Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (lahir di Honolulu, Hawaii, Amerika Serikat, 20 Juni 1967; umur 43 tahun) adalah aktris pemenang Academy Award, dan salah satu aktris Hollywood yang memimpin. Selain itu ia juga bisa menyanyi. Kidman memiliki 2 kewarganegaraan yaitu Amerika Serikat danAustralia, ia bertinggi 179 cm.
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967) is an American-born Australian actress, fashion model, singer and humanitarian.
After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm. Her performances in films such as To Die For (1995) and Moulin Rouge! (2001) received critical acclaim, and her performance in The Hours (2002) brought her the Academy Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award. Her other films include the box office hits Days of Thunder (1990), Batman Forever (1995), The Others (2001), and Cold Mountain (2003).
Kidman is a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM[1] and has a star on the Walk of Fame. In 2006, Kidman was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, Australia's highest civilian honour,[2] and was also the highest-paid actress in the motion picture industry.[3]
She is also known for her marriage to Tom Cruise, to whom she was married for 11 years and with whom she adopted two children, and her current marriage to country musician Keith Urban, with whom she has a biological daughter.
As a result of being born to Australian parents in Hawaii, Kidman has dual citizenship in Australia and the United States.[4]
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[edit]Early life
Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her father, Dr. Antony David Kidman, is a biochemist, clinical psychologist and author, with an office in Lane Cove, Sydney, Australia.[5][6] Her mother, Janelle Ann (née Glenny), is a nursing instructor who edits her husband's books and was a member of the Women's Electoral Lobby. At the time of Kidman's birth in 1967, her father was a visiting fellow at theNational Institute of Mental Health of the United States. The family returned to Australia when Kidman was four and her parents now live on Sydney's North Shore. Kidman has a younger sister, Antonia Kidman, a journalist. She has known actress Naomi Watts since they were in their teens and the two remain best friends today.
Kidman attended Lane Cove Public School and North Sydney Girls' High School. In 1984, her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, which caused Nicole to temporarily halt her education and help provide for the family by working as a massage therapist at age 17.[7] She studied at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, and at the Phillip Street Theatre in Sydney, with Naomi Watts. This was followed by attending the Australian Theatre for Young People.
[edit]Career
[edit]Early work in Australia (1983–89)
Kidman's first appearance in film came as a teenager in the Pat Wilson music video for the song "Bop Girl". By the end of 1983 she had a supporting role in the television series Five Mile Creek and four film roles, including BMX Bandits and Bush Christmas. During the 1980s, she appeared in several Australian productions, including the soap opera A Country Practice, the mini-series Vietnam(1986), Emerald City (1988), and Bangkok Hilton (1989). She also made multiple guest appearances on Australian television programs and made-for-TV movies.
In 1989, Kidman starred in Dead Calm as Rae Ingram, the wife of naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill), held captive on a Pacific yacht trip by the psychotic Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane). The thriller garnered strong reviews; Variety commented: "Throughout the film, Kidman is excellent. She gives the character of Rae real tenacity and energy."[8] Meanwhile, critic Roger Ebert noted the excellent chemistry between the leads, stating, "...Kidman and Zane do generate real, palpable hatred in their scenes together."[9] Dead Calm was Kidman's first production to receive a wide theatrical release outside of Australia.[10] She subsequently moved to the United States where she embarked on a successful acting career.
