25 facts about Nicole Kidman
- Nicole Kidman is the ex-wife of actor Tom Cruise whom she got married to on December 24, 1990 and divorced from on August 8, 2001.
- As a teenager, Nicole Kidman was in a band called Divine Madness.
- In 1993, Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise supported Sydney's bid to host the 2000 Olympics by spending $150,000 on producing a five minute promotional video of an environmentally friendly Olympic village.
- Nicole's first kiss was on stage at an amateur theatre in Sydney, in a play when she was 14 years old.
- Nicole's favorite food and drinks are chocolate, ice cream, apple martinis, and pizza.
- Nicole Kidman was voted on People magazine's Best-Dressed list in 2005.
- One of Nicole's first jobs was an usherette at a cinema in Sydney.
- Nicole's ex-husband, Tom Cruise sent her enough flowers to fill a room to congratulate her on the birth of her baby in July 2008.
- Nicole confessed that she lost all of her friends during the marriage with Tom Cruise, because their relationship was too private.
- Nicole Kidman admits her favourite cheese is goat cheese.
- Nicole Kidman was originally cast in the role of Mrs. Smith in the 2005 movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," but had to drop it due to the fact she had to work on another movie.
- Nicole Kidman topped The Hollywood Reporter's annual Star Salary Top 10 List for the highest paid actresses, earning $16 to $17 million per film.
- Hugh Hefner is desperate for Nicole to appear nude in Playboy magazine because he has been “bewitched” by her ever since he saw her perform in the 1999 Broadway play “The Blue Room.”
- Nicole Kidman has said that she is not afraid of sharks because as a child, the shark bell on the beach was something you got used to, so now sharks are not a big deal to her.
- Nicole Kidman is allergic to bees.
- Nicole Kidman joined the long list of celebrities lampooned by South Park. It happened in South Park episode 137 entitled Trapped in the Closet.
- Nicole is 5' 10½" tall and her measurements are 34B-23-36.
- Nicole Kidman has played a witch in two different movies, "Practical Magic" (1998) and "Bewitched" (2005).
- Nicole Kidman won the Academy Award and the BAFTA award for Best Actress for her performance as Virginia Woolf in The Hours.
- Because she was born in Hawaii, U.S.A while her Australian parents were working in Honolulu, Nicole has a dual citizenship: Australian and American.
- Nicole Kidman is best friends with Naomi Watts and has many other famous friends such as Ewan McGregor, Russell Crowe, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Tobey Maguire, Adrien Brody, Jude Law, Renée Zellweger and Lenny Kravitz.
- Nicole Kidman has two adopted children: Isabella (born in 1993) and Connor (born in 1995).
- On January 13, 2003 Nicole received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- Nicole Kidman was the first Australian actress to win the Best Actress Academy Award.
- Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies (she finds them "eerie” and “weird”) although she is not scared of snakes or spiders.
