Nicole Mary Kidman (born the June 20th 1967 with Honolulu) is a actress Australia, which with the dual nationality American Australia and .

It was the wife of the actor Tom Cruise of 1990 with 2001. The couple adopted two children, Isabella and Connor. This former student of the Actors Studio was named for the Oscar of the better actress in 2001 for Moulin-Rouge! where it cheek Glosses, before gaining the reward in 2002 with The Hours .

Biography

Years 1980

Beginning with the cinema

Although born in the United States, Nicole Kidman joined as of her more tender childhood the native region of her parents, Australia. She discovers there very young person a true passion for the ballet dancing, before turning to the theater which enables him to fight its timidity. As of her sixteen years, the teenager leaves her studies in order to devote herself entirely to the dramatic art, and very quickly takes down her first appearance with the cinema in Bush Christmas , an Australian drama which meets a certain success in the country. She continues there to carry out her career before trying the Hollywood adventure: first of all by embarking in 1989 in the cursed boat of Calm White (a thriller australo-American), then by incarnating the following year the boyfriend of Tom Cruise in the action film Days of thunder .

Years 1990

Billy Bathgate

She holds the female main role in the drama Billy Bathgate . In 1935, Billy Bathgate enters the band of famous the ganster Dutch Schultz. This last, cold, cynical and paranoiac, do not hesitate to make carry out its assistant of which it adapts the Drew mistress. He will seek later to kill her, but Billy, which fell in love from there, decides to ensure its protection. A film

remote Horizons

After being itself married with Tom Cruise in 1990, it finds it in remote Horizons of Ron Howard. At the end of last century, a young Irishman couple that all separates share with the attack from the New World. Presented to the Cannes festival, the film meets a certain success, but is a disappointment with the boxoffice.

Mischievousness

The thriller Malice is also a disappointment. He tells the history Andy and Tracy is a happy couple, until the arrival of Dr. Jed Hill which, nonglad to displease with the young woman, practical on her in urgency and agreement with Andy, the ablation of its ovaries. Parallel to its marital misfortunes, Andy, which is police officer, must find a serial killer

Lends to all

After this film, Kidman is contacted by Gus Van Sant, which makes it turn in Prête to all . She interprets Suzanne Stone there, an young woman who to reach her dream and to become a star of the small screen, is ready with all. To even make disappear his/her husband. This film reveals the actress who becomes voted by plebiscite in Hollywood. The actress passes from 500,000 $ to 2,5M$ of wages.

Batman Forever

She turns then in the third shutter of the saga Batman , Batman Forever . She there côtoie Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey and improves with this role.

Portrait of woman

The critical success of film arrives with Portrait of woman of Jane Campion. At the end of the years 1800, Isabel Archer, American young person visit some in his English cousins, shock his entourage by its free spirit and adventurous. His/her Ralph cousin, phthisical incurable, likes it in secrecy. It leaves to Florence where a friend throws it in the arms of her lover, Gilbert Osmond. Isabel the wife. A few years later, she discovers that she was handled. She faces her husband and turns over at Ralph, which acknowledges its love to him on its bed of death. The actress has as partners John Malkovich and Shelley Duval.

the Peacemaker

Kidman then turns with Georges Clooney in the Peacemaker . She interprets there Doctor Julia Kelly, person in charge of the nuclear security has Washington, which is seen entrusting the direction of research. One associates a fellow-member with the very personal but effective methods to him, the lieutenant-colonel Tom Devoe. It succeed has to recover the near total of the missiles. But one of the terrorists, Vlado, escaped, carrying a warhead in its backpack. But the film is not a success.

the Enchantresses

Its following film the Enchantresses , at summer turned between Eyes Wide Shut of Stanley Kubrick. The Clockwork orange realizer made last turning more than one year. The Enchantress is a comic and black fable telling the history of two sisters magicians and a curse which makes die prematurely the men of which they have misfortune to fall in love. But Kidman wanted to take holidays with her husband Tom Cruise after the fateful turning of Eyes Wide Shut. She accepted finally the role of the witch Gillian Owens, the sister of Sally (Sandra Bullock).

