Nicole Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, but her family soon moved to Australia, where she began her entertainment career as a ballet dancer. When Nicole Kidman was 14, she persuaded her parents to send her to drama school, and at 16 she appeared in her first film, BMX Bandits (1983).
Nicole Kidman had roles in several other Australian films and in Five Mile Creek, a Disney miniseries, before she became an Australian star with her role in Kennedy Miller's Vietnam, another miniseries. Such was her popularity that Nicole Kidman was voted Best Australian Actress of the year when she was only 17.
Her last Australian film, Dead Calm (1989), brought her to the attention of American audiences, and in 1990 she appeared as TOM CRUISE's girlfriend in Days of Thunder. Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise later married and starred together in Far and Away (1992); they also appeared together in STANLEY KUBRICK's enigmatic Eyes Wide Shut (1999).
Other notable roles during the 1990s were as Chase Meridian, the sexy psychologist in Batman Forever (1995); the ambitious and ruthless Suzanne Stone in To Die For (1995); and the independent American wife of the JOHN MALKOVICH character in the film adaptation of Henry James's Portrait of a Lady (1996). Nicole Kidman has aggressively pursued roles that appeal to her and has also sought the spotlight.
Nicole Kidman began the new century with two critically acclaimed box-office hits: Moulin Rouge (2001) and The Hours (2002). In the first film, she demonstrates her dancing (the tall, statuesque Nicole Kidman has legs like CYD CHARISSE) and acting ability in a film that assaults the senses and divided audiences into detractors and enthusiastic fans.
In the second Nicole Kidman plays, with the aid of a Herculean effort by the makeup department, Virginia Woolf; although there were some initial reservations about the casting, Nicole Kidman showed her acting range and has consequently established herself as one of the most outstanding actresses of her generation. Nicole Kidman was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for both roles and won it for the second.
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