Nicole Kidman - 52: And In Hollywood After Forty Life Is Just Beginning

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The famous Hollywood actress and producer, Oscar winner Nicole Kidman celebrates her 52nd birthday on June 20. It would seem that success came to her early enough - from the age of 15 she began acting in films, after 20 she became famous in Hollywood, at 23 she married Tom Cruise. However, at first she was not perceived as a serious dramatic actress, and the marriage broke up 10 years later. Only after 40 years did she finally manage to achieve recognition in the professional field and find personal happiness …

Nicole Mary Kidman's parents were Australian of Scottish-Irish descent, but she was born in Hawaii, where her father, a biochemist who studied cancer cells, worked at that time. They soon returned to Australia. In her youth, Nicole was very shy, moreover, she was worried about her appearance - because of her very high growth, her classmates gave her the nickname Crane. Classes in the school theater helped her to overcome fears and complexes. Even then, she firmly decided to connect her life with the acting profession.

After high school, Nicole continued her studies at the College of Art at the University of Melbourne and began performing on the stage. For the first time on the screens, she appeared in the video of the Australian singer Patricia Wilson, and after that she began acting in films. In the mid-1980s. she was already a fairly popular actress in Australia.

The first Hollywood project with her participation was the thriller "Dead Calm", where her partner on the set was Billy Zane. The film turned out to be very successful at the box office, and after that American producers drew attention to the Australian actress.

On the set of Days of Thunder in 1990, Nicole Kidman met Tom Cruise. Their on-screen romance spilled over into real life and ended with a wedding. They were called one of the most beautiful and strongest acting couples in Hollywood - they jokingly admitted that they are so close that they do not know where it ends and it begins. Family happiness was overshadowed only by the absence of children - Nicole had 2 miscarriages. Therefore, the actors decided to become foster parents for daughter Isabella and son Connor.

Until the end of the 1990s. film critics did not take the actress seriously, paying tribute only to her spectacular appearance. Surprisingly, but her film career took off only after breaking up with Tom Cruise. A real test of their relationship was the joint shooting in Stanley Kubrick's psychological drama Eyes Wide Shut, where they played a couple whose feelings for each other had cooled. And again, the on-screen story went beyond the set - after the completion of filming, one of the most prosperous Hollywood marriages broke up.

The turning point in the professional life of Nicole Kidman was the musical "Moulin Rouge", in which she showed herself not only as a talented actress, but also as a singer with outstanding musical abilities - she performed all the vocal parts of her heroine herself. For this work, she received an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical. And a year later she also got an Oscar - as the best actress for the film "Watch", where she reincarnated beyond recognition, playing the writer Virginia Woolf.

However, all these successes did not bring her joy - they came at the time of the collapse in her personal life and did not in any way compensate for the suffering she had experienced. Later, the actress admitted: "".

In 2005, the actress met Australian singer Keith Urban, who became her second husband. When Nicole turned 40, she first became a mother - the couple had a daughter, Sunday Rose Kidman-Urban. And 2 years later, their second daughter Faith Margaret was born, who was carried by a surrogate mother. Their marriage was not ideal - once they were on the verge of divorce due to the musician's alcohol and drug addiction, but together they managed to cope with these problems.

After the birth of her daughter, a reassessment of values took place in her life. During pregnancy, the actress deliberately abandoned her film career in order to devote herself entirely to family joys. She even turned down the lead role in The Reader, which eventually became the triumph of another actress - Kate Winslet won an Oscar for her. Nicole Kidman calls the choice between career and family in favor of the latter the most important and happiest in her life. Since then, she has received her greatest pleasure not from filming, but from walking around their home in Nashville with her husband and children, from checking her daughters' school homework and from working in the garden, where she grows lemons, plums, apricots and grapefruits. and then makes jam from them. In an interview, the actress said: "".

Today, the actress says that she is no longer afraid of living in a Hollywood world obsessed with youth and beauty - at 52, she feels absolutely comfortable. Nicole Kidman recently admitted that her fortieth birthday has become like a dividing line for her: "".

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