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This gorgeous Australian actress first won the hearts of several American audiences with her role in Days of Thunder (1990) opposite Tom Cruise. It was not before she starred as a homicidal weather girl in Gus Van Sant's 1995 "To Die For" that she began to be regarded as an original actor. Many people think Kidman to be the native of Australia. Nicole Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on June 20, 1967. Kidman's father was a biochemist who was involved in a research work for which NIcoles family stayed in the Hawaii.
Subsequently the family moved to Washington, D.C. to stay there for the next three years. Raised in an upper-middle-class family in the Sydney suburb of Longueville, Kidman grew up with keen interest in arts, particularly dance and theatre. At the age of three, Kidman started learning ballet and made her acting debut in a nativity play when she was six. At the age of ten she studied acting in drama school, and farther continued her studies at the St. Martin's Youth Theatre in Melbourne and at Sydney's Phillip Street Theatre.
As a teenager Nicale was often teased because of her height, Kidman took refuge in the theatre, and she bagged her first professional role at the age of 14 and starred in Bush Christmas (1983), a TV movie about a group of kids who group together with an Aborigine to find their stolen horse out. Nicole's role in an adventure film, BMX Bandits (1983), and a number of other roles in different TV movies touched the heart of the audience and established her as a fine actor. Kidman got her debut role on Vietnam, a miniseries directed by John Duigan.
Nicole Kidman won accolade for her portrayal of a cumbersome 1960s schoolgirl who grows up into an idealistic 24-year-old Vietnam war protester. Phillip Noyce's "Dead Calm" was a major break for Nicole Kidman. This is a psychological thriller about a couple played by Kidman and Sam Neill who are terrorized by a young guy they rescue from a sinking ship. At the age of 19 Kidman got this role and won the hearts of American audience as an actress of considerable mettle. The same year, her TV movie Bangkok Hilton got critically acclaimed. In 1989 Tom Cruise selected her for a starring role in her first American feature film, Tony Scott's "Days of Thunder"(1990). After this box office hit got released the coupled tied the knot in December of 1990.
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