Nicole Kidman

Nicole Mary Kidman (Honolulu, Hawaii, June 20, 1967), is an Australian-American actress, producer, and singer. BAFTA, a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and six Golden Globes. She has appeared three times in the annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actresses and was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and 2018. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her fifth on its list of the greatest actors and actresses of the century XXI until then.

Kidman began her acting career in Australia with the 1983 films Bush Christmas and The Bikers. Her breakthrough came in 1989 with the thriller Dead Calm and the miniseries Bangkok Hilton . In 1990, she made her Hollywood debut in the race car film Days of Thunder, opposite Tom Cruise. He then achieved further recognition with lead roles in Far and Away (1992), Batman Forever (1995), All for a Dream (1995) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Kidman won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing writer Virginia Woolf in the drama The Hours (2002). Her other Oscar-nominated roles were as a courtesan in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001); mothers with emotional problems in the dramas Rabbit Hole (2010) and Lion (2016); and actress Lucille Ball in Being the Ricardos (2021). Kidman's other film credits include The Others (2001), Cold Mountain (2003), Dogville (2003), Birth i> (2004), Australia (2008), The Paperboy (2012), Paddington (2014), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), Destroyer (2018), Aquaman (2018) and Bombshell (2019). Her films have received critical acclaim and by the 2000s she would be considered one of the best actresses in the world. In 2003, Kidman got her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California.

Kidman's television roles include Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), Big Little Lies (2017-2019), Top of the Lake: China Girl (2017), The Undoing (2020) and Nine Perfect Strangers (2021). For Big Little Lies, she won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress and Outstanding Limited Series (Executive Producer).

Kidman has been a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006. In 2006, she received Australia's highest civilian honor, being decorated a Dame Companion of the Order of Australia. On 21 October In 2009, the actress called for a comprehensive response to violence against women before the United States Congress. Born to Australian parents in Hawaii, Kidman has dual citizenship of Australia and the United States. As of 2010, founded the production company Blossom Films. She was married to actor Tom Cruise from 1990 to 2001 and has been married to country music singer Keith Urban since 2006.

Early Years

Nicole Mary Kidman was born on June 20, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were temporarily in the United States on student visas. Her mother, Janelle Ann (née Glenny), is a nursing instructor, edited her husband's books and was a member of the Women's Election Lobby ; Her father, Antony Kidman, was a biochemist, clinical psychologist, and author. Kidman is of Irish and Scottish ancestry. Having been born in Hawaii, she was given the Hawaiian name & # 34;Hōkūlani & # 34;, which means & # 34; heavenly star & # 34;. The inspiration came from an elephant calf that was born around the same time at the Honolulu Zoo.When Kidman was born, her father was a graduate student at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. He became a visiting fellow at the United States National Institute of Mental Health. Opposed to the war in Vietnam, Kidman's parents participated in anti-war protests while living in Washington, D.C. The family returned to Australia when Kidman was four, and her mother now lives on the north shore of Sydney. Kidman has a younger sister, Antonia Kidman, a journalist and television presenter.

Kidman grew up in Sydney and attended Lane Cove Public School and North Sydney Girls' High School. She was enrolled in ballet at the age of three and displayed her natural talent for acting in her elementary and high school years. She has said that she first aspired to become an actress upon seeing Margaret Hamilton's performance as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. Kidman has revealed that she was shy as a child, saying, "I'm very shy, very shy. I even stuttered as a child, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness. So I don't like walking into a crowded restaurant alone; I don't like going to a party alone either'. She initially studied at the Phillip Street Theater in Sydney, alongside Naomi Watts, who had attended the same secondary school. She also attended the Australian Theater for Young People. to theater, mime and interpretation in his adolescence, finding a refuge in the latter. Due to her fair skin and her naturally red hair, the Australian sun forced the young Kidman to rehearse in the halls of the theatre. A regular at the Phillip Street Theatre, she received praise and encouragement to pursue acting full-time.

Career

1983–1994: Early work and progress

In 1983, the 16-year-old Kidman made her film debut in a remake of the Australian Christmas season favorite Bush Christmas. In late 1983, she had a supporting role in the television series Five Mile Creek. In 1984, her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, causing Kidman to temporarily halt her acting work while she studied massage so she could help her mother with physical therapy. She began to gain popularity in the mid-1980s. after appearing in various film roles, including Los Bicivoladores (1983), Watch the Shadows Dance (1987; aka Nightmaster) and the romantic comedy Windrider (1986), which attracted Kidman's attention due to its raunchy scenes. Also during the decade, she appeared in several Australian productions, including the soap opera A Country Practice and the 1987 miniseries, Vietnam . She also appeared in several films and television shows. Australians.

