Birth name: Nicole Mary Kidman
Date of birth: 20 June 1967
Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Height: 5' 10˝" (1.79m)
Spouse: Tom Cruise (from 24 December 1990 to 8 August 2001)
Children: 2 adopted children with Cruise, Isabella Jane (b. 1992) and Connor Antony (b. 1995).
Trivia:
Born in Hawaii and raised in Australia.
Scared of butterflies.
Sister of Australian television personality Antonia Kidman.
First Australian actress to win the Best Actress Academy Award.
Main movies by Nicole Kidman:
The Stepford Wives (2004) as Joanna Eberhard
Cold Mountain (2003) as Ada Monroe
The Human Stain (2003) as Faunia Farley
Dogville (2003) as Grace Margaret Mulligan
The Hours (2002) as Virginia Woolf
Birthday Girl (2001) as Sophia
The Others (2001) as Grace Stewart
Moulin Rouge! (2001) as Satine
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) as Alice Harford
Practical Magic (1998) as Gillian Owens
The Peacemaker (1997) as Dr. Julia Kelly
The Portrait of a Lady (1996) as Isabel Archer
Batman Forever (1995) as Dr. Chase Meridian
To Die For (1995) as Suzanne Stone Maretto
Malice (1993) as Tracy Kennsinger
Far and Away (1992) as Shannon Christie
Billy Bathgate (1991) as Drew Preston
Flirting (1991) as Nicola
Days of Thunder (1990) as Dr. Claire Lewicki
Nicole in "The Hours":
Although naturally left-handed, Nicole taught herself to write right- handed for her role as the right- handed author Virginia Woolf.
Her salary for this movie was $7,500,000.
To make her look like Virginia Woolf, Nicole Kidman wore a false nose.
Nicole Kidman is the third person and first actress to win an Oscar for a role played with a false nose. The other two are José Ferrer, for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), and Lee Marvin for Cat Ballou (1965).
Nicole winning the Oscar for her role as Virginia Woolf.
All info and images above are from IMDb.com.
You can also see pictures comparing Nicole to Virginia Woolf here.
Nicole Kidman about the real Virginia Woolf
Growing up in Australia, Nicole Kidman had sampled Woolf's works but found them dense and oppressive. "I'd run away from her. As a schoolgirl, you run toward the Brontes, you run toward Austen," Kidman said. "Discovering her in my 30s was when I needed to discover Virginia Woolf. Because I think you need to have some experiences in life, you need to have an intellectual capacity to handle Virginia, which you don't necessarily have -- well, I didn't have -- as a teenager," said the actress, who prepared for "The Hours" by reading Mrs. Dalloway and other Woolf novels, along with diaries, letters and biographies. ...
Kidman came to Woolf and "The Hours" at a suitably dark time in her own life, after a miscarriage and amid the breakup of her marriage to Tom Cruise last year. "I was pretty nihilistic in terms of my view of what it was all about," she said. "Where we were going. Why I was existing in the world, really. Why, was the big question. So it was sort of the perfect time to encounter Mrs. Woolf. Because you're raw, emotionally raw. Your ability to understand with compassion somebody else's struggle is just there. ... It's cathartic, because it means you're not alone." [CNN.com Dec 30, 2002]
"I thought, 'This woman is such a magnificent person.' ... The way in which she had this enormous intellect and then this extraordinary fragility and to combine the two creates almost a kind of chemistry and you put it together and it just bubbles. I'm fascinated by her - and I think everyone is. ... Her literature is so powerful, as was her mind, perceptions and ideas, and they all resonate." [DarkHorizons.com interview, Jan 17 2003]
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