After making various appearances in film and television , Kidman won the role that rushed to fame in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm . Her performances in several films such as To Die For (1995 ) , Moulin Rouge! , The Others ( 2001) and The Hours (2002 ) , have received praise from critics and in the 2000s would be considered one of the best actresses in the world . In 2003 , Kidman received her star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood Hollywood , California. Kidman is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM ) and UNICEF , and singer.
The October 21, 2009 the actress asked for a comprehensive response to the violence suffered by women in the Congress of the United States.
In 2006 , Kidman received the highest civilian honor in Australia , being honored as a Lady Companion of the Order of Australia .
Kidman had started taking ballet lessons at the age of three years and in Australia entered a theater school for young people. His father worried that she and her younger sister they had a good physical condition, so that made them perform gymnastic exercises every morning.
At age 16 ( in 1983) Kidman started her acting career when she appeared in a film set in Christmas, Christmas Bush , which is often projected at Christmastime . When his mother ill with breast cancer , Nicole Kidman dropping out of school , but once his mother recovered , he resumed his acting career. Throughout the eighties he appeared in numerous films and television series Australian .