In 1988, Kidman appeared in Emerald City, based on the play of the same name. The Australian film earned her an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actress. Kidman next starred with Sam Neill in Dead Calm (1989) as Rae Ingram, playing the wife of a naval officer. The thriller catapulted Kidman to international recognition; Variety commented: "Throughout the film, Kidman is excellent. She gives Rae's character real tenacity and energy.' Meanwhile, critic Roger Ebert noted the excellent chemistry between the leads, stating, 'Kidman and Zane generate real hatred that is palpable in their scenes together. ". In the same year he appeared in the stage play Steel Magnolias as Shelby. to her then-boyfriend and future husband, Tom Cruise, in the 1990 auto racing film Days of Thunder, as a young doctor who falls in love with a NASCAR driver. The international breakthrough her film of her was one of the highest grossing films of the year.

In 1991, she co-starred with Thandie Newton and her former classmate Naomi Watts in the independent Australian film Flirting. They played high school girls in this coming-of-age story, which it won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film. That same year, her work on the film Billy Bathgate earned Kidman her first Golden Globe nomination, for Best Supporting Actress. The New York Times, in its film review, called her "a beauty with, it seems, a sense of humor". The following year, she and Cruise reunited. for Ron Howard's Irish epic Far and Away (1992), which was a modest critical and commercial success. In 1993, he starred in the thriller, Malice alongside Alec Baldwin and the drama My Life with Michael Keaton.

1995–2003: Worldwide recognition and critical acclaim

In 1995, Kidman starred as Dr. Chase Meridian, the damsel in distress, in the superhero film, Batman Forever, opposite Val Kilmer as the film's title character. The same year, he starred in Gus Van Sant's critically acclaimed black comedy All for a Dream, in which she played murderous broadcaster Suzanne Stone. Of Kidman's Golden Globe-winning performance, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said "[she] brings layers of meaning, intent and drive to the role. Telling her story up close, as she does throughout the film, Kidman lets you see the calculation, the wheels turning, the transparent efforts to charm that manage to charm anyway". Kidman next appeared, alongside Barbara Hershey and John Malkovich, in Portrait of a Lady (1996), based on the novel of the same name, and starred in The Peacemaker (1997) as a nuclear expert from the White House, Julia Kelly, next to George Clooney. The latter film grossed $110 million worldwide. In 1998, Kidman starred in the comedy, Practically Magic opposite Sandra Bullock, as two witchy sisters who face a threatening curse. that prevents them from finding lasting love. While the film opened at the top of the charts on its opening weekend in North America, it flopped at the box office. He returned to his stage work the same year in David Hare's play, The Blue Room, which premiered in London. For her performance, she received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress.

Kidman attending the premiere Moulin Rouge! at the Cannes Film Festival of 2001.

In 1999, Kidman reunited with her then-husband, Tom Cruise, to play a Manhattan couple on a sexual odyssey, in Eyes Wide Shut, the latest film from director Stanley Kubrick. It was the subject of censorship controversies due to the explicit nature of its sex scenes. After a brief hiatus and a highly publicized divorce from Cruise, Kidman returned to the screen to play a mail order bride in the British-American drama Birthday Girl. In 2001, Kidman played cabaret actress and courtesan Satine in Baz Luhrmann's musical Moulin Rouge!, opposite Ewan McGregor. Her acting and her singing received positive reviews; Paul Clinton of CNN.com called it her best work since To Die For , writing "[she] is hot and stunning as Satine." She moves with complete confidence in the film [...] Kidman seems to specialize in 'ice queen' characters, but with Satine, she'll thaw out herself, just a little bit'. Kidman received her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy at the 59th Golden Globe Awards, as well as several other awards and nominations, including every first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

Kidman also starred in Alejandro Amenábar's horror film The Others (2001), as Grace Stewart, a mother living on the Channel Islands during World War II who suspects that her house is haunted Grossing more than $210 million worldwide, the film also earned several Goya Award nominations, including a Best Actress nomination for Kidman. He received his second BAFTA Award and his fifth Golden Globe Award nomination. Roger Ebert commented that "Alejandro Amenábar has the patience to create a languid, dreamy atmosphere, and Nicole Kidman manages to convince us that she is a real person. normal in a disturbing situation, and not a standard hysterical horror movie." Kidman was named the most beautiful person in the world by People magazine in 2002.

Kidman in 2003.

In 2002, Kidman received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry's The Hours, co-starring Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. Kidman wore prosthetics that were applied to her nose making her almost unrecognizable playing the author during her time in England in the 1920s, and her bouts of depression and mental illness as she tried to write her novel, Mrs. Dalloway. The film garnered critical acclaim and multiple nominations, including the Best Picture Oscar. The New York Times wrote that, "Ms. Kidman, in a performance of astonishing bravery, evokes the savage inner war waged by a brilliant mind against a faulty wiring system that transmits static. fiery and crazy to her brain. Kidman won numerous critical and industry awards, including her first BAFTA Award, third Golden Globe Award, and the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first Australian actress to win the award. During his Oscar acceptance speech, he referenced the Iraq war that was going on at the time when he spoke about the importance of art, saying, "Why are you coming to the Academy Awards when the world is in such confusion? Because art is important. And because you believe in what you do and you want to honor that, and it's a tradition that should be upheld."

