Nicole Kidman is a world famous Australian actress and one of the most powerful forces in Hollywood. She rose to fame in 1989 with the thriller Dead Calm. Other notable Nicole Kidman credits include
Days of Thunder, Billy Bathgate, Far and Away, Malice, My Life, To Die For,
Batman Forever, The Portrait of a Lady, Shine, The Peacemaker, Practical Magic, Eyes Wide Shut, Moulin Rouge!, The Others, Birthday Girl, The Hours, Dogville, The Human Stain,
Cold Mountain, The Stepford Wives, Birth, The Interpreter,
Bewitched, Fur,
Happy Feet, The
Invasion, Margot at the Wedding, The Golden Compass, Australia, and Nine.
She has twice been nominated for an Academy Award, once for the film Moulin Rouge! and once for the film The Hours (which she won for Best Actress). She has become one of the most successful, highly paid, and critically loved actresses in the history of Hollywood.
In her personal life, she has been connected to the likes of
Tom Cruise,
Jude Law, Robbie Williams, Adrien Brody, Lenny Kravitz, and
Keith Urban. In 1990 while filming
Days of Thunder, she met actor
Tom Cruise. Crusie divorced his then wife, actress Mimi Rogers and married Kidman. The couple was together for eleven years before separating. In 2005, she met country music star
Keith Urban, and the two married a year later. In 2008, Kidman gave birth to her first child, a girl named Sunday Rose Kidman Urban.
