinese Zodiac Sign: Goat (Fire)

Spouse:
Keith Urban (25th June 2006 - present) 1 child
Tom Cruise (24th December 1990 - 8th August 2001) (divorced) 2 children

Children:
With Keith Urban: Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, born 7th July 2008
With Tom Cruise: Isabella Jane Cruise, born 22nd December 1992, Connor Antony Cruise (Connor Cruise), born 17th January 1995.

Family:
Father, Dr. Anthony David Kidman
Mother, Janelle Ann MacNeille Kidman
Sister, Antonia Kidman
Brother-in-Law, Angus Hawley

Bio:
Elegant redhead Nicole Kidman, known as one of Hollywood's top Australian imports, was actually born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Australian parents Anthony (a biochemist and clinical psychologist) and Janelle (a nursing instructor) Kidman. The family moved almost immediately to Washington, DC, where Nicole's father pursued his research on breast cancer, and then, three years later, made the pilgrimage to her parents' native Sydney. Young Nicole's first love was ballet, but she eventually took up mime and drama as well (her first stage role was a bleating sheep in an elementary school Christmas pageant). In her adolescent years, acting edged out the other arts and became a kind of refuge -- as her classmates sought out fun in the sun, the fair-skinned Kidman retreated to dark rehearsal halls to practice her craft. She worked regularly at the Philip Street Theater, where she once received a personal letter of praise and encouragement from audience member Jane Campion (then a film student). Kidman eventually dropped out of high school to pursue acting full-time. She broke into movies at age 16, landing a role in the Australian holiday favorite Bush Christmas (1983). That appearance touched off a flurry of film and TV offers, including a lead in BMX Bandits (1983) and a turn as a schoolgirl-turned-protester in the miniseries "Vietnam" (1987) (for which she won her first Australian Film Institute Award). With the help of an American agent, she eventually made her US debut opposite Sam Neill in the at-sea thriller Dead Calm (1989).

Kidman's next casting coup scored her more than exposure. While starring as Tom Cruise's doctor/love interest in the racetrack romance Days of Thunder (1990), she won over the Hollywood hunk hook, line, and sinker. After a whirlwind courtship (and decent box office returns), the couple wed on December 24, 1990. Determined not to let her new marital status overshadow her fledgling career, the actress pressed on. She appeared as a catty high school senior in the Australian film Flirting (1991), then as Dustin Hoffman's moll in the gangster flick Billy Bathgate (1991). She reunited with Cruise for Far and Away (1992), the story of young Irish lovers who flee to America in the late 1800s, and starred opposite Michael Keaton in the tear-tugger My Life (1993/I). Despite her steady employment, critics and moviegoers still hadn't quite warmed to Kidman as a leading lady. She tried to spice up her image by seducing Val Kilmer in Batman Forever (1995), but achieved her real breakthrough with Gus Van Sant's To Die For (1995). As a fame-crazed housewife determined to eliminate any obstacle in her path, Kidman proved that she had an impressive range and deadly comic timing. She took home a Golden Globe and several critics' awards for the performance. In 1996, Kidman stepped into a corset to work with her countrywoman and onetime admirer, Jane Campion, on the adaptation of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady (1996). A few months later, she tore across the screen as a nuclear weapons expert in The Peacemaker (1997), adding "action star" to her professional repertoire.

She and Cruise then disappeared into a notoriously long, secretive shoot for Stanley Kubrick's sexual thriller Eyes Wide Shut (1999). The couple's on-screen shenanigans prompted an increase in public speculation about their sex life (rumors had long been circulating that their marriage was a cover-up for Cruise's homosexuality); tired of denying tabloid attacks, they successfully sued The Star for a story alleging that they needed a sex therapist to coach them through love scenes. Kidman's next movie was the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001), starring opposite Ewan McGregor, Kidman's singing was widely praised and she won an Academy Award nomination for her performance as the courtesan Satine. The filming for Moulin Rouge! (2001) was physically demanding for Kidman; she fractured two ribs and injured her knee while rehearsing a dance routine forcing her to take a two week break from filming, she then had to film many of her close-up shots from a wheelchair. Kidman's injuries forced her to pull out of the film Panic Room (2002), she was to play the lead role. Kidman was replaced by Jodie Foster, although she still appears in the film, as the voice of the girlfriend of the husband of the lead character. Kidman's next role was in the drama The Hours (2002), starring opposite Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep Kidman played Virginia Woolf, whose novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects the lives of three generations of women in this tale of depression. Kidman won critical praise for her role, in which the prosthetics applied to her made her almost unrecognisable. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, (making her the first Australian actress to win an Academy Award), along with a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and numerous critics awards.

The same year Kidman starred in three very different films. The first film, Dogville (2003), by Danish director Lars von Trier, was an experimental film set on a bare soundstage. In the second film, she co-starred with Anthony Hopkins in the film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain (2003). The third film, Cold Mountain (2003), a love story of two Southerners separated by the Civil War, garnered her a Golden Globe Award nomination. Kidman's next two films were the comic-thriller The Stepford Wives (2004) and the mystery Birth (2004), which was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, while Kidman was nominated for another Golden Globe Award. Kidman's two movies in 2005 were The Interpreter and Bewitched. The Interpreter, directed by Sydney Pollack, received mixed reviews, while Bewitched, co-starring Will Ferrell and based on the 1960s TV sitcom of the same name, was generally panned by critics. Neither film fared well in the United States, their box office sales falling well short of the production costs, but both films fared well internationally.

Kidman appeared in the Diane Arbus bio-pic Fur (2006). She also lent her voice to the animated film Happy Feet (2006), which quickly garnered critical and commercial success; the film grossed over US$384 million dollars worldwide. In 2007, she starred in the science fiction movie The Invasion (2007) directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel it was reported that she received $26 million dollars for her performance; although it was a critical and commercial failure Kidman said that she has no control over the success of her films. She also played opposite Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black in Noah Baumbach's comedy-drama Margot at the Wedding (2007). She also starred in the film adaptation of the first part of the planned His Dark Materials trilogy of films, The Golden Compass (2007), playing the villainous Marisa Coulter. In 2008, she starred Baz Luhrmann's Australian period film titled Australia (2008), which is set in the remote Northern Territory during the Japanese attack on Darwin during World War II. Kidman played opposite Hugh Jackman as an English woman feeling overwhelmed by the continent.

Kidman was originally set to star in The Reader (2008), a post-war Germany drama, but due to her pregnancy she had to back out of the film. Shortly after the news of Kidman's departure, it was announced that Kate Winslet would take over the role. Winslet went on to win the Oscar for Best Actress for the role - at the ceremony, Kidman was one of the five previous winners who presented her with the award. Her next role is in Rob Marshall's Nine (2009) about the film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.