Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967) is an
Australian actress, singer, film producer, and humanitarian. Kidman began her
career in 1983, starring in various Australian film and television productions
until her breakthrough in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm. Following several films
over the early 1990s, she came to worldwide recognition for her performances in
Days of Thunder (1990), Far and Away (1992), and Batman Forever (1995). Kidman
followed this with other successful films in the late 1990s. It was her
performance in the musical, Moulin Rouge! (2001) which earned Kidman her second
Golden Globe Award and first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Her
performance as Virginia Woolf the following year in the drama film The Hours
(2002) received critical acclaim and earned Kidman the Academy Award for Best
Actress.
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Kidman's other notable films include To Die For
(1995), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Cold Mountain (2003), The Interpreter (2005),
and Australia (2008). Her performance in 2010's Rabbit Hole (which she also
produced) earned Kidman further accolades including a subsequent Academy Award
nomination for Best Actress. Kidman has been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF
since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006.[3] Kidman's work has earned her a Star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame, three Golden Globe Awards, one BAFTA, and an
Academy Award. In 2006, Kidman was made a Companion of the Order of Australia,
Australia's highest civilian honor, and was also the highest-paid actress in
the motion picture industry. As a result of being born to Australian parents in
Hawaii, Kidman has dual citizenship in Australia and the United States. Hollywood Movies
In 1983, aged 16, Kidman made her film debut in
the Australian holiday season favourite, Bush Christmas. By the end of 1983,
she had a supporting role in the television series Five Mile Creek and began
gaining popularity in the mid-1980s after appearing in several film roles,
including BMX Bandits, Watch the Shadows Dance, and the romantic comedy
Windrider (1986), which earned Kidman attention due to her racy scenes. Also
during the decade, she appeared in several Australian productions, including
the soap opera A Country Practice and the miniseries Vietnam (1986). She also
made guest appearances on Australian television programs and TV movies. She
also appeared in Sesame Street. Hollywood Actress
In 1988, Kidman appeared in Emerald City, based on the play of the same name.
The Australian film earned her an Australian Film Institute for Best Supporting
Actress. After appearing in the Australian miniseries Bangkok Hilton, Kidman
starred in Dead Calm (1989) as Rae Ingram, playing the wife of a naval officer.
The thriller garnered strong reviews and brought Kidman to international
recognition; Variety commented: "Throughout the film, Kidman is excellent.
She gives the character of Rae real tenacity and energy." Meanwhile,
critic Roger Ebert noted the excellent chemistry between the leads, stating,
"Kidman and Zane do generate real, palpable hatred in their scenes
together."[17] She moved on to star alongside her then-boyfriend and
future husband, Tom Cruise, in the 1990 auto racing film Days of Thunder,
playing a young doctor who falls in love with a NASCAR driver. This was
Kidman's American debut and was among the highest-grossing films of the
year.[18] Hollywood
In 1991, she co-starred with former classmate and friend Naomi Watts and
Thandie Newton in the independent film Flirting. Kidman and Watts portrayed two
high school girls in this coming of age story, which won the Australian Film
Institute Award for Best Film.[19] That same year, her work in the film Billy
Bathgate earned Kidman her first Golden Globe Award nomination, for Best
Supporting Actress. The New York Times, in its film review, called her "a
beauty with, it seems, a sense of humor". The following year, she and
Cruise re-teamed for Ron Howard's Irish epic Far and Away (1992), which was a
modest critical and commercial success. In 1993, she starred in My Life
opposite Michael Keaton and the thriller, Malice opposite Alec Baldwin. Hollywood Gossip
In 1995, Kidman appeared in her highest-grossing
live-action film as of 2011, playing Dr. Chase Meridian, the damsel in
distress, in the superhero film Batman Forever, opposite Val Kilmer as the
film's title character. That same year Kidman appeared in Gus Van Sant's
critically acclaimed To Die For, earning praise for her portrayal of murderous
newscaster Suzanne Stone Maretto. Hollywood industry
Kidman next appeared in The Portrait of a Lady (1996), based on the novel the
same name, alongside, Barbara Hershey, John Malkovich and Mary-Louise Parker.