After winning the Oscar, Kidman appeared in three very different films in 2003. First, a lead role in the Danish director's Dogville; Lars von Trier, was an experimental film set on a bare soundstage. Although the film divided critics in the United States, Kidman ended up winning praise for his performance. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone stated, "Kidman gives the most emotionally painful performance of his career in Dogville, a film that never found a cliché it didnt stomp on." the version was handled that Kidman refused to make the sequel to Dogville, Manderlay, due to the treatment he received from Von Trier, years later it emerged that his refusal was to avoid repeating himself as actress. The second was an adaptation of the novel by Philip Roth; The Human Stain, opposite Anthony Hopkins. Her third film was the war drama; Cold Mountain by Anthony Minghella. Kidman starred opposite Jude Law and Renée Zellweger, playing southern Ada Monroe, who is in love with Law's character and separated by the Civil War. Time magazine wrote: “Kidman draws strength from Ada's plight and grows steadily, literally luminous. Her statuesque paleness gives way to a warm glow in the firelight.” The film garnered several award nominations and acting awards for her; Kidman received her sixth Golden Globe nomination at the 61st Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress.

2004–2009: Established actress

In 2004, she starred in the film Birth, which sparked controversy over a scene in which Kidman shares a bathroom with co-star Cameron Bright, then 10 years old. At a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, he addressed the controversial issue by saying: "It's not that I wanted to make a movie where I kissed a 10-year-old boy. She wanted to make a movie where love was understood.” Kidman received her seventh Golden Globe nomination, for Best Actress-Motion Picture Drama. That same year, she appeared as a successful producer on the sci-fi black comedy film, The Stepford Wives, a remake of the 1975 film of the same name, directed by Frank Oz. In 2005, Kidman appeared opposite Sean Penn in Sydney Pollack's thriller, The Interpreter, playing UN translator Silvia Broome, and with Will Ferrell in the romantic comedy, Bewitched, based on the 1960s television sitcom of the same name. While neither film did well in the United States, both were international hits. Kidman and Ferrell won the Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple.

Kidman in 2006.

Along with her success within the film industry, Kidman became the face of perfume brand Chanel No. 5. He starred in a print and television ad campaign with Rodrigo Santoro, directed by the director of Moulin Rouge!; Baz Luhrmann, to promote the fragrance during the 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008 holiday seasons. The three-minute commercial produced for Chanel No. 5 made Kidman the record holder for the most amount of money paid per minute to an actor after she reportedly earned US$12 million for the three-minute ad. During this time, Kidman was also listed as the 45th Most Powerful Celebrity on the Forbes, 2005 Celebrity 100. He earned a total of US$14.5 million in 2004-2005. On People magazine's list of the highest-paid actresses of 2005, Kidman came in second behind Julia Roberts, with a cache of $16–17 million per film. Nintendo announced in 2007 that Kidman would be the new face of the advertising campaign for the Nintendo DS game More Brain Training in its European market.

In 2006, Kidman starred as photographer Diane Arbus in the biopic Fur, opposite Robert Downey Jr., and provided the voice for the animated film; Happy Feet, which grossed more than $384 million worldwide.In 2007, she starred in the sci-fi film; The Invasion directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, a remake of the 1956 film; Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and starred opposite Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black in Noah Baumbach's dramatic comedy Margot and the Wedding, which earned him a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actress - Musical or Comedy. She also starred in the fantasy adventure, The Golden Compass (2007), playing the villain Marisa Coulter.

In 2008, he was directed by director Baz Luhrmann in the Australian period film Australia, set in the remote Northern Territory during the Japanese attack on Darwin during World War II. Kidman plays opposite Hugh Jackman as an English woman who feels overwhelmed by the continent. Her performance was praised and the film was a worldwide box office success. Kidman appeared in Rob Marshall's 2009 musical Nine, playing the muse of Federico Fellini's character Claudia Jenssen. with fellow Oscar winners Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Kate Hudson and Fergie. Kidman, whose screen time was brief compared to the other actresses, performed the musical number "Unusual Way," opposite Day-Lewis. The film received multiple Golden Globe and Oscar nominations, and earned Kidman a fourth Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Ensemble for the film.

2010–2015: Biographical and Independent Films

In 2010, Kidman produced and starred in the film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Rabbit Hole, opposite Aaron Eckhart, for which she vacated her role in Woody Allen's film, You will meet the man of your dreams. Her portrayal of a grieving mother in the film garnered her critical acclaim and received Oscar, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Later, she also lent her voice to a promotional video that Australia used to support their bid to host the 2018 Soccer World Cup. In 2011, she starred opposite Nicolas Cage in the action thriller, Trespass of the director Joel Schumacher, in which both stars play a married couple who have been taken hostage, and appeared with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in Dennis Dugan's romantic comedy; Just Go With It, as a trophy wife.

