The Nicole Kidman Handbook - Everything you need to know about Nicole Kidman

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Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel, and humanitarian. After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm. Following several films over the early 1990s, she came to worldwide recognition for her performances in Days of Thunder (1990), Far and Away (1992), and Batman Forever (1995). Kidman followed this with other successful films in the late 1990s.

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In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Nicole Kidman, Bush Christmas, Five Mile Creek, A Country Practice, Windrider, Vietnam (miniseries), Emerald City (play), Dead Calm (film), Bangkok Hilton, Days of Thunder, Flirting (film), Billy Bathgate (film), Far and Away, Malice (film), My Life (film), To Die For, Batman Forever, The Portrait of a Lady (film), The Peacemaker (1997 film), Practical Magic, The Blue Room (play), Eyes Wide Shut, Moulin Rouge!, The Others (2001 film), Birthday Girl, Panic Room, The Hours (film), Dogville, The Human Stain (film), Cold Mountain (film), In the Cut, The Stepford Wives (2004 film), Birth (film), The Interpreter, Bewitched (2005 film), Fur (film), Happy Feet, God Grew Tired of Us, The Invasion (film), Margot at the Wedding, Australia (2008 film), Nine (film), Rabbit Hole (film), Just Go with It, Monte Carlo (2011 film), Trespass (2011 film), Hemingway & Gellhorn, Stoker (film).

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Articles Nicole Kidman Bush Christmas Five Mile Creek A Country Practice Windrider Vietnam (miniseries) Emerald City (play) Dead Calm (film) Bangkok Hilton Days of Thunder Flirting (film) Billy Bathgate (film) Far and Away Malice (film) My Life (film) To Die For Batman Forever The Portrait of a Lady (film) The Peacemaker (1997 film) Practical Magic The Blue Room (play) Eyes Wide Shut Moulin Rouge! The Others (2001 film) Birthday Girl Panic Room The Hours (film) Dogville The Human Stain (film) Cold Mountain (film) In the Cut The Stepford Wives (2004 film) Birth (film) The Interpreter

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Bewitched (2005 film) Fur (film) Happy Feet God Grew Tired of Us The Invasion (film) Margot at the Wedding Australia (2008 film) Nine (film) Rabbit Hole (film) Just Go with It Monte Carlo (2011 film) Trespass (2011 film) Hemingway & Gellhorn Stoker (film)

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Nicole Mary Kidman 20 June 1967 Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.

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[1] Actress, spokesmodel, producer

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Tom Cruise (1990–2001) Keith Urban (2006–present)

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[1] Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967) is an American-born Australian actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel, and humanitarian. After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thrillerDead Calm. Following several films over the early 1990s, she came to worldwide recognition for her performances inDays of Thunder(1990),Far and Away(1992), andBatman Forever (1995). Kidman followed this with other successful films in the late 1990s, it was her performance in the musical, Moulin Rouge!(2001) which earned Kidman her second Golden Globe Award and first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Her performance as Virginia Woolf the following year in the drama filmThe Hours(2002) received critical acclaim and earned Kidman the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Kidman's other successful films includeCold Mountain(2003),The Interpreter(2005),Happy Feet(2006), and Australia(2008). Her performance in 2010'sRabbit Hole(which she also produced) earned Kidman further accolades including a subsequent Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Kidman has been a Goodwill [3] [4] Ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006. Kidman's work has earned her a Star on the

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Hollywood Walk of Fame, three Golden Globe Awards, one BAFTA, and an Academy Award. In 2006, Kidman [5] was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, Australia's highest civilian honour, and was also the [6] highest-paid actress in the motion picture industry. As a result of being born to Australian parents in Hawaii, [7] Kidman has dual citizenship of Australia and the United States.

