var s_account="msnportalencartaau"; ninemsn Home Hotmail My ninemsn Sign in ... More Additional Reference Thesaurus Bilingual Dictionaries Sidebar Primary Resources Homework Resources Foreign Language Help Times Archive Literature Guides ... Project Starters Support Encarta Products Encarta Answers Encarta Worldwide Help Encarta Search Search Encarta about Kidman, Nicole Kidman, Nicole Encyclopedia Article Find in this article View printer-friendly page E-mail Multimedia 2 items Kidman, Nicole (1967- ), American-born Australian actress. She was born in Honolulu , Hawaii, and spent the early years of her life in Washington, D.C. From the age of three she grew up in Sydney , after her parents, a biochemist and a nurse, returned to their native Australia. As a child she took lessons in dance and drama, and having left secondary school to take up acting, landed her first professional part in the Australian Outback drama Bush Christmas (1983). She won an Australian Film Institute award for her performance as a young anti-war protester in the mini-series Vietnam (1986), and achieved international recognition as the wife of a yachtsman in the nautical suspense thriller | |
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