Kidman at the Tropfest 2012 in Sydney, Australia.

In 2012, Kidman and Clive Owen starred in the HBO film; Hemingway & Gellhorn, and about Ernest Hemingway and his relationship with Martha Gellhorn. In Lee Daniels' adaptation of Pete Dexter's novel, The Paperboy (2012), she played the groupie from death row Charlotte Bless and performed sex scenes that she claims she did not remember until she saw the finished film. The film competed at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and Kidman's performance earned nominations for the SAG and the Saturn Awards for Best Supporting Actress, brought Kidman her second Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress and her tenth overall nomination. In 2012, Kidman's audiobook recording of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was released on Audible.com. Kidman played an unstable mother in Stoker (2013) by Park Chan-wook, with a positive response and a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In April 2013 she was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

Kidman in 2014 promoting the film Grace of Monaco.

In 2014, Kidman starred in the biopic Grace of Monaco in the title role chronicling the 1962 crisis, in which Charles de Gaulle blockaded the tiny principality, angered by Monaco's status as tax haven for the wealthy French and the fact that Kelly was contemplating a return to Hollywood to star in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie. The film, which premiered out of competition at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, received largely negative reviews. Kidman also starred in two films with Colin Firth that same year, the first being the British-Australian historical drama; The Railway Man, in which Kidman plays an official's wife. Katherine Monk of the Montreal Gazette said of Kidman's performance: "It's a play of truly masterful acting that transcends Teplitzky's store-bought framing, but it's Kidman who delivers the biggest surprise: for the first time since her brows turned into solid marble arches, the Australian Oscar winner is truly fantastic". His second film with Firth was the British thriller; Before I Go To Sleep, portraying a brain-damaged car accident survivor.Also in 2014, she appeared in the animated comedy film Paddington as the main antagonist of the movie.

In 2015, Kidman starred in the drama Strangerland, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, and The Family Fang, directed by Jason Bateman, produced by Kidman's production company, Blossom Films, which premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. In her other 2015 film release, the biographical drama Queen of the Desert, she played the writer, traveler, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist Gertrude Bell. Kidman starred as a district attorney, alongside Julia Roberts and Chiwetel Ejiofor, in the little-seen film Secret in Their Eyes, a remake of the 2009 Argentine film of the same name, both based on the novel The Question in Their Eyes by author Eduardo Sacheri. After more than 15 years, Kidman returned to the West End in the UK premiere of Photograph 51 at the Noël Coward Theater She played British scientist Rosalind Franklin, working towards the discovery of the structure of DNA, in the production from September 5 to November 21, 2015, directed by Michael Grandage. The production was met with considerable praise. from critics, particularly for Kidman's performance, and her return to the West End was hailed as a success. For her performance, she won an Evening Standard Theater Awards and received a second Laurence Olivier Award nomination as Best Actress.

2016–present: Leon, Big Little Lies, and continued acclaim

Kidman attended the premiere Lion at the International Film Festival of Toronto of 2016.

In 2016's Lion, Kidman plays Sue, the adoptive mother of Saroo Brierley, an Indian boy who is separated from his birth family, a role she felt connected to as she herself is the mother of adopted children. She garnered rave reviews for her performance, as well as Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, her fourth nomination overall, and her eleventh Golden Globe nomination, among others. Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times thought "Kidman delivers a powerful and moving performance as Saroo's adoptive mother, who loves her son with every molecule of her being, but he comes to understand the search for her. It's as good as anything I've done in the last decade'. With a budget of $12 million, Lion earned more than $140 million worldwide. He also gave a voice-over performance for the English version of the animated film The Guardian Brothers.

In 2017, Kidman returned to television for Big Little Lies, a drama series based on the novel by Liane Moriarty, which premiered on HBO. She also executive produced alongside her co-star Reese Witherspoon and the show's director Jean-Marc Vallée. She plays Celeste Wright, a former lawyer and housewife, who hides her abusive relationship with her husband, played by Alexander Skarsgård. Matthew Jacobs of The Huffington Post considered that she "delivered a career-defining performance," while Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post wrote that & Kidman belongs to the pantheon of great actresses. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie for her performance, as well as winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series as a producer.. She also won the Television Critics Awards, a Golden Globe and a SAG.

