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At last, "The Golden Compass" is out, and while it's getting decidedly mixed-to-meh reviews, Nicole Kidman is coming out on top! She's so untouchable! "For once, the smooth planes of her face, untroubled by visible lines, serve the character," says Mahnola Dargis. life-like! "As embodied by Kidman, Mrs. Coulter is tall and composed and as cold and scary as a movie star," says Mick LaSalle. She's possibly animatronic!
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IF Nicole Kidman was at all concerned with new claims by a British author she fears Scientology "blackmail" over details of her sex life, she wasn't letting it show yesterday. With is-she-or-isn't-she pregnancy rumours still swirling, Kidman did not seem to have a care in the world as she lunched with friends at Sydney's waterside Woolloomooloo restaurant precinct. ...continue
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Nicole Kidman won the Academy Award as best actress for her portrayal of writer Virginia Woolf in the film The Hours (2002). Kidman was born in Hawaii but grew up in Australia, where she began acting in her teens. She married screen heartthrob Tom Cruise after they met while filming the race-car soap opera Days of Thunder (1990) and they were one of Hollywood's most talked-about couples throughout the '90s. Her films during that era included Gus Van Sant's To Die For (1995, based on the Pamela Smart case) and Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), in which she starred with Cruise. After a decade of marriage, Cruise and Kidman divorced, but her career soared as she continued to star in both mainstream Hollywood films and smaller, independent features. In 2001 she turned in an Oscar-nominated performance in Moulin Rouge and appeared in two other highly-acclaimed movies, Birthday Girl and The Others.
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Nicole Kidman played a fearlessly dedicated United Nations employee in director Sidney Pollack’s The Interpreter, but now, it seems, she has been promoted at the international organization in real life. Today, Reuters reports that the Aussie superstar has agreed to back a program launched by the U.N.’s women’s agency. The 16-day campaign, “Say NO to Violence Against Women,” which this morning began collecting signatures on an Internet petition, rejects worldwide violence against women, urging supporters to help stop it on a local level. Ms. Kidman, who is already a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), did not attend the campaign’s launch event in Turtle Bay. She did... release a statement, saying that violence against women is “an appalling human rights violation.”
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Nicole Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Dr Antony David Kidman and Janelle Ann Kidman (n'e MacNeille), who were of Scottish and Irish descent respectively, and were both born in Australia. At the time, Nicole Kidman father was a cancer research specialist in Washington, D.C. The family returned to Australia when Kidman was four years old, when Nicole Kidman father took on a lectureship at the University of Technology, Sydney. Kidman has a younger sister born in 1970, Antonia.
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Academy Award–winning actress Nicole Kidman has been appointed Goodwill Ambassador of UNIFEM in January 2006. As UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador, her efforts will be geared toward raising awareness on the infringement of women’s human rights around the world. A particular focus will lie on putting a spotlight on violence against women (VAW), probably the most pervasive human rights violation that affects as many as one in three women. readmore
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