In Hollywood's highly competitive entertainment industry, Nicole Kidman is definitely a legend, she aspired to be an actress from a young age, debuted at the age of 14, and traveled from Australia to Hollywood.
Nicole Kidman
For ten years she had the title "Mrs. Tom Cruise", and at the age of 33 she experienced the trough of divorce and miscarriage, and the ten-year marriage ended in a different kind of thing.
Nicole with Tom Cruise
She then devoted all her energy to her acting career, winning the Golden Globe and the Oscar.
At the age of 39, Nicole married country music singer Keith Urban. Two years later, at the age of 41, she risked her advanced age and finally gave birth to a daughter.
Nicole with Keith Urban
Nicole is also a charity ambassador of the United Nations Women's Development Fund, calling attention to the gender inequality of women's human rights, and in recent years, her works "Big Little Lies" and "Breaking News" are all about women's consciousness awakening.
Today's celebrity story introduces you to the growth process of this legendary Hollywood superstar.
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Nicole Kidman was born on June 20, 1967 to Australian parents, but Nicole was born in Hawaii, USA, and it wasn't until 1970 that the family moved back to Sydney, Australia.
Nicole's father was originally a biologist (deceased) who later switched to psychology and became a psychologist. Nicole said that her father had a very gentle and benevolent heart and a very strong sense of social responsibility.
This had a great influence on Nicole, who taught her to take care of her family and help those in need in society.
Nicole's mother, a former nurse, played a big role in Nicole's education by supporting Nicole in pursuing her dreams.
Nicole has shown a great interest in acting since she was a child, learning ballet at the age of 3 and acting at the age of 10.
But her height once became an "obstacle" on the road to acting, at the age of 14 she had grown to 175cm, and when she became an adult, she was 180cm, a real long leg.
At that time, many people said to her, you will be taller than the male protagonist, how to act?
Indeed, after ten years of marriage with Brother Atang, Nicole rarely wore high heels to cooperate with him. Once in an interview after the divorce, she quipped that I could finally put on high heels again.
Nicole often needed to be about Tom's height
Despite the people around her saying no, Nicole decided to try it first. The way she made her debut is legendary, with the 14-year-old scouring the phone book for phones from various agents and then calling them one by one for advice.
It really made her meet an agent who was willing to give her a chance, June Kane was a female agent at a brokerage company, she asked Nicole to come to their company to see, so Nicole became one of her child stars.
Soon, Nicole was given the opportunity to star in the feature film Christmas in the Jungle.
"Actually I don't need any acting skills, I just need to be able to ride a horse and eat live bugs." Still, I was ecstatic to get that role because I could go back to school and tell everyone I was going to be an actor. ”
Nicole was very excited, and then she made more and more films, she said that because the Australian showbiz industry is very small, she has become famous in the local area by the age of 18.
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What changed Nicole's fate was the 1989 thriller "Sailing Across the Horizon".
Nicole was in her early 20s when she made the film, and her age did not fit the film's character design, the male protagonist Sam Neil was about 20 years older than Nicole, and the producers worried that the two did not look like a couple.
Stills from "Sailing Beyond the Horizon"
However, the filmmakers still decided to give Nicole a chance to audition, and after seeing Nicole herself, they felt that Nicole was actually much more mature than her age, and her audition performance left a deep impression on them, and eventually let her star.
What Nicole did not expect was that after the film was released in the United States, it would bring her the opportunity to develop in Hollywood.
At that time, Tom Cruise was already a hot male star in Hollywood, and he was preparing a new film " Thunder " , looking for a perfect actress everywhere.
Nicole said, "Tom watched Over the Horizon and said he really wanted to work with me, I think it was because he liked how I did on the screen, I promised him, I felt very excited. ”
This was Nicole Kidman's first film to develop in Hollywood, and it caused a huge sensation at the time.
Stills from "Thunder Ambition"
However, more sensational news came later, and after the filming of the film, Atango divorced his wife, Mimi Rogers.
Many people don't know the only 3-year marriage history of Brother Atang, Mimi Rogers is also an actor, 6 years older than Brother Atang, and she was already married once before marrying Brother Atang.
Atangge's first wife
In short, within a few months of his divorce from Mimi Rogers, Atangge made public his love affair with Nicole, and the two quickly decided to marry on Christmas Eve at the end of that year (1990).
Later, after the two divorced for many years, Nicole once wrote an article for a New York newspaper that she was very young at the time, in addition to being truly in love with Tom, developing in places like Hollywood, and the best way to avoid encountering unspoken rules was to get married.
Brother Atang and Nicole
However, Nicole also said that she is a very traditional woman in her bones and longs to be a good wife and a good mother.
Therefore, after getting married, she has always been willing to be the woman behind Brother Atang. The film and television career has always been in a semi-red state, but her husband Atangge's career is in full swing.
"There was an agreement between Me and Tom that we couldn't be apart for more than two weeks, so I missed a lot of great roles, it was all for marriage, but it was nothing because it was my own choice."
However, the child became a headache for Nicole, because of the miscarriage, Nicole and Atangge, who could not have children as they wished, adopted two children, a son and a daughter.