Kidman next starred as Martha Farnsworth, headmistress of a girls' school during the American Civil War, in the Sofia Coppola drama; The Beguiled, a remake of a 1971 film of the same name, which premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, competing for the Palme d'Or. Both films were adaptations of a novel by Thomas P. Cullinan. The film was an auteur hit, and Katie Walsh of Tribune News Service found Kidman's unsurprisingly particularly excellent in her portrayal of the uncompromising Miss Martha. She is controlled and in control, unfazed. Her refined manners and her femininity coexist easily with her toughness.” Kidman had two other films that premiered at the festival, the sci-fi romantic comedy; How to Talk to Girls at Parties, reuniting her with director John Cameron Mitchell; and the psychological thriller; The Killing of a Sacred Deer, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, which was also in the running for the Palme d'Or. Also in 2017, Kidman played supporting roles in the television series Top of the Lake: China Girl on BBC Two and in the dramatic comedy; The Upside, a remake of the 2011 French comedy; Untouchables, starring Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart.

Kidman promoting Aquaman at Comic-Con International de San Diego 2018.

Kidman starred in two 2018 dramas: Destroyer and Boy Erased. In the first, she plays a detective preoccupied with a case for two decades. Peter Debruge of Variety and Brooke Marine of W found her "unrecognizable" in the role with Debruge adding that "she disappears into a whole new skin, rearranging her insides to fit the character's tough skin", while Marine noted Kidman's method acting. Based on Garrard Conley's Boy Erased: A Memoir, it stars Russell Crowe and Kidman as socially conservative parents who send their son (played by Lucas Hedges) to a gay conversion program. Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair credited all three artists for "elevating fairly standard material to poignant levels". In the same year, Kidman played Queen Atlanna, the mother of the title character, in the DC Extended Universe superhero film Aquaman. Also in 2018, Nicole was interviewed for BAFTA A Life in Pictures, where she reflected on her extensive film career.

Forbes ranked her the fourth highest-paid actress in the world in 2019, with annual earnings of US$34 million. She took on the supporting role of a wealthy socialite in the drama John Crowley; The Goldfinch, an adaptation of Donna Tartt's novel of the same name, starring Ansel Elgort. Though poorly received, Owen Gleiberman praised Kidman for playing her role with "graceful affection" 34;. Later, she would act alongside Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie in the drama Bombshell, about sexual harassment on Fox News, in which she plays Gretchen Carlson. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times opined that, despite less screen time than her two co-stars, Kidman managed to make Carlson "ever so slightly ridiculous, adding a dash of comedy that underscores how selfish and worthless they are. her rebellious mannerisms online". For her performance in Bombshell, Kidman received another SAG nomination.

In 2020, Kidman starred as Grace Fraser, a successful therapist in New York, in the HBO psychological thriller miniseries; The Undoing, based on the novel You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz. Kidman executive produced along with program director Susanne Bier and David E. Kelley, who previously adapted and produced Big Little Lies. Kidman was nominated for a Golden Globe and a SAG for her portrayal.Kidman's only film release of 2020 was the musical comedy film; The Prom, based on the Broadway musical of the same name, which also stars Meryl Streep, James Corden, Andrew Rannells, Keegan-Michael Key and Kerry Washington.

In 2021, Kidman starred in and executive produced opposite Melissa McCarthy in the Hulu miniseries; Nine Perfect Strangers, based on Liane Moriarty's novel of the same name. He also starred as actress and comedian Lucille Ball opposite Javier Bardem as Ball's husband, Desi Arnaz, in the biographical drama film Being the Ricardos, directed by Aaron Sorkin. Despite unfavorable reactions in response to his casting as Ball, his performance received critical acclaim. He subsequently won the Golden Globe Award for Best Dramatic Actress for her performance, as well as receiving nominations for the Critics' Choice Movie for Best Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress, as well as her fourth Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Best Actress, her fifth overall.

Upcoming projects

Kidman will star opposite Alexander Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Björk in the thriller The Northman, directed by Robert Eggers. She will also star in and executive produce three upcoming television series: the drama miniseries, Expats, which is currently in production; the suspenseful miniseries, Pretty Things, based on the upcoming novel of the same name by Janelle Brown; and the family drama, Things I Know To Be True, based on the Australian play of the same name, and the miniseries Roar, based on the short story work by Cecelia Ahern. Unlike his other television projects, Things I Know To Be True is envisioned as an ongoing series with multiple seasons rather than a miniseries.

Discography

Kidman at the 2009 American Music Awards.

Kidman's discography consists of one spoken word album, one extended play, three singles, three music videos, ten other appearances, several previously unreleased tracks, and two tribute songs recorded by various artists. Known primarily for her acting career, Kidman entered the music industry in the 2000s after recording several tracks for the soundtrack album to the 2001 Baz Luhrmann film Moulin Rouge!, which she starred in. Her duet with Ewan McGregor titled "Come What May" was released as her debut and the second single from the soundtrack through Interscope on September 24, 2001. The composition became the eighth best-selling single by an Australian artist that year, being certified Gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association, while peaking at number twenty-seven on the UK Singles Chart. Additionally, the song received a nomination at number 59. edition of the Golden Globes for Best Original Song, and has been listed as the eighty-fifth in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs by the American Film Institute.

