Nicole Kidman Biography
Nicole Kidman is an award-winning American-Australian actress and movie producer. In 2004 and 2018, Time magazine listed her as one of the most influential people in the world. Nicole has won several awards in her cast career including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In addition, she has featured among the highest-paid actresses in the world in 2006,2018, and 2019.
Nicole was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the United States when her parents were on an educational visa. However, she grew up in Sidney, Australia, where director Jane Campion mentored her into acting. She eventually dropped out of high school to pursue full-time acting debuting in movies at the age of 16.
Kidman’s first landing role was in the Australian holiday favorite, Bush Christmass in 1983. The appearance opened up other great offers in film and television, including a lead role in BMX Bandits (1983) and a turn as a schoolgirl-turned-protester in the miniseries Vietnam (1987). The latter had Nicole win her first Australian Film Institute Award.
In 1989, Kidman featured Sam Neil in the at-sea thriller, Dead Calm, making her debut in the United States.
Nicole Career Highlights
In 1990, Kidman was offered a role in Days of Thunder, relocating to the United States of America. While working on the film, Nicole started dating costar Tom Cruise whom she married in 1990 and divorced in 2001.
Over the next decade, Kidman featured in a dozen films. She appeared in Billy Bathgate(1990), black comedy To Die For (1995), and Jane Campion’s screen adaptation of Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady.
In 1998, Nicole made her stage debut in London, playing five different roles in Sir David Hare’s The Blue Room. In 1999, she relocated to New York City for her broad debut cast of the play. She also released Eyes Wide Shut, directed by Stanley Kubrick.
In 2020, Kidman appeared in the miniseries The Undoing, about a wealthy therapist whose seemingly perfect life unravels when her husband becomes a murder suspect. At the same time, she appeared in The Prom, a musical in which a New York theatre troupe travels to a small Indiana town to help a gay teenager.
Nicole Kidman Age
How old is Nicole Kidman? Nicole is 56 years old as of 2023. She was born Nicole Mary Kidman on June 20, 1967, in Honolulu, Hawaii, the United States. She celebrates her birthday on June 20th every year.
Nicole Kidman Children
Nicole has her firstborn daughter with Keith Urban, Sunday Rose, born in 2008, in Nashville. In 2010, the two had their second born, a daughter, Faith Margaret.
Nicole has two adopted kids with Tom Cruise; a daughter, Isabella Jane Cruise (born 1992), and a son, Connor Antony Cruise (born 1995).
Nicole Kidman Husband
Kidman has been married twice; first to Tome Cruise and later to a Country music singer, Keith Urban. Kidman met Tom Cruise in November 1989 in their film project, Days of Thunder. They later married on a Christmas Eve, December 24, 1989, in Telluride, Colorado. However, on February 5, 2001, the couple’s spokesperson announced their separation. After two days, Cruise filed for a divorce and the marriage was dissolved in August of the same year.
In January 2005, Nicole met her current husband, Keith Urban, a New Zealand-Australian country singer at G’Day LA, an event honoring Australians. The two then married on June 25, 2006, at Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel, in St. Patrick’s Estate Grounds.
The couple maintains homes in Sidney, Sutton Forest (New South Wales, Australia), Los Angeles, Nashville (Tennessee, U.S.), and the recently purchased US$10 million home in Manhattan.
Nicole Kidman Height | Weight
Kidman stands at an approximate height of 1.8 m making her relatively tall to her husband, Keith Urban, who stands at 1.78 m. Moreover, she weighs 62 kg.
Nicole Kidman’s Net Worth
How much is Nicole Kidman worth? Nicole has an estimated net worth of $250 million. Her income is mainly attributed to her successful career as an actress.