Biography of Nicole Kidman

Her American debut was in Days of Thunder (1990), a stock car racing movie, in which she played opposite Tom Cruise. After this, Kidman starred with Cruise in Ron Howard's Far and Away (1992). In 1995 Kidman featured in the all-star cast of Batman Forever and later that year starred in To Die For, a satirical comedy that earned her high praise from critics, and talk of an Academy Award nomination for her performance, although this did not materialize. She did, however, win a Golden Globe Award, and five other best actress awards for her comic portrayal of the murderous newscaster Suzanne Stone Maretto. Kidman and Cruise portrayed a married couple in Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, Stanley Kubrick's final film.

Kidman's most professionally successful year thus far is 2001, with her Academy Award-nominated performance in Moulin Rouge!, in which she played the beautiful courtesan Satine opposite Ewan McGregor, and a well-received starring role in the horror film The Others. While in Australia filming Moulin Rouge!, Kidman injured her knee, so that Jodie Foster had to replace her in the film Panic Room. The following year Kidman won praise from critics for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for this role, along with a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and numerous critics awards. In the same year she took a hand at film production for the film In the Cut. In 2003, Kidman starred in three very different films. Dogville, by Danish director Lars von Trier, an experimental film set on a bare soundstage, and hinges almost entirely on Kidman's performance. The film, and especially Kidman, achieved critical praise, although the film was never successful commercially. Secondly, she co-starred alongside Anthony Hopkins in the film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain. This film was rather less accepted by critics, many of whom felt that both Kidman and Hopkins were miscast. Cold Mountain, an epic love story of two Southerners separated by the Civil War, was her final release that year, and garnered her a Golden Globe Award nomination.

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, Birth, in which the 37-year-old actress' character has an encounter with a 10-year-old boy (played by Cameron Bright) who attempts to convince her that he is a reincarnation of her dead husband, was met with a mixed reception. Many viewers were disturbed by a scene where the boy strips and joins Kidman in the bathtub. Despite this, the film was nominated for the prestigious Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, and Kidman was nominated for yet another Golden Globe Award. Kidman's two movies in 2005 received drastically different receptions. The Interpreter, directed by Sydney Pollack, was one of the most popular movies worldwide that year and started a reemergence of the political thriller films such as Syriana. Conversely Bewitched, co-starring Will Ferrell, based on the 1960s TV sitcom of the same name, fared abysmally with critics and at the box office.