"Somethin' Stupid", a cover by Frank and Nancy Sinatra, would soon follow. The track, recorded as a duet with English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams, was released on December 14, 2001 by Chrysalis Records as the lead single from her fourth studio album, "Swing When You're Winning". Kidman's second single topped the official music charts in New Zealand, Portugal, and the UK. UK, as well as scoring top ten spots across Europe, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Switzerland. As well as being Gold certified or Silver in various countries, it was ranked the thirteenth best-selling single of 2002 in the United Kingdom, fifty-ninth in Australia, and ninety-ninth in France, respectively. The song peaked at number 8 on the Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart and number 1, where it stayed for three weeks, in the UK.

On April 5, 2002, Kidman released, through Interscope, her third single, a cover of Randy Crawford's "One Day I'll Fly Away". The song, a remix by Tony Philips, was promoted as the pilot single for a follow-up to the original soundtrack of the same name, Moulin Rouge. Vol. 2. In 2006, she contributed her voice to the Happy Feet soundtrack in a rendition of Prince's song, "Kiss". In 2009, she appeared on the soundtrack of the musical film Nine by Rob Marshall, singing the song "Unusual Way".

His name was later credited on a track called "What's the Procedure", released on March 14, 2013, on the compilation album I Know Why They Call It Pop: Volume 2 by Rok Lok Records. Among others, Kidman also narrated an audiobook in 2012.

In 2017, she and Nicolle Gaylon sang backing vocals for the song "Female" by her husband, country music singer Keith Urban.

Reception and legacy

Kidman's painting; made by Oscar Casares.

Kidman is often considered one of the best actresses of her generation. films of different genres throughout his extensive artistic career that spans almost four decades. Vanity Fair stated that, despite struggling with his personal life being publicly scrutinized by the media during the first years of her career, "[Kidman] has proven to be a tremendous talent, a remarkable actress who can get there with the best of them, go head-to-head and walk away with her credibility intact. Plus, she's proven to be a star with a capital S, the once-in-a-generation kind who, like Elizabeth Taylor, is bigger than the Hollywood establishment, and isn't afraid to be human and real either, which only makes her more popular... #34;. According to The New York Times, "the gritty and disciplined indomitability he brings to his performances, even more than the artistry he displays within them, may be the secret to his attractiveness, the source of her bond with the public'. Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker commented how "in every role, there is something waxen, watchful and collected about Kidman, from so that even when she smiles, she never seems released. Other actors specialize in transparency, Kidman has a different gift: she can wear a mask and, at the same time, let you feel what it's like to hide behind it". In 2004 and 2018, Time named Kidman one of the 100 most influential people in the world in its annual Time 100 list. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her one of the greatest actresses of the century XXI.

Kidman has been known to use method acting for many of her roles. It has been noted that she often transforms physically, mentally, and emotionally to resemble her characters, to the point of affecting her health. Mark Caro of the Los Angeles Times stated that “for Nicole Kidman, acting is no mere technical feat; It is the art of transformation. To hear her tell it, the change can be as dramatic as a metamorphosis from a caterpillar to a butterfly. She'll be working and working to get under the skin of a character". W described her as a "cypher" and noted how she "gets under the skin of her character so completely that it's almost impossible to distinguish the actress from the role. That's why she's become synonymous with some key roles [...] and why those movies are so defined by Kidman's presence in them."

Kidman shooting a scene Grace of Monaco.

Critics have also commented on her acting style and approach to roles. Sharon Marie Carnicke, professor of critical studies and acting at the USC School of Dramatic Arts, noted that "Kidman's [acting] choices are believable and natural as reactions to the specific circumstances of her world" and described her work as "kinetic." Dennis Bingham, professor of English and director of film studies at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, stated that "Kidman always acts a step or two out of character, telegraphing his reactions, lengthening the time it takes him to articulate his decisions. and conclusions. Even her emotional responses are presented as signs." Pam Cook, a professor of film at the University of Southampton, suggests in her biography of Kidman that "her emphasis on artifice and technique points to a conception of film acting that seeks expression. rather than the actor's body and the intentions for the realization of the character". and high-stakes versatility, and regularly traverses between naturalistic and non-naturalistic roles and art forms." He goes on to say that he "can continually test his own emotional limits, physical abilities, politics, values, and frames of reference" and mentions how "his conception of character playing involves gradually metamorphosing into something he feels is so " other" that she often talks about losing herself or losing herself in the role, and her willingness to challenge herself in this regard has continually surprised other actors, directors and producers ».

