Australian-American actress known for her spirited roles, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying the writer Virginia Woolf in the drama The Hours (2002). Her other Oscar-nominated roles were as a courtesan in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001) and emotionally troubled mothers in the dramas Rabbit Hole (2010) and Lion (2016). She also has won two Primetime Emmy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. She was listed among the highest-paid actresses in the world in 2006, 2018, and 2019.
The elder of two daughters of a psychologist-biochemist father and a nursing teaching mother, both political activists, she was born in Hawaii, and given the Hawaiian name “H?k?lani”, meaning “Heavenly Star”. The inspiration came from a baby elephant born around the same time at the Honolulu Zoo. She was raised in Australia from age six. She made her debut in the 1983 films Bush Christmas and BMX Bandits and soon became an Australian star.
Kidman is a fan of extreme sports such as skydiving, acrobatic flying and mountain climbing. She also had the nerve to appear naked in a London West End play.
The 1.8 m (5′ 10″+) Kidman married Tom Cruise on Christmas Eve 1990. Kidman is taller than Cruise, not only in heels; they were one of the 1990s “power couples” in Hollywood, both immensely successful in their careers. After 11 years of marriage, they separated in December 2000, making the announcement on 5 February 2001, “because of difficulties inherent in divergent careers, which constantly keep them apart,” reported their spokesman. Their marriage was dissolved in August of that year.
Prior to marrying Cruise, Kidman had been involved in relationships with Australian actor Marcus Graham and Windrider (1986) co-star Tom Burlinson. She was also said to be involved with Adrien Brody. Kidman was also romantically linked to rapper Q-Tip, and Robbie Williams claims he had a short romance with her in 2004.
By the end of September 2003, after months of saying they were “just friends,” Kidman and her new love, musician Lenny Kravitz, admitted that they were in a serious relationship. They split up in 2004.
On 25 June 2006, reportedly a little past sundown, Kidman married Keith Urban in Manly, a beachside suburb of Sydney, Australia. They maintain homes in Sydney, Sutton Forest (New South Wales, Australia), Los Angeles, and Nashville (Tennessee, USA). Kidman gave birth to a daughter named Sunday Rose Kidman Urban on the morning of 7 July 2008 in Nashville. On 28 December 2010 their biological daughter, Faith Margaret, was born to a surrogate mother in Nashville.
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