[edit]Breakthrough in American cinema (1990–94)
In 1990, she appeared opposite Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder, playing a young doctor who falls in love with a racecar dirver. This was Kidman's American debut and was among the highest-grossing films of the year.[11] That same year she auditioned for the role of Molly in the blockbuster film Ghost but lost the role to Demi Moore.[12] In 1991, she co-starred with Naomi Watts in the independent film Flirting, and received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Billy Bathgate opposite Dustin Hoffman. She and Cruise again played lovers in Ron Howard's Irish epic Far and Away (1992); the film received mixed reviews but was a box office success.[13] In 1993 she played a femme fatale in the well-received suspense thriller Malice with Alec Baldwin andBill Pullman. That same year she appeared in the less successful period drama My Life with Michael Keaton. During an interview, Kidman revealed she refused to screen test for the role of Jenny inForrest Gump (1994), a part that went to Robin Wright Penn.[14]
[edit]International success (1995–present)
In 1995, Kidman starred in Batman Forever opposite Val Kilmer and Jim Carrey. She played criminal psychologist Dr. Chase Meridian, who falls in love with Bruce Wayne, the true identity of theBatman character. The movie was a blockbuster and became the second-highest grossing film of the year.[15] As of 2010 it is also the highest-grossing film she has appeared in.[16] Kidman's second film in 1995, To Die For, was a satirical comedy that earned her critical praise.[17] For her portrayal of the murderous newscaster Suzanne Stone Maretto, she won a Golden Globe Award and five other best actress awards.
In 1996 Kidman starred in The Portrait of a Lady, an England-based period drama based on the novel of the same title. She co-starred with George Clooney in 1997's hit action/thriller The Peacemaker. In 1998, she appeared in the film Practical Magic alongside Sandra Bullock, and starred in the stage play The Blue Room, which opened in London. In 1999, after a three-year shoot, Kidman and Cruise portrayed a married couple in Eyes Wide Shut, the final film of Stanley Kubrick. The film opened to generally positive reviews but was subject to censorship controversies due to the explicit nature of its sex scenes.[18] The film performed below expectations at the North American box office, but was very successful overseas.[19] >
In 2001, Kidman received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in the musical film Moulin Rouge!, in which she played the courtesan Satine opposite Ewan McGregor. Consequently, Kidman received her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. The same year, she also had a well-received starring role in the horror film The Others. While in Australia filming Moulin Rouge!, Kidman injured her ribs; as a result, Jodie Foster replaced her as leading actress in the film Panic Room. In that film, Kidman's voice appears on the phone as the mistress of the husband of the lead character.
In 2002, Kidman won critical praise for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours, in which the prosthetics applied to her made her almost unrecognisable. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for this role, along with a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and numerous critics awards. Kidman became the first Australian actress to win an Academy Award. During her Academy Award acceptance speech, Kidman made a teary statement about the importance of art, even during times of war: "Why do you come to the Academy Awards when the world is in such turmoil? Because art is important. And because you believe in what you do and you want to honour that, and it is a tradition that needs to be upheld."[20] In the same year, Kidman starred in three very different films. Dogville, by Danish director Lars von Trier, was an experimental film set on a bare soundstage. She co-starred with Anthony Hopkins in the film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain. Cold Mountain, a love story of two Southerners separated by the Civil War, garnered her a Golden Globe Award nomination. Kidman's 2004 film Birth was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, and Kidman was nominated for another Golden Globe Award.
Kidman's two movies in 2005 were The Interpreter and Bewitched. The Interpreter, directed by Sydney Pollack, received mixed reviews, while Bewitched, co-starring Will Ferrell and based on the 1960s TV sitcom of the same name, was generally panned by critics. Neither film fared well in the United States, their box office sales falling well short of the production costs, but both films fared well internationally.[21][22]
In conjunction with her success in the film industry, Kidman became the face of the Chanel No. 5 perfume brand. She starred in a campaign of television and print ads with Rodrigo Santoro, directed byMoulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann to promote the fragrance during the holiday season in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008. The three-minute commercial produced for Chanel No. 5 perfume made Kidman the record holder for the most money paid per minute to an actor after she reportedly earned US$12million for the 3 minute advert.[23] During this time, Kidman was also listed as the 45th Most Powerful Celebrity on the 2005 Forbes Celebrity 100 List. She made a reported US$14.5 million in 2004-2005. On People magazine's list of 2005's highest paid actresses, Kidman was second behind Julia Roberts with a US$16 million to US$17 million per-film price tag.[24] She has since passed Roberts as the highest paid actress.