Early life Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Since her parents were in the United States on educational visas, Kidman [8] could claim both U.S. and Australian citizenship. Her father, Dr. Antony David Kidman, is a biochemist, clinical [9] [10] psychologist, and author, with an office in Lane Cove, Sydney, Australia. Her mother, Janelle Ann (n e Glenny), is a nursing instructor who edits her husband's books and was a member of the Women's Electoral Lobby. At the time of Kidman's birth in 1967, her father was a graduate student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He soon after became a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health of the United States. Opposed to the War in Vietnam, which was causing social unrest in both Australia and the United States, Kidman's parents [11] participated in anti-war protests while they were living in Washington, DC. 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. She is of Irish descent through her great-great-great-grandparents, James and [12] Bridget Callachor, who settled in Sydney in 1842. Kidman attended Lane Cove Public School and North Sydney Girls' High School. She was enrolled in ballet at three [13] and showed her natural talent for acting in her primary and high school years. Kidman revealed she was timid as a child, saying, "I am very shy–really shy–I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness. So I don’t like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself; I don’t like going to a party by [14] myself". In 1984, her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, which caused Kidman to temporarily halt her [13] education and help provide for the family by working as a massage therapist at age 17. She studied at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, and at the Phillip Street Theatre in Sydney, with actress and friend [13] [15] Naomi Watts who had attended the same high school as her. This was followed by attending the Australian [13] Theatre for Young People. Here she took up drama, mime and performing in her teens, finding acting to be a refuge. Due to her fair skin and naturally red hair, the Australian sun forced the young Kidman to rehearse in halls of the theatre. A regular at the Phillip Street Theatre, she received both encouragement and praise to pursue acting [16] full-time.

Career

1983-1988: Early years [16] In 1983, aged 16, Kidman made her film debut in the Australian holiday season favourite,Bush Christmas. By the end of 1983, she had a supporting role in the television seriesFive Mile Creekand began gaining popularity in the mid-1980s after appearing in several film roles, includingBMX Bandits,Watch the Shadows Dance(1987), and the romantic comedyWindrider(1986), which earned Kidman attention due to her racy scenes. Also during the decade, she appeared in several Australian productions, including the soap operaA Country Practiceand the miniseriesVietnam(1986). She also made guest appearances on Australian television programs and TV movies.

1988–1994: Breakthrough In 1988, Kidman appeared inEmerald City, based on the play of the same name. The Australian film earned her an Australian Film Institute for Best Supporting Actress. After appearing in the Australian miniseriesBangkok Hilton, Kidman starred inDead Calm(1989) as Rae Ingram, playing the wife of a naval officer. The thriller garnered strong reviews and brought Kidman to international recognition;Varietycommented: "Throughout the film, Kidman is [17] excellent. She gives the character of Rae real tenacity and energy." Meanwhile, critic Roger Ebert noted the

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excellent chemistry between the leads, stating, "Kidman and Zane do generate real, palpable hatred in their scenes [18] together." She moved on to star alongside her then-boyfriend and future husband, Tom Cruise, in the 1990 auto racing filmDays of Thunder, playing a young doctor who falls in love with a NASCAR driver. This was Kidman's [19] American debut and was among the highest-grossing films of the year. In 1991, she co-starred with former classmate and friend Naomi Watts and Thandie Newton in the independent film Flirting. Kidman and Watts portrayed two high school girls in this coming of age story, which won the Australian [20] Film Institute Award for Best Film. That same year, her work in the filmBilly Bathgateearned Kidman her first Golden Globe Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actress.The New York Times, in its film review, called her "a [21] beauty with, it seems, a sense of humor". The following year, she and Cruise re-teamed for Ron Howard's Irish [22] [23] [24] epicFar and Awaysuccess. In 1993, she starred inand commercial (1992), which was a modest critical My Lifeopposite Michael Keaton and the thriller,Maliceopposite Alec Baldwin.

1995–2003: International success [25] In 1995, Kidman appeared in her highest-grossing film as of 2011, playing Dr. Chase Meridian, the damsel in distress, in the superhero filmBatman Forever, opposite Val Kilmer as the film's title character. That same year Kidman appeared in Gus Van Sant's critically acclaimedTo Die For, earning [26] [27] praise for her portrayal of murderous newscaster Suzanne Stone Maretto.

Kidman at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival promoting her film,Moulin Rouge!