Kidman has also been described as a fashion icon. The chartreuse Dior gown she wore to the 1997 Academy Awards is considered one of the best gowns in Oscar history and The Daily Telegraph credited her with forever changing red carpet fashion. Vogue described how "from her embroidered chartreuse gown by John Galliano for Christian Dior in 1997, alongside her then-husband Tom Cruise, to that impeccable red Balenciaga moment at the 2007 Oscars, to the unforgettable Calvin Klein ballerina dress she wore at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, the Australian-born has mastered the art of dressing on the red carpet, always pique our [interest] and take risks without going overboard". Insider stated that "over the years, Kidman has experimented With all kinds of trends including bold colors, statement jewelry and everything in between, I turned She is one of the most iconic celebrities when it comes to her fashion choices." Kidman received the 2003 Fashion Icon Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Regarding her award, Peter Arnold, chief executive of the CFDA, said in a statement: "Nicole Kidman's style, both on and off screen, has had an undeniable impact on fashion. As an actress, she has developed her many memorable characters with an innate understanding of the art of clothing. At the same time, she has elegantly established her personal style and her own iconic presence around the world."

Personal life

Sentimental relationships and family

Kidman with her husband Keith Urban in 2011.

Kidman has been married twice: first to actor Tom Cruise and then to country singer Keith Urban. Kidman met Cruise in late 1989, shortly before they began shooting Days of Thunder, a film in which the two starred together, and were married on Christmas Eve 1990. The couple he adopted a daughter, Isabella Jane Cruise (born 1992), and a son, Connor Antony Cruise (born 1995). On February 5, 2001, the couple's spokesperson announced their separation. Cruise filed for divorce two days later. and the marriage dissolved in August of that year, with Cruise citing irreconcilable differences. In a 2007 interview with Marie Claire, Kidman noted the incorrect reporting of the ectopic pregnancy early in their marriage. 'It was misreported as a miscarriage by all who echoed the story. So it's great news, and it didn't happen".

In the June 2006 issue of Ladies' Home Journal , she said she still loved Cruise: 'He was huge; he still is. To me, he was just Tom, but to everyone else, he's huge. But he was always charming to me and I loved him. I still love him". Furthermore, she has expressed how shocked she was by the divorce from her.

In 2015, former Church of Scientology executive Mark Rathbun claimed in a documentary that he was instructed to "facilitate [Cruise's] breakup with Nicole Kidman". Cruise's auditor further stated that Kidman's telephone connections had been tapped at Cruise's suggestion.

Prior to marrying Cruise, Kidman had been romantically involved with Australian actor Marcus Graham and the Windrider (1986) co-star. She was also said to have been related to Adrien Brody. The film Cold Mountain sparked rumors that an affair between Kidman and her co-star Jude Law had been responsible for the breakdown of their marriage. Both denied the allegations, and Kidman earned an undisclosed sum of money from the British tabloids that carried the story. She began dating musician Lenny Kravitz in 2003 before becoming engaged to him, until they eventually decided to break off the engagement. Kidman also She was romantically linked to rapper Q-Tip. Robbie Williams claimed that she had a brief affair with Kidman while on her yacht in the summer of 2004.

In a 2007 Vanity Fair interview, Kidman revealed that she had been secretly engaged to someone, later revealed to be Lenny Kravitz, prior to her current relationship with New Zealand country singer- Australian Keith Urban, whom she met at G'Day LA, an event honoring Australians, in January 2005. Kidman married Urban on June 25, 2006, at Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel on the grounds of St Patrick's Estate, Manly, Sydney. In a 2015 interview, Kidman said: 'We didn't really know each other, we got to know each other during our marriage'. They have residences in Sydney, Sutton Forest (New South Wales, Australia); Los Angeles; Nashville, Tennessee, USA; and a Manhattan condominium purchased for US$10 million. The couple's first child, Sunday Rose, was born in 2008 in Nashville. In 2010, Kidman and Urban had their second daughter, Faith Margaret, through gestational surrogacy at Centennial Women's Hospital in Nashville. In an interview with Tina Brown at the Women in the World 2015 conference, she stated that she focused her attention in his career after his divorce from Cruise: "A work came out of my divorce that was applauded, so that was an interesting thing for me", which led to his Oscar Award in 2003.

She is great friends with the actors Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe, with the actresses Naomi Watts and Deborra-Lee Furness, with the marriage of Simon Baker and Rebecca Rigg (she is godmother to their son Harry), and with the director Baz Luhrmann, all of them Australians, like Kidman. She is also friends with actors Ewan McGregor, Adrien Brody, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Renée Zellweger.

Religious and political stance

Kidman at the Cannes Film Festival 2017.

Kidman was raised in an Irish Catholic family and continues to practice Catholicism. She attended Mary Mackillop Chapel in North Sydney. Following criticism by Catholic leaders of The Golden Compass as anti-Catholic, Kidman told Entertainment Weekly that the Catholic Church is part of her "essence", and that her religious beliefs would prevent her from taking a role in a film that she perceived as anti-Catholic. During her divorce from Tom Cruise, she stated that she did not want her children to be raised as Scientologists. She has been reluctant to discuss it. Scientology since his divorce. He attends mass regularly with his family.

