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Posted on 8/31/2005 at 3:58 PM - Post Comment

Nicole Kidman won 2003's Best Actress Oscar 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. She also starred in the Civil War drama Cold Mountain (2003, with Renee Zellweger) and the comedy Bewitched (2005, as the sexy sorceress made famous on TV by Elizabeth Montgomery).

Extra credit: Cruise and Kidman have two adopted children, Isabella and Connor.