Nicole Mary Kidman is an Australian actress, singer, film producer, and humanitarian. Kidman followed this with other successful films in the late 1990s. (2001) which earned Kidman her second Golden Globe Award and first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Kidman's other notable films include To Die For (1995), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Cold Mountain (2003), The Interpreter (2005), and Australia (2008). Kidman's work has earned her a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, three Golden Globe Awards, one BAFTA, and an Academy Award. As a result of being born to Australian parents in Hawaii, Kidman has dual citizenship in Australia and the United States.



Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Kidman can thus claim both U.S. and Australian citizenship. Kidman's ancestry includes Scottish and Irish. The family returned to Australia when Kidman was four and her parents now live on Sydney's North Shore. Kidman has a younger sister, Antonia Kidman, a journalist and TV presenter. Kidman attended Lane Cove Public School and North Sydney Girls' High School.