A women's rights advocate, Kidman testified before the United States House Committee on Foreign Relations in support of the International Violence Against Women Act of 2009. In January 2017, she stated his support for the legalization of same-sex marriage in Australia. Kidman has also made donations to United States Democratic Party candidates.

Wealth, philanthropy and honors

Kidman has appeared in the annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actors on several occasions, including being ranked No. 1 for a woman in 2006. In 2002, Kidman appeared for the first time on the published Australian Rich List. annually in Business Review Weekly with an estimated net worth of A$122 million. In the 2011 published list, Kidman's wealth was estimated at A$304 million, up from A$329 million. 2010 Australian dollars. As of 2015, her wealth was estimated to have increased to A$331 million. Kidman has raised money for underprivileged children around the world and raised public awareness about them. In 1994 she was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and in 2004 she was honored as a "Citizen of the World." by the United Nations. Kidman joined the Little Tee Campaign for the treatment of breast cancer to design t-shirts or vests with which to raise funds to fight the disease, for which she felt motivated by her mother's own battle with breast cancer in 1984.

Kidman (right), Nancy Pelosi (left) and Esta Soler (center) attended the International Center to End Violence in San Francisco (California) in 2010.

At the 2006 Australia Day Honours, Kidman was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for her "service to the performing arts as an acclaimed motion picture artist, to healthcare through monetary contributions to improve the medical treatment of women and children and support for cancer research, youth as a leading supporter of young performing artists, and humanitarian causes in Australia and internationally". However, due to her film commitments and her wedding with Urban, it was not until April 13, 2007 that he would receive such an honour, which was presented by the Governor-General of Australia, Major General Michael Jeffery, in a ceremony at Government House, Canberra.

Kidman was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in 2006. She visited Kosovo in 2006 to hear first-hand testimonies from women in conflict and advocacy efforts of UNIFEM. She is also the international spokesperson for the "Say NO - UNiTE" to End Violence Against Women for UNIFEM. Kidman and the UNIFEM Executive Director presented more than five million signatures collected during the first phase to the UN Secretary General on November 25, 2008. In 2016, Kidman donated $50,000 to UN Women.

Kidman at the Cannes Film Festival 2013.

In early 2009, Kidman appeared on a series of postage stamps featuring Australian actors. She, Geoffrey Rush, Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett appear twice in the series: once as themselves and once as their Oscar-nominated character; Kidman's second stamp featured her as Satine from Moulin Rouge!. On January 8, 2010, along with Nancy Pelosi, Joan Chen, and Joe Torre, Kidman attended the ceremony to help the Fund for Prevention of Family Violence to inaugurate a new international center located in the Presidio of San Francisco. In 2015, Kidman became the brand ambassador for Etihad Airways.

Kidman is a supporter of the Nashville Predators, being seen and photographed almost every night during the season. She is also a supporter of the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League and was once an ambassador for the club.

Other jobs

In 1993, she appeared in the music video for singer Pat Wilson's "Bop Girl". Kidman has been involved in various endorsement deals on behalf of various companies. In 2003 she was the face of Chanel No. 5 perfume. Kidman has also been an ambassador for Omega watches since 2005. In 2013 she was the face of Jimmy Choo shoes. In 2017, she was announced as the new "face" from Neutrogena.In 2020 she joined SeraLabs as their global brand ambassador.

Kidman supports the Nashville Predators, being seen and photographed almost every night during the season. In addition, she supports the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League and once served as an ambassador for the club.

Filmography and awards

According to review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, which assigns film scores based on reviews and audience reception, some of Kidman's highest-scoring films include Paddington (2014), Flirting (1990), To Die For (1995), Rabbit Hole (2010), Lion (2016), The Others (2001), The Family Fang (2015), Dead Calm (1989), Boy Erased (2018) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017). His most financially successful films include Aquaman (2018), Happy Feet (2006), The Golden Compass (2008), Batman Forever (1995) and Paddington (2014), which they are listed on box office tracking website The Numbers as his highest-grossing films.

In 2003, Kidman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In addition to her 2003 Academy Award for Best Actress, Kidman has received awards in the same category for Best Actress in the following critics groups or award-giving organizations: Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globe Awards), Australian Film Institute, Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, Empire Awards, Hollywood Film Festival, London Film Critics 'Circle, Russian Guild of Film Critics, Satellite Awards and Southeastern Film Critics Association. She also has a BAFTA Award from five nominations, two Laurence Olivier Award nominations, two Primetime Emmy Awards from three nominations, a Screen Actors Guild Award from fourteen nominations, and three Critics' Choice Awards from fourteen nominations. among several others.

Kidman also received recognition from the National Association of Theater Owners at the ShoWest Convention in 1992 as the Female Star of Tomorrow, and in 2002 for Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Motion Pictures. In 2003, she received the American Cinematheque Award.