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Nicole Mary Kidman AC (born June 20, 1967), is an Academy Award-winning Australian actress. In addition to her Academy Award, Kidman is a three-time Golden Globe winner for Best Actress.

She’s 40!

In 2006, she became the highest paid actress in the film industry. That same year, Kidman was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), Australia’s highest civilian honor.

After making various appearances in film and television, Kidman received her breakthrough role in the thriller Dead Calm. Since then, Kidman’s acting career has developed greatly. Her performances in several films, such as To Die For, Moulin Rouge!, and The Hours, have won her not only critical acclaim but also many film awards. In 2003, Kidman received her Star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California. Kidman is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, a singer and a successful recording artist.

She is also well-known for her former marriage to Tom Cruise, as well as her current marriage to singer Keith Urban. Because she was born to Australian parents in Honolulu, Hawaii, Kidman has dual citizenship of Australia and the United States.

Kidman’s parents are Janelle MacNeille and Dr Antony Kidman. Dr Kidman is a clinical psychologist in Lane Cove and author, who is also heavily involved with the labor movement. MacNeille is a nursing instructor and edits her husband’s books. At the time Nicole Kidman was born, her father was a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, D.C. The family returned to Australia when Kidman was four years old, when her father took on a lectureship at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Kidman has a younger sister, Antonia, born in 1970. Kidman’s parents and sister both reside in Greenwich, a suburb on Sydney’s North Shore. Kidman, a Catholic, attended Mary Mackillop Chapel in North Sydney with her sister.

Kidman started taking ballet lessons when she was four. This led to studies at Sydney’s Australian Theater for Young People, where she is now Patron, then at the Phillip Street Theater, where she majored in voice production and theater history. Living in Longueville she studied at St Marys, but dropped out when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer; Kidman concentrated on her family responsibilities until her mother’s recovery.

Nicole is a Singer too!

Not known as a singer prior to Moulin Rouge!, Kidman had several well-received vocal performances in the film. Her collaboration with Ewan McGregor on the song “Come What May” from the film’s soundtrack debuted and peaked at 27 in the UK Singles Chart. Later she collaborated with Robbie Williams on the song “Somethin’ Stupid”, a cover of the old swing song on Williams’ swing covers album Swing When You’re Winning. It debuted and peaked at 8 in the Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart, and at number 1 for three weeks in the UK. It was the UK Christmas number 1 Single for 2001.

In 2006, she provided her voice for the animated movie Happy Feet, along with her vocals for her character Norma Jean’s ‘heartsong’, which was a slightly altered version of “Kiss” by Prince.

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