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Nicole Kidman: a Redhead Aussie

Nicole (Mary) Kidman was born on June 20, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii to Dr Antony David Kidman and Janelle Ann (nee MacNeille). At the time, her father was a cancer research specialist in Washington, D.C. The family returned to Australia when Nicole was four years old, when Tony Kidman took on a lectureship at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Nicole was an active, artistic child, and focused from an absurdly young age. She began taking ballet lessons at 3, moving onto mime at 8 and drama at 10. Her first public role was at 6, as a loud sheep in her elementary school's Christmas pageant. She grew up fast. Janelle was an active feminist and Anthony a labour advocate, both of them discussing the issues of the day with their kids over dinner and having them hand out pamphlets on the street. When it came to acting, Nicole possessed the same intensity as her future husband. She was always seen as an outsider - she was known as Storky due to her peculiar height (she fast reached a whopping 5' 11" - 180 cm) - and, as she approached her teens she departed even further from her peers. While the other girls were down the beach, eyeing up the boys, Nicole spent her weekends at the Philip Street Theatre, watching, learning. She had her sights set on higher things - as you'd expect from someone whose influences include Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and, above all, Katherine Hepburn - and, indeed, she had her first kiss onstage in Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening. As the play concerned sexual repression in the late 1800's, it was something of a wild one too, Nicole having to yell "Beat me! Harder! Harder!" each night. More impressive than a clumsy fumble under the pier, eh?

Her first appearance on film came in 1983 when, as a 15 year-old, she appeared in the Pat Wilson music video for the song "Bop Girl". By the end of the year she had secured a supporting role in the television series Five Mile Creek, and four film roles, including BMX Bandits and Bush Christmas. During the 1980s and early 1990s she appeared in several Australian movies and TV series, notably including the soap opera A Country Practice, the mini-series Vietnam (1986), Bangkok Hilton (1989) wherein she played an inadvertent drug mule sent to a fabulously unpleasant jail and Flirting (1991). In 1989 she appeared in Dead Calm which gained her notice in the United States.

Dead Calm did it for Nicole. Vietnam had won her an Australian Film Institute Award and an American agent and now there was something genuinely meaty to work with. Nicole received a call from Tom Cruise's people, asking her to come talk about his next project, Days Of Thunder, to be directed by Tony Scott. Meeting Cruise and his people in a hotel conference room, she was embarrassed by the way she towered over the megastar. Now she was convinced she'd be sent on her way. But the next day she was informed she was in. And the height problem? "It doesn't bother Tom, so it doesn't bother us".

It was her American debut. And there was plenty of media interest as Cruise and Nicole became 'an item'. Rumours of an affair were rife, fuelled by the fact that Cruise's divorce from Mimi Rogers came through a couple of weeks before the end of filming. Kidman stressed the romance did not begin till a little later, but she was seen on Cruise's arm at the 1990 Academy Awards, and the couple would marry, in a rented house in Telluride, Colorado, on Christmas Eve that same year.

Suddenly, Kidman was a star, and not simply due to her marriage. The TV miniseries Bangkok Hilton was hugely impressive, as was her catty senior school-girl in Flirting. Next she was the mysterious moll of Dustin Hoffman's Dutch Schultz in Billy Bathgate, then Cruise's muse and lover, Shannon Christie, in Ron Howard's epic of Irish exile and redemption, Far And Away.

Now, for those who thought Kidman to be simply Mr Cruise and a very lucky lady indeed, came two roles which proved her excellence for good. In Malice, as Tracy Kennsinger, she was fantastically beastly to Bill Pullman. Then, in To Die For, she was even beastlier to poor Matt Dillon as she strove to find TV stardom. Her wicked seduction of young Joaquin Phoenix was masterful, her eventual death at the hands of a supremely sinister David Cronenberg uniquely disturbing. For this role, having knocked Meg Ryan out of the picture by calling director Gus Van Sant direct, she spent three days in a Santa Barbara inn, watching nothing but trashy TV, then spoke in a full-blown US accent from the beginning of rehearsals to the end of production. It worked - she won a Golden Globe for her efforts, having earlier been nominated for Billy Bathgate.

