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Nicole Kidman was born on June 20th
1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Her father, Anthony Kidman, is author and assistant
professor for psychology and biochemistry, famous in his own right for work done with
breast cancer patients. Her mother, Janelle Kidman, is a nurse and a nursery-school
teacher.
The readhead is a member of one of Australia's famous families. Her grandfather, Sir
Sydney Kidman, was a big landowner and one of the continent's biggest stockbreeder.
She began with ballet at the age of
three. With eight she found her passion for acting. With ten she persuaded her parents to
join an acting school.
In australia she made her
film-debut at the age of fourteen, being already 5'9''. She got more experiences by the
St. Martins youth-theatre in Melbourne, by the australian theatre for youth in Sydney and
by the Philip Street theatre.
There were two films following,
showing her as a bandleader: "BMX Bandits" and "Windrider", and the
Disney Channel TV-series "Five Mile Creek", where she played a shepherd. She
became an overnight-star with the (Kennedy Miller) min-series "Vietnam". She
became "actress of the year" and got a few awards for her role.
Then she got her breakthrough by
playing Rae Ingrim in the three-men-thriller "Dead Calm" 1989, at the side of
her australian collegues Sam Neill ("Jurassic Park") and Billy Zane ("The
Phantom"), who again showed his ability of playing the bad guy in
"Titanic". Both actors also got their breakthrough, together with director
Phillip Noyce.
In Hollywood an actor named Thomas
Cruise Mapother IV, also named "Tom Cruise", finally became a star after
"Top Gun". At this time he was planning his newest film, one about stock car
racing. He still searched for a leading girl and - after seeing "Dead Calm" -
was sure he found it. But all went an other way: "I went to Hollywood because of my
career, but instead I found the love of my life" (Nicole Kidman). She likes talking
about their first date: Both were seating side by side in a cinema. But she didn't saw
much of the film, because her looks wer fixed on his muscles, being seen through the
T-shirt. In interviews Tom Cruise is used to say: "My first reaction to Nic was pure
lechery."
"Days of Thunder" became
a good film, but it never reached "Top Gun". But that wasn't that important. On
December 24th 1990 Tom married his angel in Telluride, Colorado. But looking at her
career, it wasn't that good: "Professionally it [the marriage with Tom] really harmed
me. There were times when I was only identified with my husband. All I tried, I was still
Mrs. Tom Cruise."
1991 brought her a little ray of
hope. Tom Cruise, since "Rain Man" 1988 being a close friend to Dustin Hoffman,
got her the role of a moll in "Billy Bathgate", at the side of Dustin Hoffman
and Bruce Willis. Hoffman praised her after the shooting: "Nicole has the ability of
becoming a big star".
After playing the object of desire
she finally got a character part, with her husband in "Far And Away" and
specially with ex-Batman Michael Keaton in "My Life".
Now several stars began filming
with her. She played toghether with Bill Pullman ("Independance Day") and Kim
Basinger's husband Alec Baldwin ("The Getaway", "The Hunt for Red
October") in "Malice", playing for the first time a bad part.
This year also got her changes in
her family part: The couple adopted a daughter, Isabella Jane, and Nicole found her being
a mother.
Her role in "Batman
Forever" pressed ahead her career, reaching the climax with her playing in "To
Die For". The critics praised her, although a few critics claimed, while playing the
career-striving Suzanne Stone Maretto she just played herself. Now she has become a
character-actress and got a Golden Globe for the best actress 1996. But the
oscar-nomination failed to come. It's told that this got her the largest rage of her life.
In this year the couple adopted a
son, named Connor. But the raising loading didn't put them off acting. "When I'm
acting, Tom's looking for the children. That's what the media likes most." This must
be the reality, because the US magazine "People" chose her as one of the 50 most
ebautiful people in the world.
The character part in "To Die
For" got her the next, the role of Isabel Archer in Jane Campion's "The Portrait
of a Lady", where she had to wear a corset taking her waist down to 19''. Therefore
she had to spent two weeks in bed after the filming. Officially it was diagnosed as
suffering from "emotional stress".
Now she was a star. The papers
wrote that, if it's going on that way, Tom Cruise will be only called "Mr. Nicole
Kidman". There were also pictures going around showing that it's she who has the
pants on. There Scientology-connection was as discussed as questions for their private
life. "We don't feel comfortable discussing what we do in bed at midnight - even
though it is pretty damn good."
While going shopping together with
Tom and george Clooney while shooting the thriller "The Peacemaker" Clooney was
called by the people their bodyguard.
The shooting of the erotic-thriller
"Eyes Wide Shut" was following, playing for the third time at the side of her
husband. Director Stanley Kubrick, following her repute being a perfectionist, is shooting
the movie for over a year now. Weeks after the shooting Kubrick called them again for
shooting a few scenes, because of clearing Jennifer Jason Leigh out.
The future is also not that bad.
The passion in their marriage isn't disappearing: "We are still in our
honeymoon." "I adore Tom, he is my drug!" There was only a little dispute,
because she wanted to execute her passion - jumping out of plans - again, which the
security-liking Tom disliked.
Professionally three films are
following: "Criminal Conversation", "Practical magic" and the drama
"Berlin Diaries, 1940-45". But let's let Nicole talking, about her coming aims:
"I've learned that the future can't be controlled. Therefore I just try to live the
day instead of making unrealistic aims. Meanwhile I ask myself what I want and doesn't
subordinate this starnge aims. The children also changed the perspectives totally. You've
to accept that you cannot have all. Therefore you're able to enjoy the moment
better."
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