Kidman next appeared inThe Portrait of a Lady(1996), based on the novel the same name, alongside, Barbara Hershey, John Malkovich and Mary-Louise Parker. The following year she appeared in the action-thrillerThe Peacemaker (1997) as White House nuclear expert Dr. Julia Kelly, opposite George Clooney. [28] The film received mixed reviews but grossed some $110,000,000 worldwide. [29] That same year she appeared opposite Sandra Bullock in the poorly received [30] fantasyPractical MagicKidman returned to her workas a modern-day witch. on stage the same year in the David Hare playThe Blue Room, which opened in London.

In 1999, Kidman reunited with then husband, Tom Cruise, to portray a married couple inEyes Wide Shut, the final film of Stanley Kubrick. The film opened to generally positive reviews but was subject to censorship controversies [31] due to the explicit nature of its sex scenes. The film received further attention following Kubrick's death shortly [32] before its release. After brief hiatus and a highly publicized divorce from Cruise, Kidman returned to the screen to play a mail-order bride in the British-American dramaBirthday Girl.

In 2001, Kidman appeared in two of her most critically and commercially successful films. In the first she played the cabaret actress and courtesan Satine in Baz Luhrmann's musicalMoulin Rouge!, opposite Ewan McGregor. In her first singing role, Kidman's musical numbers and performance earned her critical praise. Subsequently, Kidman received her second Golden Globe Award, for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, as well as other acting awards. She also received her first Academy Award nomination, for Best Actress. Also in 2001, she had a well-received starring role in Alejandro Amenabar's Spanish horror filmThe Othersas Grace Stewart. Grossing over $210,947,037 worldwide, the film also earned several Goya Awards award nominations, including a Best Actress nomination for Kidman. Additionally she received her second BAFTA and fifth Golden Globe nominations. In 2003, Kidman won critical praise for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry'sThe Hours, which also featured Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. Kidman wore prosthetics that were applied to her nose making her almost unrecognisable playing the author during her time in 1920s England, and her bouts with depression and mental illness while trying to write her novel,Mrs. Dalloway. The film earned positive notices and several nominations, including for an Academy Award for Best Picture.The New York Timeswrote that , "Kidman tunnels

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like a ferret into the soul of a woman besieged by excruciating bouts of mental illness. As you watch her wrestle with the demon of depression, it is as if its torment has never been shown on the screen before. Directing her desperate, furious stare into the void, her eyes not really focusing, Ms. Kidman, in a performance of astounding bravery, evokes the savage inner war waged by a brilliant mind against a system of faulty wiring that transmits a searing, crazy static [33] into her brain". Kidman won numerous critics' awards, including her first BAFTA, third Golden Globe, and the Academy Award for Best Actress. As the first Australian actress to win an Academy Award, Kidman made a teary acceptance speech about the importance of art, even during times of war, saying, "Why do you come to the Academy Awards when the world is in such turmoil? Because art is important. And because you believe in what you do and [34] you want to honour that, and it is a tradition that needs to be upheld." Following her Oscar win, Kidman appeared in three very different films in 2003. The first, a leading role inDogville, by Danish director Lars von Trier, was an experimental film set on a bare soundstage. The second was an adaptation of Philip Roth's novelThe Human Stain, opposite Anthony Hopkins. Her third film, Anthony Minghella's war drama Cold Mountaine Zellweger,, was a critical and commercial success. Kidman appeared opposite Jude Law and Ren playing Southerner Ada Monroe, who is in love with Law's character and separated by the Civil War.TIME magazine wrote, "Kidman takes strength from Ada's plight and grows steadily, literally luminous. Her sculptural [35] pallor gives way to warm radiance in the firelight". The film garnered several award nominations and wins for its actors; Kidman received her sixth Golden Globe nomination at the 61st Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress.