Kidman appeared in the Diane Arbus bio-pic Fur. She also lent her voice to the animated film Happy Feet, which quickly garnered critical and commercial success; the film grossed over US$384 million dollars worldwide. In 2007, she starred in the science fiction movie The Invasion directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel where it was reported that she received $26 million dollars for her performance. Although it was a critical and commercial failure, Kidman said that she has no control over the success of her films. She also played opposite Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black in Noah Baumbach's comedy-drama Margot at the Wedding. She also starred in the film adaptation of the first part of the planned His Dark Materials trilogy of films, playing the villainous Marisa Coulter. However, The Golden Compass''s failure to meet expectations at the North American box office has reduced the likelihood of a sequel.[25]
On 25 June 2007, Nintendo announced that Kidman would be the new face of Nintendo's advertising campaign for the Nintendo DS game More Brain Training in its European market.[26] In 2008, she starred Baz Luhrmann's Australian period film titled Australia, which is set in the remote Northern Territory during the Japanese attack on Darwin during World War II. Kidman played opposite Hugh Jackman as an English woman feeling overwhelmed by the continent. The film was a box office success worldwide.[27] Kidman was originally set to star in The Reader, a post-war Germany drama, but due to her pregnancy she had to back out of the film.[28]
Kidman appears in the 2009 Rob Marshall musical, Nine, portraying the character of Claudia Jenssen. She stars with Aaron Eckhart in the film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Rabbit Hole, for which she vacated her role in the forthcoming Woody Allen picture, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger.[29]
Also, in 2009, Kidman has been the front face of an international spread Schweppes commercial.[30]
[edit]Upcoming projects
TV Guide reported that Kidman will star in The Danish Girl, a film adaptation of the novel of the same name, playing Einar Wegener, the world's first post-op transsexual.[31] She will also produce and star in a film adaptation of the Chris Cleave's novel, Little Bee in association with BBC Films.[32] Filming is projected to begin in late 2010 or early 2011.[33] She has also signed on to the Adam Sandler/Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy Just Go With It.
She recently lent her voice to a promotional video that Australia will use to support their bid to host the 2018 World Cup. The five minute video was broadcast at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.[34]
In June 2010, it was announced that Kidman and Clive Owen will star in an HBO film about Ernest Hemingway and his relationship with Martha Gellhorn entitled Hemingway & Gellhorn. James Gandolfini will serve as executive producer to the film written by Barbara Turner and Jerry Stahl. The film will be directed by Philip Kaufman and will reportedly begin shooting in 2011.[35] She will also star alongside Nicolas Cage and reunite with Batman Forever director, Joel Schumacher for the action-thriller Trespass. Cage and Kidman star as a married couple that are taken hostage on the project expected to begin production in August 2010.[36]
[edit]Singing
Not a singer before Moulin Rouge!, Kidman had well-received vocal performances in the film. Her collaboration with Ewan McGregor on "Come What May" peaked at #27 in the UK Singles Chart. Later she collaborated with Robbie Williams on "Somethin' Stupid", a cover of Williams' swing covers album Swing When You're Winning. It peaked at #8 in the Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart, and at 1 for three weeks in the UK. It was UK Christmas #1 for 2001.
In 2006, she voiced the animated movie Happy Feet, along with vocals for Norma Jean's 'heartsong', a slightly altered version of "Kiss" by Prince. Kidman sang in Rob Marshall's movie musical Nine, alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, Penélope Cruz, Judi Dench, Sophia Loren and Marion Cotillard.
