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Born in Honolulu in 1967 Kidman's first love was ballet but she turned to acting and received praise as a kid from the then film student Jane Campion. Dropping out of school she made her first film at 16 (Bush Christmas) before a series of critically acclaimed performances led to her Hollywood debut in Dead Calm (1989). After a run of forgettable films where she was a foil to the leading man, she won praise for her first starring role proper in To Die For. Before appearing alongside soon-to-be ex-hubby Tom Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut, she had male critics covering their laps with their programmes when she appeared nude on stage in the Blue Room in 1998. Since then she has starred in Moulin Rouge.
