Although born in the United States, Nicole Kidman joins from his childhood to his parents' native country, Australia. She discovered very early a passion for ballet before turning to the theater, which allows him to overcome his shyness. From his sixteen years, the teenager left his studies to devote himself entirely to the drama, and won quickly its first appearance in the drama film Australian Bush Christmas. In the late '80s, she tries Hollywood adventure alongside Sam Neill (the thriller Dead Calm, 1989) and Tom Cruise (the action film Days of Thunder, 1990) she will soon marry and find it on the set of the fresco far Horizons (1992) and sulfur Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Stanley Kubrick.