A promising debut as a teen actress in her native Australia lead Academy Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman to Hollywood in the early 1990s, where she quickly established herself as an engaging female lead in several major films. Her popularity, however, was largely due to a high-profile marriage to mega-star Tom Cruise, which put her front and center in a paparazzi hurricane that obscured her own talents for nearly a decade. After their high-profile divorce in 2001, Kidman defied critics and naysayers with a string of dazzling performances in almost every genre of film – from high drama like