Eyes Wide Shut

The career of Nicole Kidman leaves out of arrow with Eyes Wide Shut , the last film of Stanley Kubrick. Turning begins on November 4th, 1996 to be completed on January 31st, 98. A record of longevity. And what to nourish criticisms, pewters and éditos of all media. The first band announces film will appear only in February 99. The whole for a budget of 65 million $. Reasonable. But the Hollywood cost is much higher: Kidman as her husband Tom Cruise had accepted incomes less important than of practices (6 M$), and had refused many projects, while moving in England. Long but such a chaotic, and even very difficult turning. Kubrick, absolute perfectionist, made make some 16 hours days. Cruise made an ulcer of it. An attack of nerves also, since it failed all to leave in the course of production. This impression of turning without end made pressure on the couple. The more so as the London media, tabloïds at the head, did not leave them in peace. One tells all and anything: Cruise would be disguised in drag-queen, the couple would have had to make with sexologists to play their parts,… the lawsuits for slandering are followed and resemble each other. Principal casting included/understood also Harvey Keitel and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Both will be évincés. Officially because they had other projects envisaged and signed (a film on Elvis for Keitel, eXistenz for Jason Leigh). It should be said that turning lasts for ever. At the end of 5 months Keitel snap the door. Certain rumors announce real ejaculation in the hair of Kidman (who would have required her departure). It will be replaced by Sydney Pollack, a little softer of face. All the scenes are to be remade. It is him which gave the number of fax of Cruise and Kidman to Kubrick, so that he contacts them. Following this fax, and to the agreement in principle of the two stars, Kubrick will send by mail express train the scenario (impossible to photocopy). Obligatory return the following day. The parano is total, even after the death of the Master. Always it is that Cruise and Kidman (which saw the film in March right before the death of Kubrick) were under the shock while leaving projection. Kidman is not mistaken there; after the shock, she recognizes that the film will cause the polemic, and finally that she is very proud. Both confirm that Kubrick does not have undergoes any pressure, and that the film is such as it wanted it. Today, they assume their roles of representative of this visual will. After having finished Eyes Wide Shut , Kidman turned the Enchantresses , who will leave before film Kubrick. This one remade to turn of new scenes to Kidman after her new film. Eyes Wide Shut added up 21.706.163 $ the first weekend. But after 12 weeks of exploitation, and to finish, the film brought back 55,637,680 $. Despite everything, Kidman is regarded as époustouflante and that it is certainly its greater role.

Years 2000

Moulin-Rouge!

After Eyes Wide Shut , Nicole Kidman made the sustained pressure to obtain the main role of the musical comedy of Baz Luhrmann, Moulin-Rouge! . The realizer of Romeo + Juliette wanted to tell a new comedy for its third film, ten years after Ballroom Dancing . Moulin-Rouge! is located at the end of the 19th century, in Paris of the Beautiful Time. Christian (Ewan McGregor), a young desilvered poet, settles in the district of Montmartre. He discovers a universe where sex, drug and cancan mix, but rebels against this declining medium by carrying out a bohemian life. It is engaged to write an imposing spectacle for the Moulin-Rouge. It is there that it falls in love with Glosses (Kidman), the star of the extraordinary cabaret. But unfortunately, Duke, a godfather of the play of the Moulin-Rouge do not hear it this ear. Blow, it is more complicated. And that finishes badly.

Others

After the success of Moulin-Rouge! , Nicole Kidman signs with Alejandro Amenabar for the supernatural thriller the Others . The actress interprets Grace there, a woman whose husband died in the face. This one raises his/her two children in an immense residence victorienne isolated on the island from Jersey. When three new servants come to live with it and his/her children, they must yield with a vital rule: no door must be open before the preceding one was not closed. However, somebody will disobey this order. Consequently, Grace, its children and all those which surround them will have to undergo the consequences of them. The large success of film propels Kidman to the row of star best paid of Hollywood to the sides of Julia Robert.

