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		Also Credited As: Nicole Mary Kidman Born: on 06/20/1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii Job Titles: Actor, Singer Family Daughter: Isabella Jane Kidman Cruise. born on December 22, 1992 in Florida; adopted by Kidman and Cruise in January 1993 Father: Antony Kidman. Australian; involved with labor movement and progressive causes Mother: Janelle Kidman. Australian; edits her husband's books; involved with feminist causes; was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984 Sister: Antonia Kidman Hawley. born c. 1971 Son: Connor Anthony Cruise. African-American; born on January 17, 1995 in Florida; adopted with Cruise on February 5, 2001 Nicole Kidman Biography A statuesque Australian redhead with creamy alabaster skin and blue eyes that cast a slightly mischievous air, Nicole Kidman had become established in her native land as a rising talent before she ventured to the USA where she met her future husband Tom Cruise during the filming of 1990's "Days of Thunder". Born in Hawaii to a biochemist and psychologist father and an activist nursing instructor mother, Kidman spent her first years living in the Washington, DC, area. By the time she was three, she and her parents had returned to Australia and settled in conservative, upper-middle-class suburb of Sydney. As a toddler, she was enrolled in ballet classes and at age four got a taste of theatrical life by stealing her school's Christmas pageant, garnering laughs as a sheep who upstaged the Nativity scene. By the age of 10, Kidman had been enrolled in drama school and four years later made her first real impression as a frizzy-haired teen in the Australian holiday perennial "Bush Christmas" (1983). By that time, she had become a regular on the TV series "Five Mile Creek", appearing in the show's final 12 episodes. Her profile rose even higher after an award-winning performance in the miniseries 1985 "Vietnam" which first teamed her with director John Duigan. She continued her rise in the comedy "Emerald City" (1988), delivering a nice turn as the girlfriend of a script supervisor (Chris Hayward) who catches the attention of a screenwriter (John Hargreaves). That film was followed by a terrific portrayal of a young woman who is duped into becoming a drug smuggler, gets caught and is imprisoned in the gripping TV drama "Bangkok Hilton" (1989). That same year, Kidman broke through to international art-house audiences offering one of her finest performances as the traumatized young wife of a middle-aged doctor (Sam Neill) coping with the accidental death of their only child by embarking on a yachting trip that turns threatening when they rescue a stranger (Billy Zane) in the superb thriller "Dead Calm". The actress reteamed with director John Duigan for his excellent "Flirting" (1990) to essay a snooty schoolgirl. By the time the film reached US shores in 1991, though, Kidman had already become known as the actress who snared superstar Tom Cruise after co-starring with him in the race-car drama "Days of Thunder" (1990). Their whirlwind courtship and subsequent marriage proved fodder for the gossip columns and surprised many. In an effort to distance herself a bit from the label of "Mrs. Tom Cruise", Kidman accepted the part of a society girl who gets mixed up with gangsters in the Robert Benton-directed period drama "Billy Bathgate" (1991), holding her own opposite Dustin Hoffman. Unfortunately, the film failed to appeal to audiences and was a box-office failure. A reteaming with her husband in the Ron Howard-directed would-be epic "Far and Away" (1992) was also a commercial disappointment. Kidman had her moments as a headstrong Irish lass who determines to follow a penniless worker to America in the mid-19th Century, but the film's muddled screenplay undercut her efforts. Although she went on to appear as a wife desperate to have a child in "Malice" and the supportive spouse of a dying man in "My Life" (both 1993), neither did much to raise her profile or challenge her as an actor. Making a clearly economic decision, Kidman was cast as the love interest to Val Kilmer's Bruce Wayne/Batman in the overblown "Batman Forever" (1995). Later that year, though, she finally had a chance to prove her mettle to US audiences with a brilliantly comic turn as an ambitious weather girl who'll do anything to succeed in the satirical "To Die For". Her excellent delineation of self-absorption in the face of ambition was one of the year's finest performances, but surprisingly the expected Oscar nomination never materialized. One theory floated on why the Academy overlooked her is that no one who saw the film could tell where the character ended and the actress began. It also didn't help that the tabloids and gossip pages tried to paint Kidman as relentless. Such a gender-biased discriminatory approach wasn't lost on her. As she pointed out, "Tom [Cruise]'s determination is called intensity. My determination is called ambitious to the point of ruthlessness."