Nicole Kidman: Best Actress

By: Jessica Vandelay


Nicole Kidman was born in 1967 in Honolulu, HI but was raised in Sidney, Australia. As a child and teenager in the 1980s she acted in local theatre productions, commercials and made for TV movies.

In 1989 Kidman starred in the critically-acclaimed thriller Dead Calm, her breakthrough role, opposite Sam Neill. In 1990 she starred with Tom Cruise, in Days of Thunder. Cruise and Kidman married at the end of 1990. Throughout their marriage Kidman and Cruise would deny rumors of Cruise’s homosexuality and also speculation surrounding his Scientology beliefs. The couple adopted two children, Isabella and Connor in the mid-1990s.
In the next few years Kidman starred in a handful of mostly forgettable films including Far and Away, also starring Cruise, My Life and Malice. Read more about Nicole Kidman movies at People Magazine online.

In 1995 Kidman gained more critical acclaim for Gus Van Sant’s To Die For, in which she earned a Golden Globe and other awards. For the rest of the 1990s Kidman starred in another string of mostly forgettable movies. In 1999 she and husband and co-star Cruise made headlines while filming the controversial Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut. The shoot was notoriously long (19 months) and secretive. At this point Kidman had not truly established herself as a formidable actress…that was all about to change. Read more about the controversy of Eyes Wide Shut in magazines like Entertainment Weekly, People magazine and In Touch Magazine.

In 2001, despite projecting a solid relationship, Kidman and Cruise announced their divorce due to career conflicts. Almost simultaneous to her divorce, Kidman exploded on to the film scene with Academy Award nominated performances in Moulin Rouge and The Hours, which she won a Best Actress Oscar. She followed up these acclaimed roles with a supporting role in the Academy Award-nominated film Cold Mountain.
In the years since her Academy Award win in 2003, Kidman has starred in a wide range of films including the thriller The Interpreter, art films like Birth and Fur, mainstream films like Bewitched and Happy Feet and the children’s adventure-fantasy film The Golden Compass.

Kidman married country music singer and fellow Australian Keith Urban in 2006. Urban and Kidman are currently expecting the birth of their first child, while Kidman has three films in the works. For more on current Nicole Kidman projects, get a magazine subscription to Entertainment Weekly, Instyle magazine and www.peoplemagazine.com.

For more celebrity magazines, visit www.magazines.com/ncom/mag?view=1&btn=B&l=10&search=celebrity Jessica Vandelay is a free-lance writer in New York City.


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