Panic grass Room  

Panic Room of David Fincher was to confirm it like one of the best actresses of Hollywood. Engaged by Columbia Pictures, the actress gave up the project whereas turning had had to begin for three weeks. Reason: a wound with the knee, that which had disturbed the turning of its two preceding films, Moulin-Rouge! and Others . A wound which did not enable him to answer the physical request for its role. The actress was to interpret Meg Altman, a unmarried mother, and her daughter who move in a New Yorkean house. Eager to carry out a new life, heroin appreciates its new residence because this one contains a part of independent safety where one can isolate oneself in the event of distress. When three burglars invest the house in the search of spoils of several million, the mother and the girl take refuge in the famous part. Start then door-closed very distressing. The female main role returned to Jodie Foster, which enabled him to cure the failures of Anna and to the King and of The Dangerous Lives off Altar Boys . Nicole Kidman will make all the same a caméo by lending her voice to the partner of the ex-husband of Meg.

Nadia

For its following film, it turns to the sides of Vincent Cassel in the film Nadia . The film tells the history of a beautiful young woman, Russian, who meets John (Ben Chaplin) by a site of meeting. For its birthday, this last organizes in Nadia a small festival. But two burglars arrive, and threaten to kill the young woman if it does not give them the contents of the trunk of the bank. But the film, with small budget (13 M$), is a failure (a little more 4M$). Kidman had even truncated her seal with 1,5M$ to turn it.

The Hours

Nicole Kidman quickly finds success with the drama The Hours , for which it obtains the Oscar and money the Bear of the Best actress to the 53e festival of Berlin for its role of Virginia Woolf. The history is in the years 1920. This writer fights against a depression which watches for it. She writes Mrs then. Dalloway . More than twenty years after, in Los Angeles, Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) reads this work: an experiment so strong that she thinks of changing life radically. In New York, today, Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep), modern version of Mrs Dalloway, supports Richard, a friend poet reached of the AIDS. For film, Kidman had to make himself ugly. His natural beauty is really not recognized. But, it obtains the Oscar of the Best actress for the role. Despite everything, the film is a semi-failure.

Dogville

One of its more beautiful performances, it was going to know it with Dogville , in 2003, of Lars von Trier. The history is told by John Hurt in nine chapters and proceeds in a minimal decoration: quelqes walls and pieces of furniture are placed on scene, the remainder being simulated by white lines traced by ground, as well as a legend for certain objects. In the years 1930, shots resound one evening in Dogville, a small town of the Rock ones. Grace, a terrified beautiful woman, goes up while running a mountain lane where it makes the meeting of Tom (Paul Bettany), young person living village. She explains to him why she is tracked by gangsters and that its life is in danger. Encouraged by Tom, the local population agrees to hide it, in exchange of what Grace agrees to work for it. When an research opinion is launched against the young woman, the inhabitants of Dogville estimate themselves in right to require a compensation, considering the risk which they run to shelter. But the poor Grace maintains in it a fatal secrecy which will make them regret their gesture…
Présenté with the Cannes festival, the film creates sensation but does not gain any price, in spite of rumors of Palme of gold and Meilleure female role for Kidman. The film is a public failure with only 1,5 M$.

the Color of the lie

The public failure reproduces with its following film, the Color of the lie , in spite of its presence and that of Anthony Hopkins. This last camps there professor Coleman Silk, shown to have held of the racist remarks towards two black students. Its life will change as soon as it will meet Faunia Farley (Kidman). In spite of excellent criticisms of presses and the public ones, the film brings back a little more 5M$ for a budget of 30M$.

