Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman, ACis an Australian actress and film producer. Kidman's breakthrough roles were in the 1989 feature film thriller Dead Calm and television thriller miniseries Bangkok Hilton. Appearing in several films in the early 1990s, she came to worldwide recognition for her performances in the stock-car racing film Days of Thunder, the romance-drama Far and Away, and the hero film Batman Forever. Other successful films followed in the late 1990s. Her performance in the musical Moulin Rouge!earned her a...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth20 June 1967
CityHonolulu, HI
CountryAustralia
I think particularly with this it's a theme that runs through a lot of my films which is the love a mother has for a child .
I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.
I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.
Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.
You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.
I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~
I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.
The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.
I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.
You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great movie. I wanted to make a great love story, I wanted to make a great epic and then you realize that the truth of it is that it's so hard to make a great film. It's hard to get a great role. Those big expectations change to realism pretty quickly. But what's never changed is my desire to work with great directors and to find projects that push me out of my comfort zone and keep me alive. I still don't think I've done my best work
My kids and the film Moulin Rouge! are the two things that are my shining lights.