[edit]Personal life
Kidman has been married twice. She became romantically involved with actor Tom Cruise in 1989, when she was cast alongside him in the movie Days of Thunder. Kidman and Cruise were married on Christmas Eve 1990 at a rented house in Telluride, Colorado. The couple adopted a daughter, Isabella Jane (born 22 December 1992), and a son, Connor Anthony (born 17 January 1995). Cruise filed for divorce in February 2001, just two months after their 10th wedding anniversary. She was three months pregnant at the time and had a miscarriage.[37] The marriage was dissolved in August 2001, Cruise citing irreconcilable differences.[38] The reasons for dissolution have never been made public. In Marie Claire, Kidman said she lost her first child by Cruise because of an ectopic pregnancyshortly after their wedding.[39][40] In the June 2006 Ladies' Home Journal, she said she still loved Cruise: "He was huge; still is. To me, he was just Tom, but to everybody else, he is huge. But he was lovely to me. And I loved him. I still love him." In addition, she has expressed shock about their divorce.[41]
Prior to marrying Cruise, Kidman dated Australian actor Tom Burlinson for two years, after meeting him on the set of their 1986 film Windrider.[42] In the late 1980s, she cohabited with Australian actor Marcus Graham; their relationship ended shortly before she began dating Cruise.[43] The 2003 film Cold Mountain brought rumours that an affair between Kidman and co-star Jude Law was responsible for the break-up of his marriage. Both denied the allegations, and Kidman won an undisclosed sum from the British tabloids that published the story.[44] She gave the money to a Romanian orphanage in the town where the movie was filmed.[45] She met musician Lenny Kravitz in 2003 and dated him into 2004.[46]
Kidman met her second husband, country singer Keith Urban at G'Day LA, an event honouring Australians in January 2005. They married on 25 June 2006, at Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel in the grounds of St Patrick's Estate, Manly in Sydney. They maintain homes in Sydney, Sutton Forest, Los Angeles and Nashville, Tennessee. In March 2008, they bought mansions in Los Angeles[47] and Nashville[48] within days. The couple's daughter, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, was born on 7 July 2008, in Nashville, Tennessee.[49] Kidman's father said the daughter's middle name was after Urban's late grandmother, Rose.[50]
Kidman mentioned in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres in 2005 that she is banned from doing one of her favourite hobbies - sky diving - whilst shooting a movie.[51][52]
In January 2005, Kidman won interim restraining orders against two Sydney paparazzi who were stalking her.[53]
In the beginning of 2009, Kidman appeared in a series of special edition postage stamps featuring some of Australia's best actors. She, Geoffrey Rush, Russell Crowe, and Cate Blanchett each appear twice in the series: once as themselves and once as their Academy Award-winning character.[54]
[edit]Religious and political views
Kidman is a practising Roman Catholic.[55] She attended Mary Mackillop Chapel in North Sydney. During her marriage to Cruise, she had been an occasional practitioner of Scientology.[56] She has been reluctant to discuss Scientology since her divorce.[57]
Kidman's name was in an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times (17 August 2006) that condemned Hamas and Hezbollah and supported Israel in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.[58] Kidman has donated to U.S. Democratic party candidates and endorsed John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.[59]
[edit]Charitable work
She has raised money for and drawn attention to the disadvantaged children around the world. In 2004, she was honored as a "Citizen of the World" by the United Nations.
On Australia Day 2006, Kidman received Australia's highest civilian honor when she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia. She was also nominated goodwill ambassador for UNIFEM.[60]
Kidman joined the 'Little Tee Campaign' for breast cancer care to design T-shirts or vests to raise money for breast cancer.[61] Kidman's mother had breast cancer in 1984.[62]
Kidman was appointed Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in January 2006. Her efforts are geared towards raising awareness on the infringement of women’s human rights around the world, with a particular focus on putting a spotlight on violence against women. In this capacity, Kidman has addressed international audiences at UN events, raised widespread awareness through the media and testified before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs to support the International Violence against Women Act. Kidman visited Kosovo in 2006 to learn first-hand about women’s experiences of conflict and UNIFEM’s efforts to support them. She is the international spokesperson for UNIFEM’s Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women initiative.[63] As part of Say NO, she has called for more resources and actions to end violence against women, and worked to raise awareness through the media. Kidman and the UNIFEM Executive Director presented over five million signatures collected during the first phase of Say NO to the UN Secretary-General on 25 November 2008.[64]
On 8 January 2010, Kidman attended alongside Nancy Pelosi, Joan Chen and Joe Torre the ceremony to help Family Violence Prevention Fund break ground on a new international center located in thePresidio of San Francisco intended to combat violence against women and children.[65][66]
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