Return to Cold Mountain

But this bad master key is caught up with by Retour to Cold Mountain . With for partner Jude Law and Renee Zellweger, it is a film of war which it makes him find success. In America torn by the American Civil War, a man and a woman will achieve one towards the other most extraordinary of the voyages. Girl of Pasteur, Ada (Kidman) devoted all her youth to the music, or arts and the wellbeing of a widowed father, whom she loves more than all in the world. Simple workman, Inman (Jude Law) is a savage, miserly man from words, abroad at the organized company, kneaded culture and traditions Southerners, of which Ada is surrounded. A simple glance, some awkward words, a kiss stolen to the day before to leave to the face, will however be enough to inspire an absolute love to them, where Ada and Inman will draw the force and courage to face separation, loneliness, misery, and cruelest tests of the war… The film is a paperboard which reaches almost the 100M$ receipts, which enables him to reach the 15M$ for its seal.

And the man created the woman

Nicole Kidman is then the heroin of the remake of The Stephord Wives , And the man created the woman , where it fights the women cyborg, under the direction of Frank OZ. Kidman interprets Joanna, a woman with whom all succeeds: a liking husband, two beautiful children, a perfect life. But, one day, the dream crumbles. Joanna loses her station and discovers that its marriage beats wing. Joanna and her husband leave New York then and settle in the residential suburbs of Stepford, in Connecticut. Stepford appears to leave a fairy tale, with its vast and vain houses, its manucurées lawns, its quiet streets of an immaculate cleanliness and his wives, of an unreal beauty, with their smooth face, eternally smiling, their measurements worthy of a magazine on glazed paper. Joanna is astonished to see them quite as gifted for the kitchen as to repaint the house, to pass the mower, to play with their kids and to accommodate their husband in alluring sexy linen rooms. She and her new girlfriend, effervescent Bobbie, raises questions… In spite of Glenn Close like partner, Kidman does not attract crowd with this new film.

Birth

For Birth , its following film, its seal (always 15M$) takes the three quarter of the budget! She interprets Anna there, a woman who spent years with recovers from dead of her Sean husband. Today, it is become again a woman happy, in love. She met Joseph and prepares to marry it. All goes for best, until it meets a ten year old boy, which, by most alarming of the mysteries, seems to remember all that it and Sean lived… The film is a bitter failure (5M$ of receipts) but that does not prevent that the wages of Kidman increase in 17,5 M$ and that it always is very voted by plebiscite by Hollywood.

the Interpreter

The following year, it finds Sydney Pollack, with which it turned Eyes Wide Shut , but this time under its direction. Interpret with UNO, Silvia Broome (Kidman) surprises by chance a conversation revealing a plot against a Head of African State. Tracked by killers, it is placed under the protection of the federal agent Tobin Keller (Sean Penn). But the more this last discovers the past of the young woman, the more it thinks it itself implied in the conspiracy. Is Silvia a victim or suspect? The film, excel, attracts much more the public that Birth , but does not refund its budget (80 M$) with 72M$ of receipts.

My beloved witch

The same year, it takes again to the role of Elizabeth Montgomery in the adaptation to the cinema of My beloved witch , whereas Will Ferrell slipped under the features of the husband mortal and exceeded by the capacities of his wife, interpreted of 1964 to 1968 by Dick York and of 1969 to 1972 by Dick Sargent. Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine interpreted the parents of Isabel/Samantha. Slightly modified, the scenario tells the Isabel history, sublimates witch determined to live without sorcery, share in Hollywood in order to find the love among the mortals. Over there, it meets Jack, an actor who persuades it to play his sides in the remake of the famous series My well loved witch. Our two heroes will fall in love, and will cause in spite of them a collision between their two universes. In spite of rather good criticisms, the film is a failure in the United States with 62 M$ of receipts for 80 M$ of budget. Kidman obtains the Razzie Award of the worst actress of the year. But, the film is a success in France.

