Nicole Kidman
Actor
Nicole Kidman won the Academy Award as best actress for her portrayal of writer
Virginia Woolf in the film
The Hours (2002). Kidman was born in Hawaii but grew up in Australia, where she began acting in her teens. She married screen heartthrob
Tom Cruise after they met while filming the racecar soap opera
Days of Thunder (1990) and they were one of Hollywood's most talkedabout couples throughout the '90s. Her films during that era included
Gus Van Sant's To Die For (1995, based on the
Pamela Smart case) and
Stanley Kubrick's last film,
Eyes Wide Shut (1999), in which she starred with Cruise. After a decade of marriage, Cruise and Kidman divorced, but her career soared as she continued to star in both mainstream Hollywood films and smaller, independent features. In 2001 she turned in an Oscarnominated performance in
Moulin Rouge and appeared in two other highlyacclaimed movies, Birthday Girl and
The Others. She also starred in the Civil War drama Cold Mountain (2003, with
Renee Zellweger) and the comedy
Bewitched (2005, costarring
Will Ferrell).
Extra credit: Kidman married country singer
Keith Urban on 25 June 2006... Kidman and Cruise adopted two children while they were married: Isabella (in 1993) and Connor (in 1995).
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