Nicole and Brother Atang adopt a child
In February 2001, Brother Tang suddenly moved out of the two men's residences and announced the news of their breakup, applying for divorce on the grounds of "irreconcilable contradictions between husband and wife".
Nicole was shocked by Tom's sudden and resolute attitude, and just after Brother Atang ran away, Nicole found out that she was pregnant, but because of the pressure, she eventually miscarried again.
However, Nicole did not say much about the broken marriage between the two from beginning to end, and what was most circulated in the media was that the breakdown of their marriage was related to Atango's faith.
The 10-year marriage thus ended in divorce.
Ten years of marriage ended
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A good marriage is the best tonic for women, and a failed marriage can often make a woman grow up overnight, such as Tong Liya, Dong Xuan and other female stars who are familiar to everyone.
In fact, Nicole Kidman is the "originator actress" who counterattacked after the divorce.
After divorcing Atang, Nicole was once grieving. She said that the movie "Moulin Rouge", which starred her at the time, was in the pre-release promotional period, and she did not want to go out, lying on the floor of her house and slapping the floor and shouting, "I can't go, I can't do it."
Her mother reprimanded her, "Stand up for me now!" ”
Then, Nicole began to fill her itinerary, constantly taking scenes and filming, attending events.
"I can't cope with real life, and as an actor, you can walk in and immerse yourself in someone else's life and become someone else during that time."
The year after her divorce, she won the 2002 Golden Globe Award for her singing and dancing performance in the movie "Moulin Rouge".
Stills from Moulin Rouge
The following year, she won the Oscar for Best Actress, the film industry's highest award, for her role as Virginia Woolf, a talented British writer with mental problems in the film "All the Time".
At the awards ceremony, she was particularly shocked when the host read out her name.
Nicole said that the film "All the Time" was persuaded to make her, and in the film she needed to wear a high prosthetic nose to change her face, and even she couldn't recognize herself after makeup.
Nicole in "All the Time"
During the filming of this play, Nicole was shrouded in the frustration and shadow of divorce, she did not want to make this play, wanted to quit the crew, but her agent and producer insisted that she play the role.
"Thanks to them for letting me play this role, Virginia Woolf taught me a lot about the complexities of life and how we can avoid pain in life, and this film reveals that happiness can be diverse, that there is a way to transcend worldly emotions and live a whole new life."
But Nicole, sitting in the Beverly Hills Hotel with the Oscars in her hand, finds herself still alone, with no one to share the joy of winning the award with her.
She realized she needed to understand what she really wanted, so she slowed down, read a lot of books, and talked to her knowledgeable friends.
Nicole, the little woman who once depended on the family, is slowly awakening and transforming into a big heroine.
Nicole's growth
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In 2004, when Nicole filmed the film "Translation Storm" at the United Nations Headquarters building in New York, she began to focus on women's human rights issues, and in 2006, she was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Fund for Women.
"One in three women has been subjected to abuse and violence, which is an arbitrary violation of human rights, but it is not irreversible, we can stop it, please help."
Since then, in addition to her work, Nicole has also actively participated in this public welfare undertaking, which has also made her realize her smallness and the outside world that there are many women in need of help.
After coming out of the haze of divorce, in 2005, Nicole met her sweethearted lover, her second husband, Keith Urban.
The two met at a special hollywood movie star reception and were so struck at first sight that Nicole described the two as two lonely people meeting at the right time.
Nicole and Keith
Keith is a well-known country music singer with a variety of talents, having won the Grammy Award for Best Country Male Singer for 4 times.
Born in New Zealand in 1967, he has loved music since he was a child, and when he was 6 years old, his family sent him to Australia to study music, where he lived for a long time, and later went to Nashville, the music capital of the United States, to develop.
On June 25, 2006, 39-year-old Nicole and Keith held a wedding in Australia, and local residents ran to the streets to wait for Nicole's wedding car to pass by and bless the two couples.
Nicole remarried
However, only 3 months after the two were married, Keith was forced by Nicole to quit drinking because of her addiction to alcohol, and alcohol and his wife could only choose the same.
Under Nicole's supervision, Keith walked into the rehabilitation center.
Many people doubt that Keith can "prodigal son turn back", now that so many years have passed, Keith and Nicole are still very affectionate, Nicole has never given up on him, and Keith also truly loves Nicole.
On July 7, 2008, 41-year-old Nicole risked giving birth at an advanced age to give birth to her first child, and finally fulfilled her dream of having a child.
She once said in an interview that the biggest surprise in her life was the two pink red lines on the pregnancy test stick.
In 2010, Nicole gave birth to her and Keith's second daughter through a surrogate mother.
The Nicole family
Nicole said he didn't know each other very well when he married Keith, and after they learned how to run the marriage together, she wanted a partner to share her life with, and she wanted more children, and once she became a parent, she would fight for them.
Nicole, 52, while running her happy family, continues her career, in addition to commercial blockbusters, she will also take on some well-scripted literary films.
Nicole
She played Aquaman's mother in Aquaman, co-starred with Reese Witherspoon as producer and star in Big Little Lies, and starred with Charlize Theron in Breaking News, a vocal voice for sexual harassment in the female workplace.
She has long since ceased to suffer from gains and losses, she cherishes what she has, and at the same time does her best to help those in need.
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