  Fur - an imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus

Two years after having incarnated Virginia Woolf in The Hours , Nicole Kidman lent her features to a character having really existed, the American photographer Diane Arbus, in Fur - an imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus of Steven Shainberg. The film, according to the book Diane Arbus: biography has tells the tragic history of this famous American, known photographer for his strange portraits and disturbing mentally handicapped persons and obese people, who put an end to her days in 1971. Kidman replaced Samantha Morton initially had a presentiment of for the role, and has as a partner Robert Downey Jr.. The history is at New York, at the end of the years 1950. Diane Arbus is the assistant of her husband, a famous fashion photographer. Exit of a rich person family, it feels more and more badly at ease in a world of rigid suitabilities where only appearances count. One evening, she notices removers who deliver strange pieces of furniture and objects in the apartment of the top. When she sees her neighbor, the mystery still thickens: wrapped of a long coat, it wears a hat and dissimulates its face behind a mask. Only its eyes are visible, and the glance that Diane crosses makes only fascinate it a little more… Irresistibly attracted, Diane ends up going up to the man with a camera. Its meeting with Lionel will involve it in an incredible adventure with discovered mysterious universe, in a close relation which will transform its life and its art for always… Left fine 2006, for the Oscars, the film adds up only 220,914$ for a budet of 16,8 M$. A bitter failure, which is not the first for the actress.

Happy Feet

Kidman lends then her voice to cartoon film Happy Feet . Just like Robin Williams, Elijah Wood and Brittany Murphy, Nicole Kidman lent her voice to a pingoui, for a film signed by George Miller. For the first time of her career, Kidman makes a cartoon film. This last cases with the boxoffice with nearly 150 M$ of receipts. But it is not in so far as the career of the actress climbs out of arrow.

Invasion

In 2005, Warner put in building site a new remake of traditional of science fiction of Don Siegel, the Invasion of the profaners of burials , entitled Invasion . Nicole Kidman interprets Carol there, a psychiatrist who attends a wave of aberrant phenomena. One of its patients complains, for example, that one has " to him; changé" his/her husband. Simple is delirious? But why so much of people through the country they are affected? And why the streets of the cities did become so peaceful, as if nobody dared any more to be irritated? More worrying: Oliver, the young person wire of Carol, brings back the day of Halloween a barley sugar coated of an unknown… and alive matter! It is necessary to go back to a recent phenomenon: an immense explosion sets ablaze the sky, from Dallas to Washington, spreading on thousands of square kilometers the remainders of the Patriot space shuttle. The authorities take the situation in hand quickly, but of strange rumors are not long in circulating: one would have found, stuck to the fragments of the machine, an unknown matter, highly toxic, able to resist extreme temperatures. And the first to come into contact with it would have more human only appearance… During turning, Kidman was in a car tractor drawn by a trailer when the driver-stuntman lost the control of his trailer while turning to the angle of a street. Result: the vehicle struck a post, and the wounded actress, was transported to the hospital Cedars the Sinai Medical. In state of shock, Kidman had taken a long convalescence to recover from this accident, before being able to turn Australia of Baz Luhrmann. At the time of the exit of film, Nicole Kidman who has as a partner Daniel Craig, takes a severe slap. With only 5 M$ the first weekend, it was already announced that it would not refund its budget of 80 M$. It added up only 15 M$.

Margot goes to the marriage

With its new film Margot goes to the marriage , it should find success thanks to a tight budget (10 M$). In this comedy with which it has Jack Black for partner, Nicole Kidman interprets Margot, writer with success installed in New York, who returns visit, in company of her Claude son, with her Pauline sister, who lives in the house where both grew. Pauline is about to marry Malcolm, an artist without employment, but this choice displeases deeply in Pauline.