The following year she appeared in the action-thriller The Peacemaker (1997) as
White House nuclear expert Dr. Julia Kelly, opposite George Clooney. The film
received mixed reviews but grossed some $110,000,000 worldwide.That same year
she appeared opposite Sandra Bullock in the poorly received fantasy Practical
Magic as a modern-day witch. Kidman returned to her work on stage the same year
in the David Hare play The Blue Room, which opened in London. Hollywood Best Movies
In 1999, Kidman reunited with then husband, Tom Cruise, to portray a married
couple in Eyes Wide Shut, the final film of Stanley Kubrick. The film opened to
generally positive reviews but was subject to censorship controversies due to
the explicit nature of its sex scenes.[30] The film received further attention
following Kubrick's death shortly before its release. After brief hiatus and a
highly publicized divorce from Cruise,[31] Kidman returned to the screen to
play a mail-order bride in the British-American drama Birthday Girl.
Kidman at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival promoting her film, Moulin Rouge! Hollywood Songs
In 2001, Kidman appeared in two of her most critically and commercially
successful films. In the first she played the cabaret actress and courtesan
Satine in Baz Luhrmann's musical Moulin Rouge!, opposite Ewan McGregor.
Subsequently, Kidman received her second Golden Globe Award, for Best Actress
in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, as well as other acting awards. She also
received her first Academy Award nomination, for Best Actress. Also in 2001,
she had a well-received starring role in Alejandro Amenábar's Spanish horror
film The Others as Grace Stewart. Grossing over $210,947,037 worldwide, the
film also earned several Goya Awards award nominations, including a Best
Actress nomination for Kidman. Additionally she received her second BAFTA and
fifth Golden Globe nominations.[citation needed] download hollywood wallpapers
In 2003, Kidman won critical praise for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in
Stephen Daldry's The Hours, which also featured Meryl Streep and Julianne
Moore. Kidman wore prosthetics that were applied to her nose making her almost
unrecognisable playing the author during her time in 1920s England, and her
bouts with depression and mental illness while trying to write her novel, Mrs.
Dalloway. The film earned positive notices and several nominations, including
for an Academy Award for Best Picture. The New York Times wrote that,
"Kidman tunnels like a ferret into the soul of a woman besieged by
excruciating bouts of mental illness. As you watch her wrestle with the demon
of depression, it is as if its torment has never been shown on the screen
before. Directing her desperate, furious stare into the void, her eyes not
really focusing, Ms. Kidman, in a performance of astounding bravery, evokes the
savage inner war waged by a brilliant mind against a system of faulty wiring
that transmits a searing, crazy static into her brain". Kidman won
numerous critics' awards, including her first BAFTA, third Golden Globe, and
the Academy Award for Best Actress. As the first Australian actress to win an
Academy Award, Kidman made a teary acceptance speech about the importance of
art, even during times of war, saying, "Why do you come to the Academy
Awards when the world is in such turmoil? Because art is important. And because
you believe in what you do and you want to honour that, and it is a tradition
that needs to be upheld." download songs
Following her Oscar win, Kidman appeared in three very different films in 2003.
The first, a leading role in Dogville, by Danish director Lars von Trier, was
an experimental film set on a bare soundstage. The second was an adaptation of
Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain, opposite Anthony Hopkins. Her third film,
Anthony Minghella's war drama Cold Mountain, was a critical and commercial
success. Kidman appeared opposite Jude Law and Renée Zellweger, playing
Southerner Ada Monroe, who is in love with Law's character and separated by the
Civil War. TIME magazine wrote, "Kidman takes strength from Ada's plight
and grows steadily, literally luminous. Her sculptural pallor gives way to warm
radiance in the firelight". The film garnered several award nominations
and wins for its actors; Kidman received her sixth Golden Globe nomination at
the 61st Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress. download movies
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