Nicole Kidman was born on 20 June, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, but moved shortly afterwards to Australia. Her father, Antony, is an author who lectures over psychology and biochemistry and her mother, Janelle is a nurse and educator who edits her husband's books. Nicole stared out her performing arts career as a ballet dancer and shortly afterwards at the age of 10 she convinced her parents to enroll her in a drama school. Nicole has always had an amazing physique and was 5'9'' at the age of 13!

Though she is a descendant one of Australia's most famous families, Sir Sydney Kidman, her fame has developed on her merits, starting with a performance at the age of 14 in Bush Christmas. She continued on in BMX Bandits and as a rock singer in Windrider.

She headed to North Sydney High to devote herself entirely to film and family. Mom eventually recovered, and Kidman had become a film and TV veteran by 1989, when she made her U.S. debut in director Philip Noyce's terror adrift thriller Dead Calm. By that point, Kidman had added an inch to her already striking height, and the rest of her body had long since caught up to the once gangly arms and legs that had been the trial of her early teenage years.

In 1996, Nicole Kidman fully realised the stubbornly independent but erred heroine, Isabel Archer, of Henry James’ “The Portrait of a Lady,” filmed by Jane Campion. A year earlier she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress as the spritely homicidal maniac, Suzanne Stone, in Gus Van Sant’s black comedy “To Die For.”

Kidman’s luminous career is noted for the variety of curious, intelligent and entertaining roles she has chosen. In high form since Philip Noyce’s 1989’s “Dead Calm,” she is truly an actress for many audiences, and can make quixotic shifts from period and country from one film to the next.