In crossed worlds: The gold Compass

Nicole Kidman has just finished In cross worlds: The gold Compass , where it finds Daniel Craig. The actress joined the magic universe of Philip Pullman, and will play the part of beautiful well and dangeureuse Mrs. Coulter in the adaptation of the first book of the trilogy, In Croisée Worlds, the Kingdoms of North . The héroïc fantasy is a new kind for the actress, who had desisted whereas it was to interpret the white witch in Le Monde de Narnia: chapter 1 - the lion, the white witch and the magic closet . In Crossed Worlds, the Kingdoms of North , produced by New Line is written and carried out by Cris Weitz. The film will follow the adventures of an eleven year old child and its demon (animal spirit), Lyra Belacqua, which lives in a mode parallel with our; when his/her best friend Roger Parslow is victim of the enleveurs of children who prevail in all the country, it launches out to its research in a perilous voyage towards the Far North; will accompany Gipsies, Ours in Armours, Sorcières and a mysterious instrument which makes it reach the truth.

In Production

Australia

Nicole Kidman began turning from Australia of Baz Luhrmann. The history occurs in North from Australia to the beginning of the year 1940, a British aristocrat inherits a ranch. She calls upon a local cowboy to help it to deal with her herd, whereas the Japanese bombard Darwin… During turning, Kidman saved the life of her partner Hugh Jackman by removing her leg to him a scorpion recognized to be very dangerous.

the Reader

The actress also began turning from the Liseur according to an adaptation of the German writer Bernhard Schlink. With Anthony Minghella with the orders, Kidman will give the counterpart to Ralph Fiennes. the Reader tells the history of a teenager which falls in love with a woman older than him, Hanna. It finds it later a few years within the framework of a lawsuit to which it assists and in which she is shown to have sent to died of tens of women during the Second world war. Turning has in September, in the area of Berlin.

The Lady from Shangaï

Kidman will be also made direct by Wong Kar-Wai for The Lady from Shangaï . She will have as a partner Rachel Weisz in this being held drama with Shanghai in the Thirties.

Need

Nicole Kidman will also have as a partner Naomi Watts in new film of Ryan Murphy. Kidman and Watts, close relations in the life, for a long time wished to turn together in a film. The thriller, at the very least glamor, will see the two friends becoming the worst enemy ones. The history tells the discovery by a New Yorkean psychiatrist (Watts) of the love affair which her husband with Beth (Kidman) maintains, one of its suicidal patients.

Monte Carlo

At the time of the first New Yorkean of Margot goes to the marriage , Nicole Kidman entrusted that Julia Roberts would be on the point of joining the casting of Monte Carlo . This romantic comedy, produced by Nicole Kidman and carried out by Thomas Bezucha, is an adaptation of a novel of Jules Bass in whom three teachers of Midwest give up their tedious holidays in Paris for Monaco, where they are made pass for wealthy heiresses. It would be the first time that the two actresses would work together. No information was communicated on the identity of that which could incarnate the third heroin.

How to Marry has Millionaire

Nicole Kidman announced her new project: the remake of traditional of Jean Negulesco How to marry a millionaire . The Australian actor will take again the role which returned celebrates Marilyn Monroe and will also produce the new version, How to Marry has Millionaire , via her company Blossom Films. The 20th Century Fox, person in charge of the original, will also take part in the production of this new grinding. The details of the intrigue are not given yet, in addition, the scenario writer Sacha Gervasi, author of the scenario of the Terminal of Steven Spielberg, specified that it would modernize original script completely.

Catalog of films

Actress

Discography

Wages

Anecdotes

  • the January 13rd 2003, Nicole obtains a star on famous the Hollywood Walk off Famed.
  • the June 25th 2006, it Marie with Sydney with the singer country Keith Urban.
  • In 2006, at 39 years, it is the actress best paid Hollywood with an average of 17 million dollars to each one of its productions.
  • David Thomson, critic film American, devoted its last work to its actress Nicole Kidman fetish.
  • In 2007, Nicole saved the life of its partner for the film Australia Hugh Jackman by removing its leg to him a scorpion recognized to be very dangerous.
  • Nicole is left-handed.

See too

External bonds

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