2004–2008: Continued acting In 2004 she appeared in the film,Birth, which received controversy over a scene in which Kidman shares a bath with her co-star, 10-year old Cameron Bright. At a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, Kidman addressed the controversy saying, "It wasn't that I wanted to make a film where I kiss a 10-year-old boy. I wanted to make a film [36] where you understand love". Though the film received negative to mixed reviews, Kidman earned her seventh Golden Globe nomination, for Best Actress–Motion Picture. That same year she appeared in the black comedy-science-fiction filmThe Stepford Wives, a remake of the 1975 film of the same name. Kidman appeared in the lead role as Joanna Eberhart, a successful producer. The film, directed by Frank Oz, was critically panned and a commercial failure. The following year, Kidman appeared opposite Sean Penn in the Sydney Pollack thrillerThe Interpreter, playing UN translator Silvia Broome. Also that year she starred inBewitched, based on the 1960s TV sitcom of the same name, opposite Will Ferrell. Both Kidman and Ferrell earned that year's Razzie Award for "Worst Screen Couple". Neither film fared well in the United States, with box office sales falling well short of the [37] [38] production costs, but both films fared well internationally. In conjunction with her success in the film industry, Kidman became the face of theChanel No. 5perfume brand. She starred in a campaign of television and print ads with Rodrigo Santoro, directed byMoulin Rouge!director Baz Luhrmann, to promote the fragrance during the holiday seasons of 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008. The three-minute commercial produced forChanel No. 5made Kidman the record holder for the most money paid per minute to an [39] actor after she reportedly earned US$12million for the three-minute advert. During this time, Kidman was also listed as the 45th Most Powerful Celebrity on the 2005Forbes100 List. She made a reported Celebrity US$14.5bmillion in 2004–2005. OnPeoplemagazine's list of 2005's highest paid actresses, Kidman was second [40] behind Julia Roberts, with US$16–17bmillion per-film price tag. Nintendo in 2007 announced that Kidman would be the new face of Nintendo's advertising campaign for the Nintendo DS game More Brain Training in its European [41] market. Kidman portrayed photographer Diane Arbus in the biographyFur(2006), opposite Robert Downey Jr.. Though the film was released to mixed reviews, both Kidman and Downey Jr. received praise for their performances. She also lent her voice to the animated filmHappy Feet(2006), which grossed over US$384bmillion worldwide. In 2007, she starred in the science-fiction movieThe Invasiondirected by Oliver Hirschbiegel, a remake of the 1956Invasion of the Body Snatchersthat proved a critical and commercial failure. She also played opposite Jennifer Jason Leigh and

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Jack Black in Noah Baumbach's comedy-dramaMargot at the Wedding, released to positive reviews and earning Kidman a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actress–Musical or Comedy. She then starred in the commercially successful fantasy-adventure,The Golden Compass(2007), playing the villainous Marisa Coulter. In 2008, she reunited withMoulin Rouge!director Baz Luhrmann in the Australian period filmAustralia, set in the remote Northern Territory during the Japanese attack on Darwin during World War II. Kidman played opposite Hugh Jackman as an Englishwoman feeling overwhelmed by the continent. Despite the film's mixed reviews, the acting [42] was praised and the movie was a box office success worldwide. Kidman was originally set to star in the post-World War II German drama,The Reader, working with previous collaborators Sydney Pollack and Anthony [43] Minghella, but due to her pregnancy prior to filming she had to back out. The role went to Kate Winslet, who ultimately won the Oscar for Best Actress, which Kidman presented to her during the 81st Academy Awards.

2009–present: Recent work

Kidman appeared in the 2009 Rob Marshall musicalNine, portraying the Federico Fellini-like character's muse, Claudia Jenssen. She was featured alongside fellow Oscar winners Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Marion Cotillard, Pen lope Cruz and Sophia Loren. Kidman's, whose screen time was brief compared to the other actresses, performed the musical number "Unusual Way" alongside Day-Lewis. Although the film was released to mixed reviews, it received several Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations, and earned Kidman a third Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, as part of the Outstanding Cast. Also in 2009, Kidman was the face [44] of an international Schweppes advertisement. In 2010, she starred with Aaron Eckhart in the film adaptation of the Pulitzer Kidman at the 45th Annual Academy of Country Prize-winning playRabbit Hole, for which she vacated her role in the Music Awards. [45] Woody Allen pictureYou Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. She lent her voice to a promotional video that Australia used to support its bid to host the 2018 World Cup. The [46] five-minute video was broadcast at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

