Nicole Kidman turns 50

Nicole Mary Kidman was born on June 20th, 1967, in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were temporarily in the United States on educational visas.
Her breakthrough roles were in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm. She came to worldwide recognition in a series of Hollywood blockbusters: Days of Thunder (1980) and Far and Away (1992) in which she starred opposite her future husband Tom Cruise, and Batman Forever (1995).
Her performance in To Die For (1995) earned her her first Golden Globe award for Best Actress, then starred in Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996), and right after she finished the long shooting of Stanley Kubrick's opus Eyes Wide Shut, she divorced Cruise and starred in The Others, and Moulin Rouge! (2001) for which she got Golden Globes and Academy Awards nominations (2001). Her performance as Virginia Wolf in The Hours (2002) received acclaim and earned her the Oscar, the BAFTA, The Golden Globe and the Silver Bear in the Berlin International Film Festival. 
Right after that, she starred in Cold Mountain (2003), Dogville (2003), The Interpreter (2005), Fur: An imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) and Australia (2008). Her performances in Birth (2004) and The Paperboy (2012) added two more Golden Globes nominations and her performance in Rabbit Hole (2010) another Oscar nod.
In 2012 she starred in TV biopic's Hemingway & Gellhorn, for which she was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries. She went back on the red carpet for her performance in Lion (nominated for best supporting actress in 2016). 
In 2017 she was considered the Queen of Cannes, with 4 films and 1 mini series in the festival: Queen of the Desert, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Beguiled, How to talk to girls at a party and her participation in the second season of Jane Campion's Top of The Lake.
Kidman has been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006, the same year in which she was made a Companion in the Order of Australia, and was the highest-paid actress in the motion picture industry for that year. She founded her production company Blossom Films.

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