Over a long career ─ and she is already 50! ─ Nicole Kidman starred in many famous films and received an Oscar as the first Australian actress. We recall various interesting facts from her life.
Nicole Kidman (1984)
She was not born in Australia
Nicole Kidman is considered Australian, but she was born in Hawaii ─ in the resort town of Honolulu. Parents returned to their historic homeland only when the girl was four years old. So if the parents timely settled all the formalities regarding the citizenship of the daughter, she could very well have been a nee American citizen.
Nicole never graduated from high school, but her intelligence coefficient is 132 (which roughly corresponds to the level of a candidate of science).
At 17, the actress sang in the Australian band Divine Madness, but then the passion for music faded into the background ─ exactly until the moment when Nicole began to participate in musicals. So, in 2001, she, along with actor Evan McGregor, recorded the joint composition Come What May for Moulin Rouge. By the way, it was on the set of this musical film that she suffered the most: she broke a rib. As a result, the director Baz Lurman had some time, while the recovery process lasted, to shoot Kidman only motionless scenes.
Nicole is not red
Red hair color - unnatural for Nicole. A blonde by nature, she once decided that a fiery shade would be more suitable for her porcelain skin and blue eyes, and was repainted. However, from time to time, the actress returns to her "native" color.
She never sunbathes
The actress is very protective of her white skin and is afraid of the effects of sunburn, so she does not leave the house without a hat and sunscreen. Nicole Kidman also has a terrible allergy to strawberries, and she does not like butterflies.
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise at the U.S. Tennis Tournament Open (1993)
Nicole was married to Tom Cruise
With her first husband, Tom Cruise, Nicole starred in three films: Days of Thunder, Far, Far, and Eyes Wide Shut. They say that the last ─ the work of director Stanley Kubrick ─ was so difficult for the couple that they could not stand the test and divorced. The couple really broke up a year and a half after the premiere, but the shooting process was unlikely to be the real reason for the divorce: the marriage of Kidman and Cruz cracked long ago, and even two adopted babies Isabella Jane and Connor Anthony could not help them save the growths.
Far Far Away (dir. Ron Howard, 1992)
She could have called herself Grace.
Nicole Kidman four times in her acting career played a heroine named Grace: in 1975 in one of Saturday Night Live's sketches with Mike Myers, in the 2001 film “Others”, in the 2003 film “Dogville” and the 2014 film “Princess” Monaco".
“Princess of Monaco” (dir. Olivier Daan, 2014)
She left the paparazzi with her nose
The role in the movie "The Clock", which tells of the writer Virginia Woolf, has become very important for Nicole. For her sake, she read all the existing letters of the writer in order to better enter the image, learned to write with her right hand (actress ─ left-handed) and put up with constant make-up, which changed her almost beyond recognition (however, the latter was also a bonus: the false nose helped her leave with set imperceptibly for the paparazzi). The efforts were rewarded: Kidman became the first Australian actress to receive the coveted Oscar.
The Clock (dir. Stephen Daldry. 2002)
Nicole has many talents
One of his main hobbies, Nicole Kidman considers writing short stories that he wants to someday publish. In her youth, on the advice of her father, she wanted to become a writer and began to keep a diary. She also knows how and loves to play the piano. Her musical skills can be assessed in the movie Cold Mountain, where Kidman independently performed all the piano parts.
Cold Mountain (dir. Anthony Mingella, 2003)
In 2003, the actress received the Fashion Icon of the Year Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. How deserved she can be judged by the fashion evolution of the actress, for example, at the Cannes Film Festival ─ we examined her style in detail in the material “Queen of the Cannes: all the fashionable images of Nicole Kidman for the history of the film festival”.
Nicole Kidman on the red carpet of the jubilee 70th Cannes Film Festival (2017)
She perfectly "sang" with her second husband
Nicole's second wedding with Australian country singers Keith Urban was celebrated on a grand scale. Naomi Watts, Baz Lurman, Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman were spotted on it. They say that Jim Carrey really wanted to attend the celebration, but could not because of the busy work schedule.
Nicole Kidman marries Keith Urban (June 25, 2006, Sydney, Australia)
As a wedding present, Kit Urban gave his wife not expensive jewelry, but the first edition of Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights ─ experts estimate the “vintage” printed copy at $ 200 thousand.
As shown by the Moulin Rouge, the actress really sings beautifully. Among her off-screen singing achievements is an extremely cute YouTube video, where the actress purrs a song in the car with her second husband.
4 minutes of her work cost $ 4 million.
The actress often becomes the face of a particular brand, but the royal royal fee brought her a four-minute Chanel commercial, for which she received $ 3.71 million. Director Baz Lurman recommended the French brand Nicole as the protagonist of the pr-campaign.