TV Guidereported in 2008 that Kidman will star inThe Danish Girl, a film adaptation of the novel of the same [47] name, playing Lili Elbe, the world's first postoperative transsexual.Screen Dailyreported that shooting would [48] begin in Germany in July 2011. However the project has been delayed following the exit of the director, Lasse [49] Hallstrcm and Kidman's co-star Rachel Weisz. In 2009,Varietysaid that she would produce and star in a film [50] [51] adaptation of the Chris Cleave novelLittle Bee, in association with BBC Films. In June 2010,TV Guideannounced that Kidman and Clive Owen will star in an HBO film about Ernest Hemingway and his relationship with Martha Gellhorn. entitledHemingway & Gellhorn. The film, directed by Philip [52] [53] Kaufman, began shooting in March 2011, with an air date scheduled for 2012. She also stars alongside Nicolas Cage in director Joel Schumacher's action-thrillerTrespass, with the stars playing a married couple taken [54] hostage. On 17 September 2010, ContactMusic.com said Kidman will return to Broadway to portray Alexandra Del Lago in [55] David Cromer's revival of Tennessee Williams'Sweet Bird of YouthOn 30 August, with Scott Rudin producing 2011 Cromer spoke to theThe New York Timesand explained that the production will not meet its original fall 2011 [56] revival date but that it remains an active project. In February 2011, theLos Angeles Timesreported Kidman is in [57] talks to join the cast of Park Chan Wook'sStoker. In May 2011 it was reported that Kidman would star and produce inSpectre, a supernatural thriller directed by James Wan. The film closed major territory deals at the 2011 [58] Cannes Film Festival. In June Kidman was cast in Lee Daniels' upcoming adaptation of the Pete Dexter novel, [59] [60] The Paperboyand began filming the thriller on 1 August 2011. On 2 November, 2011,The Hollywood

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Reporterreported that Kidman is attached to star inMy Wild Life, a Philip Noyce-directed biopic of conservationist, [61] Daphne Sheldrick. Production for the project is scheduled for the first quarter of 2012.

Singing Not a singer beforeMoulin Rouge!, Kidman had well-received vocal performances in the film. Her collaboration [62] with Ewan McGregor on "Come What May" peaked at No.27 in the UK Singles Chart. Later she collaborated with Robbie Williams on "Somethin' Stupid", a cover of Williams' swing covers albumSwing When You're Winning. [63] It peaked at No.8 in the Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart, and at No.1 for three weeks in the UK. In 2006, while voicing a role in the animated movieHappy Feet, she provided vocals for Norma Jean's "heartsong", a slightly altered version of "Kiss" by Prince. Kidman sang in Rob Marshall's movie musicalNine.

Personal life Kidman has been married twice, first to actor Tom Cruise, and then to singer Keith Urban. She met Cruise in December 1989 on the set of their 1990 movieDays of Thunder. Kidman and Cruise were married on Christmas Eve 1990 in Telluride, Colorado. The couple adopted a daughter, Isabella Jane (born 22 December [64] [64] [65] 1992), and a son, Connor Anthony (born 17 January 1995). They separated on 25 May 1998. Kidman was [66] three months pregnant at the time; shortly afterward, she suffered a miscarriage. Cruise filed for divorce in [67] February 2001, and the marriage was dissolved that year, with Cruise citing irreconcilable differences. The reasons for dissolution have never been made public. InMarie Claire, Kidman said she had an ectopic pregnancy [68] early in their marriage. In the June 2006Ladies' Home Journal, she said she still loved Cruise: "He was huge; still is. To me, he was just Tom, but to everybody else, he is huge. But he was lovely to me and I loved him. I still love [69] him." In addition, she has expressed shock about their divorce.

