Nicole Kidman

Mary Nicole Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1967. Grown in Australia Nicole started his artistic activity at three years taking ballet lessons. Then she studied drama in the theatre St. Martin's Youth of Melbourne (popular among young people at the time). Protagonist of teeny-movies during the adolescence only in the 1984 played in the first movie Bush Christmas. After minor film interpreted Dead Calm (1989) a thriller set in an enclosed space of a sailboat. Moved to Hollywood she performanced in Malice. Other films: The Portrait of a lady of 1995 by James Hanry, To dye for of 1995, and especially Eyes Wide Shut by Kubrick with Tom Cruise (ex-husband) and Dogville by L. Von Trier, 2004. She demonstrated his versatility playing various rules from action film Batman Forever in 1995 and The Peacemaker in 1997, the musical Moulin Rouge where the actress reveals his talents as a singer and dancer; from The Others magnificent thriller to psychological melodrama Far and away and Cold Mountain to the brilliant comedy Bewitched until the role of Virginia Wolf in The Hours for which she won the Oscar in 2000. Recently, Kidman appeared in the Diane Arbus bio-pic Fur, she also lended her voice to the animated film Happy Feet. In 2007, she starred in the science fiction movie The Invasion by Oliver Hirschbiege and played opposite Jennifer Jason Leighand 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 Mrs. Coulter However. Peculiarity: She’s a left-hander.

Golden Globe Award
· 1996 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for To Die For
· 2002 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for Moulin Rouge!
· 2003 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama for The Hours
Academy Awards
· 2003 - Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Hours
Berlin International Film Festival
· 2003 - Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actress for The Hours

Kidman ex-wife of Tom Cruise that she met on the set of their 1990 movie, Days of Thunder. She met country singer Keith Urban at G'Day LA an event honouring Australians in January 2005. Kidman and Urban were married in june 2006 at the Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel in the grounds of St Patrick's Estate, Manly in Sydney.