Eyes Wide Shut was a big media event, though many considered it cold and slow (despite the supposedly red-hot trailer). Kubrick himself would die soon after, but all seemed well in Camp Cruise. The couple had adopted two children - daughter Isabella Jane and son Conor Antony - and Kidman's quote that "I just feel so fortunate that I have found someone who will put up with me and stay with me" seemed based on a solid foundation.

Yet the marriage wasn't as tight as we all thought, Tom and Nicole separating in February, 2001: there was much media speculation about the reasons for this, but both celebrities maintained their privacy and were guarded in their public comments. One persistent rumour claims however that Kidman's desire to bring up their children Catholic, and her critical views on Scientology caused the problems in her marriage with Tom Cruise, who is known to be an outspoken follower of the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard.

The couple said very little about their divorce publicly, but her professional connection to Cruise will be noted for some time to come. Before their separation, Kidman starred in weirdo thriller The Others, directed by Alejandro Amenabar (writer of Cruise's forthcoming Vanilla Sky) and co-produced by Cruise himself. The film - slow, surreal and deadly quiet - was an object lesson in how to build tension, with the whole thing being held together by Kidman's extraordinary performance as a fraught young mother living with her kids in a seemingly haunted country mansion while her husband is away at war. It was utterly terrifying, the best horror movie in years, though the greatest mystery surrounding it must be why Kidman, nominated for a Golden Globe, was not similarly forwarded for an Oscar.

She found consolation in an Oscar nod (and Golden Globe win) for Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge, filmed earlier, wherein she played beautiful courtesan Satine, plaguing poor poet Ewan McGregor as well as much of aristocratic society. We see Kidman sing (she'd also have a Christmas Number One duetting with Robbie Williams on Something Stupid) and, utilising the training she began 31 years ago, dance.

After that came The Hours, placing her in what must now be seen as appropriate company. Co-starring with Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore, she was up there amongst the finest screen actresses alive. The film was set in three separate times and examined the writing and effects of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, Kidman playing Woolf herself, struggling in a lifeless marriage, growing ever more distant from her family and friends, and finally discovering a dreamt-for freedom in suicide. Radically altering her appearance with a prosthetic nose, she still managed to convey (mostly with her eyes) the flashes of frustration, indignation and love that kept this highly sensitive depressive going as long as she did. A tremendous performance, deserving of the Oscar and Golden Globe she now won.

Nicole claimed that, throughout her marriage to Cruise, she'd been playing a supporting role, pushing his career before hers. And it's clearly true that she was hardly prolific during that time. Now divorced (and having suffered a miscarriage just a month after the initial separation) she set about changing this.

In 2004, Kidman appeared in the remake of The Stepford Wives alongside Glenn Close, Faith Hill and Bette Midler. In September of the same year, Kidman's film Birth in which the 37 year-old actress' character falls in love with a 10 year-old boy (played by Cameron Bright), who she believed to be a reincarnation of her dead husband, the film was met with a mixed reception. Despite the mixed reception, the film was nominated for the prestigious Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival.

Movies in production

The Lady from Shanghai, Emma's War, Fur, American Darlings, Wedding Season, and the animated musical Happy Feet are future movies for Kidman. Kidman was cast in The Producers however has had to pull out due to filming Eucalpytus in Australia and was replaced with Uma Thurman. Eucalpytus would have been Kidman's first native film since Moulin Rouge! but filming was halted after the cast and crew determined that the script needed to be re-written. She is currently filming the Diane Arbus bio-pic Fur. There is a rumour that Kidman may star in an upcoming yet to be titled Baz Luhrmann Australian period film.

Unknown words:
pageant - инсценировка, зрелище
stork - аист
whopping - огромный
peer - сверстник
fumble - нащупывать, неумело обращаться
inadvertent - ненамеренный
rife - обычный, распространенный
moll - любовница гангстера
weirdo - странный
haunted - населенный призраками
prosthetic - протезный, накладной
prolific - плодовитый

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