Prior to marrying Cruise, Kidman had a relationship with fellow Australian [70] Marcus Graham in the 1980s. The 2003 filmCold Mountainbrought rumours that an affair between Kidman and co-star Jude Law was responsible for the break-up of his marriage. Both denied the allegations, and Kidman won an [71] undisclosed sum from the British tabloids that published the story. She gave [72] the money to a Romanian orphanage in the town where the movie was filmed. Robbie Williams confirmed they had a short romance on her yacht in summer [73] 2004. She met musician Lenny Kravitz in 2003 and dated him into 2004. In a 2007 interview, Kidman revealed that she was secretly engaged to someone prior [74] to her marriage to Urban.

Kidman met her second husband, New Zealand-born country singer Keith Urban, at G'Day LA, an event honouring Australians, in January 2005. They married on 25 June 2006, at Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel in the grounds of St Patrick's Nicole Kidman in August 2006, just [75] [76] Estate, Manly in Sydney. They maintain homes in Sydney, Sutton Forest, prior to the 4 September start of [77] [78] filming as Marisa Coulter inThe New South Wales, Los Angeles, California, and Nashville, Tennessee. The Golden Compass. couple's daughter, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, was born on 7 July 2008, in [79] Nashville. Kidman's father said the daughter's middle name was after Urban's [80] late grandmother, Rose. On 28 December 2010, Kidman and Urban welcomed his second daughter and her third [81] daughter, Faith Margaret Kidman Urban, via gestational carrier at Nashville's Centennial Women's Hospital. The [82] [83] child is biologically Kidman and Urban's. Faith's middle name is after Kidman's late grandmother.

In 2005, Kidman mentioned in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres that she is banned from doing one of her favourite [84] [85] hobbies–sky diving–while shooting a movie.

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In January 2005, Kidman won interim restraining orders against two Sydney paparazzi who persistently stationed [86] themselves outside her Darling Point mansion. In the beginning of 2009, Kidman appeared in a series of postage stamps featuring Australian actors. She, Geoffrey Rush, Russell Crowe, and Cate Blanchett each appear twice in the series: once as themselves and once as their [87] Academy Award-winning character.

Religious and political views [88] Kidman is a practising Roman Catholic. She attended Mary Mackillop Chapel in North Sydney. During her [89] divorce from Tom Cruise, she stated that she did not want the children raised as Scientologists. She has been [90] reluctant to discuss Scientology since her divorce. Kidman has donated to U.S. Democratic party candidates and she endorsed John Kerry in the 2004 presidential [91] election.

Wealth, philanthropy, and honours In 2002, Kidman first appeared on the Australian rich list published annually in theBusiness Review Weeklywith an [92] estimated net worth of A$122 million. In the 2011 published list, Kidman's wealth was estimated at A$304 [93] million, down from A$329 million in 2010. Kidman has raised money for, and drawn attention to, disadvantaged children around the world. In 1994, she was [3] appointed a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, and in 2004, she was honoured as a "Citizen of the World" by the United Nations. Kidman joined the Little Tee Campaign for breast cancer care to design T-shirts or vests to raise [94] [95] money to fight the disease; motivated by her mother's own battle with breast cancer in 1984. On Australia Day 2006, Kidman received Australia's highest civilian honor when she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia. The citation acknowledged Kidman's service to the performing arts as an acclaimed motion picture performer, to health care through contributions to improve medical treatment for women and children and advocacy for cancer research, to youth as a principal supporter of young performing artists, and to humanitarian [96] causes in Australia and internationally. Kidman was appointed goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in [3] 2006. In this capacity, Kidman has addressed international audiences at UN events, raised awareness through the media and testified before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs to support the International Violence against Women Act. Kidman visited Kosovo in 2006 to learn about women's experiences of conflict and UNIFEM's support efforts. She is the international spokesperson for UNIFEM's Say NO–UNiTE to [97] End Violence against Women initiative. Kidman and the UNIFEM executive director presented over five million [98] signatures collected during the first phase of this to the UN Secretary-General on 25 November 2008. On 8 January 2010, Kidman, alongside Nancy Pelosi, Joan Chen and Joe Torre, attended the ceremony to help Family Violence Prevention Fund break ground on a new international center located in the Presidio of San [99] [100] Francisco.

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